Worried about E. coli and other foodborne illness?

US CDC’s Vital Signs for June focuses on foodborne illness. Each year, roughly 1 in 6 people in the US gets sick from eating contaminated...

Health tips for pregnant women dealing with diabetes

We all know that the condition of pregnancy can be difficult for any women but it can be more challenging if the woman has Diabetes. So if a...

God Bless The Louisiana Department of Corrections

US inmates' 40 years in solitary must end: Amnesty LONDON — Two US prisoners who have been held in solitary confinement for nearly 40 ye...

Texas Governor Rick Perry - Only in America

I was tempted to make the header, ''Only in Texas'' but I have featured such a story before, only that particular piece of n...

US To Remain In Iraq by Proxy (Or Otherwise)

That's the trouble when you're stuck between a clusterfuck and a hard place. One hardly needs a crystal ball to foresee the whole co...

Fred Reed: Smiting The In-fiddle

Having, not many minutes ago, taken the piss out of German and American humour, I now find myself, in the case of this particular Yanky, in...

Ron Paul: Obama is a War Criminal

Aren't they all? Holding the President Accountable on Libya by Ron Paul Last week, more than 70 days after President Obama sent our mili...

German Humour; It's No Laughing Matter

But I hardly thought it required a poll to come to that conclusion. The same poll however puts us Brits at just fourth in the funny stakes, ...

Concerned About Fylde Coast Gas Extraction? (Fracking) Watch This

The first thing I have to admit is that I am woefully slow on the uptake of this potential threat to the Fylde Coast and it's inhabitant...