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Consumer Products Safety Commission Chiefs Toy With Integrity. Well the great mystery of how dangerous, lead covered toys could be all over American store shelves has been solved. Now the who-dun-it definitely had a fall guy all set up with the Chinese manufacturers. The story also had toy companies like... ( posted 205 days 22 hours ago.)

U.S. Diplomats Complain As They Face Draft. In a show of solidarity, members of the Foreign Service, more commonly known as the U.S. Diplomatic Corps, took their grievances to an open meeting convened by the U.S. State Department. The diplomats and their union are up in arms about the... ( posted 209 days 1 hour ago.)

A Biohazard Catastrophe; Terrorists Need Not Apply. Whenever I feel like getting a heated conversation started at a local coffee shop, I throw out a simple question. I ask why fellow caffeinists think we haven’t had a major attack in our country since the World Trade disaster. I have yet to have... ( posted 212 days 22 hours ago.)

FEMA, a Disaster Not Waiting to Happen. Since you are a blog reader, I find it unnecessary to spend any time restating the incredibly inept blunderings of our Federal Emergency Management Agency during Hurricane Katrina. Suffice it to say as time moves on and more and more facts of... ( posted 216 days 1 hour ago.)

"No Child Left Behind" a Flawed Ideal In 2002, President Bush, with the aid of a majority in Congress, passed the “No Child Left Behind Act”. The law, which had the altruistic intention of requiring every child in America receive a quality education was a very good idea. The problem... ( posted 220 days 1 hour ago.)

Mishaps Reported at U. S. Labs working with Deadly Viruses and Toxins My grandmother always said it was the little things that count. I hope she wasn’t right when it comes to this story. I’m talking about micro organisms, the bad kind; like Ebola or the Black Plague, or Anthrax or other micro organisms we have... ( posted 223 days 1 hour ago.)

U.S. Toy Makers Looking at Banner Christmas Sales The fallout of toys made in China recalled for everything from lead paint to pieces easily falling off has placed a great deal of stress on American toy manufacturers. It’s the kind of stress, however, that U.S. toy makers can’t have enough of.... ( posted 227 days 2 hours ago.)

U.S. House Wastes Time, Angers Turkish Allies. Well, let’s see. We are embroiled in an unpopular war that is driving us into record deficits. We have a credit disaster, an energy crisis, and problems with school violence. We have millions without health care and have anywhere from 12 to 20... ( posted 231 days 1 hour ago.)

Pentagon Official Paid for not Working It is one of those stories that should be all over the news but one must look hard to find the story filed by The Washington Post. The Post reported that a now senior official for the U.S. Air Force was given a job with a defense contractor for... ( posted 234 days 1 hour ago.)

University goes easy on Editor using Vulgarity The Board of Student Communications at Colorado State University has shown they have no sense of journalism, or personal responsibility or at the very least are just cowards. Their recent decision to admonish student newspaper editor David... ( posted 237 days 1 hour ago.)

A Note to Text Messagers. Stop the Madness My wife and I had traveled up to the Bloomington/Normal area to visit our son at Illinois State. As always we took Timothy out for some vittles having that parental fear that our son isn’t eating enough proper meals. We stopped at a nice... ( posted 241 days 1 hour ago.)

Health Care in the U.S. Take Two Aspirins and Pray I want to tell you a story about a friend of mine. So as not to embarrass him, I will call him Jim. Now Jim has been in the contracting business all his life and that is how I came to know him. Over the years Jim and I often would find ourselves... ( posted 244 days ago.)

Should Mattel see Red (Ink)This Christmas? Just when I thought I couldn't have a worse personal image of the Mattel Toy Company, Thomas Debrowski, an executive for Mattel shows me I can. Mattel has been in the news for months as stories of inferior, poorly constructed toys made in China... ( posted 248 days 1 hour ago.)

Is Dan Rather Restoring His Legacy or Tarnishing it Further? Dan Rather, ex-veteran of 40 plus years with CBS news has decided he misses the limelight and has filed a $70 million lawsuit against his former employers. The lawsuit contends that Rather was made the scapegoat for the ill fated and erroneous... ( posted 251 days 1 hour ago.)

501 Reasons Why Jim Thome Belongs in Baseball Hall of Fame We live in an era where sports heroes are in the news every day. Far too often, they aren't on the sports pages however. Instead we find their names on the front page for doing something incredibly stupid or selfish or criminal. These sports... ( posted 255 days 2 hours ago.)

NBC's To Catch a Predator. Journalism or a Television Show Eighteen months ago, NBC News and Reporter Chris Hansen aired a remarkable work about on-line predators roaming the internet looking for children. The story, showed NBC, with the aid of a group called Perverted Justice, running internet stings... ( posted 258 days 2 hours ago.)

Republicans Straddle Hypocrisy but Democrats Can't Throw Stones The Republicans are having a hard time (pardon my choice of words) explaining why Idaho Senator Larry Craig is being shunned by everyone in his party all the while Senator David Vitter, D- La , didnt get the same door slamming him in the butt... ( posted 261 days 20 hours ago.)

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