Month April 2005

U.S. prison population soars in 2003, ’04 While the crime rate has fallen over the past decade, the number of people in prison and jail is outpacing the number of inmates released. Politicians get elected by screaming “let’s git tough…

That’s what Ike first called it. The penultimate draft of the address in which Republican President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the term referred to the military-industrial-congressional complex, but it is…

On Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code podcast a few days back, Curry, a political conservative who rarely mentions politics, he said he grew up in the States where police and military are respected and has found the opposite to be…

US Teenagers abuse prescription drugs, OTC medications to get high 18 percent of teenagers abused Vicodin and 10 percent OxyContin – both are prescription painkillers. 10 percent tried the prescription stimulants Ritalin or Adderall without a doctor’s prescription. 9 percent…

Front page, LA Times In just a few months, Schwarzenegger has gone from seeming invincibility to a politically precarious state, his approval ratings sagging and his staff plagued by internal scuffles. He has abandoned key parts of his reform agenda…