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It's a cardinal rule in Congress: Lawmakers and their staffers may not take travel paid by registered lobbyists or lobbying firms. The intention is to keep professional influence-peddlers from gaining special access to lawmakers.
Police in Iran have beaten a small group of women activists trying to hold a protest for greater legal rights in the biggest square of the capital. They were calling for equal divorce and custody rights and a ban on polygamy.
“Tice met last month in a closed session with senior staff from the Senate Armed Services Committee. Tice said he told the staffers everything he knew. But he said the aides did not say how, or if, they would follow up on his allegations.”
Florida House of Representatives candidate Charlie Grapski - arrested after he filed a lawsuit alleging voting fraud against Alachua County City Manager Clovis Watson, that can only be described as not seen since the days of Boss Tweed.
More Americans expressed optimism about the war in Iraq after the killing of terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, suggests a CNN poll, but a majority still believes the invasion was a mistake.
Western diplomats and disarmament experts reacted with alarm to Afghan government plans to arm hundreds of southern villagers against resurgent Taliban fighters. "There is considerable disquiet," said the director of a national disarmament
President Bush proposed today that Iraq create a national fund to use its oil revenues for national projects, as part of a strategy to build loyalty to the new government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. [Cuz our treasury's worked so well.
Is the Project for the New American Century, which did so much to promote the invasion of Iraq and an Israel-centered "global war on terror," closing down? The group was "heading toward closing" with the feeling of "goal acco
According to an earlier account, Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, a 35-year-old mother of two, was killed in firing along with her 57-year-old cousin Saliha Mohammed Hassan when they were being transported to a hospital for Nabiha to give birth.
Violent crime in 2005 increased at the highest rate in 15 years, driven in large part by a surge of killings and other attacks in many Midwestern cities, the FBI reported. An overall jump of 2.5 percent for violent offenses
The owners of the sagging, flood-stained home aren't in. Above the front door, a banner explains their absence, and the lack of progress: "Allstate paid $10,113.34 on this house for storm damage." Like the home next to it and the one
The first of a new breed of Navy ship faster and easier to maneuver is expected to launch later this year to meet threats including modern-day pirates and terrorists who turn speedboats into suicide weapons. The Littoral Combat Ship is powered by
American investigators are exploiting the intelligence bonanza found in the rural safe house north of Baghdad where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed last Wednesday. [Just in time for the elections.]
A main ingredient in beer may help prevent prostate cancer and enlargement. The ingredient is present in such small amounts that a person would have to drink more than 17 beers to benefit. [There has got to be a downside.]
Al-Qaida in Iraq named a successor to al-Zarqawi and said he would stick to the slain leader's path attacks on Shiites as well as on US and Iraqi forces. Identified as Abu Hamza al-Muhajer appeared to be a foreign Arab, like his predecessor.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the nation's death row inmates can file last-minute challenges to lethal injection after they've exhausted their regular appeals.
A medic spent about 20 minutes trying to save Abu Musab al-Zarqawi even as blood ran from the terrorist's mouth after the airstrike that mortally wounded him, the U.S. military said. But the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was not wearing the suicide
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) said today’s decision by the Superior Court in San Francisco to throw out that city’s handgun ban was a victory for gun owner rights all over the Golden State. “The right of citizens to be safe in their homes and
Until the end of 2004, Zarqawi was an al-Qaeda outsider . His myth was the product of American and British propaganda to justify a preventtive strik in Iraq. Colin Powell's announcement of Feb 5, 2003 - "Iraq today harbors a deadly terrori
Congress is about to cast a historic vote on the future of the Internet. It will decide whether the Internet remiains a free and open technology fostering innovation, economic grwoth and democratic communication, or instead becomes the propety of ca
His administration is eager to capitalize on the killing of Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq and mastermind of some of the bloodiest bombings since a 2003 U.S.-led invasion (Here we go)
America plans to retain a garrison of 50,000 troops, one tenth of its entire army, in Iraq for years to come, according to US media reports. Military planners have begun to assess the costs of keeping a 50,000-man force in Iraq for a protracted perio
The U.S. military has concluded its investigation into a video that appeared to show private security contractors shooting at civilian vehicles driving on highways in Iraq and determined that no one involved will be charged with a crime.
Iran said that it accepted some parts of a Western offer aimed at getting Tehran to drop its nuclear program, but it rejected others while calling the central point ambiguous. Iran said the key issue of uranium enrichment needed clarification.
A new loophole in election spending regulations is likely to produce a torrent of unsolicited e-mails to voters -- and widespread complaints about political spam -- as the midterm elections approach this fall
The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman says he's prepared to force telephone company executives to testify about the White House's eavesdropping program if the Bush administration doesn't fully cooperate in drafting new rules on what
A French member of the European Parliament, Alain Lamassoure, recently uttered the dreaded T-word — taxes — in connection with e-mail and mobile phone text messages, and in so doing earned the wrath of the Internet generation.
Reflexiones Libertarias
Hace ya más de diez años, tuve la fortuna de conocer a un hombre especial y fuera de serie; Carlos Castillo Peraza. Carlos había aceptado una invitación que le extendiéramos la Universidad de Arizona y nuestra Fundación, Liberty Americas Foundation,
The deepest fear among Arab-Americans, include the Patriot Act, interviews of thousands of Arab-Americans by feds, and a Special Registration, in which 80,000 immigrant men were fingerprinted, photographed and questioned by authorities.
In the days since Rolling Stone magazine published a long piece accusing Republicans of widespread and intentional cheating that affected the outcome of the last presidential election, the silence in the establishment media has been deafening.
