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NEW ORLEANS – Oil stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's busted well Thursday for the first time since the disastrous spill began, the oil giant said. It was the most significant milestone yet in BP's effort to control one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

NEW ORLEANS – BP says oil has stopped leaking into the Gulf for the first time since April.

Listening to the local news radio station this morning, there was a story about Galveston finding tar balls in the surf offshore. Something seemed vaguely odd about how it was described, but couldn't put my finger on it at the time. The tarballs were described as roughly the size of ping-pong balls. Hmm. Then I forgot about it. Until just now, the golfing thing hit me. Some liberal at CBS radio made a deliberate decision (not) to use the most likely description of that size. "Golf ball" sized.. Trying to remember the last time I ever heard the term "ping-pong...

I just had to ask. You know with the $20 billion shakedown taking place it seems everyone forgot about the leaking hole..

A modest proposal: The federal government should take over Louisiana. Might as well, at this point. "We will do whatever is necessary to help the Gulf Coast and its people recover from this tragedy," President Obama said.... Louisiana has had more than its share of tragedies in recent years, and some, such as Hurricane Katrina, could be deemed acts of nature. But whatever the cause, every calamity that befalls Louisiana is made worse by its corrupt civic culture. A protectorate could provide the structure of governance its people need. It's hardly news that Louisiana's political class is not all it...