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Date: July 2nd, 2009

Air France flight 447 reportedly did not break up mid-air

2 July, 2009 (12:10) | Aviation, Human Interest | By: ricjames

A report on CNN this morning has the French version of our NTSB saying that AF447, the Airbus 330 that went down into the Atlantic last month, did not break up in mid-flight as was theorized. The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard “did not break up or become destroyed [...]

Hot Air: “WaPo a Pimp?”

2 July, 2009 (11:01) | Politics, The Media | By: ricjames

Read all about it over at Hot Air but the short story is this: the Washington Post is presenting a new service wherein they will “facilitate” private, off-the-record meetings between “lobbyists and association executives” and powerful members of Congress, the Obama administration, and even its own reporters and editors. For a modest fee, of course. [...]

Honesty less of an Obama policy than advertised.

2 July, 2009 (10:46) | Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames

For a guy who practically trademarked the word “change” and who ranted on continuously over the 2008 election campaign about open and honest government, Obama isn’t practicing much of what he preached. Those of us paying attention to what he was really doing and saying during the campaign noticed that literally the year before but [...]

June unemployment figures are in: now at 9.5%

2 July, 2009 (09:40) | Economy, Politics | By: ricjames

Another month into the gotta-pass-it-now-or-unemployment-might-go-above-9% “stimulus” package and the performance of the economy with respect to jobs – you know, the jobs the stimulus package was going to “create or save” by the millions – continues to degrade. Thanks to the folks at Innocent Bystanders we have this wonderfully concise and easily-understood graphic to display [...]

NRCC airs ad to highlight the truth about cap-and-trade

2 July, 2009 (08:47) | Economy, Politics | By: ricjames

From the NRCC (hat tip to Hot Air for the story.)

Karl Malden, dead at 97

2 July, 2009 (08:35) | Entertainment, Human Interest | By: ricjames

Man, it seems we’re losing well-knowns from Hollywood by the minute these days. Thanks to a reference at Instapundit, I see that Karl Malden died yesterday at the age of 97. Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden died today, July 1, of natural causes at the age of 97. Born Mladen Sekulovich on March 22, 1912, the [...]

FIND HIM.

2 July, 2009 (08:14) | GWOT, Military | By: ricjames

An American soldier has apparently been captured by “insurgents” in Afghanistan: Spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Mathias said the soldier went missing Tuesday. “We are using all of our resources to find him and provide for his safe return,” Mathias said. Mathias did not provide details on the soldier, the location where he was captured or the [...]