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The major argument given for mandates such as Mr. Obama's preferred way to get people to insure their health care is that, well, by getting a lot of people to be part of the system, the cost of it all will not be as high as otherwise
Escalating violence and a vicious cycle of retaliation could leave Syria ungovernable even if a winner finally emerges from President Bashar al-Assad's battle with rebels.
Grover Norquist, the influential conservative activist, recently made some very frank and sobering remarks about the US military budget
Ecuador might take the case to the International Court of Justice, but would first try to convince London that it should allow Assange to travel to the South American country or give him guarantees he would not be extradited to the United States.
Time and again, the traditional agencies' analyses have lacked any foresight, even after the lessons of the subprime mortgage debacle.
‘Behavior recognition’ surveillance system will remain in place after convention ends
A family has been harassed by social services and police for the egregious crime of allowing their children to play outside in another example of how the nanny state is running wild in America.
The US government has long maintained, reasonably enough, that a defining tactic of terrorism is to launch a follow-up attack aimed at those who go to the scene of the original attack to rescue the wounded and remove the dead.
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The United States denied Julian Assange’s “wild assertions” that it has launched a witch-hunt for the WikiLeaks founder.. The US had nothing to do with efforts by Britain to extradite Assange, who is wanted for questioning by
Another multimillion-dollar fight over a ballot initiative – with big implications for the country – is brewing in California. The initiative has a mouthful of a name: the “California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act.”
The debate over red-light cameras and whether they make intersections safer or more dangerous is intensifying in Arizona, as several Valley cities alter or eliminate their camera programs.
An autopsy report released Monday backed up claims made by Arkansas police officers that an African-American man in custody shot himself in the head despite being handcuffed, according to the Associated Press. “He was cuffed and placed into a poli
In more than 6 years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloging mosques, the NY Police Dept's secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation
Insurgents hiding outside the heavily fortified Bagram Air Base fired a pair of rockets that damaged the parked C-17 transport plane used by Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, American and Afghan officials said.
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a key Obama administration rule to reduce harmful emissions from coal-burning power plants, sparking a rally in coal company shares and relief among utility firms. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. C
People think of him as hawkish on the budget, on expenses, but he voted for TARP. He voted for the auto bailout, voted for two stimulus in '08, voted against the '09 -- February '09 President Obama stimulus. How does he explain those
Take A.I.M. is a technique designed to help you mentally prepare to survive a deadly encounter (or any other kind apparently).
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Mars is at a primitive stage of plate tectonics. It gives us a glimpse of how the early Earth may have looked and may help us understand how plate tectonics began on Earth," said An Yin, a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciencesand the sole autho
Amish families are dispersed across 29 states — stretching from Montana to Florida — within 456 autonomous settlements, a sharp increase from the 179 settlements listed in the 1990 census. Analysts see no reason for this trend to slow and project the
With suicide rapidly becoming the leading cause of death among those assigned to carry out the Empire’s global mission of redemptive bloodshed, officially sanctioned drug use is reaching unprecedented levels. Notes the Los Angeles Times: "After two l
"We wanted to examine how the kinds of photos people see every day -- the ones that decorate newspaper or TV headlines, for example -- might produce "truthiness," said lead investigator Eryn J. Newman of Victoria University of Wellington, New Ze
nfortunately, scientists trying to construct an accurate picture of how such changes caused past climatic shifts have been thwarted by the fact that the most readily available marine geological record of ice-ages - changes in the ratio of oxygen isot
The Chinese solar giant is in deep trouble, but even its collapse wouldn't be enough to stabilize a massively oversupplied market.
The State of California, which gave us such outrages as the McMartin Case and the Kerns County prosecutions, claims to have learned its lesson, and the Sacramento Bee has solemnly assured iit no longer runs over the cliff when someone is accused of c
New data show emissions from January to March were the lowest in two decades
Riding the two motorcycles head-to-head on Ashland’s twisty, technical Green Springs Highway, it was the Triumph that had to work hard, using its extra power to keep up.
Roomba fans will soon be able to take their laziness passion to the yard. Honda has announced a robotic lawnmower, called Miimo,
Since the 1950s, the US has had a perverse approach to energy. In effect we have maximized demand by building bigger, hungrier cars, homes, and lifestyles and minimized supply by limiting oil drilling, coal mining, and nuclear development.
