FOR a nation seeking unity, a recipe has swept the Internet that seems to unite conservatives and liberals, gun owners and foodies, carnivores and ... well, not vegetarians and health fanatics. This recipe is the Bacon Explosion
A senior U.S. official says the State Department will not renew Blackwater Worldwide's contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq when it expires in May.
Monitoring earthquakes underneath the 10,200-foot Redoubt Volcano about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, scientists from the Alaska Volcano Observatory warned that an eruption was imminent.
Admiral Mullen, the most senior military officer, said the US will deploy close to 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to shore up deteriorating security there. He is hopeful other NATO nations will contribute additional military and civilian res
In the most dramatic moment of this year's Davos conference, Recep Tayyip Erdogan walked off a panel discussion including Shimon Peres after a moderator cut off his reply to a long and impassioned monologue by the Israeli President [on Gaza].
Pawns of the Global Elite, Barack Obama was groomed for the presidency by key members of the Trilateral Commission. Most notably, it was Zbigniew Brzezinski, co-founder of the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller in 1973, who was Obama’s prin
This describes the enabling machine for terraforming the Earth in General and all arid lands and deserts in particular. Its cost profile is now trending downward because of recent laboratory discoveries in solid state refrigeration and the advent of
Survivalists have a long history in the US. But what used to be the preserve of anti-establishment loners, cultists and gun nuts has gone mainstream. Firearms, gold pieces, and long-storage food are reportedly flying off the shelves, and the Internet
The "dirty secret" behind a lot of these "assets" is that they are literal zeros. A lot of the debt issued in the last few years was in fact fully synthetic - that is, it was not backed by an actual mortgage or other actual debt
Attorneys for US citizen Jose Padilla -- who was convicted of material support for terrorist activities -- say high-level Bush Admin. officials knew their client was being tortured during the time he was held an enemy combatant in a S. Carolina
The Justice Department says it foiled a plot by a fired Fannie Mae contract worker in Maryland to destroy all the data on the mortgage giant's 4,000 computer servers nationwide. [Hopefully he will go to work for the IRS.]
Is your Internet provider interfering with your network traffic, and perhaps even running afoul of Net neutrality principles? Google and some like-minded folks believe they've come up with what amounts to an early warning system.
David Rockefeller and Co., as usual, protect themselves but leave everyone else hanging out to dry. A close examination of the bank's activities shows that it had hitched itself to Madoff's future returns as early as 2006 but the bank sudden
The New Orleans Police Department is warning residents not to panic if they see helicopters flying around the city after dark.
The department will be hosting military training in and around the city between Jan. 27 and Feb. 8.
The training inc
Iran’s enthusiasm for nuclear weapons and rockets is not the type of good news any of us want to read about. We used to dream that such weapons could be kept out of the hands of apparent sociopaths and that it would be possible to keep us all safe.
Right now, the folks who should have known better, or were simply too intimidated to speak their minds are now standing up and kicking this dead horse to death.
In the summer of 2007, we were on the road to an ice free summer Arctic by 2012. Three m
But we notice in this article that Rep. Rangel and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner don't have to worry about IRS fines, penalties and interest because the rules are for you and me. Not for them.
"One thing that you can depend on, you don't have be worried about what the middle class is going to do. Things are so bad. They have to put food on the table, get clothes for their kids, put them in school..." -Rep. Charles Rangel (D,
The White House defended Treasury Secretary Geithner's choice of Mark Patterson - an ex-lobbyist from Goldman Sachs - to be his chief of staff. The selection is at least the third high-profile exception to a policy by President Obama that no one
Since 1997, Harold Nicholson has been locked in a federal prison in Oregon, the highest-ranking officer of the Central Intelligence Agency ever convicted of espionage. But even as federal inmate No. 49535-083, Mr. Nicholson never really retired as a
For every acre of rain forest cut down each year, more than 50 acres of new forest are growing in the tropics on land that was once farmed, logged or ravaged by natural disaster. “There is far more forest here than there was 30 years ago,” said Ms. O
The Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation yesterday to provide health insurance to 11 million low-income children, a bill that would for the first time spend federal money to cover children and pregnant women who are legal immigrants.
Peat says he was accosted by several DEA agents, who asked him questions about who he was and where he was going. He told them he was a poker player, and had $15,000 in cash in his pocket. [bye, bye cash and Rolex]