Hopefully Obama will take a look at this once he takes office: The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials. The long-planned shift in the Defense Department‘s […]

India has raised their national security level to “war level” following last week’s attacks in Mumbai: The fallout from a three-day rampage that killed nearly 200 people in Mumbai threatened on Sunday to unravel India’s improving ties with Pakistan and prompted the resignation of India’s security minister. New Delhi said it was raising security to […]

You know, these guys should watch it. Obama is soon to be running the country, along with his own party. He might decide to suddenly enforce the law and that could mean churches violating their separation from stat could suddenly end up owing a bunch in taxes. Here’s the latest: Parishioners of St. Joseph’s Catholic […]

One thing that is a big difference between Bush and Obama is the lack of cronies we see going into our new administration. Barack Obama’s picks for Cabinet and other senior posts are many things: centrists, veterans, rivals. Most of all, though, they’re big: big names, big intellects and big egos. The president-elect’s national security […]

Here is some Simpson sounding news from the next town over from me: Middletown police Chief Greg Schwarber is recovering from a gunshot wound he suffered Friday, Nov. 28, at his residence on Todhunter Road. Monroe police were called to the Schwarber residence at 1:25 p.m. on a report of an accidental discharge of a […]

Planned Parenthood in Indiana is offering gift certificates for health care and contraceptives: The network of 35 clinics across the state announced it is offering holiday vouchers for basic health care services “or the recipient’s choice of birth control method.” The organization decided to offer the vouchers because so many people are uninsured or are […]

Here’s to a fun day of spending time with relatives you never agree with, only to eat way more than any human should so you can pass out on the couch later, feeling like that turkey that was over stuffed today. Hee haw!

Barack Obama has now said that executives of these failing banks should forfeit their bonuses: Asked whether bank executives should forgo their bonuses, Obama said: “I think they should.” He also said it would show they are taking responsibility. “I think that if you are already worth tens of millions of dollars, and you are […]

Change is awesome! The Obama transition team has launched a section on change.gov dedicated to healthcare reform. There are already close to 1,200 comments on it. Imagine a government letting people voice their opinion? I thought that was America’s principal, but wasn’t so sure after the last eight years. Well it looks like it may […]

That’s what California is working towards: Recently the cities of San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland unveiled a massive concerted effort to become the electric vehicle capitol of the United States! This groundbreaking development heralds a nine-step plan that includes everything from buying fully electric vehicles for all government transportation to expediting the approval of […]