Author: fflambeau

By all accounts, the Governor of West Virginia wants to appoint a caretaker to the Senate to replace Sen. Robert Byrd so that the governor himself can run for office in 2012.  Isn’t that in a sense worse than what...

You know you’re in trouble when someone like Jon Stewart take you down, big time.  That just happened when Stewart aired an eight and a half minute segment that devastated the Obama presidency.Stewart, on his Daily...

He was the ultimate whistleblower.  He was the legendary leaker in 1971 of the “Pentagon Papers”–some 7.000 pages of classified documents commissioned by Defense Secretary McNamara that revealed to the...

One result of the BP environmental disaster (it’s more than just a leak, folks) is that BP and other oil companies and oil related companies (think Halliburton) are now upping their flow of cash to politicians and...

The McClatchy newspaper chain, which has provided some of the best and most critical commentary on the horrific oil spill, reports that the Obama administration approved 31 deepwater drilling plans similar tho those of BP....