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Minnesota`s Governor Gets Tough with the Secretary of the Air Force - Will it Work?

The purpose of this article is to provide a modicum of background information for Governor Pawlenty and his fellow governors.

(MINNEAPOLIS) - Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley, sent a letter to nine governors throughout the United States ordering them to transfer aviation assets consisting of C130’s, the most numerous of the ‘heavy lifters’ positioned with all branches of the service to a site specific.

The stated intent is to create a fully equipped squadron of C130’s (all models and variants) in Arkansas.

President`s Cancer Panel Report Finds True Burden of Environmentally Induced Cancer Greatly Underestimated

Panel Urges Action to Determine the Full Extent of Environmental Influences on Cancer.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - A report released today by the President’s Cancer Panel finds that the true burden of environmentally-induced cancer is greatly underestimated.

Op Ed: Education Chief Most Effective As Communicator

21st Century Changes Demand Broad New Approaches.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - On May 18 Oregon must choose its Superintendent of Education. There are two fine candidates this time for the most essential leader charged with directing and further developing the most essential public service we enjoy. One has already “been there, done that”.

The other seeks “make do with less” for a system now becoming notorious for its obvious current short-fall in some few schools.

Benny & Sid Presents Chapter 10 of the new serialized graphic novel The Hummer

More than a few of us end our lives sitting behind the wheel of a car...

(Your City, USA) - We are automotive turtles. In our cars we are self-contained.

There's hardly a human function that can't be performed in an automobile--in the back seat if not the front. We can eat, sleep, argue, gossip, listen to books, even give birth to our children.

Greece is Spent, Rioting Leads to Two Deaths, Bank Set Ablaze

Greece is nearly broke.

(ATHENS / SALEM) - At least three people in Greece have have been killed during riotous protests, as rioters set fire to a bank building, perhaps the most alarming news yet.

Russia TV reports that thousands have taken to the streets in Athens in opposition to the harsh spending cuts, which are part of a new austerity package that is designed to save Greece from bankruptcy.

Where is George Clooney?

A Republican Congressman asks the President to please pay closer attention to Sudan.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - This morning I had the great pleasure of speaking with Congressman Frank Wolf. He was honest, forthright and had great tenacity to stand and call for change to the status quo.

Salem Real Estate News and Trends: Foreclosure Rates March Forward

Also in Salem, the mortgage delinquency rate has increased.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Foreclosure rates in Salem have increased for the month of March over the same period last year.

The foreclosure rate among outstanding mortgage loans is 2.24 percent for the month of March.

Eroding a Nation`s Will to Fight

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse" - British philosopher John Stuart Mill

(ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) - I noticed a recent verdict by the UK’s Wiltshire Coroner David Masters regarding the deaths by friendly fire of three British soldiers in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

Coroner Masters correctly noted that the deaths were caused by friendly fire as a result of a British Forward Air Controller (FAC) who gave the American F-15 the wrong coordinate locations for dropping a 500 pound bomb.

PTSD: Fraudulent Treatment and PTSD Fraudulent Veterans

I challenge the above criteria. I have PTSD about 7-8 on a scale of 1-10. I have been a Medical School Professor and Physician since I escaped the Army. I still have PTSD episodes.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The Associated Press and other news media picked up a recent story: Malingering PTSD: Could Certain Soldiers Be ‘Faking it’? by John M Grohol PsyD with World of Psychology.

All this doesn’t surprise me. The usual VA treatment for PTSD is anti-depressant drugs. Anybody who know anything says they don’t work most of the time and cause stupidifying side effects.

2nd Lieutenant Emily J.T. Perez (In Memorial)

A tribute to the first black female West Point grad killed in Iraq.

(LOS ANGELES) - 2nd Lt. Emily J.T. Perez, age 23, deployed to Iraq in December as a Medical Service Corps officer. The young officer was killed when a makeshift bomb exploded near her Humvee during combat operations in Al Kifl, near Najaf.