Social Security: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
If the current rate continues, the report goes on to say, the Program's reserves will be exhausted in 2037. Of course, no one can predict the path of the US…
The Burka: A Taliban Imposed Canvas Prison
Why do Iran and other Muslim countries require a woman to hide her hair or her entire body?
In Support of President Obama
Here are just a few of his major accomplishments: health care reform (imperfect though it may be); a $789 billion economic stimulus package; auto industry bailout; selecting Sonia Sotomayor, the…
Carly Fiorina: A Global Warming Denier
Fiorina even had the audacity to suggest the science of global warming needs to be examined. What's to examine when the overwhelming scientific consensus has concluded that global warming is…
Doctors Without Morals
Government physicians and psychologists who participated in and authorized the torture of detainees have escaped discipline, accountability or even internal investigation. The Pentagon, the C.I.A., state licensing boards, and professional…
Cell Phone Health Hazards: Better Safe Than Sorry
On May 6, 2010, the President’s Cancer Panel reported that “the true burden of environmentally induced cancers has been grossly underestimated” and named cell phones and other wireless technologies as…
God Bless America
Every few years, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence updates its God Bless America poster to show the alarming difference between the number of gun murders in other developed…