From the very first installation of full body scanners at the nation's airports there have been questions about their legality as well as their effectiveness. An unclassified report, which can be found on the US government's website, now concedes that the scanners probably don't work. Exactly how bad the body scanners are is not being divulged publicly, but the Inspector General report made eight separate r ...

This just in and it is good news.  Olympia Snowe has the audacity to speak at a public univesrity while her husband and his for-profit Educational Management Corporation (EDMC) faces upwards of $33 billion in potential reimbursement for the alleged cheating of state and federal governments out of Title IV funds.  Students should be up in arms and those able need to attend to let the renegades know they are ...

Sex offenders in the United States are slowly losing their rights. First, they were banned from Facebook, now, in New York State, they've been banned from online gaming because there might be children playing those same games. Many games contain an audio or text component that allows players to communicate with one another. Mr. Schneiderman warned that those methods of communication could allow sexual preda ...

This is from Larry Miller's blog and is by Amanda Terkel! Amanda Terkel Scott Walker Quietly Repeals Wisconsin Equal Pay Law Posted: 04/ 6/2012 / Updated: 04/ 6/2012 WASHINGTON -- A Wisconsin law that made it easier for victims of wage discrimination to have their day in court was repealed on Thursday, after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly signed the bill. The 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act was mean ...

Aaron Calafato is a playwright and actor. Like many people who choose that line of work, however, he has a hard time making a dime.  So he took a job as a recruiter for a for-profit college in Ohio. His experiences there led him to become a critic of the predatory industry. Now, according to the Washington Monthly blog, he’s created a play about his experiences (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guid ...

Uploaded by LeakSource2012  March 29, 2012 03/28/2012 If banning books by right-wing reactionaries is not enough, then how about asking text book companies to censor certain words from textbooks?  LeakSource, an online service, reported that the NY Department of Education has asked text book companies to censor certain words the department finds offensive.  One hardly has to agree with Fox News to see the i ...

  On April 1, 2012 Nicholas Kristof reported in the New York Times how Goldmann Sachs has been profiting from the sex trade as  16% owner of Village Voice Media. Village Voice media publishes backpage.com one of the largest sellers and publishers of on line ads for  illegal prostitution services.   What Kristof did not report is that  Goldmann Sachs is not the only Wall Street investment firm  dabbling in t ...

Privacy advocates around the world extoll the virtues of setting your Facebook account to be as private as possible to prevent it from being seen by prying eyes. Now, however, there is a new threat looming as states, such as Maryland and Illinois, are creating bills that would force individuals to open their Facebook accounts in order to apply for employment and play college sports. In Maryland, job seekers ...

 Picture of the Prison of Socrates in Greece The prison population in Greece has seen a steady rise within the last dozen years.  Below are some of the numbers. Prisoners in Greece Year   Capacity Population 1998 4,332        6,150 2005 5,584        8,72 2008 7,543        11,243 2009 9,103        11,736 2011 9,223        12,586 http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13477/52110  Now, with the country under the grip ...

    The Fightback, out of Washington D.C. reported March 14th, 2012 that Northwestern High School Principal Edgar Batenga gave five-day suspension to four students, and possibly shorter suspensions to others, for their alleged role in organizing an attempted walkout on March 1, which was billed as a National Day of Action to Defend Public Education. In a flier entitled “The Students Are Angry!”, t ...