Angostura Bitters

If you're from Trinidad & Tobago or just love drinking, you should be proud of this video from the April 15, 2010 edition of The Rachel Maddow Show. Also, great Champagne Cocktail and Manhattan drink recipes.

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Newark, NJ's Remarkable Accomplishment

Living as close to Newark as I do and driving or taking the train through it as often as I do, I've seen not only the parts of Newark that gave it its reputation but also the changes taking place block-by-block, day-by-day. The fact that Newark just completed its first calendar month without a murder is remarkable.

This is a beaten up city that has been the butt of jokes for so many years, including the line from the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam, where Robin Williams' character is talking to troops headed into hostile territory and he tells them to be careful because "It's dangerous out there. It's like Newark after dark." (And that is a film set in 1965, a year before the last time Newark went an entire calendar month without a homicide.)

Newark Mayor Cory Booker did a number of TV interviews recently, including those MSNBC interviews posted below from The Rachel Maddow Show and Morning Joe.

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GOP After Healthcare Reform: Dazed and Confused

Matt Miller has another great column in The Washington Post about the discombobulated GOP reaction to President Obama signing into law a national version of essentially the same health care reform enacted by Republican Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts.