Families Paying with Their Lives and Their Wallets Highway safety advocates released the 2011 Roadmap Report, the eighth annual report card grading all 50 states and the District of Columbia on their performance when it comes to adopting 15 basic traffic safety laws. This year the report’s publishers, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates), [...]
Strong Latino voter turnout in key battle ground states has demonstrated once again that the growing Hispanic population is having an increasingly profound impact on US elections. Latino Republicans in particular combined strong support from conservatives and Latino voters to win 2 new governorships, 4 new house seats, and a new senate seat more than [...]
The U.S. State Department, on Sunday, issued a travel alert for American traveling in Europe. Western intelligence agencies, last week, uncovered an Al Qaeda plot to wage attacks on European cities. American travellers are warned to use caution and vigilance in the wake of a terrorist plot. “US citizens should take every precaution to be [...]
This is one of the craziest, yet wrongful rumors that spread among American citizens: Barack Obama is a Muslim! And this is not going to do any good to Obama’s latest drop in the polls. According to two new US opinion polls out Thursday (Pew and Time.com), almost one in five Americans think Barack Obama, [...]
A suicide car bomb in Kabul killed at least 12 civilians and five U.S. troops on Tuesday. Also one Canadian soldier was killed by the bomb. The suicide strike was claimed by the Talibans. The Taliban suicider hit the NATO convoy and wrecked about 20 vehicles, killed 18 people. It was the deadliest attack for [...]
A national survey released today found that more than one in five Americans plan to drive less in the wake of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, one in eight Americans plan to stop buying British Petroleum (BP) gas altogether. The survey, which polled 1,312 consumers across the country, found [...]
With the British election less than a week away, Americans may not have to wait until November to see which direction the political tide is moving in the United States. Voting results overseas may portend results here later, says David Coates, author of the new book Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments, and a [...]
American patients have seen an average of 18.7 different doctors during their lives, according to a survey conducted by GfK Roper for Practice Fusion, the free, web-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) company. For patients over 65 years of age, the average increases to 28.4 individual doctors, including primary care, specialists, hospital and urgent care providers. [...]
Topping that bowl of cereal with raspberries instead of strawberries, or sauteing kale instead of spinach for dinner can boost phytonutrient intake, which may help decrease risk for certain chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. A study, supported by the Nutrilite Health Institute and presented at the Experimental Biology Meeting, April 25, in [...]
82.7 percent of Americans support a presidential veto of legislation containing unnecessary Congressional spending The Council for Retirement Security (CRS), a program of the nonpartisan, nonprofit grassroots citizens organization Our Generation, has released a survey that found that 82.7 percent of respondents support a presidential veto to prevent Congress from spending money from the Social [...]