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In a bid to unseat incumbent congressman Ron Paul, Gerald Wall yesterday announced his bid to seek the Republican nomination for Congress in Texas District 14. Wall, who works in the petrochemical maintenance industry, said he is a strong conservativ
Detroit, Riot City: In scenes better suited to a Third World country tens of thousands of desperate people assemble in the hope of receiving $3,500 emergency welfare aid disbursements. Unemployment in Detroit is 29%.
A roundup of wrongful conviction-related stories from the last several weeks: • Wisconsin court dismisses charges against rape and murder after the prosecutor withheld evidence of his innocence. Ralph Armstrong was convicted in 1981. In 1995, a wo
When I saw this morning's top New York Times headline -- "Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize" -- I had the same immediate reaction which I'm certain many others had: this was some kind of bizarre Onion gag that got accidentally transposed onto the
Right on time for the somber eighth anniversary of the Afghanistan war and occupation, Code Pink founder and primary spokeswoman Medea Benjamin has announced that her organization – which made so many headlines and newscasts protesting "Bush’s war"
"President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections, three officials familiar with the understanding said. The officials, who spoke on t
The latest case comes from Iowa, where the state's supreme court just upheld the 2005 conviction and sentence of Jorge Canal. While he was 18, a 14-year-old female friend asked Canal to send her a picture of his penis. Even the Iowa Supreme Court ac
In December 2003, Bruce Ratner, a New York real estate tycoon and owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, announced his long-simmering plans to build a 22-acre "urban utopia" in central Brooklyn, featuring more than a dozen office and apartment
The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: The nation’s telecom companies are an arm of the government — at least when it comes to secret spying.
For bingers who claim that they’re not ready to leave the party yet, central bankers are jiving hard to convince us that they know where the exits are. My bet is that they’ll bail sooner than financial markets think.
A Kremlin aide said on Thursday it could be advantageous to switch to non-dollar oil payments, but that he had not heard of any discussions on the issue. Britain's Independent newspaper reported on Tuesday that Russian officials had held "secret mee
The decision to team up with advocacy groups and unions like the SEIU make clear that the intention is baldly political."
In an appalling example of government negligence, the U.S. Census Bureau has hired hundreds of serious criminals to enter the homes of unsuspecting Americans to gather statistics for the 2010 count. The astounding information was made public this w
She added that even pregnant women and others who feel that they would be at risk if they took the swine flu vaccine are being forced to accept the treatment.
Really?
Really?
"It's crazy. It's really just unbelievable," said Scott Pattison, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers, who called the states' revenue situations "close to unprecedented."
Comment I know these PIG POLITICIANS are sticking it up ours with taxes and I would like to tell them to stick the taxes up theirs!
Billionaire investor Carl Ichan gets it. He sees the volatile nature of the current markets, and the potential for a double-dip recession.
Critics say not only does Bradley Birkenfeld deserve reward for making the tax-evasion case against UBS, his former employer, but his harsh treatment is a bad example for those who want to expose fraud.
Oxy-moronic? Imbecilic? Dialectic? This guy just keeps milking his occupation of office with the kind of fervor that only a homeless renegade from Kenya given the keys to the kingdom and a mega-ton of power would understand...
Problems at the Federal Housing Administration, which guarantees mortgages with low down payments, are becoming so acute that some experts warn the agency might need a federal bailout.
As President Barack Obama vowed in a Sept. 14 speech in New York’s Federal Hall to correct “reckless behavior and unchecked excess” on Wall Street, Mike McMahon and Barney Frank sat in the audience discussing how to ease proposed rules for the $592 t
There are moments when SWAT team personnel approaching a tense, urban stand-off with a barricaded, possibly armed suspect in a home, hotel room, office building, gym, school or mall admittedly feel a little exposed - mostly to the unknown.
The government warns that some passengers may be asked to pass through a screening device, have their temperatures taken, answer questions about their health, and even be quarantined if someone on the flight shows symptoms of H1N1. "I'm all for it
The remote U.S. outpost near the Pakistan border that was nearly overrun by insurgents last weekend has been abandoned and destroyed by American troops, military officials announced today.
Is it possible that the Nobel Committee is 'bought and paid for' like so much our perceived world?? This comes as an aggravated insult upon our fragile existence to most from the far left to the far right and all points in between.
Well, well, from the looks of it, Obama and his friends at the Nobel Prize Committee have done what no one could do before them: unite the world. In utter disbelief, of course, but hey, why obsess over details?
You can have a government, or you can have inalienable rights. Choose one, but then please, do not complain that you do not have the other.
U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years. And they did it on purpose. Government doctors stopped counting swine flu cases in July, when they estimated more th
