Global-warming catastrophist James Hansen of NASA seems to be unhappy that he's catching flak for the Climategate revelations. Hansen complains,..."The next day another popular blog concluded that I deserved capital punishment. ...
Chase Bank throws a contest to award money to 100 charities, but when the votes create winners among 2 pro-drug and a anti-abortion group Chase changes the rules.
Merry Christmas from Iran. While the protests in Iran have spread to the interior of the country and Twitter traffic from Iran shows a people defiant in the face of tyranny, John Kerry has offered his clueless self as the best way for the Obama admin
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Canada’s Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said China, with the world’s largest currency reserves of $2.3 trillion, may be poised to buy Canadian dollars as it seeks to shield its reserves against the U.S. dollar’s decline.
“It
On December 16 President Obama signed the omnibus appropriations bill. It included H.R. 3081, a doubling of foreign aid from pre-Obama times, to 48.764 billion dollars. By comparison official US foreign aid in 2006 totaled less than 23 billion dollar
Looks like the steadily growing list of constitutional, ethical and political outrages that constitute the Harry Reid version of Obamacare is sparking a rebellion in the states, as AP reports South Carolina's attorney general plans to investigate th
Now that "healthcare reform" is passed, Congress will move into the next phase- how to PAY for all this excessive spending. The most likely approach will be a VAT (Value Added Tax)
Add on some "Cap And Trade" and you have a
DOOM TRIFECTA!!!
All politicians need money for their campaigns. But a congressional candidate from Santa Fe is asking supporters to give his campaign something he says is far more valuable than cash: gold and silver.
Hawaii's meticulous tourism records are thick with minus symbols, the basis for a projected state budget gap of $1.23 billion that Governor Linda Lingle says is a "fiscal crisis" that cannot be closed with spending cuts alone.
The authorities have banned memorial gatherings for a leading dissident cleric in most parts of Iran, reformist websites said on Thursday, days ahead of an emotive Shi'ite ritual that may draw more opposition protests.
The ancient Mayans may have had enough engineering know-how to master running water, creating fountains and even toilets by controlling water pressure, scientists now suggest.
Perhaps the earliest known example of the intentional creation of water
Georgia said on Thursday it had agreed to open a mountain pass on the border with Russia, in a first sign of a possible thaw in relations between the two ex-Soviet nations since their August 2008 war.
The two chief executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could get paid as much as $6 million for 2009, despite the companies' dismal performances this year which cost taxpayers more than $100 billion.
Fannie's CEO, Michael Williams, and Freddie CEO
Sonoma County, California agreed to remove all angels and other religious-oriented symbols on county properties after recieving a complaint from a man who spotted angels and stars on County-owned Christmas trees last week.
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to reinvent the nation’s health care system, passing a bill to guarantee access to health insurance for tens of millions of Americans and to rein in health costs as proposed by President Obama.
The 60-to-39 p
Possibly the rise of a new sense of community through the internet is allowing friends to share their most closely held beliefs. The conviction of a heart felt Christian is a persuasive argument to listen and then perhaps to find a teacher that spea
The particles showed as two tiny pulses of heat deposited over the course of two years in chunks of germanium and silicon that had been cooled to a temperature near absolute zero.
The detectors are place half a mile down to avoid them being effec
Though there have been a lot of lies, damned lies and statistics used, we thought there ought to be a listing of the dumbest things said about ObamaCare. After all, it's the Christmas season and we're in a giving mood.
Hendershott's response was exactly the note one would expect from Arpaio. Naturally, he maligns Polk as having tried to "tank the case" she was working on because she's part of the conspiracy against Arpaio. And so, Yavapai County Attorney Polk joi
Sales of newly built U.S. single-family homes unexpectedly fell to their lowest level in seven months in November, data showed on Wednesday, dealing a blow to the housing market's recovery.
But wait a minute. The U.S. military invented the Internet 40 years ago. Why can't it simply hunt down and destroy the web sites that inspire murderous fanatics? While the Saudi government estimates there are 17,000 such websites, most experts say th
The Guantanamo Bay prison may not close until 2011 because it will take months for the feds to buy an Illinois prison. Congress also needs to change a law prohibiting detention in the US of detainees who are not awaiting trial.
Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation's ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient's health history during a crisis — and which can immediately text-message loved ones that the person
Iranian security forces armed with batons and tear gas clashed with supporters of the late dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in two cities on Wednesday, opposition websites said.
Touchscreens are so yesterday. Remote controls? So last century.
The future is controlling your devices with a simple wave of the hand.
A wiggle of the fingers will change television channels or turn the volume up or down. In videogames, your m
A microblog service launched Tuesday by the Web site of the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of China's ruling Communist Party became inaccessible by Wednesday. The service was bombarding visitors with a set of pop-up messages apparently added by a hac