So it appears we have accidentally stumbled on our first inadvertant act of food terrorism, and it was the pet food from china. Some 14,000 pets were reported as being effected to the FDA. (Not sure how affected if those were just being sick or dying ( Read more... )

Corporate Chiefs May Come to Rue Fat Paydays: Albert R. HuntBy Albert R. Hunt ( Read more... )

Bush Compares Revolutionary, Terror Wars

MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) -- President Bush honored the 275th birthday of the nation's first president on Monday, likening George Washington's long struggle that gave birth to a nation to the war on global terrorism ( Read more... )

Across Arab World, a Widening Rift
Sunni-Shiite Tension Called Region's 'Most Dangerous Problem'CAIRO -- Egypt is the Arab world's largest Sunni Muslim country, but as a writer once quipped, it has a Shiite heart and a Sunni mind ( Read more... )

Who Pays to Stop a Pandemic?BIRD flu has not yet turned into a pandemic, but it is already killing the meager hopes of some of the world’s poorest people for a marginally better life ( Read more... )

Olivier Roy, perhaps France’s greatest authority on Islam, says that the matter of respect, what he calls “the discourse of dignity,” is Ramadan’s greatest appeal to his followers. I asked Roy in a telephone interview recently who Ramadan’s main followers were. “Not the first generation of immigrants,” he replied, “and certainly not the ( Read more... )

Some women embraced their outsider status. Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, campaigned in 1992 as “just a mom in tennis shoes,” capitalizing on a dismissive comment once directed her way by a male politician. But the reservations of many voters were real 15 or 20 years ago ( Read more... )

What seems to be the path of most democratic change, is when the liberals infilterate the conservatives and take over the status quo: this often happens later in a movement's maturity or if situations change. In different generations, there are also less animosity and old drama to overcome, neutral parties are more likely to compromise then parties ( Read more... )

109th Congress / House / 2nd session / Vote 534
Question: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, As Amended
Bill: H RES 1091

Vote description: Condemning in the Strongest Terms Iran's Commitment to Hold An International Holocaust Denial Conference
Vote type: 2/3 Yea-and-Nay

Result: Passed, 408-0, with 25 not voting.
Date/time: December 8 ( Read more... )

World AIDS Day: Bristol-Myers is donating $1 to the National AIDS Fund every time someone goes to their website and moves the match to the candle and lights it.

https://www.lighttounite.org/

Locally: They finally start addressing DC's problems with HIV/AIDS by targetting poor neighborhoods for condom distribution, where the most AIDS cases are. ( ( Read more... )