Please note: I couldn’t quite find a category for this item, but I feel it is very relevant to EVERYONE’S privacy, but especially the LGBT community due to the abuse potential by law enforcement. “Rogue” cops and prosecutors could use such access to specifically target people on HIV meds, hormone

Saving Ryan White Salt Lake Tribune For years, applications for federal grants for Utah’s Ryan White program crossed the table of the Legislature’s Executive Appropriations Committee without comment or controversy. And no wonder. The program, heavily subsidized by the federal government, saves lives by helping low-income HIV/AIDS patients acquire health

Hundreds protest HIV funding cuts The State But her good luck – and the luck of about 2,000 other South Carolinians living with HIV/AIDS – may not last. The current version of the state budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year, which starts July 1, eliminates all money for the Drug

Palin Fears Media Threaten Her First Amendment Rights ABC News ABC News’ Steven Portnoy reports: In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by “attacks” from reporters who suggest

News Orgs Investigate Possibly Fatal McCain ’64 Car Crash Huffington Post For the past two months, a major American magazine and an allied news service have been engaged in a legal battle with the United States Navy over records that they believe show that John McCain once was involved in

Top Tampa GOP Figure Circulates Joke About Killing Obama Tampa Tribune Al Austin, a longtime, high-level Republican fundraiser from Tampa, today sent to his list of political contacts an e-mail containing a joke that refers to the assassination of Barack Obama. When asked about the e-mail, Austin said it was

I wonder what ever happened to that financial Nostradamus, Kevin Hassett? Oh yeah, now I remember: He currently serves as a senior economic adviser to the McCain 2008 presidential campaign. That explains SO much! Cross-posted from Thoughtcrimes.

U.S. stocks slammed; Dow industrials shed 504 points Marketwatch.com U.S. stocks tanked on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit with its worst point and percentage drop in nearly seven years after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy and insurance giant American International Group Inc. scurried to raise

McCain had criticized earmarks from Palin LA Times For much of his long career in Washington, John McCain has been throwing darts at the special spending system known as earmarking, through which powerful members of Congress can deliver federal cash for pet projects back home with little or no public

A John McCain lackey posted this on the official web site today: It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from