Month: February 2006

Tanker runs aground in Alaska, spills oil products ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb 2 (Reuters) – An oil tanker carrying nearly 5 million gallons of oil and gasoline was struck by an ice floe and ran aground while loading oil...

[From the diaries by susanhu. Another must-read by StreetKid.] AP Senate Democrats told stories Thursday of weeping older people who were unable to get their medicine as Congress opened hearings into problems with...

Fourteen years ago I left the US on a one way ticket.  For fourteen years I have ranted and fumed at the US and its foreign policies.  For the last 20 years I have been “Bush-Bashing.”  When I left the...

On the clear, sunny morning of September 11, 2001 two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Within hours both towers came crashing down; colossal waves of dust and debris turned the sky to...

You can go vote here. Then come back and explain your votes. My selections are below the fold.1st Russ Feingold 2nd Tom Daschle 3rd John Edwards 4th Bill Richardson 5th Joe Biden 6th John Kerry 7th Mark Warner 8th Hillary...