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Yesterday, President Obama videotaped holiday greetings (full text) to those celebrating the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. The New Year holiday, beginning the ten day period culminating in Yom Kippur, commences tonight.  In addition to greetings for “a sweet year full of health, happiness, and peace,” the President used his statement as an occasion to [...]

A construction worker’s high-visibility safety vest is a tool that is absolutely necessary. By making workers visible in the worst of conditions, they are an invaluable tool. They can be seen at night, along the highway, and even in rain, thanks to rain suits. Simply being visible is a hugely important on the construction site, [...]

Alice Purkiss: Clegg slams Belarus dictator The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship

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Twitter avatars of Mubarak Al-Bathali (left) and Nasser Abul in a blue t-shirt (right). Kuwait does not have a history of detaining citizens for expressing their views online; the first arrest case in relevance to the internet happened to Bashar Al-Sayegh (@balsayegh) a Kuwaiti journalist who was detained by the State Security Police four years [...]

Mesoblast Inc. is an Australian company (MSB.AX) that has had some success in clinical trials with its allogeneic mesenchymal precursor stem cell therapies. Mesoblast has a market capitalization of… This is a content summary only. Visit our website for full links, other content, and more! Thanks! Stem Cell Research

The Internet Governance Forum is a multi-stakeholder forum where people from all over the world – from government, industry, the technical community and civil society – come together to discuss the Internet's future. The Sixth Annual meeting officially kicks off on Tuesday morning in Nairobi, Kenya. A number of pre-meetings will be held all day [...]

From SSRN: Meir Katz, When is Medical Care ‘Futile’? The Institutional Competence of the Medical Profession Regarding the Provision of Life-Sustaining Medical Care, (Nebraska Law Review, Vol. 90, p. 1, 2011). Elizabeth Rieser-Murphy and Kathryn DeMarco, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished? Alabama’s New Immigration Law – A Threat to Conservative Values (September 13, 2011). Recent and [...]

Conservative thinkers have long embraced the idea of “American exceptionalism;” that is, the idea that the United States, as a nation, is qualitatively different from other nations: we are, by virtue of being one of the first Western nations founded on ideas of liberty and equality (you know, for White, land-owning men), somehow unique in [...]

Yesterday, a joint motion for entry of a consent decree (full text of motion) was filed in Rainey v. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, (SD TX, filed 9/22/2011).  The lawsuit claimed that VA cemetery rules were applied to interfere with prayer and religious expression at commitment ceremonies in Houston’s National Cemetery.  (See prior posting.) Under the proposed [...]