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Brown vs. Democracy
With the California Financial Crisis at stake, the impartiality of the California attorney general has come under scrutiny. Proponents of the California Democracy Act, a ballot initiative that would …
Veterans Courts Try to Keep PTSD Victims Out of Jail
Zachariah Parzych, 23, spent eight months in Iraq checking areas for weapons and serving in combat. When he returned home to Orange County, California, his life started to change. …
Ten Things You Didn
From breast pumping to adoption tax credits, the leviathan known as the U.S. health care bill is loaded with little goodies. The 2,000-page health care bill that became law …
Down With Political Prognostications
Political sages turn today's polling and past voter behavior into confident predictions about upcoming elections. That's their job. But fortune-tellers may do nearly as well, especially when the vote …
Please, No Military Clothes for the President
This past weekend, President Obama made a surprise trip to Afghanistan, during which he doffed his civilian coat and tie and donned a “Commander-in-chief” leather flight jacket provided to …
Closing Medicare’s Drug “Doughnut Hole“
Washington - Now that the health care overhaul has passed Congress, Democratic lawmakers are hoping to highlight its most immediate benefits. Chief among them: a plan to help millions …
Forests May Depend on Survival of Native People
Montpellier, France - After the failures in Copenhagen to agree on a new climate protection treaty, and more recently at the Doha meetings on trade in endangered species to …
DA Refuses to Prosecute Animal Cruelty Case
Pennsylvania is the only state to permit live pigeon shoots. A Pennsylvania district attorney accepted campaign funds from an organization that promotes killing live pigeons in contests, and then …
Cancer Prevention Coalition’s Response to Obama’s Nomination of the Director of the National Cancer Institute
Chicago - Statement from the Cancer Prevention Coalition: “The NCI has become what amounts to a government pharmaceutical company.” Last Wednesday, the White House nominated Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus …
The Far Right’s Hate Element
Washington - The arrests of members of a Michigan-based “Christian” militia group should convince doubters that there is good reason to worry about right-wing, anti-government extremism — and potential …