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  • Can Biden Murder Trump and Get Away With it?

    Monday, March 11, 2024
    Rumors are spreading that the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to rule that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for anything he does while he is president. Some Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden bring a gun to his first debate with Donald Trump. If he shoots Trump, he would be immune, but if Trump shoots Biden he would be prosecuted because he is not a sitting president.   read more
  • Herbicide Spraying in Texas: Border Patrol vs. Locals

    Saturday, April 11, 2009
    Residents of Laredo, Texas are objecting to a recent Border Patrol decision to spray the Rio Grande river bank with pesticides, claiming that it has echoes of the Agent Orange scandal of the Vietnam War era. Border patrol officials proposed sprayi...   read more
  • The Hidden Economic Power of Cooperatives

    Saturday, April 11, 2009
    Too little has been known for far too long about cooperatives in the United States, so the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has set out to conduct its own census of this facet of rural America. Cooperatives (businesses that are mutually owned a...   read more
  • Drug Testing by FDA in Crisis

    Friday, April 10, 2009
    Things are so bad with the Food and Drug Administration’s clinical trial system for approving new drugs that the country is “virtually defenseless” from preventing another Vioxx scandal. This finding, and many others regarding dangerous conflicts ...   read more
  • Financial Industry Avoids IRS Audits

    Friday, April 10, 2009
    Next Wednesday is Tax Day in America—the day dreaded by almost everyone. Unless you’re part of the billion-dollar financial industry that has been lambasted for tanking the economy. According to The Center for Public Integrity, banks and other fin...   read more
  • Virginia Assembly Rejects Federal Aid to Unemployed

    Friday, April 10, 2009
    Republicans in Virginia’s House of Delegates derailed attempts yesterday by state Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Timothy Kaine (D) to accept $125 million in federal stimulus money that would have provided additional unemployment benefits to many of...   read more
  • Taliban on the Web…Hosted in Houston

    Friday, April 10, 2009
    For all their qualms about modernity, the Taliban know how to use the Web. Last week, a blogger discovered that a website, Alemarah1.com, belonging to the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” was hosted in the United States. The Houston-based company...   read more
  • Who is Binge Drinking?

    Friday, April 10, 2009
    Of all the alcohol-related deaths in the United States, more than 50% were caused by binge drinking, which is currently defined as consuming five or more alcoholic drinks on one occasion for men and four for women. The U.S. Centers for Disease Con...   read more
  • Army Doctors Pressured to Not Diagnose PTSD

    Friday, April 10, 2009
    An investigation by Salon has found that the U.S. Army is pressuring doctors to not diagnose soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and brain injuries out of concerns over the cost of treating thousands of returning veterans from Iraq...   read more
  • Obama Administration Again Defends Bush Wiretapping

    Thursday, April 09, 2009
    The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Barack Obama has gone beyond anything the Bush administration tried to do in defending the government’s unauthorized wiretapping of American communications earlier this decade, according to legal sch...   read more
  • Facebook 5th Largest Nation in the World

    Thursday, April 09, 2009
    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that the social network has welcomed its 200 millionth user. That means that Facebook Nation now has a larger population than Brazil, and trails only China, India, The United States and Indon...   read more
  • Is Smoking Good for the Nation’s Economy?

    Thursday, April 09, 2009
    Congress never makes a move regarding health care without first considering the financial costs involved. But the latest twist on the cost-benefit question raises the point of whether the nation would be better off—from a purely bottom-line perspe...   read more
  • Condom Controversy: Alabama vs. China

    Thursday, April 09, 2009
    Turns out “Buy American” does not apply to condoms. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has decided to end its contract with Alabama-based Alatech Healthcare Products for the condoms it distributes overseas, and instead will buy th...   read more
  • Obama and Banks vs. Civil Rights Groups

    Thursday, April 09, 2009
    Consumer and civil rights groups are beside themselves over a decision by the Justice Department to pick up where the Bush administration left off in defending banks accused of having racist lending practices. Later this month, President Barack Ob...   read more
  • Retrial Ordered in Murder of American Nun

    Thursday, April 09, 2009
    A three-judge panel has ordered a Brazilian rancher to again stand trial for the murder of Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old nun from Ohio who was murdered in 2005 while campaigning to save the Amazon rainforest. Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura was first tri...   read more
  • Judge Slams Justice Department for Hiding Witness’ Mental Illness

    Wednesday, April 08, 2009
    It might be difficult to find a more irate judge in the country right now than U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who has publicly scolded the Justice Department over the shady legal practices of government attorneys handling the cases of Guantán...   read more
  • Hidden Facts about the Columbine Massacre

    Wednesday, April 08, 2009
    David Cullen was one of the many reporters who dashed to Littleton, Colorado, when word first got out about the shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. But unlike his media counterparts, Cullen, who was then working for Salon.com, wou...   read more
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