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Hundreds of thousands of strikers marched through French cities to demand pay rises and protection for jobs. The streets filled with flag-waving protesters, but the one-day strike failed to paralyze the country and support from private sector workers
When an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at George W. Bush last month at a Baghdad press conference, the attack spawned a flood of Web quips, political satire and street rallies across the Arab world. Now it's inspired a work of art.
A military judge at Guantanamo Bay on Thursday rejected President Barack Obama's request to suspend the trial of a Saudi man accused in the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, the Pentagon said.
If you're a criminal and you're not entitled to be in the US, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you out of the country. Napolitano wants what she calls "criminal aliens" off American streets. She is looking at exist
Gov. Rod Blagojevich was unanimously convicted at his impeachment trial and thrown out of office, ending a 2-month crisis that erupted with his arrest on charges he tried to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. He becomes the first governor in
As Obama has rocketed up the political landscape, he had a front row seat to the real and disastrous effects that drug laws were having in the neighborhoods of Chicago.
We now have the official CameraFRAUD donation site up and running! Our first order of business is to fund a 40' RV. If I wasn't an enemy of the state before I'm sure I am now :)
Goldman Sachs economists said ideally the public sector would step in to remove the hardest-to-value assets, which would alleviate nagging worries about future losses and hopefully help get lending going again.
Denver police launched an internal investigation into a family's claim that four police officers beat a 17-year-old boy for 15 to 20 minutes for no apparent reason, a department spokesman said today.
A Chattanooga detective accused of assaulting an elderly Wal-Mart greeter who asked to see his sales receipt has been suspended from duty.
The death of a 24-year-old Minneapolis man last December after he fought with police and was shot with a Taser has been ruled a homicide caused by cardiorespiratory arrest, according to the Hennepin County medical examiner.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is extremely frustrated with orders that the White House is contemplating. According to sources at the Pentagon, including all branches of the armed forces, the Obama Administration may break with a centuries-old tra
"We knew that the mortgage-brokerage industry was corrupt....But the agents with the expertise had been diverted to counterterrorism." (Oops!)
The Chicago Police Dept. is struggling to explain how a 14-year-old boy walked into Grand Crossing District station impersonating a police officer and was given an assignment in a squad car for 5 hours before anyone realized he was
Although the Soviet- and Nazi-inspired "enhanced interrogation techniques" have been put on the shelf, there is every reason to expect that they will quietly be pulled back down when Barack the Blessed, considers them necessary.
The Supreme Court has unanimously overruled the Ninth Circuit and broadened absolute prosecutorial immunity to include district attorneys whose poor supervision of subordinates may result in wrongful convictions.
Ever wonder how many of President Bush’s terror war detainees were released, only to “return to the fight”? “Their numbers have changed from 20, to 12, to seven, to more than five, to two, to a couple, to a few, 25, 29, 12, and then 24,” quoted Keith
The Air Force has made an appeal for a range of new technologies for its planned new arsenal of aerial rayguns. It wants large artificial optically-correct diamonds for use as portholes to shoot electropulse microwave blaster cannons through.
How many Barney Frank nightmares do we have to endure just because they "Have to be done quickly"? Frank himself is bitching about how Pauslon spent the first $350 billion. Yet time was of such essence he helped ramrod the bailout bill thro
In Wall Street terms, that's throwing good money after bad. All told, the government's annualized rate of return on its investment in the nation's largest banks is -1,096%. That's well beyond Bernie Madoff territory; he topped out at
Defense officials say suicide among U.S. soldiers increased again last year and is at a nearly three-decade high. The Army plans to announce figures today, but senior officials told The AP that at least 128 soldiers killed themselves last year.
Alwadeya's ice cream plant, which had been owned by his family for 55 years, was far from the only factory destroyed in Israel's 22-day assault on the Palestinian enclave. All along Gaza's factory row — which produced everything from bisc
“We believe private capital will readily invest in businesses that make money and grow,” Whitney wrote. “However, the banks do not fit this description.”
Broadcasters and viewers have had February 17, 2009 circled on their calendars for some time. That's the day analog television broadcasts are supposed to become a thing of the past in the US. Earlier this week, the Senate approved a delay of the
In this Lew Rockwell podcast Gerald Celente predicts that commercial real estate will start to crash in about 2 weeks.
"Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone," Obama said. "That there are no second class citizens in our workplaces, and that it's not just unfair and illegal — but bad for business — to pay someone less becau
Aluminum in Vaccines — a Neurological Gamble. This well-documented neurotoxin may be more dangerous than mercury.
Obama's bailout plan, added to the FY 2009 budget deficit he has inherited from Bush, opens a gaping expenditure hole of about $3 trillion. Who is going to purchase $3 trillion of US Treasury bonds?
Benjamin Netanyahu, the favorite to win the upcoming Israeli election, says al Qaeda terrorists will destroy Jesus Christ's burial site.
“Mark-to-market accounting has done a great deal of damage,” Rubin said. “For a lot of financial institutions we should move to something that is more similar to reserve accounting. That will be a very controversial matter.”
