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Universal Healthcare`s Only Competition is Profit

Americans must learn the truth and stand up for their rights.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - We hear many debates about which country or countries provide the best healthcare systems. These discussions often become derailed and get bogged down in expressions of fear of what are perceived as the “socialist” ways of the European Countries.

Medford Chief Uses Public Funds to Fight Oregon`s Medical Marijuana Law

Ignorance is a powerful weapon.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Medford Police Chief Randy Schoen has some explaining to do. The chief used the city's Neighborhood Watch Bulletin to go on a rant against medical cannabis and Oregon's OMMP (Oregon Medical Marijuana Program).

The chief is of course welcome to his opinion. He is not welcome, of course, to use his city's resources to go on a rant based on opinion (and not fact) about an issue regarding citizens' health care.

Christian Activists and Shepherds Attacked by Israeli Soldiers

Israeli soldiers attack and injure Palestinian shepherds and Christians.

(AT TUSANI, WEST BANK) - On the morning of Thursday 7 January 2010, Israeli soldiers attacked and injured Palestinian shepherds from the Musa Raba’i family.

Motorcycle Freestyle and Trials Reach New Heights

The featured video with this article shows Julien Dupont in the streets of historic Lyons, France doing absolutely amazing freestyle maneuvers that defy gravity and logic, but work beautifully.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Le Parkour meets trials riding. I admit that I'm out of the loop with all the latest motorcycle trends, but the advances in recent years of this motorized human art form have certainly been record setting.

Applying the technology of today to an already good idea of yesterday rarely fails, and today's trials bikes; motorcycles with super high ground clearance specifically designed to climb over logs and rocks and the like.

Homicide Detectives Investigate Death of 3-Year Old Child

Several agencies are investigating

(SANDY, Ore.) - Sheriff's deputies and Fire Rescue personnel responded to a reported death of a three-year-old child Saturday at approximately 1:00 p.m. in rural Sandy.

It is expected that a forensic autopsy will be performed by the Oregon State Medical Examiner's Office on the deceased child soon.

Eva Golinger Describes Curacao as the Third Frontier of the United States

US combat plane violated Venezuelan airspace Friday.

(CARACAS, Venezuela) - Friday's violation of Venezuelan airspace by a US military plane is another example of the escalation in provocations against Venezuela and evidence of the danger US military presence in the region represents.

The US plane had flown over a strategic Venezuelan military base on La Orchila.

The Fragging of American Officers: Historic Problems and Future Planning

An American Vietnam War officer describes the day a soldier tried to kill him with a hand grenade.

(SALEM, Ore.) - This is the story of a man who survived an attempt on his life, by chance... and he is traumatized by it to this very day. Why do soldiers kill their leaders?

It is a historic problem, what matters is how it is recognized and dealt with.

Chavez Scrambles F-16`s Over US Plane`s Reported Violation of Venezuelan Airspace

The US Southern Command claims that its surveillance operations are 'only' meant to counter drug trafficking in South America.

(CARACAS, Venezuela PRESS TV) - Venezuela has scrambled two F-16 fighter jets to ward off a US military plane.

President Hugo Chavez ordered the fighters to confront a US P-3 maritime patrol aircraft that had purportedly violated Venezuela's airspace.

Orange County Grand Jury Investigates Irvine`s `Great Park`

The controversial project would place a park and homes on deadly contaminated ground.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - We have been exploring the toxic mystery known as the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station for two and a half years at Salem-News.com with a team of writers, mostly comprised of former El Toro Marines including myself.

The base was very active from the time it was built and commissioned during WWII, until its controversial closure in 1999.

Defending Pill Mill Doctors -- Give me a Break

"It is fun to kick the government around" - Purdue Pharma

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - I have written previous articles about the Pain Societies funded by Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, who spew the words "undertreatment of pain" in the United States.

Purdue Pharma and these "Pain Societies" get chills when they hear the words "pill mill doctors" -- the doctors who use Kinko to print off copious copies of prescription pads to write scripts for OxyContin to patients.