It started when security researcher Mark Russinovich first posted to his blog that Sony's music CDs surreptitiously installed digital rights management software based on a "rootkit"--a hacking tool widely considered to be spyware. Follo
WASHINGTON -- Signaling heightened opposition to the war in Iraq from a corner of long-standing support for the military, Rep. John Murtha, a conservative Pennsylvania Democrat, said today the United States should immediately begin to bring its troop
Who ever advised President George Bush to escape the storm of criticism he faces over Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, and the Libby CIA case by flying to Argentina for a free trade summit should be sent in chains to Guantanamo.
Dawn Hansen is Nevada chairman of Mothers Against the Draft. Her husband, Christopher Hansen, served as chairman of last year's failed "Axe the Tax" tax-rollback petition drive. They're no wallflowers when it comes to voicing their
IN A MOVE THAT POTENTIALLY threatens online classified providers like eBay and Craigslist, Google Wednesday announced the release of Google Base, a service that allows users to post free classified listings.
Of all the ways in which the American news media have failed since Sept. 11, 2001, none may be more consequential than the mild and deferential eye cast on the Bush administration’s adoption of torture as state policy.
For the second time, a federal judge has stopped the Pentagon from holding a war-crimes trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba -- this time in the case of an Australian captive accused of fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The Microsoft chairman and personal-computing icon stirred up a mix of curiosity and skepticism Tuesday among the crowd of high-performance computing experts who listened to him outline the company's plans to expand into the field.
A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying b
Judith Miller, the mousy Bush Administration propaganda mouthpiece forced to retire from The NY Times, is hardly an anomaly. American journalism is contaminated by widespread institutional corruption. Coming on the heels of the same paper's humil
On paper, Arizona’s charter law allows multiple charter authorizers: the Arizona State Board of Education, the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, and local school districts. In practice, however, the Arizona State Board of Education stopped spo
This paper offers another vehicle to improve parents’ control over their children’s education: allowing them to open an Education Savings Account (ESA) for each of their children.
Out of the controversial debate pitting the theory of evolution against the theory of intelligent design has emerged a new theory, dumb design, which some experts believe may explain the televangelist Pat Robertson.
In writing this paper, I call for a serious investigation of the hypothesis that WTC 7 and the Twin Towers were brought down, not just by damage and fires, but through the use of pre-positioned explosives. - By Steven E. Jones - Department of Physics
Like you, I was embarrassed by those senators holding the hearing on oil-company prices and profits the other day. Those senators made such fools of themselves for one reason only — to impress you and me. Of course, we saw through their stunt.
The world has known many nations where soldiers could jack people off the streets and dump them into a black hole of incarceration without charges or trials. Proudly, for 226 years the United States wasn't one of those nations. Now it is.
Having spent the last 5 years out-pandering the Democrats by spending money to buy off various voting constituencies, congressional Republicans now find themselves forced to appeal to their unhappy conservative base by applying window dressing to the
A few days ago, it was discovered that some recent CD releases on the Sony/ BMG label contain a Digital Rights Management (DRM) application called XCP, which, when you play the CD on a PC, surreptitiously installs itself on that computer.
HONEYWELL is developing a micro flying spy drone -- that would be used for civilian law enforcement! The device, a hovering robot carrying video cameras and other sensors, is being created and tested at HONEYWELL's Albuquerque, NM plant.
BEIJING, Nov. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- A hormone that can suppress appetite has been discovered, sheding new light on the war against obesity, according to a study published on Friday.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Three suicide bombers who killed 20 people in restaurants on Indonesia's Bali last month made videos in which they condemned the United States and said they were ready to die, the national police chief said on Friday.
The defeat of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in the House of Commons yesterday was a great blow. The vote, by 49 Labour MPs, against the government’s proposed anti-terrorism law was, above all, a symbolic act. The British press has unanimously describe
Americans will recall that, before the U.S. invaded Iraq in March 2003, it was Chalabi who deliberately mislead U.S. officials and the media about the supposed dangers posed by the regime of Saddam Hussein. As a leader of the Iraqi National Congress,
With his bird-flu plan, Bush has subtly reminded Americans that despite all the imperfections the federal government is still their daddy, that watches over them and takes care of them with such programs as retirement, health care, job security, educ
In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the ongoing war in Iraq, taxpayers might think Congress has better things to do with $21 billion than send it overseas. That’s exactly what Congress did approving a useless and counterproductive foreig