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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Mercury rain from power plants OK'd until end of 2011
The Environmental Protection Agency, resolving a lawsuit aimed at cutting the flow of mercury and other toxic substances from coal- or oil-burning power plants, has agreed to develop standards by late 2011 for limiting such emissions.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Death penalty's cost effectiveness evaluated in report
States could save hundreds of millions of dollars by eliminating the death penalty, according to a report released today. The report, which includes a national survey of police chiefs, was compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit group that researches capital punishment.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Windows 7 Could Wash Away Vista Aftertaste -- or Most of It
Windows 7 is no Windows Vista. But it remains a Windows operating system. That is, Microsoft's new release, arriving in stores and on new computers Thursday, ought to turn the troubled Vista into a bad memory.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Swine Flu Shots Revive a Debate About Vaccines
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The anti-vaccine movement, largely comprising activists and a handful of doctors and researchers who connect a variety of health problems — particularly autism spectrum disorders — to vaccines, has failed to find large-scale traction in the United States, where more than 90 percent of children are vaccinated.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Judge Halts Mandatory Flu Vaccines for Health Care Workers
A judge on Friday morning halted enforcement of a New York State directive requiring that all health care workers be vaccinated for the seasonal flu and swine flu.
The temporary restraining order by the judge, Thomas J. McNamara, an acting justice of the State Supreme Court in Albany, is likely to add to the growing debate about the flu vaccine.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Ground Beef, E Coli and You
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Meat companies and grocers have been barred from selling ground beef tainted by the virulent strain of E. coli known as O157:H7 since 1994, after an outbreak at Jack in the Box restaurants left four children dead. Yet tens of thousands of people are still sickened annually by this pathogen...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
The Torture Papers
NY Times Editorial: The Obama administration has taken important steps toward repairing the grievous harm that President George W. Bush did to this nation with his lawless and morally repugnant detention policies.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
GOP 'trackers' stalk Dems in hunt for 'macaca' moment
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Rep. Chris Carney was walking down a Capitol Hill street when suddenly bam an anonymous Republican with a video camera who'd been following him asked him a question that was intended to embarrass the Pennsylvania Democrat.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Maryland Police Conflate Peace Activists with Terrorists
Under the direction of Republican Governor Bob Ehrlich, Maryland State Police spied on and infiltrated non-violent peace activist groups, and labeled members as terrorists and anarchists.
Your tax dollars at work fighting Osama Been Peaceniks.
Monday, November 3, 2008
McClatchy starting to sound like OpEdNews!
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Heres to the American people, the electorate, for finally coming to their senses and voting for something different, for someone different and for a chance to fix the multitude of man-made disasters that confront us.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Washington Post Endorses Barack Obama for President
THE NOMINATING process this year produced two unusually talented and qualified presidential candidates. There are few public figures we have respected more over the years than Sen. John McCain. Yet it is without ambivalence that we endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president.
Friday, June 13, 2008
A Warning to My Old Republican Friends: Screw Up The Obama Moment and You're History -- Literally
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If the Republicans -- not to mention their bedrock supporters, such as evangelical Christians, neoconservatives and others -- do not grasp the Obama moment, and then rise to the occasion... they will have doomed themselves to political obscurity and moral opprobrium forever.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Obama and the Open and Unexpected Future
For one who has experienced both eras, the current movement for Barack Obama has achieved a living remembrance of Bobby Kennedy's campaign in the week when RFK's murder is painfully remembered.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Hillary's Worst Comment Yet
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For the second time, and hopefully the last, Hillary Clinton invokes the RFK assassination as a reason for her to stay in the race. What was she thinking in the same week that the last surviving Kennedy brother, Ted, is diagnosed with brain cancer?
Friday, May 2, 2008
Voting Rights Are Too Important to Leave to the States
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The NY Times has a good editorial today on how Congress should overstep the Supreme Court, and set mandatory, national voter registration laws that make it easy for everyone to register to vote.
Are you listening, Democrats in Congress?
Monday, April 14, 2008
US and Iran holding 'secret' talks on nuclear programme
Iran and the United States have been engaged in secret "back channel" discussions for the past five years on Iran's nuclear programme and the broader relationship between the two sworn enemies, The Independent can reveal.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Clinton NH campaign office hostage situation
A man who reportedly has a history of mental illness burst into a Hillary Clinton campaign office in New Hampshire with what appeared to be a bomb strapped to his chest and took hostages. Several hostages are reported to have been released, but it is not known how many others there might be in the office.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Weapons Given to Iraq Are Missing
The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005... it is nearly impossible for the U.S. military to know whether it is battling an enemy equipped by American taxpayers.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Democrats' Responsibility for Bush Radicalism
It is staggering, and truly disgusting, that even in August, 2007 - almost six years removed from the 9/11 attacks and with the Bush presidency cemented as one of the weakest and most despised in American history - that George W. Bush can "demand" that the Congress jump and re-write legislation at his will, vesting in him still greater surveillance power, by warning them, based solely on his say-so...
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Forget Third Parties Hijack The Democrats Instead
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Third party alternatives to hopelessly nihilistic Republicans, hopelessly equivocal Democrats, and the hopelessly self-serving lot of them make total sense except for one small problem. They can't win.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Botulism warnings in canned foods
Thursday, July 12, 2007
China Not Sole Source of Dubious Food
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Black pepper with salmonella from India. Crabmeat from Mexico that is too filthy to eat. Candy from Denmark that is mislabeled. At a time when Chinese imports are under fire for being contaminated or defective, federal records suggest that China is not the only country that has problems with its exports.
Monday, July 2, 2007
Country of Origin Food Labeling Law Not Being Enforced!
A law promoted by Tom Daschle and others in Congress was passed 5 years ago which mandates meat and produce be labeled to indicate the country of origin, but due to food industry lobbying efforts and some pro-business Republicans in the White House and Congress, the law is not being enforced. Representative Henry Bonilla, Republican from Texas, has been the strongest opponent of enforcement of the law.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
It's 8am, Do You Know Where Your Breakfast Came From?
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The ingredients in your Cheerios might not make you very cheery in the morning if you really knew where they came from... and what was in them.
Monday, June 4, 2007
Science Publisher Elsevier ditches arms trade shows
European Science publisher Elsevier, publisher of journals such as The Lancet, has long organized weapons trade shows. The publisher has finally agreed to end the practice by 2008.
