Once again Marcus Bachmann, husband to Rep. Michelle Bachmann, finds himself in a little bit of hot water for “reparative therapy,” aka attempting to pray away the gay. In the past, the operators of the Bachmann & Associates clinics have sworn that their agenda is not to...

As sources of renewable and clean energy become more and more crucial to the survival of our way of life, researchers are looking in unexpected places to find it. This time the new source of power has manifested itself in the form of algae. That’s right…algae. No longer is algae...

Social Issues – Those living in the First World often forget about a nasty disease called Tuberculosis (TB). However according to Reuters, a new form of TB, also known as the “white plague,” is on the rise in the industrialized and wealthy areas of the West, Africa, and...

Social Issues – What is to be done about the malaise that has washed over the Postal Service in the era of instant, electronic communication? The USPS is hoping that its new online tool that encourages small businesses to use/increase direct mailing campaigns (aka junk mail) will help...

Social Issues – After many months of waiting with baited breathe, the U.S. Senate approved California lawyer Michael Fitzgerald’s federal judiciary appointment. Fitzgerald, an openly gay man, was nominated by President Barack Obama last July. With the approval of the Senate,...

Human Rights – On Nov. 10, 2011 in Tacoma, Wash, U.S. Army Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, 26, was convicted by federal court-martial of ruthlessly murdering and severing fingers from dead bodies of unarmed Afghanis in the Kandahar Province. Gibbs, the named leader of a “rogue”...

The US has abandoned any plans to occupy Iraq any longer than the year-end deadline. The U.S. evacuation of Iraq marks the end of an 8 year involvement in the middle-eastern country, and despite concerns of security and investment (4,400 American lives) in the region, it seems the withdrawal...

More than 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested today while attempting to block traffic lanes on the Brooklyn Bridge. The Occupy Wall Street protesters took to the streets today at 3:30 pm as they marched from Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan and continued onto the Brooklyn...

Thousands of members of Take Back Boston, the latest group to join the Occupy Wall Street movement, marched to Bank of America’s downtown offices last night. The march resulted in the arrest of two-dozen protesters for trespassing. The members of the group arrested stated that their act...

Though most are not willing to admit it, the war on drugs is a failure. No matter how much money is spent, labor performed, or legislation drafted, drugs will still infiltrate countries via the black market or shadow economies. In Mexico City one poet/activist, Javier Sicilia, who tires of the...

There is nothing quite like industrial redundancies, or Greenpeace supporters vehemently opposed to something. On Saturday Aug.1, 2011, 30 members of the environmental group Greenpeace made a push to eliminate the 514 megawatt Potomac River Coal Plant in Alexandria as part of a larger...

Why is homophobia still a relevant issue? Yes, gay people exist, and guess what; they are no different from straight people. They get up, get dressed, fiend for sweet embrace of caffeine, and go to the mundane world they call their jobs. Yet, according to a recent study, roughly one-third of...

In July U.S. contractor Alan Gross had an appellate court date in the Cuban court system in order to refute a 15-year prison sentence for, according to Cuban officials, “crimes against the state.” The 62-year-old contractor was originally arrested in March in the city of Havana for...

While no one has seemed to care about the space program in recent decades, other than Sci-Fi fans, curiosity has been piqued once more. The solar powered Juno probe was recently launched from Cape Canaveral to begin its five year trip to Jupiter. According to NASA officials, everyone is very...

Recent solar flares caused temporary communications interruptions on earth due to electromagnetic pulses that usually coincide with this type of activity. While efforts were made to avoid any outages, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that some GPS systems and...

The dream of traveling to and inhabiting other planets that is often depicted in popular Science Fiction Novels is approaching the realm of the plausible. On Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011, NASA discovered “dark, finger-like features” on the Red Planet that seasonally change and indicate the...

According to reports from the BBC’s science desk, European doctors have begun preliminary research into the ability of stem cells (unassigned bodily cells) to cure multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that wreaks havoc on the brain and spinal cord. Currently the only treatments for MS will...

It seems that every time you read a newspaper (does anyone still do that?), go online, listen to the radio, or flip on the tv, there is a story about the tailspin the American economy finds itself in. While this has been front-page news for the better part of four years, it seems that until...

On Sat July 16, 2011 26-year-old Sean Sala and other openly gay service members participated in San Diego’s Pride Parade, the nation’s fifth largest, and while this is a positive step towards all service personnel living in the light, the rewards come with some inherent risk. The National...

Toymakers such as Mattel (Barbie), Hasbro (Transformers), and Disney (capital gain via exploitation of children), are all caught in the crosshairs of environmental group Green Peace, as all have been using paper and pulp for their packaging that comes from the rapidly disappearing Indonesian...

According to a report by the Associated Press, Atlanta’s standardized test scores may not be all they’re cracked up to be. State investigators recently discovered that teachers at nearly half the district’s 100 schools had altered or given students answers to test questions. The testing...