WASHINGTON, D.C. June 13 (DPI) — With rare unanimity readers on comment boards across the net applauded the US Supreme Court’s decision to deny patent protection to companies that have identified human genetic material. Some readers expressed surprise that the matter even reached the Supreme Court. Reinforcing that view, the court ruled 9-0 that human [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. June 10 (DPI) — Boards are flooded today with comments on the Booz Allen security leak, which predictably spurred a debate over government surveillance vs. personal privacy. Readers are grappling with this: Is 29-year-old Edward Snowden a hero or a traitor for leaking classified national security material, information that largely confirms that the [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. June 4 (DPI) — In one of the healthier political developments of this ultra-partisan era, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia voted with a minority that included Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the issue of law enforcement’s collection of DNA samples from crime suspects. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 upholding the right of law-enforcement officials [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 31 (DPI) — Just days after President Obama announced new restrictions on drone strikes as part of a draw-down on the war on terror, a drone strike killed a high-ranking Taliban commander in Pakistan.  And readers – even those on the site of the liberal NYTimes.com — were overwhelmingly hawkish in their [...]