Category: US NEWS
Senators Propose Federal Standards For Egg-Laying Hens
( Pete Kasperowicz) Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and a half dozen other senators have proposed legislation setting a uniform national standard for the treatment of egg-laying hens, which would ensure egg producers aren’t blocked from selling across state lines due to differing state standards.
Obama Appeared At 1996 Event Hosted By Socialist Group
(Thomas Dishaw) A little known ad has surfaced providing more evidence of Obama’s Socialist agenda. The 1996 advertisement ran in the Hyde Park Herald. Obama was a featured speaker on the bill sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America. Regardless of Obama’s progressive stance in Chicago at the time of this ad, his overall Socialist/Police [...]
RIAA Sues LimeWire For More Money Than Exists In The World
(Ultimate Guitar) It’s no secret that LimeWire was once a hotbed of peer-to-peer music piracy, but the RIAA has now attempted to sue it for $72 trillion – more money than exists in the world today.
5 Ways Public Schools Prepare Us For Prison Life
(Rhonda Robinson) It didn’t occur to me that the six-foot fence around the perimeter was meant to keep me in. That is, until the day I decided to leave. Fed up with being kicked around the schoolyard, I decided to do what any intelligent human being would do: go home. I soon learned this wasn’t [...]
Lights Out Detroit
(Chris Christoff ) Detroit, whose 139 square miles contain 60 percent fewer residents than in 1950, will try to nudge them into a smaller living space by eliminating almost half its streetlights.
San Francisco City Official Consults Ouija Board Before Vote
(Rachel Gordon) It is official: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors backs the idea of the Navy naming a vessel after gay political leader Harvey Milk. But the decision came only after debating the power of symbolism and consulting with a spirit board.
Anonymous Leaks 1.7GB Of Data From The Bureau Of Justice
(ANWOA) The hacktivist group Anonymous claims to have leaked 1.7GB of data belonging to the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The file, which has been uploaded as a torrent and posted on The Pirate Bay, reportedly contains internal e-mails as well as the website’s “entire database dump.”
Carl Levin’s “Glasses” Agree, NDAA Bill Sufficient For Him, And Us
(Jeremy Herb) Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said he does not plan to make any changes to the detainee language in the Senate’s defense authorization bill, which was recently struck down by a U.S. District Court in New York.
DC Comics To Unleash Gay Super Hero
(Daily Mail) DC Comics plans to reintroduce a character as gay in a future issue, it has been revealed. Co-publisher Dan DiDio previously said that the company would not change the sexual orientation of an existing superhero and would bring in a new one altogether. But at Kapow Comic Convention in London on Sunday, he revealed [...]
South Florida Survivalists Prepare For The Apocalypse
( Stefan Kamph) Jorge Villa was an exporter with an engineering degree from the University of Miami when Hurricane Andrew struck Kendall in 1992. As the storm arrived, he took his pregnant wife and the rest of his family to a warehouse space across from the Tamiami airport. It was a clear, breezy evening.
