current events

Current events are all about what's happening right now on a worldwide scale. In the early days of the blogosphere, mainstream media didn't realize that bloggers were reporting faster, and often better, on current events.  Some mainstream writers still think that way.  Current events aren't all about politics, but politics remain a driving force for a lot of bloggers.

Michelle Malkin's Hot Air is hot. From a different perspective, Mother Jones has crossed over from a 20th century magazine to 21st century media portal and blog.

If world leaders hitting their heads while boarding Air Force One crack you up, Daniel Kurtzman's Political Humor Blog is good for a laugh.  Check out more personal takes on current events at Patterico and Fausta's Blog.  For more things current, try news and current affairs.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “current events”

• Ron Paul on CNBCs Squawk Box 11/23/2009

  
  Ron Paul Wins! | Campaign for Liberty at the Daily Paul - Blog — Authority: 588
  Ron Paul on CNBC Monday 8:40AM EST. to discuss Fed audit. squawk@cnbc.com Here it is. It was great. http://www.cnbc.com/id/15... read more
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• FEARnet’s ‘Fear News’ is the ‘Rocketboom’ of Horror

  
  Tubefilter News — Authority: 583
  FEARnet’s new horror news series,  Fear News has everything we’d expect from a decent terror flick—midriff flaunting ingénue, creepy animatronics and chase sequences. Only our young heroine is actually delivering the horror news—from within a horror set. It’s the  Rocketboom of horror. Only the ...
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• Fossil Fuels Belie Environmentalism… Repeatedly

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 140
  Says George Will - For many years, most oil was used for lighting and lubrication, and the amounts extracted were modest. Then in 1901, a new well named for an East Texas hillock, Spindletop, began gushing more per day than all other U.S. wells combined. George Will Since then, America has exhausted its ...
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• Termites Create Sustainable Monoculture Fungus Farming

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 521
  Macrotermes workers tending fungus garden nodules.Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it now appears that advanced insect societies have the same practice. Our societies took just ten thousand years of (mainly cultural) evolution to adopt this habit and we ...
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• Solar Winds Triggered by Magnetic Fields

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 521
  XRT Full Sun (Synoptic).Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers based on the latest observations from the Hinode satellite.Scientists have long speculated on the source of solar ...
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• World Awaits US Plan to Help Curb Global Warming

  
  EscapeTheIllusion.com — Authority: 130
  Washington – With just over two weeks to go before global climate negotiations in Denmark, the United States has yet to decide whether it can meet international expectations and offer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a certain amount in the next decade. The success or failure of the talks in Copenhagen could ...
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• Watching a Cannibal Galaxy Dine

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 521
  This image of the central parts of Centaurus A reveals the parallelogram-shaped remains of a smaller galaxy that was gulped down about 200 to 700 million years ago.A new technique using near-infrared images, obtained with ESO’s 3.58-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT), allows astronomers to see through the opaque ...
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• Wall Street Journal says Suicide rate up…Don’t wait for them!

  
  Spirit Happy — Authority: 112
  The Wall Street Journal, the well respected financial newpaper has revealed today that early data suggest “suicide rates up”. Sadly, SpiritHappy cannot brag that we have told you so all year along…this is a sad truth that will not surprise our readers We have been shouting this all year long that suicide rates ...
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• Obama administration appoints Muslims to key Homeland Security posts — but… they’re “moderates,” aren’t they?

  
  True Discernment — Authority: 432
  An interesting if not disturbing parallel to what we see happening in the western nations today is the dying days of the Western Roman Empire. I highly recommend purchasing the abridged version of Edward Gibbon’s “The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire” . Rome was an apostate Christian nation when it ...
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• YOU ARE HERE! Umbrella

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 521
  “You Are Here” Umbrella is brought to us by crafty folks at Cabracega Studios. This umbrella is a good idea that you can see where you are in the Google Earth Map or in some UFO zipping about the atmosphere. SourceCabracega Studios
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• A couple of quotes

  
  Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated — Authority: 438
  (Stolen from Neal Boortz ) “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. ...
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• Monday Accident & Lessons Learned: Oopps at Nuclear Plant - Even in High Performance Organizations, Mistakes Can Happen

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 138
  Nuclear plants are suppose to be high performance organizations where everything is checked and double-checked. They use INPO’s “error prevention tools.” They are used as a model for other industries to aspire to be like. Now look at the picture below… That’s not what a fuel bundle is suppose to look ...
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• Little Kitten – XKCD ‘Silent Hammer’

  
  PodBlack Cat — Authority: 474
  Now, if it were ‘Australian Skeptics’, it’d would arguably be a better joke… ah well, close enough. ShareThis
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• The Cult Takes a Hit

  
  SayUncle — Authority: 659
  Guess I’ll buy that F150 after all. So, it’s looking like the global warming crowd has been a bunch of very naughty boys. Someone hacked their computers and released some unflattering things about them. If this stuff is true, then it shows a pattern of: Suppressing dissent by attacking the unbelievers. Using ...
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• is it time to vote "present"?

  
  Who is John Galt? — Authority: 133
  As I understand it, the ideological problem with the bill currently before the Senate is that its "too liberal" for about five Democrats, including Olympia Snowe.  Its costly, it subsidizes abortions, and it includes a public option. Now, the liberals goal is to sweeten the overall bill, by amending it, just ...
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• John McCain Might be challenged by a Tea Bag Supporter, JD Hayworth

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 137
  Over the weekend I read an article that said John McCain might have to run against a member of the Tea bag movement. In a hypothetical Rasmussen poll John McCain has 45% support compared to former Congressman, conservative radio talk show host J.D. Hayworth’s 43%. Two per cent separates the two. “On his radio show ...
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• Increase your carbon footprint

  
  taxmanblog — Authority: 489
  and your waistline. thanks reader Bernie
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• What a douche

  
  SayUncle — Authority: 659
  Douche is an opinion and not statement of fact . Thus it’s not defamatory.
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• Sarah Palin vs. "2012"

  
  Bamboo Nation — Authority: 478
  I honestly cant watch footage of Sarah Palin for more than 15 seconds before I want to reach for the nearest car key and stab myself in the neck. So the thought of Palin becoming President of the United States has never crossed my mind because I value my own life too much. Even when Saturday Night Live re-cuts the ...
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• Why I Signed “The Manhattan Declaration”

  
  Keep Believing Blog — Authority: 121
  Chuck Colson with other leaders who signed the declaration. Last Friday a group of Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christian leaders released The Manhattan Declaration , a ringing statement regarding the dignity of human life, the importance of marriage as the conjugal union of one man and one woman, and the ...
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