Posts belonging to Category 'politics'
February 23, 2010 | Posted by admin
Public Forum Also to Activate Black Participation in 2010 Census
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Some noted Black leaders recently have suggested publicly that President Obama does not need to focus on Black issues. In response to mounting evidence showing African Americans are disproportionately lagging behind on all economic indicators despite assertions of a so-called [...]
Categories: ethnicity, media, politics | 
Tags: African-American, Blacks, politics, Tavis Smiley | 
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December 31, 2009 | Posted by admin
NEWTOWN, Pa., Dec. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) today pledged to donate $400,000 to the Washington Crossing Historical Park in Washington Crossing, Pa. The park, which has experienced recent state budget cuts, is visited by more than one hundred thousand tourists each year.
Lockheed Martin’s donation will fund the addition of a dedicated education [...]
Categories: charity, military, politics | Tags: Lockheed Martin, military, politics, Veterans | No Comments »
December 3, 2009 | Posted by admin
Colonel Van Barfoot
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Col. Van Barfoot has until Friday at 5 pm to remove his flagpole or face a civil suit. The 90-year-old veteran is shocked and gratified by the outpouring of support from around the country.
His daughter, Margaret Nicholls said, “The response has been unbelievable. What started as a [...]
Categories: Americans, Veterans, discrimination, military, politics | Tags: communism, military, principles, Veterans, WWII | No Comments »
December 3, 2009 | Posted by admin
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In the midst of the great recession, a depressed job market is hitting veterans particularly hard. Unemployment numbers for all veterans continues to hover near 12 percent, but for service members who left the military in the past three years unemployment is 18 percent, nearly twice the national average.
“The way [...]
Categories: Christianity, Veterans, discrimination, healthcare, industry, medicine, military, politics, women | Tags: healthcare, military, VA, Veterans, Veterans' Preference | No Comments »
October 26, 2009 | Posted by admin
Permanent repeal of the Medicare physician payment formula is essential to comprehensive health system reform
Statement attributable to: J. James Rohack, M.D. President, American Medical Association:
“The AMA is deeply disappointed that the Senate today blocked consideration of S. 1776, legislation to preserve access to health care for America’s seniors, baby boomers and military families. Senator Stabenow [...]
Categories: healthcare, politics | Tags: healthcare, politics, seniors, Veterans | No Comments »
October 18, 2009 | Posted by admin
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA) today called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate a possible bias motive for vandalism of the home of a Muslim woman who is running for elected office.
CAIR said the house of Nadja [...]
Categories: ethnicity, politics | Tags: CAIR, politics | No Comments »
October 14, 2009 | Posted by admin
Who, that grew up during the cold war, would ever think of such a time when the Soviet Union would be inspecting the U.S.’s nuclear facilities? Scary ain’t it?
In a somewhat rare show of media isolation, Fox News appears to be the only news service covering this Dana Lewis and AP contributed story (by way [...]
Categories: Opinion, Terrorism, politics | Tags: Nuclear, Opinion, russian | No Comments »
September 17, 2009 | Posted by admin
anytime soon.
-Josh Truman
Categories: Christianity, Opinion, Veterans, military, politics | Tags: military, Opinion, President Obama, Veterans | No Comments »
August 29, 2009 | Posted by admin
Could it be? Wow, that’s one heck of a claim to make. No wonder FBI Director Mueller was so P.O.’d.
Perhaps the FBI will assert extraterritorial jurisdiction in this matter.
From Timesonline.com:
The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for [...]
Categories: DOJ, Opinion, Terrorism, politics, tourism | Tags: FBI, justice, Opinion, Terrorism | No Comments »
July 30, 2009 | Posted by admin
Although the domelights.com website is down at the moment, the internet cache via google, appears to have been tampered with particularly with disclaimers, signatures and posts. I personally did a google cache search last week: there were over 14,000 results, now there is just over 6,000.
There is currently a federal lawsuit going on, started by [...]
Categories: Civil Rights, ethnicity, politics, racism | Tags: racist | No Comments »