Court Clerk Fired for Helping Secure DNA Test That Proved a Man's Innocence
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Nelson had been convicted 25 years earlier, but the DNA testing wasn't available then. When DNA testing did become available, defendants were not...
View ArticleFox Distorts and Misleads on Women in Combat
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Fox guest Robert Maginnis baselessly speculated that allowing women in combat occupations would lower military standards, contradicting research that...
View ArticleThe Forever War: Afghan Security and Military Forces Will Need Help Beyond 2014
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]The Pentagon said Tuesday it is offering no "zero option" for the number of troops that would remain in Afghanistan after the U.S. combat mission...
View ArticleProfessor Fools $80M Superyacht's GPS Receiver on the High Seas
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]One of the world's foremost academic experts in GPS spoofing--University of Texas assistant professor Todd Humphreys--released a short video on...
View ArticleFrom the Annals of Chutzpah: Paul Ryan's Latest
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]You would think it impossible for the man whose name, when followed by the word "budget" means "viciously regressive, cut taxes for the rich, cut...
View ArticleShould Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]On an overcast day in early May, I traveled to suburban Philadelphia to visit the family of Sunil Tripathi, the deceased 22-year-old Brown University...
View ArticleJason Heap Wants to be the Navy's First Humanist Chaplain
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Jason Heap wants to be a Navy chaplain. But he doesn't believe in God.Belief in a higher power, the 38-year-old humanist argues, has nothing to do...
View ArticleCaptured: America in Color From 1939-1943 - Plog Photo Blog
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]More: Captured: America in Color From 1939-1943 - Plog Photo Blogclick the link for some pretty amazing photos. They are reproductions from color...
View ArticleUrsula LeGuin--the Whole Essay
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]If a space ship came by from the friendly natives of the fourth planet of Altair, and the polite captain of the space ship said, "We have room for...
View ArticleGOP in Key States Tries to Slow Anti-Abortion Push
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]The push brought the anti-abortion movement closer to a key milestone, in which the procedure would become largely inaccessible in the three-fifths...
View ArticleNew NRA program loves lead poisoning, puts zoos on 'Enemies List'
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]A coalition of groups, led by the Center for Biological Diversity, urged the Environmental Protection Agency last year to ban hunters from using lead...
View ArticleExtreme Heat Is Killing Off Thousands of Fish in Alaska
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Unusually hot, dry weather in Alaska is wreaking havoc on fisheries, as thousands of fish perish in overheated waters. Last month, 1,100 king salmon...
View ArticleFeds Are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]The malware showed up Sunday morning on multiple websites hosted by the anonymous hosting company Freedom Hosting. That would normally be considered...
View ArticleToo Many People Lighting Too Many Fuses
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Chief Mark Kessler and friends.Excuse me, but I must have taken a wrong turn in Lancaster because I seem to be in Somalia.Many in the gun-toting...
View ArticleGlenn Beck Believes the U.S. and Russia are Headed Toward WW III
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Video"It's the United States versus Russia," Beck declared on his radio broadcast today. "This is what all of us who are my age grew up worried...
View ArticleNuge: 'People Who Hate Ted Nugent Hate Freedom. Trayvon Got Justice'
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]And people who love Ted Nugent will keep the straitjacket industry in business!Gun rights advocate and right-wing provocateur Ted Nugent lashed out...
View ArticleOn the 30th Anniversary of DNA Sequencing in Population Genetics
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]30 years ago today, the "struggle to measure genetic variation" in natural populations was finally won. In a paper entitled "Nucleotide polymorphism...
View ArticleReuters Exclusive: U.S. Directs Agents to Cover Up Program Used to...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]A spokesman with the Department of Justice, which oversees the DEA, declined to comment.But two senior DEA officials defended the program, and said...
View Article'Vicious' Python Kills Two Sleeping Children, Aged 5 and 7, After Escaping...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Two children are dead in Campbellton, New Brunswick after they were strangled to death by an escaped python while on a sleepover in an apartment over...
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