Obama casts Republicans as party of the rich

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100717/ts_nm/us_obama_republicans_3

Sorry, been quite busy with preparing to put out an eBook on Japanese swords.

BP Texas Refinery Had Huge Toxic Release Just Before Gulf Blowout

http://www.propublica.org/article/bp-texas-refinery-had-huge-toxic-release-just-before-gulf-blowout

So this poison spewed forty days and forty nights?

I'm seeing blame here placed squarely on the heads of members of the national media, essentially saying, if the media had given a damn, this poison would have halted. I fail to see how that is any kind of tolerable excuse. This is the sort of thing you're expected to know because you're paying attention.

Fear of violence looms as Mexicans prepare to head to elections

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/07/03/mexico.elections/index.html

It's supposedly a referendum on the war against the cartels. What if the voters vote against it? What then?

Bill Keller's self-defense on "torture"

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/07/03/keller/index.html

The politics isn't the point. It's that a term one begins using as a result of political and social pressure is politically correct, and the term that was replaced by the new term, is not. To state otherwise, as this NY Times executive has, is to turn reality on its head.

By the way, I didn't stop reading news. I was still nursing a cold. Hard to post on all the important things I read when I have a lack of energy. I'll try to keep it up and at least put the important things here.