U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has over-ruled the recommendations of the FDA and ‘the morning after’ pill (or Plan B) will not be made available to everyone as an OTC product. Girls must be 17 years or older to buy the product without a prescription.
The Food and Drug Administration recommended on Wednesday that Plan B One-Step, commonly referred to as the “morning-after pill,” be made available over the counter without age restrictions, but an Obama administration official overturned that recommendation.
After ten months of reviewing scientific data, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg decided on Wednesday that emergency contraception should be made available to everyone over the counter.
“There is adequate and reasonable, well-supported, and science-based evidence that Plan B One-Step is safe and effective and should be approved for nonprescription use for all females of child-bearing potential,” she said in a statement.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney got himself in a heap of trouble with animal rights group PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. How did the press secretary get in hot water?
According to the Code of Military Justice, the following regulations have been repealed:
(a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.
(b) Any person found guilty of sodomy shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
During a White House press briefing, World Net Daily reporter Lester Kinsolving threw Jay Carney a real curve ball. Kinsolving is known for asking ridiculous, outlandish questions.
KINSOLVING: The Family Research Council and CNS News both reported a 93-to-7 U.S. Senate vote to approve a defense authorization bill that, quote, “includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, but also repeals the military ban on sex with animals, or bestiality.”
Does the commander-in-chief approve or disapprove of bestiality in our armed forces?
CARNEY: I don’t have any comment on–I don’t have any comment on that. Let me go to another question.
KINSOLVING: Does the President believe this will be approved by all animal support groups, such as –
The destroyer USS Shaw explodes after being hit by bombs.
Most of the people who lived, first hand, through the attack on Pearl harbor are nearly 90 years old. That’s very hard to believe. The surprise attack left young men, barely more than boys, running for guns, weapons, anything to fight back with. Many heroes arose that day. Not all of the heroes lived to bask in the glory. Some died and some were sealed in a watery tomb at Pearl Harbor.
About 100 of the survivors will attend the ceremony at Pearl Harbor. The ashes of one of the sailors will join the rest of his crewmen who never made it back from December 7, 1941. Approximately 2,390 Americans were killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Memorial events marking the December 7,1941 attack are being held throughout the country, the largest being on the Pacific island of Oahu, Hawaii, where the attack took place.
A dwindling number of Pearl Harbor survivors and World War Two veterans are among the 3,000 attendees expected at the event overlooking the USS Arizona Memorial, where the submerged remains of the fallen battleship rest. A moment of silence will be held at 7:55 in the morning , the exact moment Japan’s Imperial Navy began the surprise attack.
If you know someone who was at Pearl Harbor, run, don’t walk to talk to them and ask them to tell you of their experience. Even if you know someone who was an adult on December 7, 1941, talk to them. Find out what they were doing when they first heard the news. Where were they? What did they think? Did they ever think how much the news would alter their lives and the lives of their family and friends? There is so much I now want to ask my parents and grandparents. Opportunity knocked and I didn’t go to the door. They are no longer living so I can’t ask them.
From what I could gather from my relatives, they really were innocents who had no idea what the impact a world war would have on them, the family, and America. Pearl Harbor Day is much more than the 9-11- like attack on an unprepared nation. Pearl Harbor marks the change of an isolationist, fairly agrarian country into a world super power. The change was almost instant, and we were never to return again to those times before Pearl Harbor.
What memories do you have of your family members telling you about that day? Did you have family members who served? Did they all make it home?
Let’s not forget Pearl Harbor and those who who were wounded or died. Let’s not forget those who altered their lives and threw themselves in to a war movement unequal to anything this country has ever seen before or since. There is a reason that the ‘greatest generation’ got its name.
The Foxies must have zipped down route 7 and visited the Loudoun County Courthouse in Leesburg.
Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee has offended the Foxies for doing what his Republican predecessor did, sending an invitation for a Tree Lighting Ceremony. Lincoln Chafee has defiled Christmas! The nerve!
As the Foxies ring the death knell for Christmas, we are reminded that the Pilgrims actually banned the observation of Christmas and fined anyone decorating 5 shillings. Oooooops. Christmas Day has not always been the biggie that it is today.
Why do people want to fight over this issue? There is no War on Christmas. Seasons Greetings, Xmas, and Happy Holidays have been around since I was a kid at least and probably a lot before that. Let me assure you, ‘since I was a kid’ is a long, long time ago.
In addition to being a religious holiday, Christmas is also an American holiday. Why? Because Americans like it and want it to be an American Holiday. Christmas is both religious and secular. The religious part of Christmas is personal and based on one’s religion. The American part of Christmas depends on customs and local culture. People of all faiths participate in decorations, carolling, parades and above all, the office Christmas parties. Americans invite their friends and neighbors in for holiday cheer or something warm to drink. They don’t check a person’s religion before extending an invitation.
The Foxies need to let up and quit stirring up trouble where none exists. Let’s let Americans and Christians continue with the reason for the season, whatever theirs happens to be.
More than 60 percent of states pay their rank-and-file employees better than Virginia.
And when compared to the average salary among Virginia’s private-sector employees, the outlook for state government worker pay in Virginia is even worse, ranking 48th in the nation.
Those startling statistics come from a recently released report from the state’s Department of Human Resources Management using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The numbers are in stark contrast to this year’s analysis of compensation details for 104,552 state employees by the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which shows the average state salary of roughly $52,553 — nearly identical to the average salary in the state’s private sector.
