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• H1N1 Update....should you or your family members get vaccinated?

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | October 13, 2009 3:12 PM | 8 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­H1N1 Update… should you or your family members get vaccinated? 76 children in this...

• Tasered Man Bursts Into Flames in Sydney; Cops Yell, Hooray for Our Side!

  Steve Lombardi | July 22, 2009 9:09 AM | 8 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Here is the May 4, 1970 when students died at Kent State University protesting the War in Vietnam, which supposedly was never a “war”. So now I have to ask myself, have the...

• Child Safety: How many seconds can you leave your infant in a hot car?

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 19, 2009 9:32 AM | 8 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  ANSWER: ZERO SECONDS Summer Safety: Children and babies left in cars leads to death “I’m just running in for a couple of minutes……I just need to pick something...

• Last Titanic Survivor Dies, Lessons to Learn from the Marquis Cooper Tragedy

  Steve Lombardi | June 04, 2009 11:36 AM | 8 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The seminal event for water safety has to be the sinking of the Titanic. On April 14, 1912 the HMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank taking with it 1,516 passengers and crew members. One of the 706...

• Child Safety: Six year old with $7.5 m toe sues Crocs, Inc.

  Steve Lombardi | December 13, 2008 10:27 AM | 8 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Being six-year old is tough enough, but when your parents make you wear ugly plastic shoes like Crocs, life can get pretty tough. A young Baltimore boy was apparently injured while riding the...

• What is federal preemption and why should I take the time to care?

  Steve Lombardi | October 01, 2008 10:30 AM | 8 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  I grew up as a small boy in New England whose father died of lung cancer. He was twelve when he started to smoke and I was thirteen when he passed away. His wife, my mother was just thirty-seven and...

• Taser News that Shocks the Conscience

  Steve Lombardi | September 30, 2009 2:23 PM | 7 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Why are there so many lawsuits? Why are there so many injuries? A legless unarmed man suspected of domestic abuse and charged with resisting arrest was Tasered by the City of Merced. After...

• Victoria's Secret lawsuit is not so bad. If you doubt it just ask its CEO.

  Steve Lombardi | June 25, 2008 11:47 AM | 7 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Does the Thong law suit demonstrate a weakness in the civil jury system or something wrong with this young lawyer's mentoring?

• The Bush Legacy Paraded in Wyoming: An Intolerant Police State, a new low for America.

  Steve Lombardi | September 07, 2009 10:08 AM | 6 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Does bad judgment or rude behavior by any citizen justify the use of force of an electric shock by the police in America? Here we go again, another officer with poor or nonexistent...

• Iowa Mixed-Martial Arts Fighter Paralyzed in Fight – Tort Reform put the bills in your mailbox.

  Steve Lombardi | June 16, 2009 2:03 PM | 6 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The MMA slogan is “Ready, Connect, Fight” and so they did. Zack Kirk landed a fight for May 23, 2009. He connected, fought for a bit and then fought his way into a broken neck. ...