The Missouri legislature will soon consider Senate Bill 285 to protect the right of pharmacists who refuse to dispense birth control pills. Here’s the text of the bill: This act protects the conscience rights of pharmaceutical professionals. Such pharmaceutical professionals shall not be required to perform, assist, recommend, refer for,…
Salon's War Room presents Fox's coverage as a case of especially shoddy journalism regarding Iran's alleged provision of arms to forces hostile to the US in Iraq: Let's say for the sake of argument that the administration is right on two key points: that Iranian arms are indeed flowing into…
Chomsky wrote that it all has to do with corporate power and oil. Here is an excerpt from The Independent, an article entitled "The US says it is fighting for democracy - but is deaf to the cries of the Iraqis" Sovereignty in Iraq might well lead to a loose Shia alliance controlling most…
You can read about it here, The Daily Times of Pakistan: ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was moved on Tuesday against recent legislation allowing one-dish meals at weddings, with the contention that the law had reopened the door to wasteful expenses and weddings had become a financial burden for most people…
Here's Robert Sheer's take on the new budget: Ever since some lunatics, mostly citizens of our longtime ally Saudi Arabia, used $3 knives to hijack four planes on the same morning, President Bush has exploited our nation’s trauma as an opportunity to throw trillions of dollars at the military-industrial complex…