Victory for Free Speech on Campus: Mississippi College Reverses Punishment of Student for Swearing Outside of Class July 28, 2010 JACKSON, Miss., July 28, 2010—Isaac Rosenbloom is again able to pursue advanced training as a paramedic at Hinds Community College (HCC) now that the school has reversed its punishment against him for swearing a single [...]

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse – unless you watch “Glenn Beck” every day – a bill is making its way through Congress that would give the President of the United States the authority to seize control of the world wide web in response to a “national cyber emergency.”  It would [...]

This week feminist bloggers are eagerly awaiting FDA approval  of yet another little chemical contraceptive making its way to the U.S. from HRA Pharma headquartered in Paris. They can hardly suppress the thrill of welcoming newcomer, “Ella”  into the family of Plan B and RU-486. On feministing.com:
There is exciting news in the world of emergency [...]

The United Nations Security Council wasted no time meeting in special emergency session yesterday regarding Israel’s commando operation against the flotilla of ships seeking to break the blockade of Gaza, resulting in the death of at least 9 people aboard one of the six ships in the flotilla.  The New York Times reported that Israel faced [...]

Drawing back from the full condemnation of Israel that the Islamic countries wanted — at least for now. “U.N. Condemns ‘Acts’ in Israeli Flotilla Raid,” from AP, June 1: UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council called early Tuesday for an “impartial” investigation of Israel’s deadly commando raid on ships…

You may be unemployed, but according to the Obama administration more than 300,000 teachers’ jobs were “saved” through the Democrat’s Economic Stimulus package. But no worries, the Democrats’ payoff to union supporters isn’t over yet! You, and your descendants, still have much more money to earn which they intend to spend buying votes and securing party loyalty during their reign. 
Almost unnoticed last Wednesday [...]

Europe’s finance ministers are panicking: they’ve done everything in their power – or so they believe – to save the Euro, yet the currency is becoming worth less and less. They don’t understand what’s going on, they’ve pumped billions into the Euro and into Europe’s failing economies, yet the European stock markets continue their free [...]

The fourteen countries were Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen — and Cuba. In January I wrote this about this program: “Watch for the howls from groups that pretend to be interested in American security but are in reality only interested…

Pushing an overburdened emergency care system to the brink
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By Kerry Allen
As an Emergency Room nurse I am very skeptical of the new health care reform bill – to say the least.  But now that Congress is no longer tied up with this legislative monster, I have a few questions and concerns for them to address.
As a [...]

The Department of Homeland Security recently released a memo entitled, “Privacy Impact Assessments” listing some of the agency’s favorite tip-worthy web sites in case of an emergency, Mark Hosenball of Newsweek reports.  Call it the DHS Blogroll, if you will.

It is no surprise that a government entity would harness this technology and gather information from [...]