United States Senate candidate Rand Paul today criticized the Obama administration’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and try terrorism suspects in United States Civil Courts.
In Chicago Illinois, good old Anthony Abbate, the guy who savagely beat up a bartender on camera and got probation for it, is still a cop. Well, at least until the civil review board there makes a descision on whether or not to fire him for his felon
Fort Lauderdale stockbroker Irvin Rosenfeld will tomorrow smoke his 115,000th joint provided by the government since 1982, when he became a patient in the Federal Drug Administration’s Investigational New Drug Programme.
Why does the state fail? Was it not founded with the consent of the governed to secure the rights to life, liberty, and property? The short answer is no, and because the answer to the second question is no, the state cannot possibly succeed.
The feds had to make an example out of Bob Kahre. He had committed a super no-no. He had exposed the government’s gold-coin, legal-tender claim for the fraud it is.
We had the pleasure to interview Chris Broughton, the gentleman who brought the AR-15 rifle to the Obama rally in Phoenix several months ago. He helps to clear up some of the myths that the media has portrayed against him, and we discuss the public
“Foreign terrorists do not deserve the protections of our Constitution,” said Dr. Paul. “These thugs should stand before military tribunals and be kept off American soil. I will always fight to keep Kentucky safe and that starts with cracking down on
3 major credit ratings agencies gave mortgage-backed securities unjustifiably high ratings in return for lucrative fees, losing at least $457 million for 5 Ohio public employee pension and retirement funds, the state's AG alleged in a lawsuit.
Britain may finally be emerging from recession, but many analysts warn it is a false dawn. They argue, the economy is so ravaged by growing debts and ruined banks it will be following in the steps of Japan’s lost decade of the 1990s.
Refineries from New Mexico to New Jersey are under severe economic pressure because of falling demand for fuel, with a number of facilities shutting down in recent months.
Valero Energy Corp., which shuttered a major refinery over the summer, said
Frale, a researcher at the Vatican archives, said Friday that she used computers to enhance images of faintly written words in Greek, Latin and Aramaic scattered across the shroud.
She asserts the words include the name "Jesus Nazarene" in Greek,
Teflon-coated frying pans may scratch easily, but a souped-up version, a nanomaterial 10,000 times more durable than the ordinary non-stick stuff, is headed to space to see if it could coat the mechanical moving parts of spacecraft.
Lesley Stahl meets the inspiration for the lead character in the classic film Jurassic Park and reports on how famed dinosaur hunter Jack Horner is shaking up the paleontology world.
Winston Churchill once predicted it would be possible to grow chicken breasts and wings more efficiently without having to keep an actual chicken. Scientists have figured out how to grow tiny nuggets of lab meat and it will one day be possible to pro
Budget shortfalls pose a direct threat to millions of US jobs, as state and local governments lay off workers and cut spending on contracts and other business services, a think tank said. Governments will have to raise taxes and
When federal officials descended on this small South Carolina town to investigate a kickback scheme that had caught up the mayor and another official, they stumbled across a web of corruption they believe is widespread through the county.
The CIA is believed to be behind the more than 40 missile strikes to have hit suspected targets over the last year. American officials do not acknowledge the attacks, which are unpopular among many here. A US drone fired 2 missiles
China has vowed to tighten supervision of its online games market, saying online games used "bloody, violent and obscene" content to attract players, hurting their "physical and psychological health", the culture ministry said.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once his country’s richest man, has resided in "gulag lite," as he calls the Russian penal system under Vladimir Putin, for six years. Convicted of tax evasion and fraud in 2005, he now faces a fresh set of charges that add up t
With the [Indian] stock market having gained more than 75% this year and the economy growing at nearly 7%, the number of billionaires jumped to 52 in 2009 from 27 in the previous year, just 2 short of the record in 2007, according to the ranking.
Popal was more than just a former mujahedeen. In 1988, Popal was charged in the USA with conspiring to import more than a kilo of heroin. Flash forward to 2009, and Afghanistan is ruled by Popal's cousin President Hamid Karzai.
In short, if two hundred years of CO2 production had actually caused the observed uptrend and warmer climate, then increasing the amount of produced CO2 by fifty to one hundred percent over the next decade or more should produce an observable effect.
Pastor James David Manning, one of President Obama's most vocal and outspoken critics, has just released a video in which he claims that on the afternoon of November 16th, 2009, while at his ATLAH World Missionary Church, he was visited by two CIA a
And then there are legitimate questions about wind-turbine noise—turbines do create sound after all, from both the gearbox (though this has grown much quieter in newer turbines) and from moving blades. It’s no more harmful than the noise from new hig
Jin Changzhu and colleagues of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing, announced to Chinese media last week that they have uncovered a 110,000-year-old putative Homo sapiens jawbone from a cave in southern China'
The government watchdog overseeing economic stimulus spending said Thursday that, in its rush to take credit for saving hundreds of thousands of jobs, the Obama administration was overly confident in its job-counting and did not acknowledge significa
The World Health Organisation said on Thursday the H1N1 vaccine had been cleared of blame for 41 deaths which health authorities worldwide had investigated after suspicions they might have been caused by the inoculation.
The U.N. agency reaffirmed
He may have promised to change Washington, but President Barack Obama is continuing one of its most renowned patronage traditions: bestowing prized ambassadorships on big donors.
Of the nearly 80 ambassadorship nominations or confirmations since O
The commander of military forces protecting North America has ordered a review of the costly air defenses intended to prevent another Sept. 11-style terrorism attack, an assessment aimed at determining whether the commitment of jet fighters, other ai