Politics
FDA Public View Deteriorating
By Joshua Daly · 18 years ago
As of late, the FDA’s public perception has deteriorated to the point that the majority of adults have a negative view of the job that the FDA is doing. A recent Harris interactive poll stated ...
Who Is The FDA Trying To Protect?
By David Dalton · 18 years ago
I'll be the first to say the folks at the FDA have a hard job. It is their responsibility to protect the public safety and certainly not subject those of us who are ill to ...
Troop Surge in Iraq will deepen Quagmire
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
It looks like President Bush is going to announce a "temporary increase" in the number of American troops serving in Iraq. The President is adding complexity to a series of wrong decisions he has made ...
Six Years later – A Failed Presidency
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
President Bush came into office with great promise, and the reality has been one failure after another, and this is coming from a writer who was a conservative Republican before the President knew what the ...
President Bush and the GREAT MYTHS of Iraq
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
What a world we live in. Let's look at Iraq. We know the President said ostensibly that the reason for invading was to find weapons of mass destruction, and prevent Saddam Hussein from using them. ...
FDA Advisors Found to Have Financial Ties to Product Under Review
By Cathlene Martinez · 18 years ago
In a recent report by Bloomberg, it was found that six doctors set to be on an FDA advisory panel, had financial ties to companies that produce stent heart devices which are currently up for ...
Mayor Bloomberg says, “Shooting Unacceptable”
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
Several days ago, an unfortunate shooting took place in New York City. A team of five undercover police officers were sitting in a van outside a strip club doing surveillance. There was an additional officer ...
New Medicare Advantage Plan Costing You Money
By Joshua Daly · 18 years ago
In a new study by the Common Wealth Fund, it was found that moving seniors to private Medicare HMO’s are costing taxpayers 5.2 billion dollars per year. The study found that coverage through a Medicare ...
The Rosia Montana Dilemma
By Jaks Lloyd · 18 years ago
The Road to Democracy
Romania was beggared during the autocratic rule of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in the 70s and 80s and after his violent overthrow in 1989 struggled to become a truly democratic ...
Lost in Translation: California Community Dispute Resolution Programs Denied Funding
By Elizabeth Moreno · 18 years ago
In 1986, the California legislature enacted a statute to fund a Dispute Resolution Program. In enacting this statute the Legislature recognized that the resolution of many disputes is unnecessarily costly, time consuming and complex when ...
Iraq and the Misery Index
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
The other day it occurred to me that during Ronald Reagan's run for the Presidency he created a "Misery Index". This index represented a total of the rate of inflation, plus the prime rate, as ...
New Defense Secretary Changes Everything – Perhaps
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
On Election Day, the American people spoke very strongly that the direction the President and the Republican Party was taking America towards, is not the direction the country wanted to go in. Presidents are not ...
Internet and Cable TV Shake Up Democracy
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
Very rarely are we given the opportunity as citizens to participate in a revolution. The citizens that founded our republic participated in a revolution that has affected every corner of the earth for more than ...
"Blame It On Gay Marriage… $1,000 Reward."
By Paul Sterling · 18 years ago
The US environmental policy is being dismantled by a government in denial, while more and more evidence pours in about global warming (small things like hurricane Katina).
Politicians cry about our dependency on foreign oil ...
Are too many political candidates campaigning in "the Cave"?
By Hal Gieseking · 18 years ago
Is negative political advertising harmful or helpful in getting political candidates elected today?. This article examines some of the moral highground politicans give up if they sink too low in attacking their opponents. It uses ...
Navy Seal dies the hero’s death in Iraq
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
It may surprise you to learn that during the entire Iraq war and post war engagement period, only two of the elite Navy Seals have paid the ultimate price of service. I remember when the ...
"America's Goliath, IRS code sec 501(c)(3)?"
By Randall Fisher · 18 years ago
Has anyone noticed all the hoopla recently about the non profit status of the church? Many have become concerned. It seems that ministers have not read this code. The censorship in this code, is in ...
North Korea – Yes, you have our attention
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
North Korea has tested a low yield nuclear device with 4% of the destructive power of the bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II. Some believe ...
Disney / ABC deserve credit-Sept. 11th ABC movie
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
It is rare, rare indeed when a major media entity bucks the trend, and does what it believes in. Recently ABC under Disney’s guidance aired the $40 million production, “The Path to 9/11”. This was ...
Afghanistan given up to the warlords
By John Taylor · 18 years ago
Fifteen thousand American soldiers, helped by two thousand back-up troops of the allied troops, try, without much success, to ensure a pretence of order in Afghanistan. The presidential election wanted by Washington is quite unable ...