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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Record Numbers See Religion Losing Influence on America Life
A large majority of Americans, 70 percent, now say religion is losing its influence on American life — one of the highest such responses in Gallup’s 53-year history of asking the question, and significantly higher than in the first half of the past decade, according to Gallup’s latest poll on the subject. Americans’ views of…
Discovering Alabama Produces Special Show on the BP Gulf Oil Disaster
Dr. Doug Phillips of Discovering Alabama, the natural history show at the University of Alabama, takes a special look at the Alabama Gulf Coast and raises questions about the future along the shoreline in the disaster’s wake.
Alaska, Interior Secretary Policies to Kill More Polar Bears
Alaska just took its brutal war against the polar bear to a new level. The state was already in court to strip federal protection from the polar bear, but last week it launched a new attack — on the bear’s habitat. It filed a legal notice to strike down the federal government’s designation of a…
President Barack Obama is the Most Admired Man of 2010
Hillary Clinton the Most Admired Woman President Barack Obama is the Most Admired Man in America for 2010, while Hillary Clinton is the Most Admired Woman, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject. Obama ranks substantially higher than of the former presidents named along with iconic religious leaders and others who fill out…
VIDEO – White Christmas Birmingham, Ala. 2010: Part 1
VIDEO – White Christmas Birmingham, Ala. 2010: Part 1
The First White Christmas Ever in Birmingham Alabama 2010
A Photo Essay [click on the images for a larger view] Glynn Wilson An accidental full moon shot aiming at a flock of birds on the first White Christmas in the history of Birmingham, Alabama, 2010 Glynn Wilson A Carolina chickadee [poecile carolinensis] flapping its wings during landing on a dogwood tree limb Glynn Wilson…
The First White Christmas Ever in Birmingham Alabama 2010
A Photo Essay [click here or on the image for the full photo essay…] Glynn Wilson A Carolina chickadee [poecile carolinensis] in a dogwood tree on the first ever White Christmas in Birmingham, Alabama…
Energy Independence is Patriotic
Guest Column by Michael Brune The conservatives who are bending over backward to bash American ingenuity and deride modern and green technologies are hurting our economic competitiveness. Do they want China to ‘eat our lunch’? “As goes General Motors, so goes the nation.” A year and a half ago, that old saying seemed ominous. GM…
JibJab Year in Review: So Long To Ya, 2010
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In Final Hours, Senate Finally Passes Relief for 9/11 Responders
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy It only took nine years, but finally in the lame duck session of Congress — before the Democrats go back to minority status in the House next month — enough Republicans got onboard to pass a bill providing health care and other relief…
Nuke Treaty With Russia Wins Bipartisan Approval
Alabama’s Republican Senators Vote No POLITICAL ANALYSIS by Glynn Wilson While a large bipartisan group of senators handed President Obama a third victory in the lame-duck session of Congress Wednesday when they voted to ratify a nuclear arms treaty with Russia, Alabama’s two Republican senators voted against it, which comes as no real “surprise, surprise,”…
Holidays at The White House 2010
The doors of the Obama White House are open for the holidays. More than 100,000 people are expected to visit…
An Alabama Gulf Coast Christmas Montage
by Steward Jones for Coast 360 TV The promotional pitch from their YouTube channel?
First White Christmas Ever Expected for Middle Alabamaland
Glynn Wilson It snowed a record eight times in the winter of 2009-2010, but not on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. We will be checking on the birds around here to see how they fare this year, if the White Christmas forecast turns out to be true. This shot of a tufted titmouse came in…
Op-Critical Anti-War Protest Band Releases Another Name on the Wall
The Op-Critical Band is back with a take on the Roger Waters classic “Another Brick in the Wall” medley. This version is called “Another Name on the Wall” and features awesome animation effects from the very artistic mind of Matt Brown, and collaborates with Gillian Brown and Sophia Fraser for some great artistic effects and…
A Day of Reckoning Coming for State Budgets
CBS Sixty Minutes Reports Steve Kroft reports on the precarious financial conditions many states are facing and what they’re doing about it. By now, just about everyone in the country is aware of the federal deficit problem, but you should know that there is another financial crisis looming involving state and local governments. It has…
American Satisfaction Down to Seventeen Percent as Year Ends
The Economy and Jobs Named as Most Important Problems Only 17 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the United States at this time, and for good reasons, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject. This marks a low point in a year when satisfaction levels…
Lunar Eclipse Tuesday December 21, 2010
Produced by Kareem Brown Song: “Radio” composed by Marco Beltrami Total eclipse on winter solstice 2010. The 4.5 hours was shortened to a minute and thirty seconds. Previous post: There will be a rare lunar eclipse on Tuesday, Dec. 21. The time is roughly 12:30 a.m. to a little after 3 a.m. It is the…
Mitch McConnell Wins Scrooge of the Year Award
Senate Minority Leader Mitch “No, No, a thousand times No!” McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, wins the award for Scrooge of the Year 2010, according to the non-profit worker advocacy group Jobs with Justice. Voters selected McConnell in the 11th annual contest to find the politician, CEO, corporation or politician who has done the most to…
