It is worth noting, however, that the company that was primarily responsible for repackaging the internet into a civilian entity, America Online, is perhaps the most thinly veiled intelligence front ever conceived.
Vice President Dick Cheney's office was responsible for issuing the directives which led to U.S. soldiers to abuse prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a NPR interview with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of
The revelations of "Jarhead" -- based on Anthony Swofford's book about his stint in the Marines during the first Persian Gulf War -- may come as a shock to those of us who've never been in the military. According to Swofford, many f
Vice President Dick Cheney, who has spent much of the past four years in a secure, undisclosed location, has now moved to a new secure, undisclosed location which has been specially fortified against subpoenas.
D.C. police are routinely arresting people for drunken driving, despite the fact that their breathalyzer tests score below the widely-accepted legal alcohol limit of .08%. Those arrested hadn't done anything, yet they were cuffed and hauled away,
By a vote of 5 to 4, the Court declared that the Connecticut city and its quasi-governmental development corporation could take the well-maintained homes and businesses to make room for an expansion by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
New analysis of the precinct-level Ohio exit poll data provides virtually irrefutable evidence of large scale vote miscounts in Ohio during the 2004 presidential election.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, "no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children."
The era of the Big Three auto makers ended officially in Canada last month as their share of the Canadian market fell to less than 50 per cent for the first time.
Details of the post-Sept. 11 network of "black sites" were first reported in Wednesday's Washington Post, and the locations were confirmed by the Baltimore Sun. The report raised questions about how the CIA was treating its detainees in
The director of Enforcement of the BATF actually told me I was threatening them by posting my opinions on your website. They got hostile when we have showed up for that test and we made a point of videotaping it, and that seemed to really set them of
For nearly five years, many conservatives backed the administration even as the President trampled their most cherished principles - wildly increasing spending, centralising power in Washington, and failing to hold anyone accountable for the Iraq dis
Absent affirmative protections for free speech, it seems inevitable that campaign finance laws will once again be used to control and neuter a technology that threatens the political status quo. The danger to free speech is real and requires action.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democrats forced the Senate into a temporary closed session Tuesday to pressure the Republican majority into completing an investigation of the intelligence underpinning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
To speak of a 19th-century libertarian critique of fascism might seem anachronistic, since fascism is generally understood as a 20th-century phenomenon. But it did not spring from nothing, and the libertarians of the 19th century saw it in the making
Libby’s indictment on charges has given a false hope the Bush administration’s crimes are about to get a public airing. That the established order has any interest in ferreting out truths...no more wrongs are acknowledged than are necessary to mainta
Why won’t the Democrats address the war? Well, the liberal establishment served up the same contaminated cocktails during the lead-up to the Iraq invasion as the Republicans did. The Democrats would declare they were misled than admit that they too l
Senator John McCain's anti-torture amendment: "No individual in the custody or under the physical control of the United States Government, regardless of nationality or physical location, shall be subject to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treat
To oppose war, or the military, or the president at a time of war is to "hate America." And to "support America" implies supporting its government’s wars. Only someone who perversely believes that the government is America could h
Such is the tale spun by a Tennessee talk-radio host who helped stop the bipartisan drive for a state income tax. Tax Revolt offers a delightful read, detailing betrayal and deceit, insider maneuvers and public protests, and big-bucks lobbying and ho
Expect recommendations on how to isolate the sick. Governors and mayors are on notice to figure out who will actually inject stockpiled vaccines into the arms of panicked people.” Bush will arrive at the National Institutes of Health to speak to the
One concern for the Fed is that the federal funds rate is no longer well below the so-called “neutral” level at which monetary policy neither restricts nor stimulates activity. But there does not yet appear to be a consensus on what should happen nex
As federal probes rack Team Bush in Washington, three huge indictments for money laundering and other pro-Bush election crimes involving Ohio "Coingate" lynchpin Tom Noe have stoked powerful new Watergate-style financial fires under Ohio
Latino immigrants are coming to New Orleans from as far away as California to repair homes, clear debris, rebuild roads and do other jobs. According to a story in the Los Angeles Times, they're making about $15 per hour, and they've been so w
"There is no rule of law here," said Puche, who accuses state officials of encouraging land grabs by declaring his and dozens of other farms state land. Takeovers are part of President Hugo Chávez's recently accelerated land redistribut
"Did you have a good time, shopping in one of the few remaining stores we haven't seized under eminent domain to build some abandoned boondoggle, or dining in one of our fine new downtown restaurants? (You'll notice there are no old ones
If Israel attacks Iran, Iran will consider it an attack by the U.S. The U.S. is already on one border of Iran in Afghanistan and wants to control another border in Syria. Getting out of Iraq is all the more important to take apart this second Franken