Last November we published Dr. Phil Leveque's "Government Medical Care or No Medical Care: for Most the Choice is Clear" - detailing the lack of physical fitness among U.S. recruits, and how that bars many from military service.
Yesterday, the Oregonian published an article reviewing the same basic material, "And it only took around four months for them to get around to it", Dr. Leveque said.
I just heard on TV news today that 21% of Vets were unemployed (read unemployable!). Although the Armed Services propagandize that they offer training in about 200 fields of work this is a big sham. What few learning experiences and jobs do they purport to be training for?
My uncle was a Chief Warrant Officer for Food Supply to the Pacific Submarine Fleet in WWII. When he got out all he could get was a job as a bank guard!
On February 19, I wrote an article entitled Ohio Residents Better Bar Their Windows and Hide their Daughters.
The story dealt with a possible conflict of interest with a public relations company by the name of Fleishman-Hillard having past ties to the maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma. Fleishman-Hillard had been hired by the State of Ohio to run its drug anti-overdose campaign -- in the amount of $400,000.
The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attemptimg to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time, increasingly inventive netizens demonstrate mutual solidarity by mobilizing when necessary.
In authoritarian countries in which the traditional media are state-controlled, the Internet offers a unique space for discussion and information-sharing, and has become an ever more important engine for protest and mobilization.
A woman heading to her stepfather's house was "beyond lost" when she and her 8-year-old son took one wrong turn after another through the backroads of Thurston County and onto a private Puget Sound beach, authorities said Monday.
A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said Tuesday.
A lengthy pursuit ended Tuesday morning in the Tolleson area west of Phoenix as a pickup truck driver carrying a load of human cargo tried to evade police.
An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert but causing no damage, injuries or power outages.
Police escorted convoys of flatbed trucks carrying piles of sandbags into neighborhoods Monday as the cities of Fargo in eastern North Dakota and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., went into flood-fighting mode.
Democratic leaders and White House officials were feverishly continuing to line up the votes they will need as they entered the final 48-hour countdown on their yearlong health care overhaul effort.
