Controversies
Ex-CIA Officer Arrested in Continuing Obama Attack on Alleged Leakers
Like no other presidential administration before it, the Obama administration is cracking down on government officials who leak classified information to the media. The latest case has been brought against Jeffrey Sterling, an ex-CIA officer who... read more
How Secret were the WikiLeaks State Dept. Cables?
If it wasn’t WikiLeaks, then it might well have been someone else who eventually gained access to the State Department’s classified cables, given their not-so-secure repository.
WikiLeaks managed to get a hold of 251,287 communiqués because ... read more
Firefighter Wins Workers’ Comp for Breast Cancer
Thirteen years after she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, Las Vegas firefighter Robin Lawson is finally set to receive workers’ compensation coverage for her condition, after the state Supreme Court agreed she became ill as a result of he... read more
Dirty Tricks Specialist Gains Seat on House Committee that Investigated Him
Tim Griffin is back in Washington, DC, and in a twist of political irony, will help investigate those who try to make a mockery of federal laws, or government prosecutors. Kind of like what Griffin did a few years ago.
Griffin was once a Kar... read more
House Republicans Drop Voting Rights for Puerto Ricans, Samoans and Others
Just as they did in 1995 after seizing control of the U.S. House, Republicans have stripped the limited voting power of representatives from the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Marianas. T... read more
DNA Clears Texas Man after 30 Years in Prison
It took the state of Texas 30 years to figure out that Cornelius Dupree Jr. never belonged in prison for aggravated robbery. After DNA testing proved Dupree was not the culprit of a 1979 attack rape and robbery attack on a 26-year-old woman, the... read more
Texas Campaign Contributor Wins Expanded Radioactive Waste Contract
Waste Control Specialists has won the right to import low-level nuclear waste from around the country into Texas, marking a victory for billionaire Harold Simmons.
Simmons has been the second biggest individual donor to Texas Governor Rick P... read more
Pentagon and Private Industry to Share IT Workers
In need of cyber warriors equipped with the latest IT knowledge, the Department of Defense has started a pilot program that will send some of its employees to work in the private sector for brief periods.
The plan allows Pentagon IT speciali... read more
White Use of the Word “Nigger” Goes to Court
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has agreed to allow a white television news anchor fired for using the word “nigger” in a June 2007 newsroom meeting to proceed with his lawsuit against his former employer, WTXF Fox 29.
Tom Burlington claims ... read more
Ethnic Studies Now Banned in Arizona
School board officials in Tucson are standing by their Mexican American Studies program in the face of a new law that seeks to ban all ethnic studies in public schools.
The new law, which took effect January 1, prohibits classes that “promote ... read more
Military Health Care Rejects Brain-Damage Therapy for Wounded Troops
The Department of Defense’s health plan, Tricare, has so far refused to cover a special treatment for veterans who have suffered brain damage as a result of combat in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Cognitive rehabilitation therapy is viewed by many ne... read more
Unions Fight against Solar Energy Project in California Desert
The legal hurdles just keep cropping up for developers of solar energy farms in the Southern California desert.
California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE) has sued the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to st... read more
What if Teachers Ran Schools Instead of Administrators?
Waiting for “Superman”, a documentary currently angling for an Academy Award nomination, puts much of the blame for the poor state of education in the United States on bad teachers and on teacher unions. But it’s possible that teachers could be ... read more
Veterans Groups Clash with VA over PTSD Diagnosis
At the same time that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) made it easier for soldiers to file a post-traumatic stress disorder claim, the agency also made it more difficult to receive such a diagnosis, prompting veterans groups to sue the gove... read more
Appeals Court Denies Puerto Ricans Right to Vote in U.S. Elections
A lawsuit seeking to establish voting rights for U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico was rejected by a federal appeals court in Boston, citing the supremacy of the Constitution over international law.
Plaintiffs tried using The United Nations Inter... read more
Decriminalizing All Drugs: An Update from Portugal
Ten years after it decriminalized all illegal drugs, Portugal has not descended into a narcotic hell, as some predicted when the government passed a groundbreaking law in 2000. Instead, the country has managed to shift resources away from prosecut... read more