Pregnant Soldier Found Dead

It is a sad day for many in the US army today.  A body of a seven month pregnant woman by the name of Spc. Megan Lynn Touma, 23, was found in a motel bathroom tub.  The police have said that the death looked suspicious but an toxicology result is pending currently.  Read more about this developing story here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/27/national/main4214974.shtml

Lawmaker Vows To Rip Apart Rape Victims

Fighting ‘Jessica’s Law’ in Massachusett a lawmaker made some chilling statements about what would happen should a mandatory 15 years be placed in his state.  Listen to them here from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/06/27/todd.child.rape.rant.cnn

Millionaire Imprisoned

Justice was done today as Varsha Sabhnani was sentenced to eleven years in prison for enslaving and abusing her maids inside her New York mansion.  One of the workers said they were forced to eat vomit at one point.  Sabhnani’s husband has yet to be sentenced for his play in this situation but I’m sure things will play out equally for him.  Read more about this here: http://news.aol.com/story/_a/prison-for-woman-who-enslaved-maids/20080627090109990001?icid=200100125×1204911466x1200206490

12 Year Old Vermont Girl Disappears

12 year old Brooke Bennett has been missing for some time now.  She was dropped off to meet a friend at a store at 9:00 am but hasn’t been seen since then.  The two friend were supposed to go to visit a patient at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.  Vermont state police say that they are doing everything in their powers to search for Brooke and have scheduled a conference at a near by school.  Read more on this developing story here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,372224,00.html

Obama Gets A Huge Endorsement

The largest labor organization, the AFL-CIO, has announced its endorsement of Barack Obama.  They have begun to mobilize one of the largest grassroot campaigns in recent history.  Their president claims that in several key places America is headed in the wrong direction probably most importantly the war in Iraq.  Read more about this from CNN: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Imus Under Heat Again

The radio host this time states that his comments about the color of the Dallas Cowboys’ defensive back Adam Pacman was taken out of context and that he didn’t mean anything by asking what color Adam was.  That question followed after learning that Pacman had been arrested a second time.  Read more about this here: http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow/imus-i-was-taken-out-of-context/

No Evidence of Pact To Become Pregnant

According to a New England city mayor there has been no evidence that girls in her city, particularly in one high school, made a blood-oath to raise their babies together.  The reason this is a big deal is because there has been a boom in the amount of teenage pregnancies in this particular city as of late.  Read more about this here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,370207,00.html

Job Losses Ahead

With rising energy costs and less and less consumer dollars many companies have come to the decision to cut labor.  This summer unemployment is poised to become a bigger problem than it has been in this downward economy (some would say recession).  Read more about this pressing issue here from CNBC: http://www.cnbc.com/id/25330251

George Carlin Dies

Classic comedian George Carlin died Sunday do to heart failure.  He became famous for his now infamous Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television and several HBO specials.  Carlin died at age 71.  He will be greatly missed by many.  Read more about this and Carlin here: http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/06/62841/index.html 

Barack Obama The Money Man

Deciding to forego public financing for his presidential campaign could be the greatest move of his already sccessful campaign.  This will give Barack Obama between $300-500 million for the final two months of the campaign.  This also sets him as the first major party canidate in 30 years to have the spending edge in the general elections.  Read more here: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5207140&page=1

Child Prostitution

The numbers of child prostitutes are on the rise.  PBS Now took a look in on how Atlanta, Georgia and their mayor are working to fight this growing epidemic.  Here is the site where you can read more on this pressing issue, get information on how you can help, and watch the video documentary: http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/422/index.html.  Here are also two more sites that can help you fight child prostitution: http://www.mingagroup.org/index.shtml and http://www.childrenofthenight.org/. 

Republican Veeps

Aol News has a fun little republican veepstake game we thought you might enjoy playing.  Play it here: http://news.aol.com/elections/veepstakes-republicans?icid=200100125×1204296668x1200190137

More 18-30 Year Old Men Using Viagra

It seems today’s empowered women are leading to an increasing amount of performance anxiety among young males.  They say that it is harder living up to womens fantasies with things such as male models, internet , porn and more satifying sex toys.  Many young women concur that women are being more vocal about what they want and how they like it and whether or not guys are living up to it.  Read more on this from CBS News: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/18/earlyshow/health/main4189218.shtml

Michelle Obama Lightens Up

On ABC’s View Michelle Obama showed a different side of herself-a softer side of herself.  Michelle was cracking jokes with her co-hosts and really helping to push herself to help her husband win over some women voters and both he and McCain are trying to do.  She even joked by dapping fists with the girls as her entrance as she did the night Obama won the nomination.

Hopefully this will aid in Obama’s campaign and fight the republicans views of her as being unpatriotic and an angry women.  Read more on this from ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5193627&page=1.

New Trio of Planets Found

Proving yet again that the Universe is very vast, a trio of super Earths as they’re being called have been discovered by Swiss scientists in the UK at an observatory.  Read more about this fascinating discovery here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/06/17/super.earths.ap/index.html.