The United Nations has issued a report warning that, unless the world takes radical action in order to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, climate change/global warming will become disastrous and irreversible. The deadline is 10 to 15 years. The thing is, we were told the same thing 15 years ago.
President Obama has deported more illegal immigrants than any other president, including Bush, in an attempt to convince Republicans to come to the bargaining table and agree on an immigration reform package that would allow him to slow down the pace of deportations. In the meantime, however, countless families are devastated. And the GOP shows no sign of budging.
The shooter in the second Fort Hood shooting spree was reportedly angry because his supervisors refused his request for days off in order to attend his mother’s funeral. Would it be so bad for bosses to think all their workers might be packing, and about to go off?
A high school sophomore stabbed 19 classmates in western Pennsylvania. Once again, there will be a search for answers. But because the weapons were knives and not guns, the media and politicians will have to reach beyond the usual cheap parlor tricks of knee-jerk policy prescriptions.
Inspired by female warrior characters in video games and movies like “The Hunger Games,” toymakers are going butch, selling violence-themed merchandise like bows and guns, but colored pink for girls.
13 people died because GM refused to switch out a faulty ignition switch on the Chevy Cobalt and other models, despite being aware of the problem. The change would have cost GM 90 cents per car.
The US Supreme Court has ruled to abolish overall caps on federal campaign contributions, bringing an end to most meaningful limits on the influence of money on Congress. Yeah, there’s going to be even more corruption. But think of the bright side: Congress can ask their sponsors for even more money! If nothing else, it will stimulate the economy.
No expense is spared to retrieve dead bodies, whether it’s the victims of the Malaysian Flight 370 victims at the bottom of the Indian Ocean or the mudslide victims buried by sludge in coastal Washington State or the soldiers who cannot be left behind on the field of battle. Yet when we’re ALIVE, we can’t get help when, for example, we lose our jobs.
The G-8 expelled Russia over the invasion of Crimea, reducing it to the G-7. This sets a precedent: any country that pisses off the United States will get thrown out. How many will that leave?
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a lawsuit brought by Hobby Lobby, a corporation whose executives claim their religious beliefs as justification for refusing to provide certain kinds of birth control to their employees under the Affordable Care Act.
