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[1984, no. Brave New World, si.] The US reacted cautiously to a Mexican measure that would make it legal to carry small amounts of cocaine, heroin and other drugs for personal use. News of the decriminalization did not make the front
While doing research on my next paper, which is supposed to identify trends worthy of a contrarian investigation, I stumbled on a gem, courtesy of Google and the Policy Review (Summer 1986). It is an extract of an article by Werner Meyer that simply
Researchers unveiled today a unique unmanned military vehicle prototype that combines mobility, payload-carrying capacity, and ruggedness to aid troops in combat. [SWAT 3 a.m. search warrant delivery approved.]
Sectarian violence has forced about 100,000 families across Iraq to flee their homes, a top Iraqi official said, and 16 Iraqis were killed Saturday, 6 of them tortured in captivity. An American soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in the capital, ra
A senior Pakistani scientist suspected of helping leak nuclear weapons technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea has been released after two years in detention, an army spokesman said
Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters marched Saturday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad -- the 70th U.S. fighter killed in tha
The Washington Post reports that Senators Feinstein (D-Cal.) and Graham (R-S.C.) have introduced S. 2644, the PERFORM Act, punishing satellite radio for offering its subscribers devices capable of recording off the air. Buried in the bill, however
The much heralded John Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard professor who won worldwide renown as a Keynesian or socialist economist [as if there is a difference] died at age 97 of natural causes.
The leftist leaders of Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia have signed a trade agreement to counter a US-led drive to forge a Pan-American free trade area, in a show of unity for the strongest critics of the US in Latin America.
Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh said that the establishment of Oil Stock Exchange is in its final stage and the bourse will be launched in Iran in the next week. Registration of the Oil Stock Exchange is underway and the entity will operate after b
As of April 28th, 2,401 persons in the military have died in Bush's Iraq War, and an additional 281 in the Afghan incursion. 18,479 have been wounded in action in both wars, of which 8,563 (46%) were wounded so badly they could not ret
The Justice Dept. is moving to dismiss a federal lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's secretive domestic wiretapping program. The lawsuit does not include the government. Instead, it names AT&T, which is accused of colluding with the NSA
Why was the hijacked jet not intercepted by the military jets that had been sent aloft after the Trade Center strikes? Did President Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney order a shoot-down as the plane neared Washington? And why didn't it happen?
Fixes are only temporary and largely symbolic, scientists say. They will do little to address the more serious threat of what will happen when demand for oil outstrips the ability to produce it. And that's an inevitable problem that could be just
A GOP telemarketing firm implicated in two criminal prosecutions involving election dirty tricks got its startup money from Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. Barbour's investment company arranged a quarter-million-dollar loan to GOP Marketpl
Mystery solved. It was the admiral. A secret code embedded in the text of a court ruling in the case of Dan Brown's bestseller "The Da Vinci Code" has been cracked, but far from revealing an ancient conspiracy it is simply an obscure re
The Vatican stepped up its offensive against "The Da Vinci Code" when a top official close to Pope Benedict blasted the book as full of anti-Christian lies and urged Catholics to boycott the film.
President Bush approved a Dubai-owned company's $1.24 billion takeover of Doncasters, a British engineering company with US plants that supply the Pentagon. Bush signed off on the deal after getting company assurances that the military supply cha
With the advent of the so-called American Community Survey from the U.S. Census Burea which now invades the privacy of 250,000 households every month on a rolling basis, articles such as this one from the CATO Institute published several years ago ar
The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court's approval, the Justice Department said.
NASA plans to fly the space shuttle Discovery in July without further changes to the external fuel tank, despite some engineers' concerns that the tank needs more work, officials said. [Lessons learned?]
The U.S. economy grew at its strongest rate in 2-1/2 years during the first quarter on strong spending and investment and a key gauge of price rises moderated from the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department said.
The response does indicate that the US has a black eye not so much with European governments, but with European publics. At least some European governments not only knew of the flights and transfers of suspected terrorists, but also cooperated with t
Dozens of gasoline stations around Houston and Dallas, the heart of the oil industry, ran out of fuel after transportation problems resurfaced with the switch to a new anti-smog fuel blend using ethanol. The shortages add to scattered supply outag
President Bush said the national anthem should be sung in English—not Spanish—in a blunt rejection of a new Spanish-language version. He expressed opposition to national work stoppage, "I'm not a supporter of boycotts," Bush said, while
The U.S. war on terrorism has made the world safer, the State Department's counterterrorism chief said on Friday, despite more than 11,000 terrorist attacks worldwide last year that killed 14,600 people.
Five members of Congress were jailed on charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly, after protesting outside the Sudanese Embassy over atrocities in the embattled Darfur region.
[Which is why they are kicking butt in Afghanistan.] Leaders of al-Qaida lost some control of the terror network last year due to the arrests and deaths of top operational planners, but the group remains the most prominent terror threat facing the US
Gold futures surged to a new 25-year high, at $652.80 an ounce, on a falling dollar and worries over Iran's atomic program, and the rally spilled over to silver, which was already firmer after a launch of a new silver-backed fund.
Hundreds of suicide bombings in Iraq have "broken the back" of the US military, al-Qaida's No. 2 said in a video by Ayman al-Zawahri, posted on an Islamic militant Web forum, came within the sa
