Stephen J. Hemsley CEO, United Health Care - Total Value of Unexercised Stock Options (Forbes) $744,232,068

Washington, DC: This Saturday, September 5, will mark the debut broadcast of NORML's new live talk radio program, NORML SHOW LIVE: Marijuana Nation. will air original programming weekly from 9pm to 11pm Eastern Standard Time at: http://live.norml.org.

Would legalizing marijuana spark a reduction in alcohol abuse? That's a question tackled by Criminal Justice blogger Matt Kelley, who looks at one new book that suggests marijuana prohibitions have fueled dangerous drinking habits.

In October, 1995, when police charged Audrey Edmunds, a Waunakee, Wis. day care provider, with the murder of a seven-month-old girl who had been left in her care, prosecutors said she had shaken the baby to death.

.It's kinda like being the only president in history who allowed a major foreign terrorist attack to happen and then bragging about how you kept the country safe It's kinda like the folks who've spent the last three decades cutting the

For centuries the peoples of the Americas have expected the coming of a warrior generation. They knew that the eagle's claw of European civilisation would inflict terrible torments on their own communities. This was an horrendous experience but...

Leonard Peltier's first full parole hearing was held in 1993, at which time his case was continued for a 15-year reconsideration. On Wednesday, it was announced (in Portland, OR) that Mr. Peltier has recently applied for and been granted a parole...

There are a lot of disabled people out here who are tired of living on a shoestring. We want to be heard. While you sit there, waiting to receive your lifelong pension of over $100,000 a year, with full medical benefits, etc., we are starving.

Is Obama really committed to a fundamental shift in America's approach to drug policy or is this about serving up a kinder, gentler drug war? When it comes to addressing America's disastrous war on drugs, the Obama administration appears to be moving

Ed Hoffmans, with assistance from Tom Wilson, looks at the history of disability activism, including the organization ADAPT.