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Check it out. Our Nation's Finest is protecting our cyber security with old Dells, Windows XP Home, and a really kewl Matrix screensaver. I feel safer already.

Here we go again.... U.S. senator promises look into cellphone-cancer link | Technology | Reuters "Iowa senator Tom Harkin, newly empowered to investigate health matters as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, promised on Monday to probe deeply into any...

Thought texting while driving was dangerous? A teenager was walking while texting, and fell through an an open manhole into a Staten Island sewer The 15 year old was walking with a friend along Victory Blvd. when she suddenly dropped out of site. Department of Environment Protection (the...

‘Individual mandate’ to buy health insurance is key to universal coverage MSNBC television is unashamedly leftist, but the dot com version is generally even handed. However, here's a story that disappeared from the "headlines" after only a few short hours and was quickly relegated to the...

To save money, more than 20 Michigan counties have decided to turn deteriorating paved roads back to gravel. Montcalm County estimates that repaving a road costs more than $100,000 a mile. Grinding the same mile of road up and turning it into gravel costs $10,000. At least 50 miles of road have...

The other day in another thread we were talking about bias. Well, it was mostly me, of course, but others chimed in. Everyone has a bias, usually many, manifested in different ways, just like everyone is prejudiced to one degree or another. We can't help it. Education, experience, beliefs, they...

Congress Considers National Bottle Deposit, Bag Tax The highlights: “Our environment is literally choking on plastic bags,” Moran said. “Equally disturbing, as these plastics break down, toxic chemicals are being released into the environment…Some environmentalists believe we may be witnessing...

From the New York Times, by David Segal, NYT: Cities turn to fees to fill budget gaps - The New York Times- msnbc.com It's fascinating. A few snippets below... After her sport utility vehicle sideswiped a van in early February, Shirley Kimel was amazed at how quickly a handful of police...

It was covered in the mainstream media, buuuut not much of it. A resolution proposed by the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and presented by Pakistan to the UN Human Rights Council condemns "defamation of religion." The language of the resolution seems innocent enough...

You've got to read it to believe it. After you've read it, you still won't believe it. All over the place on the issues, sometimes contradictory, mostly (unintentionally) funny. This is from the blog of a divorced mother, 41 years old. Originally from Canada, now a US citizen. I'm tempted to...

Gun owners fear tough new laws; One shop criticized for 'Obama sale' When 10-year-old Austin Smith heard Barack Obama had been elected president, he had one question: "Does this mean I won't get a new gun for Christmas?" That brought his mother, the camouflage-clad Rachel Smith, to Bob...

Not really a shocker, except that you'd think they'd wait until he was actually inaugurated. This one took mere hours... MOSCOW - President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia will deploy missiles in territory near NATO member Poland in response to U.S. missile defense plans. He did not...

If you haven't seen it, you should check out the opening sequence of the 09-13-08 Saturday Night Live. One of the most spot-on skits in the history of the show. Absolutely hilarious. Saturday Night Live - Palin / Hillary Open - Video - NBC.com

WASHINGTON — American and international investigators say that they have found the electronic blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon on computers that belonged to the nuclear smuggling network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist, but that they have not been able to...

Food Fight is an abridged history of American-centric war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination...