Ji, 59, a self-taught legal advocate who had spent 10 years fighting against corrupt officials in his home province of Fujian on China's southeastern coast, immediately packed his bags and was one of the first in line in Beijing to file his appli
The Senate gave final approval last night to a $410 billion spending bill to fund most of the federal government for the remainder of the year after overcoming a resilient Republican opposition and several Democratic defections
A D.C. woman filed suit in U.S. District Court, claiming that the city would not let her register a pistol because of its color. Tracey A. Hanson argued that her application to register a .45-caliber semiautomatic was denied because the gun is not on
Particle bombardment can cause unpredictable changes and mutations in the DNA, which might result in new types of proteins that can have allergenic or toxic properties, but no one at Monsanto had done a safety assessment on them.
The Senate was expected to vote on a $410 billion spending bill that contains provisions that would make trade and travel to Cuba easier. But letters from Treasury Secretary Geithner has assured the lawmakers who helped block the bill last week that
Profoundly disabled young men were forced into "fight club" style battles by the people hired to care for them in a Texas residential facility, police said. The staged battles -- which appear to have been going on for at least two years --
200 men of the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment had a right to expect a heroes’ welcome on a homecoming parade. Instead, they were faced with the hate-filled jeers of anti-war protesters waving placards saying: ‘Anglian soldiers: Butchers of Basr
Western governments have overstated the role the Internet plays in the recruitment of militants, and measures to block extremist material are "crude, expensive and counterproductive", a report said.
An auction of foreclosed homes in New York City drew protesters who blamed banks for an epidemic of home losses and called for a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures. Two dozen people marched outside a Manhattan convention center where Real Estat
Iran lacks weapons-grade highly enriched uranium and has not yet made a decision on whether to produce any, US intelligence officials told Congress today. Director of national intelligence Dennis Blair and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen
US Vice President Joe Biden urged NATO members to jointly confront al-Qaida and other extremist groups in Afghanistan where he said instability threatens all of the alliance's members equally. Biden told the allies the US was open to talks with T
Even a personage as august as George Washington had reasons other than unadulterated fealty to Lady Liberty for rejecting foreign rule. Beyond onerous English taxation, what galvanized him was the18th century version of credit card debt
It’s the annual implementation of the Coyote Crisis Campaign — a mock terrorism response exercise for federal, state and local agencies involving an improvised explosive device.
Chuck Norris who claims that thousands of right wing cell groups have organized and are ready for a second American Revolution. “We view ourselves on the eve of battle.”
It is time to create a climate in our country where the government fears the people. Until our government fears the wrath of the American people, we will continue down the road towards tyranny.
A shoe was recently hurled at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he was in the city of Urmia, an Iranian Web site has reported. The incident in the Iranian city was an apparent imitation of a similar attack on former U.S. president George Bu
The U.S. unemployment rate would be 19.1%, close to the level during the Great Depression, using the methodology that prevailed 80 years ago, according to Shadowstats.com. According to the official Labor Department figures, the jobless rate jumped to
Kim Jong Il was unanimously re-elected to North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament, state media said, in elections closely watched for signs of a political shift or hints the autocratic leader is grooming a successor. Turnout Sunday was 99.98 percen
You can drive into this dusty fleck of a town near the Texas-Louisiana border if you're African-American, but you might not be able to drive out of it—at least not with your car, your cash, your jewelry or other valuables.
Jerry had a motorcycle accident and lost a finger. When the doctor working on the artificial finger heard he's a hacker, he suggested adding a USB "finger drive" to the design. Now he carries a Linux distribution and Freddy Got Fingered
The worst crime in the word may be making a government official wet his pants. Read between the lines, and that's the real offense committed by Justin Chilton who responded to post-midnight pounding on the door with a gun in hand
This video was made by a serving United States Marine. Because of his words - he must conceal his identity - a tragedy for this hero who has taken an oath in blood to defend his nation and Constitution
Alex welcomes back Dr. Ron Paul to talk about the “stimulus” bill. Additional guests include Freedom Phoenix's own editor Terry Bressi of Checkpoint USA, a website dedicated to exposing the proliferation of suspicionless checkpoints in America
[Here comes the Assault Weapons Ban.] A gunman went on a shooting spree in 2 Alabama towns, killing 9 people before he shot himself. Police are investigating at least 4 separate shootings, all believed to be done by one gunman, whose name was not rel
Which states are the most free and which the least? According to this report, NH, CO, and SD are the winners, and AZ places in the top 10 thanks to its gun laws, alcohol regulations and taxes, private- and home- school regulations...
Some areas of the country saw one month price drops of over 8 percent, included in this list are the following, The District of Columbia, Shelby TN, Alameda CA, Plymouth MA, and Denver CO.
Didn't Stalin nationalize farming methods that enabled his administration to gain control over the food supply? Didn't Stalin use the food to control the people?
"We are going to need more taxpayer money ... I think another stimulus package is a reasonable assumption because of the way things are going," Zandi said.