An insidious oil spill is crawling darkly toward the pristine Gulf Coast beaches and marshlands, unleashed last week when the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig exploded.  Somewhere in the darkness underneath that oil spill, 11 workers from that rig are missing and presumed dead…eerily reminiscent of the 29 West Virginia miners buried in the darkness of earth’s rubble just a few weeks ago in the Upper Big Branch Mine, owned by Massey Energy Co.  The folks that were killed were American heroes – America’s working poor – the vast majority of whom never have the job opportunities provide more

In this age of soaring federal deficits, do you know that preventable accidents cost the Department of Defense $15 BILLION dollars annually? According to Secretary Robert Gates’ policy statement published May 30, 2007, $3 billion/year is lost in direct costs (e.g. medical care of the injured) and $12 billion/year in indirect costs (e.g. lost work time, delays in mission fulfillment, etc). more