After weeks of debate, Congress is giving consumers four more months to prepare for the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting. The House voted 264-158 to postpone the shutdown of analog TV signals to June 12
There have been three DEA raids on medical cannabis facilities since Jan 20, 2009. How many will it take before true believers realize that candidate Obama made promises that President Obama doesn't intend to keep?
Set your Tivos, or write on your calendar Friday, March 6th. Based on six segments from Reason.tv and featuring Drew Carey, John Stossel wil take a long (and libertarian) look at immigration, medical pot, eminent domain absue and much more.
Traffic warning signs are changed to zombie warning signs. [in various stories, this is the work of "remote hackers", a "UT computer genius", or, just plain hackers that crack the well-known password: DOTS]
Did any of you ladies see this recipe in time for Super Bowl Sunday? If not, your favorite Valentine just might be craving some MAN FOOD like the one in this recipe!
If you add to Cassandra’s curse that she would be ridiculed, derided, and shunned for making her predictions, you have a pretty fair approximation of what it feels like to be a libertarian.
“Deflation is a real risk facing the economy,” Summers, the director of the National Economic Council, said today on a conference call with reporters. “We do not have time to wait” to approve the fiscal-stimulus package the Obama administration is pu
Columbus, Ohio - More cash-strapped states want to give law enforcement officers the authority to pull over motorists just for not wearing their seat belts.
Ryan Frederick was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Det. Jarrod Shivers, part of a dynamic entry team breaking into Fredrick's house in 2008. [the tragedy continues to be compounded]
Spain is losing jobs at three times the rate of the US, in proportionate terms. Over one million Spanish men under thirty are unemployed, leading to a surge in applications to join the armed forces. Three quarters of the army candidates are being tur
The United States government has threatened to withhold intelligence cooperation with the UK if evidence of the alleged torture of a ‘terrorist’ detainee at Guantanamo Bay is made public.
“We should agree, as a world, on a monetary and fiscal stimulus that will take the world out of depression.” Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Feb 3, 2009
Expect turmoil in stocks in the run up to the G20 meetings on April 2,2009.
...to the constitution of the united states over certain powers, serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed.
a nice summary of the present state of our ideas about the Earth’s interior and its magnetic engine. To be totally fair, it is complete rubbish to think in terms of swirling dynamos.
News out of the labs on graphene is coming fast and furious. We are learning to manipulate it and to fabricate characteristics. By simply adding in hydrogen and we have no clue as to how, a single layer is turned into an insulator. Already, we can th
President Obama said Wednesday the recession will turn into "a catastrophe" if the economic stimulus is not passed quickly, lobbying anew for the plan as its price tag climbed above $900 billion and drew more criticism.
We would tend to treat 1995 as a 'lower bound' which might be more valid for those areas which had appreciated the parabolic increases from the bubble period.
Has the age of electronic stalking begun? Google has announced a new service called Latitude that triangulates the real-time position of any mobile phone user and displays their location online, in real time, for other people to see.
This YouTube video is excellent proof that a well informed minority of Democrats are coming to the realization that Obama's economic policies are a fraud.
Both in his years in the Clinton treasury and as chair of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Geithner has been paving the way for a runaway Wall Street. Nor has he changed his ways
Pharmaceutical products could be employed to boost the performance of one army's soldiers while undermining the minds of those on the other, according to a National Research Council report drafted for the US Defense Intelligence Agency.
Details about more than three dozen secret memoranda written by Bush Adminstration officials now sit atop a chart created by a public interest reporting group. The memos track new details about dozens of secret Bush Adminstration legal positions
The Obama administration refuses to listen to economists like Nassim Taleb because that would mean turning their backs on the bankers who bought their souls!
Here's the deal. The government will buy the worst assets, dramatically overpay for them, stick taxpayers will the losses, and only reduce bonus pools of the banks by 40%. It's a great deal for those in the bonus pools. It's a horrid deal
Mr. President, you can no longer snow the American People nor can you allow others in the government to do so. They've figured it out - that this was one gigantic layered Ponzi Scheme, and frankly, they don't trust their government any more.
Any acts taken by the General Government not authorized by the Constititution of the United States of America, shall be construed as seizing the rights of the states, and shall thereby require a change in the General Government.