Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.

One reason homosexuals seek to be legally married is so that they can get benefits normally allowed only to married couples. But do they really need all such benefits? A primary reason that employers and governments provide family benefits to married couples is to ensu …

I participated in this PSA spearheaded by "The Dream Team" and "Colord Folk Films" when they presented their first annual AIDS AWARENESS WEEK event at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, on World Aids Day - December 1st, 2011.

Megaupload, the popular file-sharing site, was shuttered Thursday and its executives indicted by the Justice Department in what the authorities said was “among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States.” Seven individuals connected to t …

On January 5th, I posted a fairly lengthy exposition on recess appointments and the recent decision of the Obama administration to ignore the fictitious "session" that the Senate has been forced into by House Republicans overstepping their constitutional role.  Nine days ha …

Back in Week 3 of the NFL season, as the bookbag-shuffling and laptop-closing cacophony began to drown out the last few minutes of a late Friday afternoon class and the students near the front (successfully) conspired to shut me up with ordinary water-cooler talk, they asked me  …

Republican presidential candidates seeking Tim Tebow’s endorsement are out of luck, at least for now. The Denver Broncos quarterback, who’s an outspoken conservative Christian, is hesitant to officially endorse anyone,

OK, time for venting: I don't know if the Greenhouse is still broken (it looks that way since it is still stuck at "10" pages), but for some reason, spam articles are finding their way into the Newsvine Columnist area of the main page.

Your opinions and facts aren’t addressed at all, oh no. You’re called a hideous retarded man-hating bitchy @!$%# who can’t understand politics because you’re a chick with a vagina, and you need to have a hysterectomy/get raped/kill yourself.

To avoid suspensions, say 5 "Our Tyler"s and avoid CoH violations   Our Tyler, who art in Seattle Hallowed be thy moderating Thy e-mails come Thy violataions, none On Seeds as it is in articles Warn us this day of our violations As we warn those who violate against us And le …

OK, here's the the story.  Years back I use to be in the old MSN message boards.

Using a silicon solar cell coated with cheap and abundant catalysts, the device uses sunlight to rip apart molecules of water, just like a photosynthesizing leaf. This produces hydrogen and oxygen gases, which bubble up on either side of the wafer

A couple of months ago, another Newsvine member posted a story out of Pakistan about a young boy named Ahsan, whose father was slaughtered in an attack on a passenger bus. Of the 45 passengers on board, 26 people were taken off the bus and gunned down.

 Why is it that almost all the Haitian people are so happy? The fact that over 70% of the country is in a state of high poverty? No, that can't be it. It isn't the fact that over 65% starve everyday.

One of our goals for Gmail's new look was to make Gmail feel more like a native application with independently scrolling panels rather than a website that scrolls as a single page.

There is something I wanted to talk to you about. Some people on Newsvine have coined a new term, "fleabagger" for OWS protesters. Apparently it was thought up by the term "teabagger" which is used to describe Tea Partiers. The big difference is this.

"Certain journalists use “dominionist” the way some folks on Fox News use the word “sharia.” Its strangeness scares people.