Rove's RNC address was a rare public appearance at a time when he remains under investigation in the CIA leak case that resulted in the indictment and resignation of Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
A Swiss businessman won the keys to James Bond's silver 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe on Friday with a $1.9 million bid at an annual classic car auction in Arizona.
Angered by a Supreme Court ruling that gave local governments more power to seize people's homes for economic development, a group of activists is trying to get one of the court's justices evicted from his own home.
I’m betting that Jerry Bremer, former 'viceroy' of Baghdad, had sent his new book to the publishers before mid-summer of last year, since he neglected to edit out 2 embarrassing associations with Ziad Cattan, now a fugitive involving $1.2 bil
US Sen. Conrad Burns (R_MT), met with a Marianas official who had close ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff in the weeks before Burns received an Abramoff-related $5,000 contribution from the Marianas and reversed his earlier position on a bill
“It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments. Ideologically it belongs in the
Today’s hearing, rescheduled by Senator Jack Harper (R), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Accountability and Reform, sought to clarify election integrity issues (see, Election Integrity in Arizona is a Bi-Partisan Reform) involving myst
Just before Ford Motor Co. announces a major restructuring in Detroit, the company has called top Canadian Auto Workers officials to a meeting on Monday morning, fuelling union worries about more closures and job cuts in Canada.
Embattled White House adviser Karl Rove vowed to make the war on terrorism a central campaign issue. "Republicans have a post-9/11 view of the world. And Democrats have a pre-9/11 view of the world," he said.
Mary Ann Wright quit a 30-year Army and diplomatic career in protest of the Iraq war. She's now a soldier for the antiwar movement. As an Army colonel and diplomat, Mary Ann Wright served her country for more than 30 years in some of the most iso
The horror began after American and Iraqi forces cordoned off part of a highway north of Baghdad following the deadly crash of a US helicopter.
With traffic directed onto narrow dirt roads, insurgents turned the area into a killing field. They set
Along with the $37 billion fund, another $24 billion from US taxpayers has been ordered for Iraqi reconstruction. With $4 billion pledged by other countries, more than $60 billion ... has been stolen or misspent.
The kind of subpoena cited is for documents or records, not testimony, and require records to be turned over before trial so the defense team can review them. Libby's team said it expects a delay in the trial while news organizations fight the su
Osama bin Laden has a book recommendation for you. In the audiotape the al-Qaida leader said: "It would be useful for you [Americans] to read the book Rogue State." [by William Blum] And, Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the
The father of an American jailed for fighting alongside the Taliban in
Afghanistan said on Thursday his son had been tortured and unjustly punished amid public hysteria over the September 11 attacks.
There has been a subtle yet incredibly important change with the way the Internet is used. It's been going on for at least a couple of years, but lately we're beginning to feel the enormous cumulative effects. When people speak of Web 2.0 the
Amazonian hunter-gatherers who lack written language and who have never seen a math book score highly on basic tests of geometric concepts and that suggests geometry may be hard-wired into the brain.
"We'll spread snipers in all of Iraq's cities," said Abu Huda al-Aslam, a senior member of the Iraqi militant group Mujahideen Army Brigades, who served in Saddam Hussein's army. "We will focus on planting roadside bombs,**
One reason why interest in Judas has suddenly arisen is that a long-lost "Gospel of Judas," an apocryphal or inauthentic account of Jesus's life, is due to be published this spring. Despite reports to the contrary, the Catholic Church i
Right-to-privacy groups said an attempt by the Bush administration to force Google Inc. to turn over a broad range of materials from its databases set a dangerous precedent that should worry all Americans.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the real estate market was slowing "dramatically" and only a "miracle" could stop soaring mortgage rates from eating into housing prices.
A weakening dollar and economic life in Europe and Japan are expected this year to boost foreign earnings for U.S. corporations. After growing just 5% last year, U.S. foreign affiliate income should rise nearly 10% in 2006
The yield curve has inverted 5 times in the past 3 decades, according to Merrill Lynch. In all 5 cases, the economy was in recession a year later. Late last month, when the yield on the 10-year T-note fell below the yield on the 2-year T-note, the Do
The indictment tells a story of 4½ years of arson, vandalism, violence and destruction executed on behalf of the ALF or ELF extremist movements to support acts of domestic terrorism, AG Alberto "The Rack" Gonzales said.
Are we really all “children at heart”? Or, instead, are we all Disney progeny, merely comforted by a myriad of illusions about our youth?
I challenge you, Reader, to think about this very carefully.
Iraq's Shi'ites were confirmed in power by election results with a near- majority, opened negotiations with Kurds and Sunni Arabs on a national unity government. Baghdad sealed off by security forces on alert for attacks by Sunni rebels who a
The conservative Shiite United Iraqi Alliance took 128 of parliament's 275 seats and their allies in the previous government, the Kurdish Alliance took 53 seats, leaving them only three seats short of the two thirds majority needed to elect a pre
Offering a sneak preview of his economic State of the Union,
President Bush said that budget deficits do not justify tax increases. "The best way to solve the deficit is to grow the economy, not run up your taxes," Bush told a friendly cro
Mike Richwalsky has an online helper who keeps him informed. It tells him when his friends post new items on their websites or new photos to sites like Flickr. It advises him on what Netflix movies he might want to rent and gives him the latest scoop
Cuba will be allowed to play in the World Baseball Classic, after all. The US
Treasury Department issued a license allowing the Cubans to participate in the 16-team tournament