Foster parents make plea for more state funds Which is what ga_sunshine told them before the election.
In Congress, Religion Drives Divide
From therevealerfeed: A study of congressional voting patterns over the last 25 years shows that religious affiliation helps create an ideological divide between Republicans and Democrats that virtually ensures a partisan split on almost all votes—not just the culture war…
General Sanchez “Effectively Opened the Way” for the Use of Torture at Abu Ghraib
Army’s Report Faults General in Prison Abuse Military officials and others in the Bush administration have repeatedly said the Geneva Conventions applied to all prisoners in Iraq, even though members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban held in Afghanistan and…
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CIA: We could have stopped Bin Laden
We could have stopped him The CIA has taken much of the blame for the security lapses that led to 9/11 and the false intelligence on Iraq’s WMDs. But now one spy has broken ranks to point the finger at…
What?
“It is all about vigilance,” says Dave Wardell, vice president of Central Atlanta Progress. “It is like a beehive. If you let it grow, it grows and grows and festers.” Does this person have any clue as to what a…
Hmmm – Well, They Were “Ministering” to Somebody
Los Angeles Times Publishes Full-Page Ad Promoting Homophobic Myths On July 23, the Los Angeles Times published a full-page ad by an anti-gay industry group called Exodus International that peddles a series of homophobic myths about gay people. The ad,…
Publisher, Author, and Lawyer Try to Strongarm Individual Out of Her Domain Name
Web publisher Katie Jones has owned the domain name katie.com since 1996. In 2001, the Plume imprint of Penguin Putnam published a book by Katie Tarbox, an 18-year-old who (willingly!) got involved with a cyberstalker when she was 13. The…
It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature!
Well, if you’re Bill Gates, anyway. When does a security hole become a business asset? Yes, businesses upgrade more slowly than consumers. That’s because upgrading costs far more for businesses, from the cost of the actual licenses to paying staff…
MRI Sheds Light On Autism
Autism as lack of neurological coordination In explaining the theory, Marcel Just, one of the study’s lead authors and director of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, compared the brain of a normal person to a sports team in…