gawker.com | Over the past two years, more than a dozen Securities and Exchange employees and contractors have tried to view pornography on government computers at least 8,273 times. Here's what they were looking at while the global financial system cratered.
alternet | Of course, booze is hardly the only commonly ingested intoxicant. Take the over-the-counter painkiller acetaminophen (Tylenol). According to the Merck online medical library, acetaminophen poisoning and overdose is “common,” and can result in gastroenteritis (inflammation of the gastroint...
cbs3.com | On March 5, deputies arriving to post an eviction notice on Lynda Clark's South Philadelphia home found she had hanged herself.
"It's devastating for everyone. We're not even family members and it's just devastating to us," Captain Albert Innaurato of the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office ...
aftermathnews | Pesticide poisoning is a major health problem. Every year thousands of farm workers die of pesticide poisoning and millions more suffer severe effects, mainly in developing countries. A survey in Nicaragua last year concluded that 2 per cent of the country’s adult population suffers ...
Presstv | Recently, California has been releasing a 'considerable' number of its 167,000 prisoners in the state's 33 prisons in an effort to slash spending and help fight a burgeoning 20 billion dollar budget deficit that has already taken its toll on education, healthcare and other public services ...
Presstv | US authorities have arrested a number of anti-war protesters, including high-profile activist Cindy Sheehan, during a demonstration in Washington DC.
Eight peace activists were detained after laying coffins near a fence outside the White House during a Saturday rally in which thousands...
dallasnews.com | Commercial property foreclosure filings in the Dallas-Fort Worth area top $1 billion for the upcoming April sales.
That's much higher than commercial foreclosure posting totals in recent months.
"It's certainly the highest we've seen in this cycle," George Roddy of Foreclosure Lis...
americanthinker.com | Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), the Dean of the House of Representatives for being the longest serving member of the body (he was first elected in 1955, succeeding his father, Rep. John Dingell, Sr.), made an amazing admission during a live telephone interview with Detroit WJR ...
cato-at-liberty.org | A recent Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the U.S. Postal Service’s dire financial prospects found little enthusiasm for the USPS’s idea to eliminate Saturday mail service. Financial Services subcommittee chairman Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) said “serious questions ...
blogtownhall.com | Right now there are just way too many people on the planet. A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels would be ideal.” – Ted Turner who voiced the reason behind the mass spraying of deadly substances over the masses. (Once again, you go ...
Foxnews | WASHINGTON -- Federal prosecutors are considering filing weapons charges against former top officials of the Blackwater Worldwide private security company on allegations that they illegally stockpiled automatic rifles at its headquarters, The Associated Press has learned.
Senior Justice D...
newsweek | As education secretary Arne Duncan begins his review of equality in the nation's schools—he recently called it the "civil-rights issue of our generation"—he may want to take a close look at North Carolina. Previously a model of desegregation, the state's classrooms have begun to divide ag...
(CNN) -- Ten states plan to file a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health care reform bill, Florida's attorney general announced Monday.
Bill McCollum, the Republican attorney general under fellow Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, told a news conference that the lawsuit wo...
newledger.com | For as long as the political fight took over the past year, the abbreviated review process on the health care legislation currently pending on President Obama’s desk is unquestionably going to result in some surprises — as happens with any piece of mashed-up legislation — both for th...
Huffingtonpost | BAGHDAD — Iraq's Human Rights Ministry says a Saddam Hussein-era mass grave dating to his 1991 suppression of a Shiite revolt has been unearthed in the south.
Ministry's spokesman Kamil Ameen says government teams working on an irrigation project found the grave in an agricultural ...
alternet | MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. -- It looks like nothing more than a 2,500-acre military complex, but sinister plans are afoot. One day soon -- if it hasn't happened already -- law-abiding U.S. citizens will be rounded up and imprisoned here by their oppressive federal government. It's perfe...
RICHMOND, Va., March 22 (UPI) -- As soon as President Barack Obama signs the healthcare bill into law, Virginia will file a lawsuit challenging it, the state attorney general said Monday.
"The Office of the Attorney General of Virginia will move forward with our lawsuit against the federal governme...
rawstory.com | Chinese cooking oil siphoned from restaurants' waste tanks and stripped out of raw sewage is being resold on the cheap and has for years tainted approximately one out of every ten meals cooked in the eastern nation, according to a recent study.
The revelation, first noted by state me...
blacklistednews.com | The government originally got involved in the health insurance industry in the 1920's, because health insurance was originally too inexpensive. That's right: too inexpensive. At the time, "fraternal societies," of which one-fourth of Americans were a part, contracted with indiv...
deadlinelive.info | At the 53rd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna, Russia is trying, albeit belatedly, to raise global awareness of the need to counter the Afghan drug trade.
According to the report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Russia is seco...