WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the senior Democrat on the Education and the Workforce Committee, introduced The Keeping All Students Safe Act, bipartisan legislation to prevent schoolchildren from being abused as a result of inappropriate uses of restraint and seclusion, often involving untrained staff.

Washington, D.C. (March 30, 2011) — The American Federation for Children (AFC) today praised the US House of Representatives for passing the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) Act, legislation that will restore and expand the highly successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP).

Captain Eric H. May – HOUSTON, 3/27/11 — For the second time in the last four years, the training scenario of an in-progress, high-level U.S. disaster drill has actually occurred in Myanmar, the Indochina rice bowl that has irked international investors with its anti-globalist economic policies.

HOUSTON, 3/23/11 — The Iconoclast spent the weekend trying to contact officials from an unprecedented and under-reported military exercise. So far they have ignored our interview request, which we accordingly republish:

Once again, the professional war-makers are taking you to the cleaners. So far, according to Fox News, Obama’s little excursion into Libya has cost you millions. Fox cites a Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments analysis estimating that the Libyan no-fly zone may cost $100 million to $300 million per week.

President Obama has reversed course on his administration’s policy of limiting criticism of Iran’s human rights abuses, speaking out Sunday in support of imprisoned dissidents seeking democracy in the Islamic republic.

In Yemen, top military commanders defect from Saleh regime
1:21 pm ET – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s half-brother defected today, deploying troops to protect demonstrators. Friday’s unprecedented violence led eight diplomats to resign.

The power to operate cooling pumps, a challenge at the heart of the Japan nuclear crisis, is on the verge of being restored, and a detailed assessment by a US expert is notably upbeat.

The former Communities Secretary said voters were alarmed by Labour’s refusal to state more clearly how it would cut public spending.

More than 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles struck over 20 targets inside Libya today in the opening phase of an international military operation the Pentagon said was aimed at stopping attacks led by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and enforcing a U.N.-backed no-fly zone.

DOJ will only investigate bullying cases if the victim is considered protected under the 1964 Civil Rights legislation