Group items tagged

This is an article about Freedom of Press and the battles reporters are experiencing with police officers in New York. Many reporters are fighting to use their right, but many officers are still preventing them and in some cases hurting reporters to do so.

What are the risks to smokers and non-smokers? How many people are affected? This article talks about the history of many surgeon general reports and answers these questions.

To avoid activist conflict and keep consumers unaware, the ALEC is working to pass laws that make reporting factory farm abuse and act of terrorism. ...This law has actually passed in some states and I am amazed.

This article states more rules on net neutrality as well as some arguments that are occurring with net neutrality. it also states what you can do if you want to report an ISP. You can report it informally or formally: informally, you would fill out a complaint form. It is not recommended that you formally report an ISP unless you represent a large company.

You're not writing enough for your summaries.

A deductible is the amount of money a person must pay out of his or her own pocket before health insurance begins to cover the cost of medical expenses. Deductibles have risen substantially over time. For preferred provider organization (PPO) plans purchased through an employer, the average family deductible increased 30 percent in just two years, from $1,034 to $1,344.

This lengthy report by the ACLU discusses the Patriot Act and gives evidence of government overreach. It calls American citizens to demand their constitutional rights and for congress to do their duty and make the necessary changes.

A snapshot of inmates in the Arizona Dept of Corrections broken down by ethnicity.

WASHINGTON - Separate smoking sections don't cut it: Only smoke-free buildings and public places truly protect nonsmokers from the hazards of breathing in other people's tobacco smoke, says a long-awaited surgeon general's report. Some 126 million nonsmokers are exposed to secondhand smoke, what U.S.

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

Only one state, Oregon, has legalized assisted suicide. The Oregon statute, which went into effect in October 1997, provides that a doctor may prescribe, but not administer, a lethal dose of medication to a patient who has less than six months to live. Two doctors must agree that the patient is mentally competent and that the decision was voluntary. As of April 1999, 23 patients were given drugs under the statute, and 15 of them used the drugs to commit suicide. A report released by the Oregon state Health Division reviewing the first year of the law's implementation found that the law was working well and had not been subject to abuse.

On March 5, 2002, Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, was interviewed about Enron by Atsushi Nakayama, a reporter for the Japanese newspaper Nikkei.

A bom tore into a government bus that was decorated. A deadly incedent killing 19 while 42 were injured. These people were identified as employees and civilians. It was later reported that this bloody insurgency was geared toward the government because of its alliance with the nited Stated

Article introduces the recent furry of notices being sent to small business owners suspected of under reporting cash receipts. Some argue that the majority of transactions are now electronic and that they are accurately reporting income.

This article states that with recent reports from 2013 the highest death rates due to guns had the most laced gun control laws. On correlation states with the harshest gun control laws had the lowest gun death rate.  This article also includes other sources which can help to make a point.

Delayed Notice Search Warrants: A Vital and Time-Honored Tool for Fighting Crime Field Report on the PATRIOT Act The Department of Justice's first priority is to prevent future terrorist attacks.

This website is dedicated to reporting on the many atrocities done to Christians in many countries. This non-profit organization provides many forms of aid such as medical assistance, food and clothing to the persecuted church around the world. This site has updated articles and information on every country that persecutes Christians.

President Obama is shown to be a regular shooter of recreational skeet shooting at Camp David. This author suggests that his statements given during an interview with The New Republic are politically driven. The claim is that his statements are meant to mitigate the opposition of his gun control efforts.

written sept. 2012, Government report on how the TSA is doing.

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."

SOPA and CISPA are congressional bills that are keeping the Internet from being free and open. After several protest against the bills democrats are rethinking there argument and changing there minds.