Please don't call them "architects of the war": Richard (Prince of Darkness) Perle, David (Axis of Evil) Frum, Kenneth (Cakewalk) Adelman, and other elite neoconservatives who pushed for the invasion of Iraq are beside themselves at the
The White House sought on Thursday to head off further visits by U.S. lawmakers to
Syria, saying such trips undermine
President George W. Bush's message that Damascus must stop meddling in
Iraq and Lebanon.
Given rising metal prices, the pennies and nickels in your pocket are worth more melted down than their face value — and that has the government worried.
Creatures thriving at the hot and cold extremes of the marine environment have amazed scientists who are celebrating the discovery of 500 previously unknown species in the oceans in the past year.
[It always starts with the children.] The Justice Department is planning to detain an number of violent sex offenders after they have completed their federal prison sentences as part of a program aimed at protecting children,
The initiative, mode
The power brokers in Washington spent the week carefully arranging fig leaves and tasteful screens to cover the emperor’s nakedness while he was busy pretending to listen hard to everyone with an opinion about Iraq while hearing nothing.
When the Democrats take over Congress next month, they're almost certain to pass a temporary measure that will spare 23.4 million upper middle class taxpayers - about one in four tax filers - from a nasty surprise - at least for a year.
China's three largest state-owned commercial banks have suffered exchange losses of hundreds of millions of dollars as the local currency continues to rise in value.
Death penalty opponents criticized the execution of a convicted murderer who took more than half an hour to die and needed a rare second dose of lethal chemicals. "They had to execute him twice," Mark Elliot said. "If Floridians could
Iraqi police said gunmen traveling in 10 government cars and three pickup trucks descended on Sinak, an area in central Baghdad where car parts and agricultural equipment are sold, and rounded up about 30 shopkeepers and bystanders.
[Cha-ching] Congressional Democrats have a long list of priorities they'd like to enact when they assume the power of the majority in January. After all, they've been wandering in the political wilderness for 12 years. They've had lots of
Heeding the pleas of teenagers [Oh, please!] to help curb underage drinking, California authorities Wednesday moved to raise taxes on sugary alcohol beverages and remove them from convenience stores.
Drinks such as Smirnoff Ice, Mike's
First a little "political bedtime story" about how Washington has tried to "fix" everything but reality itself; then, why the withdrawal option, increasingly popular for the American public, is such poison to Washington's move
Joseph Brodsky eyes the freshly pulled double espresso with scorn. "This looks terrible," he mutters darkly. From its poorly foamed surface, he can tell the coffee has been extracted from the espresso machine in a few measly seconds rather
Instead of explaining why funding was being cut, FEMA provided only computer-generated program codes, Leon said. The judge ordered FEMA to explain those decisions. Sitcov said FEMA's computer system can only to produce program codes.
Burke filed a $1 trillion civil lawsuit against U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, claiming Colorado’s Republican lawmaker has wasted billions in pork barrel dollars while domestic needs and an ill-equipped U.S. military continue to be ignored.
Behind the dusty stools and the old towels, under the broken telephones and the picture frames, amid the spider webs, sits one of the country’s most important collections of artifacts devoted to the history of African-Americans.
The stomach flutter starts as a cop strolls up, or a patrol car flashes its lights, or two officers stand atop the escalator at the Jamaica Center in Queens and run their eyes over the subway riders. "I see a cop and I can't help it -- I fee
Stone's video-taped shot-from-the-hip "bet" to local advocate Maxine Ewig, allowing that he would arrange with a programmer to "set up an appointment with one of our machines and...verify that they can manipulate that machine,
Many people, for example, are not aware that in the 1930s the Russians had functioning free energy devices, or that at the same time the U.S. Navy and General Electric had a self-powering electrical project on the campus at Stanford University. These
Nanosolar roll-prints solar cells that require only 1/100th as thick an absorber as a silicon-wafer cell yet deliver similar performance and durability. The technology lowers the process cost making it possible to rapidly scale production.
Nanosolar will open one of the world's largest solar cell manufacturing facilities in South San Jose by spring, placing the city at the forefront of an emerging technology.
78 million is the number of baby boomers who are in or approaching retirement. That’s the biggest demographic bulge in U.S. history, fully 26% of the population.
And they are still carrying historic levels of debt and counting on shaky housing pric
Everywhere we go…everywhere we look…we see towers of money, property, derivatives, debt and credit. Towers in the stock market. Towers in the housing market. Towers stacked upon towers. So today, we take the unprecedented step of issuing a “Crash
“The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.” Sounds like the nightly news.
Right now, a nickel is the closest thing to "Honest Money" we have. We are in the ironic situation where the value of the dollar is falling but the value of a nickel is rising. In what time frame will the current (and probably soon to be co
Saddam Hussein and two top aides convicted with him will be executed immediately after an appeals court confirms their sentences and could be buried in secret, an Iraqi official has said.
The billions of dollars China has invested in the flagging American economy will be worthless. They will have to negotiate the exchange rate to the new amero. This will then force the creation of the North American Union.