U.S. intelligence authorities intercepted e-mails between Maj. Nidal Malik (Hasan) and a radical Islamic cleric based in Yemen, however the FBI and Army took no action. This is the latest in a series of dots 'not' being connected at U.S. peril.

When it passed a historic health care reform bill, the House also adopted the Stupak amendment, a dangerous piece of legislation that would ban abortion from private and public insurance plans for millions of American women. Fortunately, the fight for wo

Kudos to seven Board members for persisting in their efforts to protect the rights of people to open access of public records. From Reaching the Stars blog. Also links to the full story on the Chicago Tribune website.

The US Chamber of Commerce is threatening to sue the EPA for accepting that climate change is real. Sign our petition to responsible companies urging them to demand the Chamber come to its senses and support action on global warming, and to resign their -

Abstinence-only education is dangerous and ineffective, and has no place in our health care reform legislation. But Senator Orrin Hatch's (R-Utah) abstinence-only-until-marriage amendment has been tucked in with the health care reform legislation

"Lobbyists won't find a job in my White House." President Obama assured us with this claim upon inauguration. And yet he just nominated to two key posts "Big Ag" industry power brokers, who come straight from the chemical pesticide and biotechnology

On the Senate floor and on Larry King Live, Democratic women Senators' expressed their obvious frustrations with the slow progress of health reform legislation

In a speech delivered earlier this week at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, former British prime minister Tony Blair cast atheists and violent religious extremists in the same light, as enemies whom people of faith must "confront."

Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said today.

I felt that I should submit this story because it is a story with a happy ending for a change! http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedartic le/8716245