MercyForAnimals.com: Far from leading the carefree lives portrayed in the dairy industry’s “happy cow” commercials, the vast majority of cows used for dairy production today lead lives of deprivation, confinement, painful mutilations and cruel handling. These curious and intelligent animals are denied access to open pasture and treated as mere milk-producing machines – forced to [...]

A Mississippi school board has been dictating what race its middle school students must be in order to run for elections. Last week after an emergency session, the school reversed the practices and procedures, which have been in place more than 30 years. All that time, Nettleton middle school in Nettleton, Mississippi, had designated which [...]

Former Colorado congressman, Tom Tancredo, currently running as a third-party candidate for governor, told Talking Points Memo: “There is something about this [country] that [Obama] dislikes intensely.” For example? “I remember a little thing, like Ms. Obama saying she didn’t want any Christian artifacts in the White House during Christmas time.” “Yeah, remember that? Remember [...]

Huffington Post: Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has put the kibosh on all future debates with her Arizona gubernatorial opponent Terry Goddard (D), after her rather embarrassing display at Wednesday’s debate. “I don’t believe that things come out in proper context in an adversarial atmosphere,” she defended herself. [ READ MORE ] Visit msnbc.com for breaking [...]

   Dr. Wolassa KumoIntroduction As many economists had expected, China overtook Japan as the world’s second largest economy during the second quarter of 2010. The Chinese nominal Q2 GDP was $1.335 trillion surpassing that of Japan, $1.286, by $0.049 trillion for the same quarter. Japan had retained this position since it overtook West Germany as the [...]