Senator Proposes Bill to Rescue Newspapers - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com

Senator Proposes Bill to Rescue Newspapers - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com: "Speaking on the Senate floor, Cardin added, 'As local papers are closing, we're losing a valuable tradition in America — critically important to our communities, critically important to our democracy.'"

Just because newspapers are dying doesn't mean that the press is being reduced.  There is still plenty of journalism -- it is just taking a different form.

Senator Proposes Bill to Rescue Newspapers - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com

Senator Proposes Bill to Rescue Newspapers - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com: "'We are losing our newspaper industry,' said Cardin. 'The economy has caused an immediate problem, but the business model for newspapers, based on circulation and advertising revenue, is broken, and that is a real tragedy for communities across the nation and for our democracy.'"

If the business model doesn't work anymore then let it die!  With the internet we have more efficient ways of getting the news.

Change and Hope on Drug Policy?

Change and Hope on Drug Policy?: "Brookhiser, a staid senior editor at National Review, hardly resembles the stereotypical pot smoker. But in 1992, he contracted a particularly virulent form of cancer and found that only marijuana would allow him to hold down enough food to survive the treatment.

'God forbid that anyone in this room should ever need chemotherapy,' Brookhiser testified, but if you do, 'Let me assure you that whatever you think now, or however you vote, if that moment comes to you, you will turn to marijuana. Extend that liberty to your fellow citizens.'"

FOXNews.com - French Strikers Release 3M Exec Hostage - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

FOXNews.com - French Strikers Release 3M Exec Hostage - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News: "The workers locked Rousselet in an office Tuesday, demanding better severance packages for those laid off and better conditions for those who keep their jobs."

They are now taking hostages to demand better job benefits?!?

Bioethics Forum - Federal Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Bioethics Forum - Federal Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research: "On March 9, President Obama removed restrictions on federal funding of research on embryonic stem cell lines derived by means that destroy human embryos. Although members of the President’s Council on Bioethics have been divided on this question and some of our colleagues disagree with us, we think it may be useful and clarifying to set the president’s action in three ways into the context of work the council has done over the past seven years."