A key Republican senator joined Democrats in dismissing a fresh White House request to confirm John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, imperiling the administration's effort to keep him in the post.
At the SuperComputing 2006 conference next week in Tampa, Florida, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will release benchmark tests showing how specialized graphics processing units, or GPUs, developed for the games indus
Oil prices rose above $61 a barrel Thursday in reaction to figures showing lower U.S. gasoline and diesel fuel inventories. [Well it's a good thing they weren't lower Tuesday, or the Dems might have taken the Senate big time.]
Based on the book, On Death and Dying, Swiss-born psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote that there were five stages that someone goes through when dying. Republicans are going through the same process.
The Bush administration and the Republican Congress could not defend themselves on their public record and urgently needed to change the subject. They required new fields of combat -- not the Iraq war, certainly not convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff,
After minutes upon minutes of soul-searching, Republicans are now in recrimination mode. And the GOP's various factions all agree: This wouldn't have happened if the party had listened to us.
Signed on to the notion that it was a good war, the right war, executed badly, because Rumsfeld adhered to some bizarre capital-intensive theory of warfare. In other words, if Rumsfeld had simply sent more troops, the outcome would have been differen
On October 17th, with Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, and Donald Rumsfeld standing behind him, George W. Bush solemnly announced, “in memory of the victims of September 11th, it is my honor to sign the Military Commissions Act of 2006 into law.”
The worst thing the Japanese did to you, worse than even the white skin of your whole body turning "a uniform blue-black, swollen and puffy, like velvet in texture" from being beaten with axe-handles?"
US Army Rangers swept through the canyon in a Humvee, blasting away; here the doomed man waved his arms, pleading for recognition as a friend, not an enemy. "Cease fire, friendlies, I am Pat (expletive) Tillman, damn it!" he shouted, again
Open or Closed Borders - Jacob "Bumper" Hornberger from Future of Freedom Foundation - Frosty Wooldridge 21st Century Paul Revere Ride - Minutemen's Al Garza - Mexican president elect advisor Ricardo Valenzuela
Timothy Moultrie is a grass roots activist in South Carolina who is determined to change his state. A long time teacher he is a founding member of STOPtaxes there. His candidacy for State Superintendent of Education was undermined by Howie Rich and
Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn told the Jewish Federation of Chicago that the Lebanon war was an unprecedented test to Israel's military and withing a year or two the Jewish State will no longer be Washington's center of attenti
Israeli artillery shelled houses in northern Gaza, killing at least 19 Palestinians, including five women and seven children, the youngest a one-year-old baby girl, hospital officials said. It was the deadliest single Israeli strike killing civilians
"This election," Viguerie said, "was also a referendum on the so-called 'neoconservatives' -- the Big Government Republicans who took us into a nation-building war while they busted the budget and enriched Big Business and its
A gene associated with depression and other forms of mental illness may enlarge an area of the brain that handles negative emotions, U.S. researchers reported.
Google accidentally sent out e-mail containing a mass mailing worm to about 50,000 members of an e-mail discussion list focused on its Google Video Blog, the company said.
Activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested as she led about 50 protesters to a White House gate Wednesday to deliver anti-war petitions she said were signed by 80,000 Americans.
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to urge the United States to end its 45-year-old trade embargo against Cuba after defeating an amendment calling on
Fidel Castro's government to free political prisoners and respect human rights.
When former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw insisted last month that female Muslim constituents show their faces when meeting with him, he set off a fiery debate about whether the face-covering niqab should be allowed in Britain's multicultu
A probe into damaging cash-for-honours charges closed in on Prime Minister
Tony Blair, as it emerged that police had contacted every member of his cabinet except the Labour leader over the affair.
[trading corruption for corruption] Sen. Harry Reid regulated gambling in his home state of Nevada when the mob controlled casinos. He mastered arcane Senate procedures as the Democrats' second-in-command for six years and their leader the past t
Last week, the ISRO chairman had told NDTV why ISRO wanted to send an Indian to space on its own rocket and an Indian to the moon six years after that.
Although earlier attempts at retina transplantation using embryonic stem cells failed, the researchers say that by using stem cells at a later stage of development, they were able to repair damaged retinas in the mice.
Serious disagreements regularly accompany fossil discoveries, from disputes over the relation of Neanderthals to modern people to whether dinosaurs had started disappearing before they ultimately vanished 65 million years ago.
Neanderthals may have given the modern humans who replaced them a priceless gift -- a gene that helped them develop superior brains, U.S. researchers reported.