MAJOR EARTHQUAKE STRIKES NORTHERN CHILE

A major earthquake struck northern Chile on Wednesday, toppling power lines, closing roads and sending terrified residents into the streets. Authorities reported some injuries but no deaths from the quake, which was felt in the capital as well as neighboring Peru and Bolivia.

The earthquake, which struck at 12:40 p.m. local time (10:40 a.m. EST), measured magnitude 7.7 and was centered 780 miles north of Santiago, or 25 miles east-southeast of Tocopilla, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

SHIP'S PILOT THOUGHT IMPACT WAS MINOR

The biggest oil spill in San Francisco Bay in two decades, and the ship's pilot thought it was a minor impact?. You've got to be kidding me.

POLAR BEAR PANDERING

Barbara Boxer, my least favorite politician of all time, is at it again. Her hysterical pandering about global warming and the polar bears was nauseating to watch. The article by Debra Saunders sure says what I thought when I listened to Senator Boxer.

TENNESSEE TOWN HAS RUN OUT OF WATER

A small town in Tennessee has run out of water. This is incredible in our country. Surely there is something that the State or Federal government can do to help the people of Orme.