National Preparedness Month is this September. According to the Department of Homeland Security, it is an effort to "encourage Americans to prepare for emergencies in their homes, businesses and schools." And you won't believe the sorts of activities they have planned.
The United Nations issued a damning report Friday decrying the human rights record of the United States. The report urges the U.S. to close its secret detention centers, reduce its usage of the death penalty, ensure that minorities are adequately aided in relief efforts such as those after Katrina, and more.
Your government is slow, inefficient and stupid. It's a miracle it ever manages to get anything done. I like it that way.
An updated internal policy on news media contacts may require every National Security Agency employee to stop working on their core missions and spend time on looking instead for employees who might be talking to the press.
The Ask A Working Woman Survey asks six questions about concerns affecting working women and twelve background/demographic questions. Interestingly, the choices offered all call for more laws and increased regulation to ensure that the labor market "addresses the concerns" of working women.
A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., investigating leaks of classified intelligence information to the press, has subpoenaed national security whistleblower Russell Tice, who has previously acknowledged being a source for the New York Times story on President Bush's terrorist surveillance program.
Over the past several years, Columbus Public Schools have lost 7,000 students to charter schools. More students are expected to leave this fall with the implemenation of school vouchers. This may prove to be a serious issue for Columbus Public Schools. According to a survey by KidsOhio, only 49% of CPS parents with preschool-aged children plan on sending their children to CPS when they reach school age.
"President Bush's electronic surveillance program has been a festering sore on our body politic since it was publicly disclosed last December," wrote Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.). His solution? Sweep the whole mess under the rug of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and out of the public eye.
On Thursday at 1:34 p.m., a message appeared on Milwaukee Craigslist asking "For Mein Fraulein" to "Call me." It is at least the seventh of a long line of such messages, each of which appear in a different city, over the last three months. Only in the last week, the pace has picked up considerably, with the last three messages appearing in the last eight days. However, one source says that there may be nothing to see here after all.
I really hate minimum wage laws. What I hate more, however, is when government not only gets it completely wrong, but does so in trite, populist terms; exactly what Chicago's City Council has done this week, passing on Wednesday an ordinance that enforces a "living wage" for the city's employees.
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