Happy Tuesday! There is snow on the East Coast...on March 25th...Here's what's happening on the interweb: 1. Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From AP: NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as the oil giant agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the deadly Gulf of Mexico spill and pay a record $4.5 billion, including the biggest criminal fine in U.S. ...read more
Two years after a blowout on BP’s Macondo well killed 11 men and triggered the largest oil spill in U.S. history, oil companies are again plying the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Forty-one deep-water rigs are in the gulf. The vast majority of them are drilling new holes or ...read more