Scientists Pledge to Increase Interference with the Church.

It's too bad this is (apparently) a hoax; the job really needs to be done. And not just with one church.

A former UK jobcenter worker wrote a play to show how the government has converted the jobcenters from "doing something for" the unemployed to a scheme to hurt them.

US citizens: call on Senate Democrats to defend Wall Street reform.

Obama has proposed an increase in efforts to keep antibiotics working, but it isn't enough to achieve the goal.

The most important step, banning the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in farm animals, won't require any government expenditure.

Obama's proposed tax on corporations' foreign income would still leave them with a tax break that is unfair to the rest of us.

Obama's budget weakens food and water safety.

I disagree on one point: I don't in principle object to funding food safety inspections through "user fees" if that means large businesses have to pay for them. But small businesses should not have to pay fees, so as to cancel out a little bit of the existing slant of the playing field.