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Muslim Bodies Bombarded with Hate Mail: Mosques in US Seek Protection

In California, authorities have already deployed police officers outside mosques as a precaution.

(WASHINGTON D.C. ) - President Barack Obama stressed on Saturday that people of all faiths, including Muslims, served the US military, as mosques across America sought police protection.

On Thursday, a Muslim psychiatrist in the US Army, Maj Nidal Malik Hasan, killed 13 and wounded 30 people at the Fort Hood military base. And on Saturday, the US media warned that the shootings could likely post the sternest test for US Muslims since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks.

Washington County Man Life Flighted After Driving Into a Tree (PHOTOS)

Speed and alcohol do not appear to be a factor in the accident.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Washington County Deputies responded to a single vehicle accident Sunday on NW Dairy Creek Road at NW Three Cedars Road. Sgt. Vance Stimler with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, says the vehicle left the road and hit a tree causing extensive damage and injuring the driver.

30-year old David Law of Washington County, was transported
by Life Flight to OHSU with life threatening injuries.

Big `I` Disappointed with House Democratic Health Care Bill

Insurance carriers claim "Bill includes ‘public option’ and adds billions of dollars in tax burdens to small business."

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”), today expressed their disappointment with the Democratic Health Care Reform bill that was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.

“Just last week, the House Democratic Leadership unveiled a 1,990 page bill that was touted as the byproduct of months of negotiations between House Democratic Leadership and members of the moderate and more liberal factions of their caucus yet the ‘revised’ bill closely resembles the original bill,” says Robert Rusbuldt, Big “I” president & CEO.

Marion County Deputy Survives Head on Crash (PHOTOS)

A Salem woman and her son also survived the crash.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Marion County Deputy Mike Brewster was involved in a head-on vehicle crash while driving his marked patrol car on Quinaby Road NE and Clear Lake Road this morning at 10:07 a.m.

Lt. Sheila Lorance with the Sheriff's Office, says Brewster had to be extricated from the vehicle and was transported to Salem Hospital where he is in stable condition and will be held overnight for observation.

Cognitive Dissonance Defines Balloon Boy Dilemma

Republican fiction comparing Healthcare Reform to Nazism ignores that nations around the world offer universal healthcare to their people. The tyranny of propaganda is as deceitful as Falcon‘s parents whose lies are damaging their child’s mental wellbeing.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - Cognitive dissonance is a state of psychological conflict or anxiety resulting from a contradiction between a person's simultaneously held beliefs or attitudes that do not fit or are inappropriate to logical context.

Mental incongruity is the cause of dissonance in individuals the effect of which is harmful.

Policy Analysis: HR 3962 Division A - Affordable Health Care

The major change policy wise is in increasing taxes on upper income individuals and using this money to fund health care credits for low wage earners.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Establishes minimum requirements and eliminates anti-trust exemptions for private insurers. Establishes Health Choices Administration, and Health Insurance Exchange. Establishes public health care option bound by same requirements as private insurers.

Bipartisan Attack on International Humanitarian Law

The primary motivation for the resolution appears to have been to block any consideration of its recommendation that those guilty of war crimes be held accountable.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - In a stunning blow against international law and human rights, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Tuesday attacking the report of the United Nations Human Rights Council's fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict.

The report was authored by the well-respected South African jurist Richard Goldstone and three other noted authorities on international humanitarian law, who had been widely praised for taking leadership in previous investigations of war crimes in Rwanda, Darfur, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere.

Biodiesel Fuels Displacement in Colombia

"Biofuels have become 'very in vogue' these days" - World Bank Latin America Development report, 2008

(SALEM, Ore.) - Biofuels are divided into biodiesel (plant-based oil), and ethanol (plant-based alcohol). The number one source of biodiesel is African palm oil. Demand and production of biofuels are growing globally.

The U.S. government is taking steps to switch to biodiesel in national parks, public school districts, utility companies, NASA, USDA agencies, and all major branches of the U.S. military.

Eye to Eye, We Are Ready

A group of American combat veterans may participate in talks with the Taliban.

(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - 40 years ago, 3 of us at Veterans Today, Bill Eckard, Eddie Harris and I were in South Vietnam, serving with an elite Marine Special Landing Team, looking for "terrorists." Decades later, our memories are less than clear. It was 4 a.m., 0400H, and we were searching a village. Bill remembers finding an AK47 in one hut, I think it was a Garand.

It's funny we all remember that morning, nothing outstanding about it. I remember being acutely aware I was in someone else's home, uninvited. This is how I was raised.

Republicans Fail to Defeat Obama`s Healthcare Plan in Congress

The plan to reel in insurance practices and provide healthcare to all Americans now goes to the Senate for approval.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Saturday evening at 11:15 p.m., the House of Representatives voted to pass their health insurance reform bill. Despite countless attempts over nearly a century, no chamber of Congress has ever before passed comprehensive health reform. It is a historic event.

The bill would expand coverage to most Americans and stop insurance practices like refusing to cover people with pre-existing medical conditions. The bill passed by a narrow vote of 220-215.