Annual federal spending for all energy research and development is less than half what it was 25 years ago. It has sunk to $3 billion/yr. Meanwhile, medical research is $28 billion/yr and military research is more than $75 billion. Hmmm
Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott said he's urging Congress to consider raising the minimum wage so that Wal-Mart customers don't have to struggle paycheck to paycheck. (What kind of Kool-Aid is this guy drinking)
It’s amazing that people are so stupid that they would vote their own rights away. As Ron Paul explained Democracy Is Not Freedom, in fact quite the opposite, it’s slavery and Communist in nature.
Even if Democrats win control of Congress next week, an immediate change of course in Iraq policy is unlikely, the party's chairman said. Howard Dean said the party did not believe there should be a sudden pullout of all US troops.
Nestled in the beautiful rolling hills of Dewey, Arizona, Young’s farm has been a good friend to the families of Arizona. My family, like many of your families, have spent many a weekend, leading up to Halloween, petting the farm animals and picking
After a hastily arranged video conference with George Bush, Iraq's prime minister said the US president promised to move swiftly to turn over full control of the Iraqi army to the Baghdad government. The prime minister was intentionally playing o
Buried in the 670 pages of the federal No Child Left Behind law was a requirement that high schools provide lists of students’ names, telephone numbers and addresses to military recruiters.
Police entered 2 classrooms at Middle and High School and announced there was a threat to the school. Students, who were unaware police were conducting a drill, were taken from the classroom into the halls, patted down and asked what they had in thei
The most significant element of Rove's effort to help 4-term Rep. Thomas Reynolds keep his job occurred behind closed doors meeting with a federal disaster relief official contemplating how to respond to the storm. 4 days later, Reynolds announce
Amid the onrush of Caligulan sex scandals, suspension of the Constitution, depressing bulletins from the Babylonian front, and all manner of bogus "events," a recent news item has passed with remarkably little public stir, despite being fea
Friends of freedom should doff their hats to the Hungarians this week. 50 years ago, the Hungarian people bravely expelled Soviet tanks from Budapest and proclaimed their intention to create a democracy. Shortly thereafter, the Soviets returned with
When George Bush became president, North Korea, Iraq, and Iran were signatories to the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and had made all their NPT proscribed materials, facilities, and activities subject to International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.
Frente a un escenario nacional en al cual el DF, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Morelos, Sinaloa y gran parte del país provocan Bagdad luzca como un apacible Disneylandia, el tercer informe de gobierno ofertado por el mandatario de mi estado, Eduardo Bours, vale
[good riddance] Nearly 40% of the scientists conducting hands-on research at the
National Institutes of Health are looking for other jobs to escape new ethics rules that have curtailed their opportunity to earn outside income.
Bolivia's leftist president, Evo Morales, took a key step forward in his bold plan to nationalize the country's gas and oil industries after foreign energy companies agreed to operate in the country under state control.
The United States will look to close ally Australia to provide some military muscle to U.N. sanctions against
North Korea once details are worked out, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said.
The U.S. military has begun looking more closely at shooting attacks on troops in
Iraq to establish whether they are carried out by snipers, according to a spokesman.
Border Patrol attrition rates doubled from 5 percent to 10 percent between the early and late 1990s, and then spiked to 18 percent in 2002. Additionally, 15 percent of recruits drop out before graduating from the 20-week academy, Fraser said.
(As of today, the site that lets you create the fake pass is no longer available) A 24-year-old computer security student working on his doctorate at Indiana University Bloomington has created a Web site allows anyone with an Internet connection
After infuriating Canada's ambassador to the US and offending black voters in Tennessee, a Republican TV commercial mocking Rep. Harold E. Ford has become a political liability for an unlikely third party: Wal-Mart. Under pressure from black le
Ahmad Chalabi, a former Pentagon favorite who was once Iraq's deputy prime minister, urged the US to open talks with Iran, saying Saturday that it could help reduce sectarian violence in Iraq and allow US forces to withdraw.
Just 10 days before Americans vote in midterm congressional elections that could result in a historic shift of power, the federal government is investigating whether anti-American Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may control the company
The ACLU on Friday dropped a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the USA Patriot Act. The ACLU said it was withdrawing the lawsuit file more than 3 years ago because of "improvements to the law". The Justice Dept argued last mont
Republican Sen. John McCain, a possible 2008 presidential candidate, said Friday that the US should send another 20,000 troops to Iraq. A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, McCain said increasing US forces would require expanding
WASHINGTON -- After offering incentives ranging from fancy kitchen upgrades to free swimming pools to move a glut of unsold homes, builders finally decided they needed to get serious about cutting prices.