What Is A Life Worth?

"What is a Life Worth? October 9th, 2008 | Posted by Mike Kearney Share This http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Q0uQAL_YDA Video of Care To Live member Ted Girgus taken at our nationwide protest in Seattle....

Illegal Immigration Down As Economy Falters

Expert Says Word Travels Quickly About Decline in Jobs"WASHINGTON -- Illegal immigration, which has sparked political and social turmoil in communities across the nation, is on the wane, according to an independent report released Thursday. The number of illegal...

Full Recovery Expected for Travis Barker, DJ AM

A Press conference was held this morning at Doctors Hospital in Augusta Georgia regarding Travis Barker former Blink-182 Drummer and Adam Goldstein (DJ AM) condition following a fatal plane crash in Columbia, SC...

Senate bill sets guidelines for cybersecurity center

"A new authorization bill would give the White House more oversight of the Homeland Security Department's much-beleaguered cybersecurity efforts. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on...

Hurricane Kyle heads toward Canada

Update: Hurricane Kyle will not hit Boston directly, but is instead heading up the Altantic seaboard toward the Canadian Maritimes."The 11th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Kyle was upgraded from a...

All-Star Lineup of Comedians To Honour George Carlin

In remembrance of the passing of comedy legend, George Carlin, this past June, an all-star lineup of comedians is coming together for a special tribute performance to Carlin at the Mark Twain Prize for American...

Plane Crash in Columbia, SC 4 Dead, Blink-182, Travis Barker and DJ AM Critical

Columbia, SC, (IMNS)-   Ex-Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and disc jockey DJ AM Adam Goldstein, have been critically injured in a Learjet crash that occurred shortly before  midnight Friday. Barker...

First Memorial Held For Chatsworth Metrolink Victims

"It has been reported that the first memorial has been held for one of the 25 Chatsworth Metrolink victims, Howard Pompel age 69 from Moorpark was held on Wednesday. The memorial was held at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center for the insurance agent and father of three,...

Rangel pays IRS, says he is target of GOP 'guerrilla war'

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Charles Rangel wrote six checks for about $10,800 in back taxes and then penned an open letter to New Yorkers on Friday, saying he has done nothing dishonorable and is the target of a GOP "guerrilla war." ...

Calling B.S. on the Idea of 'Marijuana Addiction'

"It's laughable that the Feds are pushing the concept of pot addiction when science shows that withdrawal symptoms from caffeine are far worse.The U.S. government believes that America is going to pot -- literally.Earlier this month, the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse...

Woman Faces Jail Time For Not Paying For Diet Coke

An Idaho woman faces federal charges after refusing to pay for a Diet Coke."The Bush administration’s top attorney in Idaho is bringing charges against a North Idaho woman for refusing to pay for a Diet Coke and...

Reid Blocks Online Predator Bill to Help Obama

"This Congress hasn't accomplished all that much, so you'd think they'd be eager to pass a no-brainer such as bipartisan legislation to protect kids from online predators. You'd be wrong. Last December, the House passed the Securing Adolescents from Exploitation Online Act by...

Obama gets big Bucks from Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac

Obama calling himself an outsider and agent of change has CEO of Freddie Mac on his Pay Role.  The fact is  that he has received over 500,000 dollars from folks within Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac.  Some of...

Is Google Starting Its Own Country?

Life beyond the Googleplex: don't be evil, but do absolutely everything else, including creating offshore, oceanic supercomputer data centres that could set the stage for the creation of Google's very own...

NASA could be closed for more than a week

"Damage assessments from Hurricane Ike at NASA's Johnson Space Center continued on Sunday, and a space agency spokesman said it could be late this week or sometime next week before the facility is ready to reopen for normal operations. Johnson, which employees 16,500,...

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