Efforts to encourage corporations to curb "greenhouse gas" emissions through a mandatory "cap-and-trade" scheme imposes a hidden tax on small businesses and amounts to a Kyoto-style rationing of energy use At least, that's what we think ... READ MORE
Project 21 has a new press release addressing the fact that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 47 percent of the over one million Americans who are HIV-positive are black. The press release contains details about the ... READ MORE
With the release of startling new government figures on HIV and AIDS showing African-Americans are the "most severely impacted" community, members of the black leadership network Project 21 are repeating a call to black Americans to be more conscious of ... READ MORE
Project 21 issued a press release today on the U.S. Senate's apology for not passing an anti-lynching law. The press release quotes Project 21 member Lisa Fritsch: "I am all for the gracious acceptance of an apology that is due, ... READ MORE
On June 13, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution by a voice vote apologizing to the victims, survivors and descendent of racist lynchings that occurred between 1882 and 1968. The first anti-lynching legislation was introduced 105 years ago. Such legislation ... READ MORE
I quote The Nation magazine only with great caution, but it is reporting that Mark Felt (aka "Deep Throat") was, while at the FBI, "assigned the mission of unearthing -- and stopping -- Deep Throat." This placed Felt, according to ... READ MORE
Physicist Gerald Marsh, a National Center Science Advisor, has a letter in the UK's Financial Times today. It responds to a June 9 FT editorial buying in to the "humans cause climate change" theory. Marsh says, in part: While the ... READ MORE
Canada has a problem. Its government-run health system is deadly. Now Canada's Supreme Court has ruled that the system's long waiting lists violate the Quebec charter of human rights and freedoms. More from the New York Times: The Canadian health ... READ MORE
The Washington Post has a page one story Wednesday about the government of the District of Columbia seizing property where gay sex clubs have been located for some thirty years. The city, says the Post, has "notified property owners that ... READ MORE
