Archive for February, 2009

Breach of Trust

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

533,000 jobs lost in November. 1.9 million jobs lost since December 2007. A 2.7 million increase in jobs lost since December 2007. 10.3 million people are now out of work nationwide. 3 million more jobs are expected to be lost by spring 2010, Jobless rate 1 year ago was 4.7 percent and in October it [...]

From Beijing to bong: It’s time for drug laws to change

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Kathleen Parker takes the Michael Phelps incident in South Carolina as an opportunity to revisit our antiquated laws about use of Marijuana from a fresh perspective. Enjoy the read. Original writing date: February 13, 2009 Article writing date: February 5, 2009

How Congress Trumps Darwin

Monday, February 16th, 2009

On the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book, The Origin of Species, I’ve read a plethora of articles from all different directions. As you can imagine, George Will of the Washington Post Writers Group has his own particular approach which is always, erudite [...]