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This article summarizes eight services that are now available to women without any copay or cost sharing under the Affordable Care Act

While it seems like a great thing to offer, how does this affect the taxpayers? Where does the government get the money to cover the extra cost of the "free" services? Higher taxes? We are already approaching 17 trillion in debt and running a trillion deficit every year since 2009.

New York City's public Wi-Fi project is the latest in a long trend of companies offering free services. The services come at a cost, however. This WiFi can contain hackers just a few feet away chipping on your data and finding out about your bank accounts.

The majority of people, when thinking of health care, consider things such as physical illnesses and things of that sort. Many do not think of mental health, which is an extremely pertinent part of an individual's quality of life. The problems and issues with obtaining services for mental health and maintaining them, sadly, are quite a few. This makes being able to find and receive the help and treatment needed for individuals' with mental health issues difficult and sometimes nearly impossible.

There have been pushes to ban encrypted services online in order to try and prevent terrorists from secretly using such services to communicate. This article discusses three major points that we need to consider when discussing this issue; terrorists aren't using things like PS4's to communicate, despite what the rumors claim. When we apply back-doors to our encrypted services, we weaken them to attack. We need to think about this as Privacy vs security, not security vs security.

Earlier this year, Edward J. Snowden, a government contractor, leaked classified documents to the news media that revealed the existence of top-secret government surveillance programs. We now know that the National Security Agency gathers phone logs and Internet data from millions of Americans as part of its mission to keep the United States safe.

Many people see planned parenthood as an organization that has been taking money from the government to fund abortions among many other issues. It's thought that this shouldn't be the case because there are so many other health care services in the states that provide the same services as well as many more services too. The break down of some of the expenses show why continuing to fund planned parenthood would not be the best solution for the tax payers money.

" During those years, the Selective Service used a lottery to determine the order in which draft age men would be called up for duty, usually in Vietnam. Many who received a low number were drafted or chose to enlist."

The Feres Doctrine prevents veterans from filing claims against the U.S. for injuries  incurred during military service. Because of the doctrines, veterans who have been injured in the line of duty cannot sue the U.S. government for compensation.

This article summarizes 10 top facts about Health Care Reform. Insurance companies will regulate more heavily. they will be told the minimum for services that they will cover. Everyone will have health insurance or they must pay a fine. Employers will be mandated to provide insurance to the employees or they will be fined also. Which sounds good to me, my employer thinks he doesnt have to give anything at all.

The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world. The project has been likened by web experts to China's attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives

DNews.com, writer Scott Sonner states that the forest Service needs to change how it does business with the outside interst groups. The influence of the special interest groups is in violation of law, favoring one group over another and the influence of these groups is having an impace of the national forest.

On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, threatening posts were made on the White House's facebook page. The posts were removed shortly after discovery and the Secret Service were to investigate the matter.

The Division of Children, Youth and Families has been awarded a federal grant for up to $11.6 million in federal funding to improve permanency outcomes for Arizona's foster children so that children will remain in foster care for shorter lengths of time.

This web article goes over numerous ways that we can protect ourselves online. The site gives examples such as encryption and using the growing popular cloud services that many products now offer as a way to protect our personal information. Along with those examples, the website lists 8 additional protection examples along with links to services that can help with internet security.

An interesting article that describes a case in which an employee was fired for having tattoos after several years of service. The article also states the current employment laws regarding discrimination.

history of the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) prior to 1984 and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) since 1984.

The shooting which occurred in December which left 20 children and six educators dead at the hands of a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT has caused the issue of gun control as well as the issue of mental health to be looked at more closely. The President of the United States, Barack Obama chose to issue a proposal for stricter gun control measures, due to this. Walker, as well as several other Republicans agree that the main focus should be on the issue of providing mental health services to those in need prior to violent events taking place.

Republicans in New Hampshire proposed a bill that residents must pass a drug test before receiving welfare. The applicants themselves would have to pay 45$ for screening. Passers will get a refund and those who fail will be blocked from the service for a year.

Proposal for a mandated drug screen to determine if individuals will be given welfare. So far 7 states have adopted this proposal and there should be many more states in the future to follow.

Article is a about the Affordable Health Care Act of also knows as "Obamacare," it discusses that this act is going to help provide families , children and elderly with "preventative services free " but they are saying that the employers will raise the cost of insurance as premiums will go up.

You will find this article is comparable to oral contraception law, but also deals with the religious organization should be exempt from providing their employees with birth control. Here is a something I found interesting " It argues that while churches themselves are exempt from providing birth control to employees free of charge, "religious schools, hospitals, and social services don't qualify as religious, and must therefore provide these drugs and procedures."