From Chris Bowers:
The D.C. Voting Rights Act has passed through cloture in the Senate, 62-34. It is now a certainty to pass into law.
The act grants D.C. a full voting member in the House of Representatives, a seat which will be held by a Democrat for a long, long, loooong time. …In exchange, the Act [...] Read more »

Diarist expatyank wrote an interesting article at DailyKos entitled “French Caribbean erupts over recession: General strike, riots” that I recommend reading. An excerpt:
A few weeks ago the French government started sending over planeloads of police, which is of course worrying to the Guadeloupeans. The last time they had unrest in the late 1960s, the same [...] Read more »