The Rand Corporation was asked by the US Army to prepare a report recommending whether or not the US needed a National Stability Police force. Basically a call for American "Brown Shirts" Rand's answer was a resounding yes.
President Barack Obama will ask Congress for a record $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned - a request that could be an especially hard sell to some of the administration's Democratic allies.
As the General Assembly prepares to convene Wednesday, Republicans have introduced a series of bills designed to counter federal policy. The state's new Republican attorney general says he is assembling a legal team with an eye to challenging the fe
Maurice Clemmons, who gunned down four Lakewood police officers Nov. 29, was an evil man and no changes in gun laws are going to prevent murders like he committed.
FONDA -- State Police have arrested a 10-year-old boy on sexual abuse charges for allegedly abusing other children while at a home-based day care in the town of Northampton two years ago.
Police began investigating when a 12-year-old girl reported
Despite some library-friendly changes last fall in one version of the USA PATRIOT Act renewal, Congress did not resolve its differences, and in December extended the sunset deadline for the sections of the act that were supposed to expire at the end
TIME continues its grand tradition of sneering at conservatives and libertarians. The newsrag says Sarah Palin was hired at Fox News because she's a mascot. TIME tells this story to its increasingly-smaller audience of readers. Is there any connec
The quotation above is part of a judicial opinion filed on 1/13/2010 by a Federal Judge, John W. Sedwick, of the Federal District of Alaska, in dismissing Violation of Civil Rights Lawsuits filed by Tajudeen "Taj" Oladiran, and his spouse, against
With vibrant video clips captured by submarines, David Gallo takes us to some of Earth's darkest, most violent, toxic and beautiful habitats, the valleys and volcanic ridges of the oceans' depths, where life is bizarre, resilient and shockingly abund
Lawmakers on Tuesday approved Assembly Bill 390 -- legislation to tax and regulate marijuana. The Assembly's Public Safety Committee voted 4-3 on bill at a hearing in Sacramento. The bill will now be passed to the full Assembly on Friday for consider
"Criticism is part of an outbreak cycle. We expect and indeed welcome criticism and the chance to discuss it," she said, adding the WHO's review would involve independent outside experts and its results would be made public.
Tony Blair’s former spin doctor-in-chief delivered a typically defiant performance at a key session of Britain’s inquiry into the Iraq war on Tuesday, defending his role in preparing an infamous document that was used to justify the invasion.
The Israeli aerospace company Urban Aeronautics has posted pics of its curiously landspeeder-like UAV, as well as news of the craft's first successful lift off.
What happens when protestors of airport naked body scanners decide to go through the lines in the nude? Why hilarity ensues....This video needs to go viral. Wait til you see this protest.
Mary Lou Jepsen has created massive holograms and cheap laptops for the developing world. Now she’s rethinking the LCD screen, leading the way to the next great gadget: an e-reader to replace your laptop
For most people, conserving energy means turning off lights in empty rooms. But for the researchers at Bell Labs, the massive energy savings lurk in the 1's and 0's of the code that regulates the Internet.
The Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned.
Old dog, old tricks department: The National Enquirer has caught John Edwards cheating–again! And has pictures of his other “other woman”. Wonder what Rielle Hunter will say? Elizabeth Edwards reportedly has kicked him out for good!
The 570-megapixel shooter is being built at Fermilab by an international team of particle physicists and astronomers, who think it will help solve one of the great mysteries of the cosmos: What is dark energy?
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has urged power engineering specialists to fix energy failures without delays, Itar-Tass quotes him saying during a meeting with the regional development minister, Viktor Basargin, on Monday.
The Federal Reserve System is not about making money at the expense of the government. It is about using a government-granted monopoly over money to regulate the economy to the benefit of a handful of large banks.
The way the 54-year-old automobile salesman sees it, the "empire" is about to implode and tiny Vermont can lead the way by becoming its own independent republic.