Dennis Kucinich: With your support, your phone calls, your emails, we won a major legislative victory today for a state single payer health care option in the House of Representatives in Washington, DC. The House Education and Labor Committee approved the Kucinich Amendment by a vote of 27-19, with 14 Democrats and 13 Republicans voting yes.

In a not very widely reported story, Amazon recently acknowledged remotely deleting books on customers Kindle e-book readers. Tom's Guidesaid it best: "In what is glaring irony, George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm were the two books that the publisher decided it no longer wanted Kindle owners to have access to."

I'm not an economist or accountant. I'm a molecular physicist. As such, I do a sort of accounting as well: I do thermodynamics, which is basically the subject of how energy moves around. So, you'd think the accounting is pretty easy, what goes in stays in or comes out. But is it always that simple? And what does this all have to do with health care? Well, the thing about thermodynamics is that while the basic rules are quite simple, it's not actually that simple to figure out what's going on in a particular situation.

I began my career as a food safety attorney because Lauren Beth Rudolph died on December 28, 1992 in her mother's arms, due to complications of an E. coli O157:H7 infection - Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. She was only 6 years, 10 months, and 10 days old when she died.

I had been mulling over the matter of when wars start and end when I heard the news today of the death of the world's oldest man, Henry Allingham at 113. He was a veteran of "The Great War" and one of three surviving British veterans.

Back in 1993, I was 21 years old and worked as a clerk in a 7-11 convenience store. One evening, while working the swing shift, I was robbed at gunpoint. When you advocate for handgun bans and gun control, I just shake my head. Obviously, you've never had to deal with a stranger threatening to take your life or the life of your family.

The economic news this week added further evidence to the story that the economy is bottoming. While we are not out of the woods yet (by a long shot) the worst is behind us.

Now that the SEC has issued its proposed proxy access rules and asked for comments by August 17, a critical issue for public companies is what do to in response to this SEC initiative and when. In this Proxy Access Analysis, we provide suggestions for how general counsel and corporate secretaries may begin to educate their management and boards on the issues presented by the proposed rules, evaluate the alternatives for commenting on the proposed rules and plan a course of action for their companies if proxy access is adopted for the 2010 proxy season.

Google's announcement of their Chrome OS project has triggered a good deal of speculation about Google's objectives, and about what the final product might be like. The Technology Review, published by MIT, has an article by Erica Naone, which discusses how some characteristics of Google's Chrome browser might have implications for the OS project.

Without question, the first six months of 2009 have been a period of sharply increased enforcement activity at the Securities and Exchange Commission. The financial crisis, the new administration, new SEC leadership, increased funding and the focus of Congress and the media have all combined to encourage heightened government scrutiny.

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