The women's soccer coach at Belmont University has resigned under pressure from school officials after revealing that her partner was pregnant -- a life event that would presumably not only be accepted, but celebrated, if she was heterosexual.

Reports The Advocate:

If there's anyone who knows a thing or two about leaking classified government documents, it's Daniel Ellsberg, the man responsible for the 1971 leak of the Pentagon Papers (once the largest cache of secret U.S. documents ever leaked). So it's fitting that Ellsberg, of all people, has called for consumers to boycott the online retailer Amazon.com after the company removed WikiLeaks from its servers this week.

  To a certain extent, it may seem as if the need for filibuster reform is less urgent now, given the results of the midterm elections. Whether the Democratic Senate majority is capable of holding up-or-down votes or not is almost irrelevant given the fact that the House will have arguably the most conservative majority in modern times.

As debate rages in Washington over the Bush tax cuts, set to expire at the end of this year, the Bush administration officials who initiated the steep tax cuts

I know states have to make difficult spending decisions, especially when tax increases are deemed worse than death, but Arizona's cuts affecting transplant patients are just heartbreaking.

Even physicians with decades of experience telling patients that their lives are nearing an end are having difficulty discussing a potentially fatal condition that has arisen in Arizona: Death by budget cut.

The controversial Wikileaks founder popped up this morning for an online chat with readers of The Guardian.

Here's a taste -- the first question:

Amid calls in the US Congress to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a group of senators on Thursday unveiled a bill to make it easier to target the self-described whistleblowing website.
The legislation, crafted by Republican Senators John Ensign and Scott Brown as well as Independent Senator Joe Lieberman, would make it illegal to publish the names of informants serving the US military and intelligence community.

It was not immediately clear whether the new rule would also apply to traditional US media.

Non-farm payroll employment in November came in far lower than expected, according to today's job report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The expert consensus of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg had estimated that 168,000 total jobs were added last month. But the seasonally adjusted BLS report put that number at 39,000. The private sector added 50,000 jobs, also well below expectations of 160,000.

In a major victory for women's health, pharmaciesare now stocking "ella" an emergency contraceptive that goes beyond being a morning-after pill; it  can be effective in preventing pregnancies for five days after unprotected sex or some sort of contraceptive malfunction . 

It's been revealed that JP Morgan Chase suspected Bernie Madoff's investments were "too good to be true" in the two months leading up to the Ponzi schemer's arrest, during which time the bank kept doing business with him anyway.