Jay Dee's Post

The G20 in Pittsburgh showed us how pitifully fearful our leaders have become. What no terrorist could do to us, our own leaders did. Out of fear of the possibility of a terrorist attack, authorities militarize our towns, scare our people away, stop daily life and quash our constitutional rights. For days, downtown Pittsburgh, home to the G20, [...]

Senators Plan Bill To Advance Net Neutrality Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) said in an interview Monday that he and Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) are considering legislation aimed at helping advance the adoption of new rules on net neutrality. Such a bill could be a timetable or deadline for the Federal Communications Commission to finish [...]

By Jeanna Bryner Police in Pittsburgh showed off the latest in crowd control Thursday as they reportedly used “sound cannons” to blast the ears of protesters near the Group of 20 meeting of world economic leaders. City officials said it was the first time such sound blasters, sometimes called sound weapons, were used publicly. But what exactly [...]

By ROGER ALFORD and JEFFREY McMURRAY BIG CREEK, Ky. (AP) — A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape, said an Ohio man who discovered the body two weeks ago. Jerry Weaver of Fairfield, Ohio, told The Associated Press on Friday [...]

By Ed O’Keefe Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 25, 2009 The Census Bureau employee who was found dead and tied to a tree in Kentucky this month died of asphyxiation, according to a preliminary medical report. State and federal law enforcement officials on Thursday dismissed the suggestion from a news service report that the man, William Sparkman, 51, [...]

Reacting to an amendment proposed by Sen. Jon Cornyn (R-Texas) during the Senate Finance Committee’s markup of health care reform legislation on Thursday, committee member Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) called his colleague a pawn of the health insurance industry. “This is a very, very important amendment and it’s a very, very bad amendment,” said Rockefeller. “If there’s [...]

MANCHESTER, Ky. (AP) — A U.S. Census worker found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery had the word “fed” scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment. Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old part-time Census field worker and teacher, was found [...]

INDIANAPOLIS — The state Court of Appeals on Thursday struck down an Indiana law requiring government-issued photo identification for voters, overturning on state constitutional grounds a strict law previously upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Considered one of the nation’s toughest voter identification laws, it requires that a state or federal photo ID card be presented [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia environmental officials now say a nearby coal mine may not be the only reason fish are dying in Dunkard Creek. Department of Environmental Protection officials say more dead fish have been found in the creek, but more than a mile upstream from Consol Energy’s Blacksville No. 2 mine. DEP spokeswoman Kathy [...]

By Ken Ward Jr. Page 2 of 2 Goto Page 1 “It is not possible to determine what the economic and public health outcomes would be in these areas in the absence of mining,” the study says. “However, given the literature on the impacts of social disparities and the previously documented problems of coal-dependent economies, such a casual [...]