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The U.S. Air Force has reinstated its rule that the phrase ‘so help me God’ may be omitted from the enlistment oath. It had previously been their policy that airmen could say or leave out […]

From an article in The Washington Post:  Federal employees who are issued so-called purchase cards are permitted to spend up to $3,000 — known as “micropurchases” — and do not have to disclose those purchases […]

Nanny of the Month turns five-years-old this month, and after all these years busybodies still delight in making it it their business to mind your business. Back in September 2009, control freaks put everything from […]

A Halloween display depicting what appears to be a black family hanging from a tree outside of a Kentucky residence has been taken down after people complained about it. The house is located on the […]

Legal challenges to aggressive Ebola quarantines, like the one imposed on nurse Kaci Hickox, will hinge on a 1905 court case In recent media interviews, the best available legal minds have predictably disagreed on the […]

Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu said Thursday that the issue of race is a major reason that President Barack Obama has struggled politically in Southern states. “I’ll be very, very honest with you. The South […]

Citizen-led initiatives to regulate GMOs in Hawaii, Oregon and Colorado face deep pockets of outside industry groups ‘As voters in Oregon, California, Hawaii and Colorado prepare to weigh in on whether genetically modified organisms, or […]

Reports are coming in that Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship Two has been involved in a crash in the Mojave Desert, California. Gizmodo.com reports: Virgin Galactic is reporting that there has been an “in-flight anomaly” aboard SpaceShip […]

From an article on AlterNet:  Afrikka Hardy’s life probably wouldn’t have made national news if her suspected killer had not gone to police and allegedly confessed. The 19-year-old’s story was overshadowed by his. It’s common […]

A naked man is accused of raping a pit bull in his neighbor’s yard. Alice Woodruff told WTNH-TV that she confronted her neighbor at gunpoint while he was performing sex acts on her rescue pit […]