When the Anti-Choice Choose
By Joyce Arthur
Copyright © September, 2000
Abortion is a highly personal decision that many women are sure they’ll never have to think about until they’re suddenly faced with an unexpected pregnancy. But this can happen to anyone, including women who are strongly anti-choice. So what does an anti-choice woman do when she experiences [...]

Dr. Peter Klatsky
One cannot help but wonder whether congressional Republicans actually want to maintain the current rates of abortion, teen pregnancy, unnecessary public spending, or decreased productivity. Their policy on contraception suggests that they do.
House Republicans dogmatically refused to vote for any stimulus program that permitted states to fund contraception for Medicaid eligible citizens and [...]

“There are few viewpoints, if there are any, which trigger more fervent agreement across the political and media establishment than the view that George Bush, Dick Cheney and other top officials should not be criminally investigated, let alone prosecuted, for the various laws they have broken over the last eight years. Conversely, in the Beltway [...]

Ad agency Leo Burnett will pay $15.5 million to settle allegations that it overbilled the U.S. Army for work on its “Army of One” campaign. Huh? How could that happen? They bill by the hour right? There are only so many hours in a day. $15.5 million are a lot of hours! Doesn’t the Army [...]

Neil Weinberg, 03.14.05
The government makes whistleblowers filthy rich for ferreting out fraud on the job.
Douglas Durand is the paragon of a corporate whistleblower. Shortly after stepping in as vice president of sales at TAP Pharmaceutical Products in early 1995, he began to suspect the company was conspiring with doctors to overcharge the federal government’s Medicare [...]

When my dad blew the whistle on an embezzling college president when I was just a baby, he instinctively made several smart moves:

he went to an attorney for advice before blowing the whistle;
he worked with the State Bureau of Investigation to help gather evidence while he still worked at the college;
he took [...]