ACLU Challenges Patents on Human Genes
Image via Wikipedia Got this one in my email today … and I have to agree with their stance: There is something fundamentally wrong with companies being able to own the rights to pieces of…
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Ensign Touting GOP Line Against EFCA
I’m not a fan of organized unions, but that’s another discussion for another time. However, I do draw the line at the tactics now being used by Senator Ensign to promote the Republican line against…
The Name May Have Changed, But The Game’s Still The Same
The Army’s ‘School of the Americas’ (SOA) was originally established in 1946 and was later moved to Fort Benning (located near Columbus, GA) in 1984. In 2001, it’s name was changed to WHINSEC (Western Hemispher…
From My eMail: Catching Wild Pigs
A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his…
History Set to Repeat Itself … Only with U.S. as Perpetrators
Image via Wikipedia Have President Bush and his cronies learned nothing from history? The Cuban Missile Crisis was a time when the world teetered ever so closely to nuclear war. Then, it was Premier Nikita…
GAO Report Out – The Process Was Flawed
Kansas Rep.Todd Tiahrt has claimed all along that the Air Force’s decision to award the air refueling tanker contract to EADS/Northrup was a “big mistake from the beginning.” He’s been very outspoken about the Air…