The Flip Side Archive: May 2010

It's a TKO for Top Kill. Landry: "No silver bullet." Suttles: "This scares everybody."

As the nation keeps its fingers crossed, it remains clear that no one really knows what the future holds for this still-unfolding disaster narrative. Published May 30 2010
Suttles and Landry: Success of "Top Kill" a waiting game

A local disaster with global implications, the success of “Top Kill” to stop BP’s oil spill is now “a waiting game”. Published May 27 2010
Gulf oil spill roundtable with Rear Admiral Mary Landry

Temporary solutions, strategies, and long term impacts were pivotal issues in today's Q & A on the oil spill. Published May 17 2010

Allison Addicott holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, a Master in Divinity from Pacific School of Religion (Berkeley), and has done PhD work at both Drew University in New Jersey and the Graduate Theological Union/Berkeley in Philosophy ...

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- Obama unscathed by scandals: Popularity over 50%
  After possibly the worst week of the Obama administration, new polls show that the President has escaped relatively unscathed.
- Obama's endlessly loose ends
  Benghazi, the IRS, the AP - Obama had nothing to do with any of them. He knows nothing about them. They're just messy loose ends.
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It's a TKO for Top Kill. Landry: "No silver bullet." Suttles: "This scares everybody."