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Even as it pulls back sharply debated aspects of George W. Bush’s “war on terrorism,” the Obama administration is quietly signaling continued support for other major elements of its predecessor’s approach to fighting Al Qaeda.
A friend said the digital TV convert boxes that our coming out have microphones and cameras built into them. Knowing a bit about electronics I bought one of these devices opened it up fully intending on proving him wrong. To my surprise was right.
"No More Pork!" (Now the Republicans get principled???) But then the people had their say too.
You would think that by now, that our promoters of the sky is falling school of global warming debate would have learned to keep their heads down and to pack their enthusiasm with a surfeit of weasel words. As my readers know, the twenty year warm
One minute video. Report and analysis by Peter Cook of Bloomberg News (Morning Call)
He sold more than half of his 52 million shares of Johnson & Johnson and he sold it at a 20-year low relative to its yield. That doesn't sound like "Buy America." That sounds like "Sell America."
A father allegedly shot his 9-year-old son in the buttocks with a BB gun, a revelation that came to light after the boy wrote a school essay about the incident: The "painful afternoon my Dad shot me with a BB gun." The teacher turned the es
When the letters and e-mails started to pour in, Dr. Paul Offit braced himself. The pediatrician and vaccine inventor is a prominent defender of childhood vaccines, tackling those who have argued that immunizations can cause autism.
Facebook is backing off a change in its user policy that included permanent ownership of your image and personal information after massive protests.
The six Gulf Cooperation Council states should form a joint currency as soon as possible, the chairman of Singapore-based Rogers Holdings said at a conference in Dubai Monday.
Construction of new homes and applications for future projects both plunged to record lows in January as all parts of the country showed big declines in building activity.
This figure implies an increase of the Fed's leverage from 22 to 50. As we have seen there are large new positions of dubious quality on the Federal Reserve balance sheet. More specifically, should only 2% of the Fed's assets go into default.
This is not the first time in history that banks are keeling over, and won't be the last time, especially if we have a Fed attempting to micromanage the economy. Sure, it's going to be painful, but it's only going to be painful ONCE.
It is clearly Ireland that is now in the eye of the storm as Dublin struggles to prevent the budget deficit spiralling up to 12pc or even 13pc of GDP as the economy contracts. Fears are mounting that Ireland may not be able to cover the massive liabi
Preliminary same-home resale data from Arizona State University show the Valley's median home price fell to $130,000 in January, equivalent to the median price in January 2001.
Eric deCarbonnel has done us a favor and assembled in a rough and ready manner, the apparent numbers developing in the global agricultural scene. He is an alarmist here but one gets the inescapable sense that it will be very difficult to cover short
I have a friend who is kind of a conspiracy theorist. He was trying to convince me that the many of the digital TV convert boxes that our coming out have microphones and cameras built into them. Knowing a bit about electronics I bought one of these d
We now live in a country where the Government can have you locked away,even if you have never committed a crime. Right now this is happening to thousands of people.Right here in the USA.
The sell-off came despite the signing of the $787 billion stimulus package by President Obama and as auto executives faced a deadline to submit restructuring plans to the federal government after receiving billions in bailout money.
Worries about the deteriorating financial situation in countries like Romania and Hungary led to a huge sell-off that began overseas and crashed ashore on Wall Street. Every sector sank, with financial stocks leading the way and energy companies fall
Asian stocks dropped for a third day, driving Japan’s Topix index toward the lowest close in 25 years, as the deepening global recession hurts corporate earnings and demand for commodities.
The majority Han who he says will get no respite from Tibetan frustration this year — or for generations. "After I die," the 53-year-old grizzled herder says, "my sons and grandsons will remember. They will hate the government."
A federal judge refused to throw out charges against 5 mercenaries accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in a busy Baghdad square in 2007. The guards' attorneys had argued the government didn't have jurisdiction to bring the charges
The boss was not happy. His elite team of immigration officers had been raiding targets across Prince George's and Montgomery counties all night long in search of fugitive and criminal aliens but had netted only a handful. They were well behind
In his first troop deployment to a war zone as commander in chief, President Barack Obama authorized sending as many as 17,500 additional troops to Afghanistan beginning this spring, a move that appears to mark the formal U.S. troop shift from Iraq t
Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday the current global recession will "surely be the longest and deepest" since the 1930s and more government rescue funds are needed to stabilize the U.S. financial system.
In Texas, Robert Allen Stanford was just another wealthy financier. But in the breezy money haven of Antigua, he was lord of an influential financial fief, decorated with a knighthood, courted by government officials and basking in the spotlight of s
With a recent flurry of winter storms doing little to dampen California's latest drought, the nation's biggest public utility voted to impose water rationing in Los Angeles for the first time in nearly two decades. [When gov't. controls a
Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage inside Iran to try to delay Tehran's alleged attempts to develop a nuclear weapon. Israel planned to target Iranian nuclear scientists with letter bombs and poisoned packages and had set off explosio
GM said it could need up to $30 billion from the Treasury Department, up from a previous estimate of $18 billion. That includes $13.4 billion previously allocated and $91. billion in new loans. The world's largest automaker said it could run out
