As soon as we got out of bed we heard of this morning’s earthquake in Chile. The earthquake hit 8.8 on the Richter scale and has caused significant damage.

Some time ago a filmmaker approached our blog to help promote his film. We agreed because it wasn’t an ordinary film. “The Mountain Thief” depicts life in a garbage slum in the Philippines. The residents of the slum literally live on top of a pile of garbage.

POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE SITES FOR KSM TERROR TRIAL.

The White House ordered the Justice Department on Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan.

The dramatic turnabout came hours after Mayor Bloomberg said he would “prefer that they did it elsewhere” and then spoke to Attorney General Eric Holder.

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My Comment: Long time readers of this blog know that this should not be a surprise.

The Obama administration and Congress get an F for failing to prepare for a biological terrorist attack—a “national security” risk that is getting greater “by the day,” according to the director of a blue-ribbon federal panel set up to study the issue.

Borrowing a page from the 9/11 Commission, the bipartisan WMD panel is today issuing a “report card” on how the U.S.