“My house is about 100 yards from some fire right now and that’s freaking me out.”

“My house is about 100 yards from some fire right now and that’s freaking me out.”

John Romero

As a wildfire came closer to his Mariposa, Calif., home.

“I heard women and children crying and shouting ... as dead bodies lay in pools of blood on the street.”

Mustapha Abdullah

After three suicide bombings and a roadside bomb struck Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad.

“Car dealers and other retailers cannot continue to absorb rising costs at the wholesale level and not pass some of these increases on to consumers.”

Dean Baker

Center for Economic and Policy Research.