Coma Patient Comes Alive
Wrongly diagnosed as being in a coma and vegetative state for 23 years, a man who was actually conscious but trapped in his...
About: Ann Shibler
Posts by Ann Shibler
The Laundry Police: No-hanging Restrictions
Before the invention of clothes dryers, wet clothes were hung out in the sunshine to dry on lines strung up in many backyards....
Audi’s e-Tron on Its Way; Move Over, Tesla
The e-Tron electric concept car caught everyone’s attention last month at the Frankfurt auto show. How could it not? The car has 313...
Harsh Sentence for Ex-NFL’s Burress
Plaxico Burress, the super bowl champion and now ex-New York Giant has gone to jail. He will serve two years, with a minimum...
UN: Violate Sovereignty to “Protect” Citizens
The UN seems to be ready to move from its usual conceptual philosophy to actions concerning its pledge to undertake a “responsibility to...
Surgeon General Nominee Regina Benjamin
President Obama has nominated Dr. Regina Benjamin as his choice for Surgeon General. A White House spokesman, Reid Cherlin, has assured the nation...
Abortion Pills Administered Incorrectly
The protocol at Planned Parenthood clinics for administering RU-486, the drug that causes medical abortions, was officially changed in order to reduce the...
Mass. Sues Feds Over Defense of Marriage Act
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, in an unusual twist for someone in the uber liberal Bay State, is suing the federal government, invoking...
Abandoning Ethics… for Money
The new guidelines that will govern how human embryos and cell lines will be treated by the government, researchers, and experimenters has been...
GE to Use Embryonic Stem Cells
General Electric is entering into a venture with Geron Corp to commercially develop products from human embryonic stem cells, including developing sample human...
States Plan on Opting Out of Obamacare
Some state lawmakers, in preemptive mode, are considering ballot initiatives for the 2010 election which would allow them to opt out of Obama...
Final Ruling in Strip Search Case
The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that the strip search of a 13-year-old Arizona girl by school officials in pursuit of drugs...
From Copenhagen to Hopenhagen
The ubiquitous “hope and change” theme Americans know, oh, so well — one that has become totally meaningless, a result of its overuse...
From Farming to Serfdom
Another sweeping draconian measure from your representatives in Washington is quickly taking shape under H.R. 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act (FSEA) of...
Ron Paul’s Bill H.R. 1207 to Audit the Fed
Bill H.R. 1207 to audit the Federal Reserve now has 200 cosponsors. That’s 45 percent of House members, closing in on a whopping...