"Governments around the world have spent billions of [dollars] on a drug that the scientific community now finds itself unable to judge," said Dr. Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal, which published the article online Wednesday. The review was done by BMJ and Channel 4 News in [...]
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently floated the idea of increasing the federal tax on gasoline as a way to meet Congress’ growing list of transportation projects, but most Americans are cool to the idea.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 15% of adults favor raising the [...]
Nicknamed "county payments," the timber program was supposed to assist counties shortchanged when national forests limited logging to protect the northern spotted owl and other endangered species.
Since becoming [...]
The event Monday for federal employees is a fitting symbol of President Barack Obama's uneven record so far on the Freedom of Information Act, a big part of keeping his campaign promise to make his administration the most transparent ever. As Obama's first year in office ends, the government's' [...]
Articulate critique of Climategate from Rex Murphy of the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Officials in Rosemead and other Valley cities said they had never heard of a ousted councilman collecting unemployment.
"I thought you serve at the pleasure of the people who elected you. I've never heard of the governor of California receiving unemployment, or the president of the United States receiving unemployment,'" [...]
PHILADELPHIA — Teamsters who work at American Red Cross blood services facilities in Philadelphia are on strike.
Rocky Bryan of Teamsters Local 929 says they're striking over what the union says are problems with working' [...]
CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half of patients receiving abdominal CT scans, an advanced type of X-ray, got them for tests they did not need, exposing them to excess radiation that could raise the long-term risk of cancer, [...]
This McClatchy article says some Senators will not vote to increase the debt limit until "Congress passes a new deficit-fighting plan." What a joke!! The plan they will pass will be a vague statement of intent and absolutely nothing more. They will then vote to put [...] 
Minor party and independent candidates are in at least 26 courts, in cases that challenge the constitutionality of various state election laws. A few new cases will probably be filed in December.
[...]The Government Accountability Office has again found widespread flaws in how the office administering Medicare and Medicaid manages contracts.
The watchdog agency studied a random sample of contract actions at the Centers for Medicare and [...]
from a Beijing Newspaper:
A sampling:
Stimulus Watch has added it 
From a TV News Report on recent property tax increases in NYC.
The Republicans, of course, did the same thing when they were in power.
