Did a Democratic member of Congress improperly enlist the support of a major pro-Israel lobbying group to try to win a top committee assignment? That's the question at the heart of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and Justice Department prosec
A judge has ruled in favor of The Spamhaus Project, a spam-tracking website that an e-mail marketing company was trying to take offline, National Journal's 'Technology Daily' reports.
A hidden crisis is under way. Many government insiders are aware of serious plans for war with Iran, but Congress and the public remain largely in the dark. The current situation is very like that of 1964, the year preceding our overt, open-ended esc
George W. Bush continues to use the rhetorical device of linking the occupation of Iraq with the war on terrorism, warning in his most recent press conference that “the terrorists would take control of Iraq” if the U.S. withdrew its forces.
Al-Qaeda hasn’t managed to do anything at all in the US since 9/11. This is not because the Feds have made it impossible for foreigners to sneak into the country...it is not because our nation have been guarded and hardened to the point of invulnerab
It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers.
A few short weeks ago, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter told Army Radio, with regard to peace talks with Syria, that "if it turned out that there was someone to talk to and something to talk about, the idea would be right."
Iraq's prime minister has barred the Health Ministry from releasing alarming casualty figures that showed violence in Iraq was killing 100 civilians a day and provided a rare insight into the worsening sectarian conflict, according to an internal
Black-uniformed, hooded gunmen loyal to an anti-American Shiite cleric briefly seized the major southern city of Amarah in an audacious drive against local security forces, largely controlled by
Iraq's other main Shiite militia.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that Arizona can go ahead with requiring voters to present a photo ID, starting with next month's general election, as part of the Proposition 200 that voters passed in 2004.
Mary Stromberg, a grandmother from Alabama, was worried when Congress passed the Act in September but when Bush signed it on October 27th she wrote letters to every educator in Alabama asking how this would be explained to children. That is a questi
The first of the "Broken Government" series aired Thursday at 7pm, hosted by Jack Cafferty. "It's my fervent hope that every single incumbent on the ballot will lose. It's time to start over."
Prosecutors offered up 11 specific cases in which the officers abused their police authority by invading homes, stealing money and drugs, kidnapping and otherwise terrorizing their suspects. It took the assistant state's attorney more than an hou
...This is the third of three identification-related “rulemakings” in the last month and a half in which the DHS has proposed to restrict the right to travel. IDP has filed formal objections to each of these proposals:
Central banks in China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong have channelled immense foreign reserves into American government bonds, helping to prop up the US dollar and hold down American interest rates.
The foibles of the current power structure in Washington, D.C., continue to mount. It has gotten so bad that it is becoming extremely difficult to tell who the good guys are anymore.
The internet is the last bastion of media freedom. The internet will soon constitute the major way that individuals obtain their news and information. The internet is immediate, detailed and unlike the mainstream media, it is completely uncensored, u
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il expressed regret about his country's nuclear test to a Chinese delegation and said Pyongyang would return to international nuclear talks if Washington backs off a campaign to financially isolate the country.
House Appropriations chairman Jerry Lewis (R-CA) is under federal investigation for possible improprieties in how he oversaw Congress' spending of $900 billion annually. Monday Lewis fired 60 investigators who had worked for his committee rooting
A former university professor charged with plotting to bankroll Hamas terrorists was once asked by the CIA whether he wanted a job as a spy, his attorney told a jury.
Bringing our fellow Americans to a greater understanding of the evils of a government-dominated society and the virtues of a free society has always been difficult and frustrating work. It's no wonder that Albert Jay Nock likened it to Isaiah
Anyone who hoped that US military detention of Americans accused of terrorism expired with the transfer of American citizen Jose Padilla from military custody to Justice Dept. custody have seen their hopes dashed by the Military Commissions Act that
Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were watching the Mexican boundary last year when they stopped a van carrying 743 pounds of marijuana. The driver fled back across the Rio Grande -- with a gunshot wound in his buttocks.
The White House rejected two options for changing course in Iraq as a high-profile commission works to give President George Bush recommendations in coming weeks on ways to shift strategy in the unpopular war.
The U.S. military acted legally when it hired a contractor to pay Iraqi news organizations to run pro-American stories, the
Pentagon's inspector general has found.
A limousine company caught up in a congressional bribery scandal is having its Homeland Security contract extended, several months after angry Capitol Hill hearings into why the contract was awarded in the first place.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said that a controversial new anti-terror law approved by
President George W. Bush this week undermined international humanitarian law.
Thousands of US troops are being barred from overseas duty because they are so deep in debt they are considered security risks. The number has climbed dramatically in the past few years. Occurring when the armed forces are stretched thin by the wars
Orange County Republican leaders called for the withdrawal of a GOP congressional candidate they believe sent a letter threatening Hispanic immigrant voters with arrest.