- Virginia Delegate Robert Marshall has apologized for his remarks that birth disabilities are God’s vengeance on women who have abortions.
- Pharmaceutical waste is a problem and some states want laws to deal with it.
- Jeb Bush on Sarah Palin: “I mean, I don’t know what her deal is, but my belief is in 2010 and 2012, public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity.”
- An Appeals Court ruled that seven “zombies” were arrested illegally for protesting consumerism in a Minnesota shopping center.
- California’s budget woes must not be a big problem this year because the state Assembly just passed a measure designating the first week of March as “No Cuss Week.”
Protesters demonstrated against censorship laws in Malta by marking their mouths with red crosses.- There is some irony in this. The British Tea Party movement is to be inaugurated on Saturday.
- Rep. Charles Rangel, Chair of the powerful Ways and Means Committee has been accused of violating House rules by accepting corporate money for Caribbean trips.
The city of Temecula, California, banned a nude oil painting from an art exhibit because it did not “want the reputation of exposing children to art that’s not appropriate.”- Pakistan will be changing its blasphemy law that can impose the death penalty (although never enacted) for insulting Islam or Muhammad.
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