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Head of OSP Office of Professional Standards Placed on Administrative Leave Pending Criminal Investigation

The reports of that investigation are now being reviewed for possible criminal charges by Senior Deputy District Attorney George Eder of the Linn County District Attorney's Office.

(SALEM) - Oregon State Police has placed the head of the Department's Office of Professional Standards on administrative leave while a criminal investigation is being conducted.

Captain Jeff Lanz, age 39, assigned to the agency headquarters in Salem, was placed on administrative leave April 29, 2014, after a criminal investigation was begun. An OSP major from outside the Salem area was assigned to conduct the investigation.

Frivolous Lawsuit Trends Fall Back

Lawsuits and attorneys are part of the national landscape. People should assert their legal rights as Americans

(SAN DIEGO) - A trend developed across the US during the Bush years that touted "frivolous lawsuits"; many recall this period and political climate which discouraged people from filing a law suit even when they totally deserved to be compensated.

Anyone for Ouija Board?
The Board Game

When the rank and file are jumping off the caboose, you'll see me climbing on the locomotive. - Joe Granville, The Kansas City Guru

(DAYTONA BEACH) - When I was a kid, there were no computer games. In fact there were no computers.

But there were games. One game, typical for its intellectual content, went like this: you had this piece of cardboard with four corner spaces and laddered spaces in between, a pair of dice and several little plastic disks. Check that – there was no plastic then, either.

Talk Nation Radio: Rebecca Gordon on Mainstreaming Torture

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(SAN FRANCISCO) - A new book called Mainstreaming Torture argues that torture has been with us for a long time and remains with us and has been mainstreamed and increased in acceptability in the years since Bush and Cheney left office.  We speak with the author, Rebecca Gordon. She teaches in the Philosophy department at the University of San Francisco.

Previous publications include Letters From Nicaragua  and Cruel and Usual: How Welfare “Reform” Punishes Poor People. She is an editor of WarTimes/Tiempo de guerras, which seeks to bring a race, class, and gender perspective to issues of war and peace.

Marine Turned VA Civilian Discusses Saving Veterans from Foreclosure in New ``I Am AFGE`` Documentary

AFGE member and VA Loan Specialist Christopher Lee Castle helps veterans like himself every day

(DENVER) - Christopher Lee Castle joined the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2008, eager to give back to the military community after having served in the Marine Corps.

It was the height of the Great Recession, and Christopher's job as a loan specialist in the Veterans Benefits Administration meant he was soon counseling veterans and family members who were going through foreclosures on their VA guaranteed home loans and facing other economic hardships.

British Soldier Persecuted, Institutionalized for Discussing Common Law Arrest Warrants Against Elizabeth Windsor

Cunningham reported the existence of the standing arrest warrant against Windsor for crimes against humanity.

(STAFFORD, England) - Vivian Cunningham, a serving soldier in the Irish Guards Regiment in Aldershot, Hampshire, has been detained, institutionalized and drugged against his will for mentioning to a senior officer the Common Law arrest warrants against convicted felon Elizabeth Windsor (aka "Queen Elizabeth").

Cunningham has been detained without consent for 6 months.

Russell Kirk`s `Conservative Mind` at 60

Russell Kirk's notion of conservatism rejects the ideological purity of some present practitioners. It stands for the concept of moral order and confidence expressed in the U.S. Constitution...

(ALEXANDRIA, VA) - Russell Kirk's landmark book, The Conservative Mind: From Burke To Eliot, was published 60 years ago.

TIME magazine devoted its entire book section to The Conservative Mind, which Kirk had originally written in 1952 as his doctoral dissertation at the University of St. Andrew's in Scotland. Gordon Keith Chalmers, president of Kenyon College, reviewed the book in The New York Times and called it ³brilliant, even eloquent.²

``End the War on Drugs``: Nobel Economists, Reagan`s Secretary of State

“The list of people agreeing that drug abuse is a public health problem keeps getting longer and more prestigious. Does any thinking person still believe the drug war is working?” asked Major Neill Franklin (Ret.), executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

(WASHINGTON DC) - Eliminating drug use is not possible and prohibition leads to mass incarceration, human rights abuses, a degradation of fundamental rights, corruption and violence.

That is the conclusion reached by a report signed by five Nobel-winning economists, Reagan’s Secretary of State George Shultz, British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, former EU foreign policy Javier Solana and other international luminaries.

Marines Converge on SLC in May, Telling Hard, Real Stories About Deadly Marine Base Contamination

Camp Lejeune Marine veterans continue to have their claims for compensation rejected at an 84% rate. 82 that were stationed at CLNC have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

(SALT LAKE CITY) - The movie "Semper Fi, Always Faithful" will be shown in the downtown Salt Lake City Library May 17, 2014 at 2:30 p.m.

Following the free screening, there will be a panel discussion with "Betrayal: Toxic Exposures of U.S. Marines, Murder and Government Cover-Up" authors Robert O'Dowd and Tim King, Lorena Hansen, local leader of the Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance, and moderated by former Marine Aaron Davis who was stationed at Camp Lejeune for 3 1/2 years, and just won a battle with cancer.

FBI Investigating Kitzhaber`s ObamaCare Exchange in Oregon; OR GOV Race Tied

Keep an eye on this race as Kitzhaber’s epic ObamaCare failure continues to take its toll.

(SALEM) - Oregon’s Democrat Governor John Kitzhaber was a cheerleader for ObamaCare from day one. After hundreds of millions of dollars were wasted on Cover Oregon and warnings about the system’s problems falling on deaf ears, it’s time for Kitzhaber to accept full responsibility for this epic failure.

And now, we learn the FBI is investigating Oregon’s failed implementation of ObamaCare. In addition, a new poll out today shows the Oregon’s governor’s race tied as Kitzhaber continues to face political fallout over his failed ObamaCare exchange...