Medical marijuana: a valuable treatment for autism?

"Medical marijuana: a valuable treatment for autism? Bernard Rimland, Ph.D. Autism Research Institute 4182 Adams Avenue San Diego, CA 92116 I am certainly not an advocate for drugs-either legal or illicit. I have never smoked and I don’t care at all for alcohol. And I...

Lisbon Treaty - Survey highlights strong No campaign

There is no doubting the fact that Irish people, in general, are in favour of EU membership which explains why the politicians were so shocked by the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty. The Eurobarometer telephone...

Breaking: Mets Fire Manager Willie Randolph

New York Mets manager Willie Randolph has been fired, the New York Times just reported. Earlier, writer William Rhoden took a look at the Mets' mess."Hurry, hurry. Step right up. See the saddest show in town. It’s fitting that the Mets’ managerial farce has come to...

Vancouver Condo Crash in the Making?

Has the East Vancouver condo market finally caught up with reality? Is a market correction coming, or already in the works? Based on the information below, the rolling average in the Landcor chart shows a steep...

FAA scrutinizes for lack of enforcement to southwest airlines.

WASHINGTON — Three veteran Federal Aviation Administrationinspectors told lawmakers on Thursday that their agency supervisorslooked the other way while Southwest Airlines neglected to inspectplanes as required, and continued to fly them even after discoveringcracks in...

China’s Genocide Olympics

"The Beijing Olympics this summer were supposed to be China’s coming-out party, celebrating the end of nearly two centuries of weakness, poverty and humiliation.Instead, China’s leaders are tarnishing their...

EADS 'to produce outside Europe'

"The head of European aerospace company EADS has given his strongest indication yet that some Airbus manufacturing will be moved outside Europe. "We don't have a choice," its chief executive Louis Gallois told...

Whisperings of Recession

With the rumors of an possible recession on the horizon, there is speculation that our economy may be in jeopardy. Alan Greenspan estimated the odds of a U.S. recession are greater than one in three.It remains to...

The three stooges: The president won't fire Alberto Gonzales. He needs him to...

Sidney Blumenthal is beyond credible.  he is one of the very few professional reporters digging into why the American public is willing to go fascist for the benefit of corporate profits at the expense of...

WA bans txting while drving

U shldn't b txtng whn u drv nlss u wnt 2 kll urslf, bt nw it's da law n WA st. "Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire yesterday signed this country’s first law putting the kibosh on the dangerous practice of text messaging while behind the wheel of a moving automobile. …...

Hizballah's Rally Highlights the Government's Weakness

"U.S.-backed Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's grip on power is further eroded as hundreds of thousands in Beirut demand his ouster. The Hizballah security teams — identifiable by their combat boots, black fatigues and beards — that gathered Friday morning in the...

DEALING FROM WEAKNESS

"Yesterday's cold-blooded assassination of a prominent anti-Syrian official in Lebanon should be all the answer that's needed to the growing international clamor for the Bush administration to reach out and talk...

Warning: Internet Explorer 7 Spoofing Bug Pops-Up

Security researchers have identified a pop-up address bar spoofing weakness in Microsoft's newly released Internet Explorer 7 browser. The flaw, first reported by security notification firm Secunia, might lend...

E. coli exposes weakness in food chain

"The recent outbreak of E. coli in spinach from California exposed a weakness in the nation's food chain: A system that quickly delivers meat, fruits and vegetables to consumers just as easily can spread potentially deadly bacteria. Like most food, spinach travels from the...

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