The US Coast Guard have started to patrol the Great Lakes with machine guns mounted on their vessels and are conducting live-ammo training drills on the US side to prepare officers to combat terrorists flooding across the border from Canada by boat.
The "CIA personality quiz" is supposed to show how the Agency needs all types to function. So the exam offers up a series of questions, about your favorite leisure activities, the "kind of transportation your prefer," and what su
The Stupid Never Stops -- it just keeps on coming. Every morning you get up and read the papers and are presented with a whole new raft of stupid. Every day now we are overcome by waves of stupid.
Claim its purpose is to increase security and prosperity for all 3 nations through enhanced cooperation. Critics maintain the partnership will sacrifice US sovereignty by establishing a "North American Union," with open borders and a common
Over a dozen Iraqi journalists are being prosecuted under a broad new set of laws criminalizing speech that ridicules the government or its officials, some resurrected verbatim from Saddam Hussein’s penal code.
Our old friend Judge Kevin McMahon just jacked up her bail to $20,000, ordered her held for 30 days, and requested a competency exam report at the conclusion of that period. All this for what began with a simple trespassing charge.
Congress approved legislation to help protect US ports against catastrophic Sept. 11-style attacks. But lawmakers tacked on an unrelated ban on Internet gambling.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is defending President Bush's anti-terrorism tactics in multiple court battles, said Friday that federal judges should not substitute their personal views for the president's judgments in wartime.
The Senate gave final approval last night to legislation authorizing the construction of 700 miles of double-layered fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border, shelving President Bush's vision of a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration laws in favor
American war deserter Darrell Anderson says Canada wasn't the safe haven he thought it would be as he announced his decision to return home to face his punishment.
A federal judge in Idaho has ruled that former attorney general John D. Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of a U.S. citizen arrested as a "material witness" in a terrorism case.
The media missed the real story regarding the National Intelligence Estimate of the global terror threat. It's not what's in the declassified executive summary of the report – Iraq – it's what's absent from it – Afghanistan, where the
The military tribunals that the president and the Congress (sic) have approved will constitute the most radical, dangerous, and disgraceful transformation in the U.S. criminal-justice system since our nation's inception.
Although deadly Sunni Arab rebel attacks remain frequent in Baghdad, U.S. officials, including Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, say death squads affiliated with Shiite militias have become the main factors ratcheting up the capital's death toll from
The White House ignored an urgent warning in September 2003 from a top Iraq adviser who said that thousands of additional American troops were desperately needed to quell the insurgency there, according to a new book by Bob Woodward
Top Diebold corporation officials ordered workers to install secret files to Georgia’s electronic voting machines shortly before the 2002 Elections, at least two whistleblowers are now asserting.
The typical double-income family is worse off financially than ever. Middle-class families are struggling to pay for a home, health insurance, transportation and their children's college with wages that have not kept pace with higher prices.
Scientists have discovered a novel genetic repair process that allows a hardy desert microbe to die and resurrect over and over again. Could lead to new forms of regenerative medicines and might bring dead cells in our own bodies back to life.
SpaceDev founder Jim Benson has stepped down as chairman and chief technology officer of the Poway, Calif.-based company to launch a new commercial space tourism venture called Benson Space Company.
Deuterium and tritium atoms had been fused together at a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius for nearly three seconds. The report did not specify whether the device had succeeded at producing more energy than it consumed.
The so-called European Human Rights Court has concluded that society has a significant interest in preventing the development of dissent through "separate philosophical convictions."
Just how costly is China's environmental mess? The working assumption is that the situation is somewhere between really bad and off-the-charts ghastly. Yet getting a real statistical grip on the scale of the problem has been tough for Chinese lea
The review offered a detailed glimpse into a sordid subculture of fraud and attempted influence peddling. The Committee was primarily concerned with what extent were executive branch officials influenced by Abramoff’s elaborate schemes?
Florida Rep. Mark Foley's resignation came just hours after ABC News questioned the congressman about a series of sexually explicit instant messages involving congressional pages, high school students who are under 18 years of age.
Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned from Congress, effective immediately, in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former teenage male page boy. "I am deeply sorry and I apologize for letting down my family and the people of Florida I hav
A man was detained by crack TSA terrorism experts at MKE terminal E recently for writing, "Kip Hawley is an Idiot" on a transparent bag holding his shampoo and toothpaste.
After a local jury found a store owner not guilty of selling drug paraphenalia, the county attorney's office filed a civil forfeiture action with the federal district court. Judge Michael N. Deegan ignored the jury's ruling and found the merc
The FBI arrested Defense Department analyst Larry Franklin on charges that he illegally passed classified information about potential Iranian-backed attacks against US forces in Iraq to employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro