National CPS News Archive

CannaBus To Travel From California To Montana To Support Chris Williams

A courageous cannabis caregiver from Montana will have a busload of allies standing behind him as he learns his fate for providing medical marijuana for terminally ill and disabled patients.

Chris Williams faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years to life in prison when he goes before U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen on February 1st. His case is among a handful that have been heard by a Jury, after hundreds of federal raids on state-legal medical marijuana operations across the country. Since President Obama took office in 2008, more than 70 federal indictments have been been issued against otherwise law-abiding patients and caregivers.

westcoast101.com

January 28, 2013

Study: Thigh is safer vaccination site than arm for toddlers

by Robert Preidt

Giving the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTaP) vaccine in the thigh rather than the arm reduces a toddler's risk of an injection-site reaction that requires medical attention, according to a new study.

Researchers looked at data from 1.4 million young children, aged 12 months to 35 months, in the United States and found that those who received a DTaP vaccine injection in their thigh muscle were half as likely to be brought to a doctor, nurse or emergency room for treatment of an injection-site reaction than those who received the shot in their arm.

pnj.com

January 19, 2013

Baucus introduces bill to examine causes, prevention of child abuse deaths

Montana's senior senator has introduced legislation to help understand why there are so many reports of child deaths due to abuse and how to better prevent those deaths.

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., introduced the "Protect Our Kids Act" late last week with bipartisan support from colleagues like Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, to create a national task force to study and evaluate federal, state and private child welfare systems and provide policy recommendations to prevent child maltreatment and more specifically, death from maltreatment.

greatfallstribune.com

January 7, 2013

Chiropractor brings services to Dominican Republic

by Lee Enterprises

A passion for travel and an instinct to help has driven Dr. Lona Cook to Haiti and the Dominican Republic for the second straight year.

Cook is a chiropractor. "A lot of times, people want to know: "Well, as chiropractors, what can you do?" Cook doesn't leave them unimpressed. On her second mission trip to Costa Rica, Cook met a wheelchair-bound man who, after one adjustment, came back the next day with a walker.

chippewa.com

December 28, 2012

Families turn to homeschooling after Newtown, Connecticut shootings

by Charisse Van Horn

Homeschooling support groups nationwide are reporting an increase in families seeking information regarding homeschool options following the Newtown, Connecticut shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school.

A Dec. 20, 2012, report from Fox 5 San Diego stated that an online school in California received an influx of inquiries following the tragic Connecticut shooting. Other media outlets nationwide have reported similar occurrences. As more families look towards homeschooling following the deadly massacre, it must be pointed out that homeschooling should never be a knee-jerk reaction in response to fear.

examiner.com

December 23, 2012

Is Genetically Modified Food Killing Us?

by Alex Daley

Alex Daley discusses genetically modified foods, specifically those using RNAi, and how the prospects may affect Australian wheat production and human consumption.

Last month, a group of Australian scientists published a warning to the citizens of the country, and of the world, who collectively gobble up some $34 billion annually of its agricultural exports. The warning concerned the safety of a new type of wheat. As Australia's number-one export, a $6-billion annual industry, and the most-consumed grain locally, wheat is of the utmost importance to the country. A serious safety risk from wheat - a mad wheat disease of sorts - would have disastrous effects for the country and for its customers. Which is why the alarm bells are being rung over a new variety of wheat being ushered toward production by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) of Australia. In a sense, the crop is little different than the wide variety of modern genetically modified foods. A sequence of the plant's genes has been turned off to change the wheat's natural behavior a bit, to make it more commercially viable (hardier, higher yielding, slower decaying, etc. ).

dailyreckoning.com

December 19, 2012

'Frankenstein foods' a good thing? It's all great GM lies

by Joanna Blythman

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson rounded on critics of GM technology as 'humbugs' last week, and insisted GM food should be grown and sold widely in Britain.

During the course of his ringing endorsement, he managed to spark outrage and alarm by claiming 'there isn't a single piece of meat being served [in a typical London restaurant] where a bullock hasn't eaten some GM feed'. His belligerent intent was quite clear. The message he wanted to get across was that GM crops are already here and in the food chain, there's nothing to fear - and nothing we can do about it.

dailymail.co.uk

December 17, 2012

Teen Mom 3's Katie Yeager to Homeschool Daughter in Wake of School Shooting

The tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School has shaken the entire country, and as you might expect MTV's Teen Moms are more than a little upset.

In fact, Teen Mom 3 Katie Yeager has been so affected by the news that she's decided to homeschool her daughter, Molli. "One of the many reasons why Molli will be home-schooled. Who shoots kids? Why do we live in a world like this?," Katie tweeted on December 14, adding, "Makes me sick to my stomach. Whatever happened to schools being a safe place for children to learn."

wetpaint.com

December 17, 2012

Homeschoolers help torpedo disability rights treaty in Senate

by Joshua Keating

International observers may be a little confused about why the U.S. Senate just rejected a treaty that has been ratified by 125 countries and is substantially based on U.S. law.

They also might be forgiven for wondering what, exactly, this has to do with homechooling. In addition to groups like the Heritage Foundation the law could lead to abortion being mandated for disabled children, the politically powerful, but usually under-the-radar U.S. homeschooling movement has been one of the most pivotal lobbies working against U.S. Senate ratification of the treaty.

blog.foreignpolicy.com

December 4, 2012

Homeschooling: freedom's last stand

by Patrick B. Craine

"This new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing." Thus Hitler famously declared in 1937 as he ordered the nation's children into government schools.

A law that is still enforced to this very day. The Nazi tyrant knew, as all dictators do, that the home, left to its own devices, is a far worse threat to state ideology than any foreign power. We are fortunate in North America today that the home remains more or less free. However, homeschoolers even in my own province of Nova Scotia are currently arguing that the province risks becoming the "worst place" in Canada for home-based education if the government adopts a new report by the Auditor General calling for increased oversight of their activities.

lifesitenews.com

December 1, 2012

Homeschooling works

by Patrick Teh

I THINK children are capable of grasping the concept of self-discipline and independent learning, if guided to do so. I spent over one-and-a-half decades homeschooling my two children, starting from the early 90s.

Throughout this long and challenging journey of tutoring and nurturing them to become well-behaved individuals, they not only impressed me with their good character but also their outstanding academic performance.

thestar.com.my

November 25, 2012

Tips for an Organic, Least-Toxic Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving offers an opportunity for family and friends to eat, drink and be thankful for the bounty of the organic harvest. Unfortunately, there are a host of pesticides, genetically engineered materials, and others in conventional Thanksgiving foods.

There are a number of Thanksgiving products that probably contain genetically-engineered ingredients. According to GMO Inside, some common GE foods used during Thanksgiving include: Campbell's Tomato Soup, Wesson Canola Oil, Bruce's Yams, Hershey Milk Chocolate, Pepperidge Farm Crackers, Kraft Classic Ranch Dressing, Rice-a-Roni chicken flavored rice, Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce, and Kraft's Stove Top Stuffing.

enewspf.com

November 21, 2012

How to Talk to Little Girls

by Lisa Bloom

I went to a dinner party at a friend's home last weekend, and met her five-year-old daughter for the first time. Little Maya was all curly brown hair, doe-like dark eyes, and adorable in her shiny pink nightgown.

Teaching girls that their appearance is the first thing you notice tells them that looks are more important than anything. It sets them up for dieting at age 5 and foundation at age 11 and boob jobs at 17 and Botox at 23. As our cultural imperative for girls to be hot 24/7 has become the new normal, American women have become increasingly unhappy. What's missing? A life of meaning, a life of ideas and reading books and being valued for our thoughts and accomplishments.

huffingtonpost.com

November 20, 2012