Oregon teachers are a step closer to getting their junk food back. The Oregon House passed a bill exempting teachers from the requirement that only healthy food be served in schools.
Many teachers felt that while the law is good for children, it infringed on their freedom of choice. One teacher, dismayed at the difficulty getting a [...]

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After French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s political party used MGMT’s music without their permission, the party offered to pay €1 in compensation. Offended by the offer of a single Euro, the band is now preparing to sue.
Shortly after the FBI implicated Bruce Ivins in the anthrax attacks, he committed suicide. Now we learn that the spores [...]

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Either Mexican President Felipe Calderon has one of the most ambitious plans in the world or he is out-of-touch with reality.
Calderon, bristling at U.S. suggestions that Mexico is coming apart from drug violence, vows to bring the drug cartels under control by 2012. He hopes to be able to withdraw the military from the drug [...]

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Until this week, Bobby Jindal’s Presidential campaign looked quite promising. As a bright, young Republican governor with a non-European background, Jindal looked like the kind of man Republicans needed to counter Barack Obama. Jindal was even flying about the country fundraising and scoring political favors with local politicians.
Then there was the disastrous speech in response to [...]

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Nineteen members of the Georgia Legislature are behind in paying their state and federal taxes. Some are delinquent as far back as 2002.
Many Democrats expressed unhappiness that President Obama’s Iraq withdrawal plan leaves 50,000 troops in the country.
Val Kilmer moved closer to a run for the New Mexico Governorship by selecting a political strategist.
A French [...]

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If you want to see some of the world’s strangest laws, though with a heavy British slant, follow this link to Timesonline.
Here are five to give you a sample:

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon more than six-feet long.
In London, it is illegal to flag down a taxi if you have the plague.
In Indonesia, [...]

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President Obama’s selection for head of the National Council of Intelligence, Chas Freeman, is raising some concerns.
Jewish leaders are already concerned that Freeman, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, has a history of supporting conservative Islamic regimes. Now there are more reasons to be disturbed about Freeman. As recently as 2006, he expressed that the [...]

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State Senator Scott Renfroe of Colorado attacked a gay right’s bill by equating homosexuality with murder.
“I’m not saying this (homosexuality) is the only sin that’s out there. We have murder. We have all sorts of sin. We have adultery. And we don’t make laws making those legal, and we would never think to make murder legal.”
Renfroe’s [...]

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The mayor of a Washington town is angry that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal criticized federal funding for “volcano monitoring.” “Does the governor have a volcano in his backyard?” said Royce Pollard. “We have one.”
The Congressional Black Caucus is pressing President Obama to remain true to his priorities as he drifts toward the political center.
Some Canadian [...]

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The mayor of Las Alamitos in California has publicly apologized for sending out an email titled, “No Easter Egg hunt this year.” The picture attached to the email has watermelons scattered throughout the White House lawn.
Mayor Dean Grose said he was “deeply embarrassed…for any harm or hurt.”
When African-American Keyanus Price, a local businesswoman, initially responded to [...]

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