Author: Justin Lane

Many Diabetes Drugs Under FDA Review, Linked to Cancer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing new, unpublished reports made by academic researchers that indicate patients taking certain drugs to treat Type-2 diabetes possess an increased risk of acute pancreatitis resulting in pancreatic cancer, according to an FDA press release, released on March 13. …Read more. Progressives Boycott Facebook in Retaliation to Zuckerburg’s Political Agenda Over the next few weeks, Progressive ads will be scarce on Facebook. Outraged Progressive coalitions have “unfriended” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg in protest to his recent support of the expansion of the Keystone...

The Freedom of the Press Foundation is running a fundraiser to pay for a court stenographer to be present at the trial of Bradley Manning. The organization is responding to the frustration caused by the authoritarian, and in some ways archaic, rules governing the whistleblower’s military trial. Controversy has surrounded Manning’s proceedings, and the rules governing the transcripts from Manning’s trial are no different. The judge presiding over the case will make some of the transcripts available though many have reservations as to how complete the transcripts will be. Manning was charged with, among other things, aiding the enemy,...

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight’s stories serve as an unfortunate launchpad for far-right drivel that the kidnappings could have been inspired by a T.V. show. Rush Limbaugh, the poet laureate of rambling, right-wing idiocy, suspects that the kidnapping of the three Cleveland women drew interesting allusions to an episode of Hawaii Five-0 particularly concerning the tax and welfare benefits that are “available” to kidnappers. Although Limbaugh, the popular purveyor of pundit pestilence, admitted he had no idea what actually happened in Cleveland, he was not slowed in the least by his lack of knowledge. “I wanna talk...

In the most recent development in the ongoing saga of the now-defunct Prenda law firm, the presiding US District Court Judge, Otis Wright, issued an order that the “shattered” firm’s future is bleak. The Court held that John Steele, Paul Hansmeier, and Paul Duffy, the principals of Prenda, sought easy money by conspiring to engage in bullying practices and accusing individuals of infringing the copyright of pronographic material. Prenda would then hustle a settlement marginally below the cost of a minimal defense. The Court effectively claimed that the attorneys played the legal system and found a sweet spot where...

For better or worse, 3D-printing of firearms is coming. Whether or not the public is sufficiently educated to cope with the technology’s advent, it is here and it will change things. And the technology is a good thing. Its ubiquity will present the public with many opportunities and challenges, not the least of which is the threat of untraceable, easily-produced firearms. This past week, the first firearm made fully from 3D-printed materials successfully fired a .380 round without visibly damaging the weapon. Forbes reported the story. Ushering in a new age of security woes, the non-profit Defense Distributed has...