The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently issued final voluntary guidelines for the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders in the nursing home industry, reinforcing the administration’s unwillingness to seriously address injuries caused by repetitive motion -- the most pressing health and safety issue confronting the workplace today.

New Mexico's House of Representatives this month passed a resolution critical of the federal government's strategies for fighting terrorism, strongly suggesting that the federal government's efforts to make Americans safer unnecessarily infringes on civil liberties and that federal secrecy impedes the state's ability to assess "the effect of federal antiterrorism efforts on" the public.

Over the past few weeks several 501(c)(3) organizations in the midwest have been notified by the IRS that they will be audited in what appears to be selective targeting of charities that elect to use the expenditure test to measure their allowable lobbying budgets. While no written verification is yet available, three leading advocates of charity lobbying – the Alliance for Justice, Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest and OMB Watch – have written IRS Tax Exempt and Government Entities Director Evelyn Petschek “to express our grave concern and dismay.”

A recent declassification of documents indicates that the Government lied in a landmark secrecy case. Over 250 pages of declassified documents relating to a 1948 Air Force plane crash have revealed that the accident resulted from poor maintenance and training rather than some other cause that had to be kept secret for national security purposes as the government has claimed. Relatives of several of the men killed in the plane crash filed a lawsuit trying to get information about the crash immediately afterward. The case (United States v.