When comedian Gilbert Gottfried was fired from Aflac for tweeting jokes mocking the Japanese Tsunami, I took a “free country” approach towards the issue. If he wants to make jokes, that’s fine. If Aflac wants to fire him, that’s fine
Donald Trump criticized President Obama’s lack of leadership in the aftermath of Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.
This is bound to be controversial. If the original legal limit was sound, in effect, this is asking workers to sacrifice, potentially their health, or even lives, for the greater good. TOKYO (AP) – Japan has raised the maximum radiation
Saturday’s massive attack by Yemen’s security forces on unarmed protesters in Sanaa (see “13-Mar-11 News — Police in Yemen fire live bullets on protesters, killing three”), killing two protesters and injuring over 100, is having repercussions in the form of
The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on Friday has caused tragic devastation to lives and property, but Japan may soon be over-whelmed by a debt crisis tsunami of epic proportions. With crony deficit spending by the Japanese government having
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets031511.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss today’s crashing market, then Ben discusses Don Berwick’s probable exit at CMS,
Japan is still trying to figure out the extent of the massive human toll of the tragedy that has befallen that country. The toll will reach biblical proportions. But in a few weeks they will need to begin charting plans
Japan is suffering from a natural disaster that threatens to turn into an existential crisis. Colonel Q-ball has unleashed a blistering assault on pro-democracy rebel forces. Large swaths of the Middle East are in turmoil. The federal government is bleeding
On Thursday, Libyan authorities sent a Chinese oil tanker back to China without its intended cargo of 2 million barrels of oil, according to Reuters. The ship will go to Algeria instead, to purchase oil there. South China Sea, with
First there was an earthquake, then a tsunami, then a meltdown, and now, possibly a volcano. At this point, a Mothra joke seems inevitable – but also lame. Frankly, I’m not sure there’s anything I can say that adds incite
Real human being that Roger Ebert. Nothing like politicizing a human tragedy to take a shot at your adversaries: What’s especially interesting is that his link doesn’t even back up his claim.
Gilbert Gottfried isn’t the only celeb “joking” about Japan’s unthinkable tragedy. Rapper 50 Cent: “Wave will hit 8am them crazy white boys gonna try to go surfing,” the rapper wrote Friday morning, as the West Coast braced for a potential
The Left, as ever, seems more interested in scoring political points and using a crisis to serve their agenda than actually helping people. The crisis in Japan continues to unfold but already there have been declarations that we are witnessing
The horrific disaster in Japan is no excuse for horrible reporting. In fact, we need accurate reporting now more than ever to tell us exactly what is going on in the wake of this awful disaster. There seems to be
UPDATE: 11 hours after this story was posted, The People’s Daily has posted a story about plane that is bringing relief supplies from China to Japan. Let’s hope there will be plenty more. The catastrophe that has befallen Japan is
In his novel Anna Karenina acclaimed Russian writer Leo Tolstoy says “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Well after a weekend of horrors there are many unhappy families on the planet today.
The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides an incredible animation of the earthquake and tsunami event in Japan on March 11th and it’s ripple effect across the Pacific.
The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier is running helo relief operations into earthquake devastated Japan. And our Marines? Marine forces in Japan are delivering food, water and other supplies to assist in disaster-relief efforts following the massive earthquake and tsunami
Japan’s top government spokesman is warning of a fresh threat of explosion from a nuclear unit at a power plant the country’s earthquake-ravaged northeast.
The BBC is reporting: “The Associated Press is also now citing Japanese nuclear safety agency officials as saying that radiation levels inside one of the reators at the Fukushima-Daini nuclear power plant have surged to 1,000 times their normal levels
The left often dismisses Calvin Coolidge for not being activist enough in forcing Americans to submit to their favorite charity– government. But when it came to real charity, such as when the Japanese people suffered a horrific earthquake in 1923
If this quake had happened in a country without this engineering know-how, the damages would have been devastating.
This footage from NHK World shows the impact of tsunami waves in Japan after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the country’s coast.
Raw footage showing an exploded refinery after Japan was hit by an 8.9 earthquake.
