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The NSA is not required to release details about its secret wiretapping program, a federal judge said Monday. The People of the American Way Foundation, a liberal advocacy group, sued to obtain records under the FOIA. The group sought to find out h
Remembering Milton Friedman's views on the war on drugs. He was an outspoken opponent of prohibition and spoke truth to power about this challenging issue.
Looking to draw attention to the "worst form of bigotry confronting America," BU's College Republicans are circulating an application for a "Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship" that requires applicants be at lea
None of the laws and constitutional amendments passed in response to Kelo seem especially reactionary or revolutionary. Rather there has been an effort to return to pre-Kelo standards.
An essay proposing that governments and politics, i.e., the state, can be best regarded as a giant organism (superorganism) and that it would be analytically useful to do so. Such an organism has properties common to other organisms such as ant hills
Feel frustrated when a jangling bracelet or pocket full of coins sets off security screeners as you make your way into a government building? Consider the Sikhs, whose religion requires them to always wear a dagger.
According to Congressional leaders, free trade agreements are supposed to increase American jobs and productivity. The first three parts of this series have clearly demonstrated that just the opposite is true.
Six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and questioned by police for several hours before being released, a leader of the group said.
In an apparent bid to counter U.S. influence in the region, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad invited his Iraqi and Syrian counterparts to a weekend summit in Tehran to tackle the chaos in Iraq, Iraqi lawmakers said .
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers flew to Saudi Arabia to reassure government officials there that Homaidan Al-Turki was treated fairly when he was convicted of sexually abusing an Indonesian nanny held a virtual captive in his Aurora home.
A U.S. district court judge has ordered the FBI to correct disclosures regarding the US government's evacuation of Saudi royals and bin Laden family members after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
According to this organization, here are the 25 top stories that the major media didn't touch. Notice the 1st story!!!
Even if the Democrats could be relied on to hold the line against insane military adventurism against Iran — and, frankly, listening to their leading lights I have my doubts — that’s unlikely to make any difference to the question of whether or not I
The White House dismissed a classified CIA draft assessment that found no conclusive evidence of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program, the New Yorker reported.
British police are investigating the poisoning of a former Russian spy and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin and have placed him under protective guard at a London hospital, a Scotland Yard spokesman said.
As more access is granted to a citizenry that's been left behind, users are well aware that they're being watched.
Mercenaries have been the "dogs of war" who fight nasty little campaigns in Africa. But for a new kind of soldier of fortune, the fighting in Iraq has proved to be a pot of gold. Private security companies' hired guns have grown into th
Three Dominican nuns who broke into a Colorado nuclear-missile silo say there's no chance of them paying restitution to the U.S. Air Force -- even if it means serving more prison time. Instead, the no-nukes nuns are trying to settle their $3,082
A diplomatic row erupted between London and Washington over George Bush's bid to cover up the way bungling US soldiers killed British servicemen in Iraq. The President's envoy in the UK has been summoned to a humiliating dressing down in Whit
Milton Friedman and I had our differences about foreign policy. I tried, in vain, to persuade him to be against the first Gulf war.
The coming showdown between the U.S. and Russia, centered in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Relations between Russia and Georgia, never good, degenerated recently when members of Georgian opposition parties were arrested, along with four Russ
If the Democrats won, the Vice-President said, that victory would not stop the Administration from pursuing a military option with Iran. The White House would put “shorteners” on any legislative restrictions, and thus stop Congress from getting in it
More than 7,000 prisoners have been captured in America's war on terror. Just 700 ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Between extraordinary rendition to foreign jails and disappearance into the CIA's "black sites", what happened to the rest
US Rep. Charles Rangel, the incoming chairman of the House of Representatives' tax-writing committee, said he would introduce legislation to reinstate the draft as soon as the new, Democratic-controlled Congress convenes in January.
The US lacks sufficient intelligence on Iran's nuclear facilities at this time, which prevents it from initiating a military strike against them, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told European politicians and diplomats with whom she has re
The International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation governing board has repeatedly asked Iran not to pursue the Arak heavy water reactor project. Tehran has vowed to complete it and applied for IAEA expertise to ensure it meets safety standards
The loser of Mexico's presidential election plans to inaugurate himself today as the "legitimate president of Mexico," an act of defiance that could portend years of political chaos for President-elect Felipe Calderón.
Several years ago word got round that the US government was going to put an RFID chip into a passport. Privacy advocates rallied and ranted about the insecurity of the techology, the lack of standards, the foibles of technological advance, and the m
My parents, longtime Republicans, lived in Arizona before their death. I lived there too. They voted for Republican presidents like Eisenhower. You remember Ike? He commanded a lot of troops in Europe before he became president. Ike said: "
We see the open dissemination of ideas as conducive to competition - the best ideas of different programmers compet to produce code that is first rate.
