Mychal Massie opines: ...perhaps when Julian Bond, Harry Belafonte, and Danny Glover finish caressing the back and shoulders of maniacal dictators like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro they too will find time to address the cries for mercy from Darfur ...
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As we have not yet received an answer from Greenpeace about our challenge, husband David has sent a letter to Greenpeace Executive Director John Passacantando: May 30, 2007Mr. John Passacantando Executive Director Greenpeace, Inc. 702 H Street, NW, Suite 300 ...
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President Bush began the work week with an early-morning press conference in which he announced U.S.-imposed sanctions on government and rebel leaders in Sudan and Sudanese-controlled companies due to their role in prolonging the mass murder in Sudan's Darfur region ...
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photo credit: Tom Story To practice her craft legally, Arizona regulators wanted Essence Farmer, an experienced African-style hair braider, to supposedly 'learn' her unique specialty by completing a $10,000, 1,600-hour cosmetology course that does not include African hair braiding techniques ...
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Project 21 has a few things to say about the President's announcement of sanctions on Sudan ...
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For two years, the City of New Orleans stalled the opening of a street book vending business because the booksellers did not have a required permit - a permit, however, that was non-existent and could not be issued by the ...
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The National Center for Public Policy Research's Ryan Balis attended a hearing of the Senate and Environment and Public Works yesterday; one in a series of EPW hearings this year in which Chairman Barbara Boxer brings forth advocates of the ...
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The ever-excitable DeSmogBlog crew continues to live up to its reputation for hyperbole with a post about The National Center for Public Policy Research's challenge to Greenpeace. We called upon Greenpeace to list all its $50,000 donors in 2006. If ...
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I've updated a post from February about Jonathan's Law -- a law proposed to make the public records of disabled children more accessible to the children's parents. The proposal has been adopted by the New York state legislature and was ...
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The St. Paul, Minnesota government shut down a seven-year old's lemonade stand because she did not hold a $60 state beverage license. Seven-Year-Old's Lemonade Stand Shut Down by Government Regulators If an entrepreneurial child in St. Paul, Minnesota wants to ...
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