Anyone involved in covering up inappropriate messages sent by former Rep. Mark Foley to Congressional pages should be fired, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL) said at a press conference today. [tough talk over a week late]
Dogs are allowed to terrify and even bite unruly prisoners who refuse to leave their cells in five U.S. states, a human rights group said, comparing the policy to abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
It's no secret that YouTube is chock full of copyright infringements and has exerted some effort to deal with the issue. But now the problem is all Google's. "Now those same content owners' lawyers will take aim at Google's cash.
On the morning of Nov. 19, 2005, after a roadside bomb killed a young US marine driving a Humvee through Haditha, Iraq, marines in his unit killed as many as 24 civilians.
It's not clear why. The marines say they were fired upon. Iraqi witness
China signaled readiness to join other major UN powers in slapping sanctions on neighboring North Korea over its nuclear test as a defiant Pyongyang reportedly threatened to fire a nuclear-armed missile unless it secures US concessions.
President George W. Bush and Republicans are sinking under the weight of the Iraq war and the Capitol Hill sex scandal, according to a flurry of polls, endangering their control of Congress in the November 7 elections.
The doctrine of sovereign immunity is inherently incompatible with the essential principle of Popular Sovereignty as well as the First Amendment Right to Petition which states, "Congress shall make no law ...."
The Hess for Governor campaign today announced a new fund raising effort to purchase radio and print ads specifically attacking the blatant and shameless media bias of the Arizona Republic, the newspaper of record in Arizona.
(Sorry to do this, but I feel it's important) In 1989, the year Khan first started selling nuclear secrets on the black market, Richard Barlow, a young intelligence analyst working for the Pentagon, prepared a shocking report for Cheney
Sex! The Green Bay Packers! Sex with the Green Bay Packers! The usually ho-hum race for Wisconsin secretary of state is being spiced up by one candidate's naughty tell-all book about her bed-hopping exploits with Green Bay football legends
Snowe said in a statement that as conditioins in Iraq continue to worsen, "there must be no question among the (Bush) adminstration, the Congress and the Iraqi unity government that staying the course is neither an option nor a plan."
"The anti-Americanism, the concern around the world ... this ideological struggle, it's not going to change" quickly, Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes said in a interview with the AP. "It's going to be the work of years an
Police will be able to tell whether drivers who crash were speeding by checking the black boxes being fitted to thousands of cars by Britian's biggest insurance company. Norwich Union is installing satellite tracking devices to customers' ca
Slobodon Milosevic was the new Hitler. Bin Laden was the New Hitler. Saddam Hussein was the New Hitler. Kim Jong Il in North Korea is the New Hitler. Iran's Ahmadinejad is the New Hitler. So why are there never any New Stalins?
Levy County's public libraries are struggling to get books checked out or reshelved because retirees who usually handle many of those chores have refused requirements that they "pee in a cup" as part of a mandatory drug test for all cou
Iraqi war veteran Sgt Robert Lawrence & Pfc James Neely, unable to differentiate between a cell phone and a weapon, shot a man carrying a cell phone who was walking towards them. The National guardsmen have yet to be arrested or charged with a crime.
Whenever some well-meaning conservative Christian takes issue with one of my columns chronicling the abysmal governing record of Republicans, he or she almost always exclaims, "Think how bad it would be if Democrats were in charge."
On Oct 4, 2002, officials from the US State Department flew to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, and confronted Kim Jong-il's foreign ministry with evidence that Kim had acquired centrifuges for processing highly enriched uranium
The city's new storm water utility fee(tax) is coming under fire from 2 legislative candidates who hope to put the matter before city voters. House District candidate David Hughes said he hopes to begin the city's referendum process today
Advocates of replacing the income tax with the FairTax - a consumption tax in the form of a national retail sales tax(NRST) on new goods and services - regulary point to the complexity of the tax code, the millions of hours and dollars wasted
Los EU anuncian la construcción de un muro fronterizo, y “retiemble en su centro la tierra.” Después de siglos practicando el deporte favorito en nuestra región, culpar a los gringos desde nuestra pobreza, opresión, nuestra escalofriante deuda, terre
James A. Baker III, the Republican co-chairman of a bipartisan panel reassessing Iraq strategy for President Bush, said Sunday that he expected the panel would depart from Mr. Bush's repeated calls to "stay the course, "
New wireless technology is about to allow cell phones to further assert their supremacy over landline phones. By switching to Wi-Fi networks in their homes, cell phone users will soon be able to ditch their landlines altogther if they choose.
Governor Schwarzenegger's veto of a bill aimed at protecting California citizens from surreptitious RFID tracking should come as no shock if you understand his penchant for paternalistic power, say "Spychips" authors Katherine Albrecht
Sproul is suspected of falsifying voter information without permission of the voter. This makes the voter ineligible to vote by regular ballot on Election Day. Sproul was linked to registration fraud in the 2004 and is on the RNC payroll.
With the capital already mired in its latest sex scandal, federal agents last week raided the home of a woman they allege has, for the past 13 years, operated a Washington, D.C. escort service that dispatched college-educated prostitutes to the homes
Philip Mudd, who had just joined the FBI from the rival CIA, was pitching a program called Domain Management, designed to get agents to move beyond chasing criminal cases and start gathering intelligence.
The Senate overwhelmingly approved the dismantling of habeas corpus for "enemy combatants." Twelve Democrats sided with the Republicans to allow the US government to detain people arbitrarily and indefinitely.