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• Filipino war veterans get US benefits approved

  
  PinoyBusiness.ORG - Home — Authority: 134
  The applications of the more than 10,000 World War II Filipino and Filipino-American veterans have been approved by the US Embassy’s Veterans Affairs Office. This gives them part of the P5.8-billion budget allocated for this purpose. This new benefits will be paid out under a law passed by the US Congress and ...
  21 hours ago

• Leader of CA Senate wants to split sessions

  
  Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: 'we're all mad here....') — Authority: 128
  Senate President Pro Tem, Darrell Steinberg (D- Sacramento ) said today that he will propose splitting California’s legislative sessions, to concentrate on the budget one year, and the next year on new laws. I have ANOTHER suggestion – let’s concentrate on the budget EACH AND EVERY year, and FORGET ...
  2 days ago

• Dropping the Bomb on Health Care

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 435
  by Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital and author of Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit from the Economic Collapse As business owners undergo the yearly ritual of passing through eye-popping health insurance premium increases to their employees, it’s easy to understand why any attempt at health insurance ...
  6 days ago

• Could Federal Housing Tax Credits Add Value to Homes?

  
  Westchester & Bronx NY investment property real estate blog — Authority: 137
  The U.S. Government is planning to invest billions of dollars into companies to try and jumpstart the housing market. It has seen a big slump since the ‘credit crunch’ hit and people aren’t prepared to take the risk of possible debt and bankruptcy. Federal Housing Tax Credits could be exactly what the housing ...
  6 days ago

• UK unsuccessful in halting female genital mutilation

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 20(ANI): Hundreds of British schoolgirls are facing the horrifying prospect of female genital mutilation (FGM) over the Christmas holidays, as experts warn that the practice still exists across the country.The practice is common in 28 African countries, including Somalia, Sudan and Nigeria, as well as some ...
  1 week ago

• Russia ‘to ban swearing in public’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 18 (ANI): A group of Russian senators have given their support to a new legislation to ban swearing in public.The move is said to be a part of a Kremlin-backed drive to clean up Russia’s morals.The law would be based on an existing scheme in the Russian region of Belgorod where police hand [...]
  1 week ago

• People-Michael Lohan

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 178
  Police on New Yorks Long Island say Lindsay Lohans father, Michael, has been arrested and charged with criminal contempt, for allegedly violating an order of protection. (Dec. 15)
  1 week ago

• Illinois Establishes School Wind and Solar Generation Program

  
  LAW OF THE LAND — Authority: 130
  The State of Illinois has adopted a school wind and solar generation program, authorizing the funding through the Finance Authority Act for low-interest loans to school districts and community college districts for engineering studies, feasibility studies, research studies, and construction costs for wind and solar ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.S. Already $292 Billion in the Red This Year

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 518
  December 9th, 2009 Via: Reuters : The U.S. government racked up a gaping shortfall in the first two months of this fiscal year after posting a record budget deficit last year, congressional analysts said on Friday. In October and November, the government spent $292 billion more than it took in, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• North Carolina Amends State Fair Housing Act to Prevent Discrimination in Land Use Decisions or the Permitting of Affordable Housing

  
  LAW OF THE LAND — Authority: 130
  The North Carolina General Assembly amended the state Fair Housing Act, making it illegal to discriminate in land-use decisions or permitting of developments based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicapping condition, familial status, or where the development contains affordable housing for families ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Hampshire Clarifies Process for Election, Rather than Appointment, of Zoning Board Members

  
  LAW OF THE LAND — Authority: 130
  New Hampshire has amended its state enabling statutes to provide clarification for local legislative bodies on the option of changing the basis of membership on zoning boards of adjustment from appointive to elective positions. The new law, effective January 2010, further provides that where a local legislative body ...
  3 weeks ago

• Iraqi legislators approve election law (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Baghdad, Dec 7 (DPA) Iraq’s parliament adopted a new election law late Sunday, finally paving the way for voters to head to the polls early next year.The next parliament would see an increase from 275 seats to 325 seats, according to the new legislation, which also appeared to resolve disputes between parties over ...
  3 weeks ago

• Left, BJP cautious on bill to check communal violence

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) As the government prepares to table in parliament a bill to check communal violence, political parties Friday reacted cautiously to the development, saying they want to study the new legislation, which was originally drafted in 2005.“We have not seen the bill. Let the draft come to us… We ...
  3 weeks ago

• People with disabilities demand attention on World Disability Day

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  New Delhi/Chennai/Siliguri, Dec.3 (ANI): As the World Disability Day was marked by the disabled people in different parts of the world on Thursday (Dec.3), the people with disabilities in India demanded serious attention of the government and society towards their needs. People with disabilities held rallies in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Illegal migration from Bangladesh, China matter of concern: Ravi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Panaji, Dec 1 (IANS) Illegal immigration by Bangladeshi and Chinese nationals is a cause for concern, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said here Tuesday.Ravi was speaking to reporters after inaugurating the 8th ASEM conference on migration and development at The Lalit resort in Goa. When asked to ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Wager of Law!

  
  Credit Slips — Authority: 417
  Apparently Ive been challenged to a duel wager.  I say apparently, because this challenge was never delivered to me.  Instead, it was posted to a website almost a month ago, which is a little odd for a serious bet.   So what is this about?  Slips readers will be familiar with (or exhausted by) my back-and-forth ...
  4 weeks ago

• Those Who Can, Teach, Those Who Can’t Are Criminals

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  I was young, it was college, I only took a puff! Of all the dumbassed nanny state ideas! Ofsted want all the estimated 40,000 parents who are teaching their kids at home to undergo a criminal records check. The parents who fall below the line of Mary Poppin’s status should then be barred from teaching their own ...
  4 weeks ago

• Illinois Adopts Green Buildings Act

  
  LAW OF THE LAND — Authority: 130
  In an effort to promote energy efficiency in state government buildings, the Illinois General Assembly enacted the Green Buildings Act, requiring all new state-funded building construction and renovations to seek LEED, Green Globes or equivalent certification, and further requiring that all projects receive the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Uganda proposes death penalty for HIV positive gays

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed. Gordon Brown followed Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, in telling Uganda that the legislation was unacceptable. Mr Brown made his views plain in a breakfast ...
  4 weeks ago

• Something For The Weekend 14

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 565
  It’s a situation you might expect to come across in a bad-taste comedy sketch: heart transplant patient – tubes everywhere, chest opened up – on operating table; surgeon examining grisly-looking donated organ.“Don’t quite know what I can do with this,” he mutters. “Wasn’t quite what I was expecting. ...
  4 weeks ago

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