Internet control strategy at UN may threaten global freedom, warns FCC commissioner »
A new internet regulatory strategy seeking to use the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) may eventually threaten freedom and prosperity across the globe, warns Robert McDowell, of the Federal Communications Commission. McDowell has summarized the situation in a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece. He thinks those who believe in internet freedom should be concerned. ...
Will Smith, France react to Francois Hollande’s big proposal to tax the wealthy 75 percent »
French President-elect Francois Holland has a new proposal to tax the wealthy 75 percent, and it has the French people really talking about potentially leaving the country A recent You Tube video making the rounds features a surprised Will Smith, after hearing from a French news anchor about Hollande’s 75% proposed tax rate for the ...
Miss. guard killed, others injured in prison ‘disturbance’ »
An ‘inmate disturbance’ in a southwestern Mississippi prison on Sunday has left one prison guard dead and other facility employees injured. The 23-year-old guard reportedly died while being transported by ambulance from Adams County Correctional Center, located in Natchez, Miss. The guard, whose identity has not yet been released, appeared to have died from blunt ...
Free speech issue in California: Political watchdog agency backs off controversial idea…for now »
With free speech arguments and the potential to harm political discourse, the director of the Fair Political Practices Commission, California’s political watchdog agency, has apparently backed off an earlier proposal to require writers of online media content to report financing from campaigns. The news comes from a recent Sacramento Bee report. Regarding the earlier proposal, ...
Roadside blast just misses UN monitors in Syria »
A bomb blast on the road from Damascus injured ten soldiers providing escort for a delegation of U.N. observers and journalists, and seemed to be more evidence that last month’s brokered ceasefire is just not taking hold. The U.N. delegation and the military escorts had just crossed a checkpoint when the bomb exploded, reports Voice ...
John Edwards: denied affair, told advisor to ‘f–k’ himself when confronted, and fired worker who warned about it »
Recounting for the courtroom on Friday, Peter Scher, who had been hired to advise former North Carolina Senator John Edwards politically, said the politician denied having a sexual relationship with Rielle Hunter when Scher asked him in September 2006. However, when Scher asked again before the 2008 presidential campaign, Edwards had a less nuanced reply. ...
Al Qaeda affiliated bomb plotter found guilty »
A U.S. citizen born in Bosnia was found guilty by a federal judge on Tuesday for planning a suicide bomb attack in New York’s subway system in 2009 as an al Qaeda terrorist. Adis Medunjanin, 28, has been found guilty on nine charges, including a plot to use weapons of mass destruction on American soil, ...
Obama signs pact with Afghanistan president »
President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday on the one-year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden to sign a pact marking future relations with a country that the United States has been at war with for over a decade. President Obama landed at nightfall, where he was welcomed by President ...
Number of newborns facing drug withdrawal has sky rocketed »
The number of pregnant mothers abusing prescription drugs has dramatically increased, and the number of babies born suffering from withdrawal symptoms has tripled in the last decade, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study found that one infant is born in the United States every hour ...
