Officer flees after dying, Reuters reports

This is what happens when the newsroom budget is slashed.
The following paragraph is from a Reuters story concerning police officers who gave the last full measure of devotion.
"Lovelle Mixon, 26, was pulled over during a traffic stop in the early afternoon. Mixon, who was wanted for violating parole on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, opened fire on two officers, one of whom later died, and fled."
We can probably conclude that the deceased officer did not not flee after he died.
The following byline accompanied the story.
"(Reporting by Peter Henderson, Editing by Sandra Maler)"

Baucus grasps the buck

Baucus doesn't make a stand in the Senate often, but when he does he dives into a gargantuan issue. He's stepping hard into the health care reform debate, and he has received high praise from the Boston Globe. Check that piece out here.

The Senator has long been one of the most powerful people in America. He has been either the ranking Democrat on or the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee for decades, and his close association with the committee's ranking Republican, Charles Grassley enhances that power.

Previously Baucus has pushed hard for President Bush's tax cuts and against Bush's plans to reform Social Security. The Boston Globe piece argues that Montana's senior senator isn't passing the buck on health care.

Comments at the Boston site argue that Baucus won't even allow a single-payer approach to reform to be discussed before the committee.

The mechanics of meltdown

For a quick and entertaining rundown on how the subprime scam was run, check out this post at oftwominds.com. For more, shuffle over to this link at wsj.com.

Criminal subculture infests highest levels of American finance

A criminal subculture festers at the highest levels of American finance. When subprime derivatives were given a AAA rating, a crime was committed. That crime was fraud. The spirit of Enron's Fastow lives on in the corridors of American power. Let's shed some light on these uncommon conmen.

Adios Mamacita

Bang the drum slowly. Play dirges and shed tears. Tomorrow Mamacita's closes. The North wind bites a little harder as the prospect of life without Eva Sigsworth's cooking looms.

The other Russia

Putin steals the headlines, but there is another Russia.

Wright On

The April 10 issue of the Billings Outpost contains three columns defending Barack Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright. They were a response to a column that ran in the previous week's Outpost that argued that Mr. Wright's perspective came from the lunatic fringe of American thought. Maybe so, but Outpost editor David Crisp demonstrates that that perspective sits smack dab in the center of the Holy Bible.