Amazon.com Gives Most Well-Read City List In America (AMZN Amazon.com, Inc.) Amazon.com  just came out with a list of cities where the reading community is the largest. Cambridge, Massachusetts wins the contest. Just in time for the summer reading season, Amazon.com announced its list of the Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities in America. After compiling [...]

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Judges Busted For Betraying Kids And Gaining Financial Reward The story starts with two very prominent judges from Pennsylvania. One is Mark Ciavarella, who is former Judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The other is Michael Conahan, a former judge from Luzerne County Pennsylvania. These two cohorts worked together [...]

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House Oversight Committee – The Future Of The Osprey V-22 [June 23, 2009] On 18 February 2011, Marine Commandant General Jim Amos indicated Marine MV-22s deployed to Afghanistan surpassed 100,000 flight hours and were noted as having become “the safest airplane, or close to the safest airplane” in the Marine Corps inventory (Source: Wikipedia). This [...]

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Victim of DTE: Wanda Scott tells the heartbreaking story of being separated from her father and a utility bill of $8,000 The Committe Against Utility Shutoffs (CAUS) gives a report about Walter Scott and his daughter Wanda Scott. Walter was forcefully removed from the home. During the previous year, in the month of August, DTE [...]

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The GOP Must Deal With Their Mea Maxima Culpa Republicans reacquired seats only because of a heightened distrust with Obama and his closest allies. Americans had enough of big government shoving more legislation down their throats. Somebody had to pay. Democrats got a major “shellacking” and lost control of the House. There hadn’t been a [...]

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Pisces or Aquarius, Tropical or Sidereal, Age or World… For one that spent their childhood in the 1970′s, a very vivid sound will resonate in the mind. The sound of a song titled The Age of Aquarius. The song has a bizarre sound, or message if you will. But, one might ask – just what [...]

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2009 PISA Reading Literacy Highlights PISA measures 15-year-old students every 3 years. The students were tested in 2009, and the next assessment will be in 2012. In 2009, out of the three categories (reading, mathematics, and science), reading was the main focus this time. PISA tests were administered between September and October of 2009. There were [...]

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The Employee Free Choice Act Could Become An Option Wal-Mart, the biggest employer of the United States, has received much criticism for its poor employee relations. The Greatest Recession has amplified those allegations, and even brought numerous lawsuits into the bigger picture. But Wal-Mart isn’t the only company breaking hourly wage laws. If you invest a [...]

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The Liberal Nature Of The Media Our basis for the argument, or theory that is being proposed, is the liberal nature of journalism and the “free” press in the United States. The question always arises, “Is the mainstream media too liberal?” But before we get into a heated debate about Fox News versus MSNBC or [...]

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Should “Fatties” Get a Room? (Even on TV?) First of all, I have empathy for anyone with a health problem, whether it be obesity, anorexia, or whatever the case may be. People are cognizant of their complications and are often are a bit testy when presented with any form of ridicule. But I just couldn’t [...]

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