While everyone was busy crapping on the late and over-hyped Windows Vista (it didn't break down during the demonstration, thankfully) Microsoft was busy invading your living room, and it's a two-pronged attack:
Monday's wire stories tell an interesting collection of fear brought to you by the mainstream media and your government. I am sure it is only a coincidence....[updated with new scare]
At least a dozen motorists who used cash to pay their parking tickets to Hudson, Ohio police have been ripped off. Police dispatcher Russell D. McCormick, 37, was arrested yesterday for allegedly stealing $1400 in motorist payments over two years.
The most common state police tactic is to accuse a motorcyclist of a felony, initiate the seizure proceeding, then drop the charges. This allows police to keep the sport bike without the effort of a court battle or the danger of a not guilty verdict
There is something about giving a man a badge, a uniform and a gun which turns him into a thug. Or maybe those things merely attract people who are already thugs.
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NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have stumbled upon alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist theorizes in a paper.
While the initial big die-offs are still blamed on the Conquistadors who started arriving in 1519, even more virulent epidemics in 1545 and 1576 may have been caused by a native blood-hemorrhaging fever spread by rats, Mexican researchers say.
President Bush’s new Iraq policy will establish a series of goals that the Iraqi government will be expected to meet to try to ease sectarian tensions and stabilize the country politically and economically, senior administration officials said Sunday
Nearly two years ago, John Evans did something no U.S. ambassador to Armenia before him had done: He used the word "genocide" — in public — to describe the deaths of about 1.2 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks.
Starting in the new year, the government declassified 270 million pages of FBI files -- but if you tried to access them, you'd have been told that none of them are available, and won't be, maybe for years.
Many Kurds regret the chief suspect can no longer face justice for his role in the Anfal campaign against them, thanks to an earlier trial for crimes against humanity for killing Shi'ites -- but they hope others share his fate on the gallows.
A nuclear warhead nearly exploded in Texas when it was being dismantled at the government's Pantex facility near Amarillo. The warhead nearly detonated because an unsafe amount of pressure was applied while it was being disassembled
Antitank mines have become one of the top threats as U.S. and Iraqi forces press their assault in a Sunni insurgent redoubt said to be riddled with weapons caches, secret tunnels and training ranges. Their convoys have hit at least 10 explosive devic
The Department of Homeland Security has a special office that monitors the “privacy implications” of its plans. A more honest name would be “The Office of Public Pacification,” as it repeatedly assures the reader that their “privacy” is secure.
The violent conflict between Hamas and Fatah is a by-product of Secretary Rice’s economic siege of the Palestinians; retribution and collective punishment for their audacity to elect leaders other than deemed appropriate to US agendas.
Already under way to expand the US civilian presence across Iraq and complete the world’s largest embassy in Baghdad. Fears that the overwhelming diplomatic presence will perpetuate a sense of US occupation and become a focus of local anger.
Sending 25,000 additional troops to clear Baghdad house by house. Then not pull back to their bases but remain stationed in Baghdad neighborhoods, providing security for civilians. "We can clear and hold critical terrain in Baghdad,"
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The invasion would not have occurred had Americans not been persuaded of its wisdom and necessity, and leading that charge was a stable of pundits and media analysts. Yet there seems to be no accountability for these pro-war pundits.
The twisting and turning, the double- and –triple-talk, the obfuscation and evasion – is there any limit to the Democrats’ duplicity when it comes to ending the Iraq war?
After Rehnquist checked himself into George Washington Univ. Hospital, he exhibited a common symptom of Placidyl-withdrawal and became delirious. Believing that the CIA was plotting against him, he fled the hospital in his pajamas.
Arizona State University is teaching that the US, Mexico and Canada need to be integrated into a unified superstate, where citizens of the future will be known as "North Americanists," in a taxpayer-funded "Building North Americ
Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days. The US gov
Families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush’s tax cuts, according to a new Congressional study.
The newly appointed archbishop of Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus, abruptly resigned at a Mass meant to celebrate his new position after having admitted two days earlier that he had worked with the Polish Communist-era secret police.
The new American operational commander in Iraq said that even with the additional American troops likely to be deployed in Baghdad under President Bush’s new war strategy it might take another “two or three years” for American and Iraqi forces to gai
"What should we say about a Chief Justice who suggests that it is a 'constitutional crisis' if Congress takes advantage of its constitutional prerogatives to refuse to raise the salaries of federal judges? US Supreme Court, frankly have
Qin, 31, spent a month in jail on criminal charges because of a poem he wrote satirizing local officials accused of corruption. He was released only after several out-of-town newspaper articles related his fate and the central government in Beijing s
Conservatives who supported President Bush's reelection have joined liberal groups in expressing outrage over his administration's broad use of anti-terrorism laws to reject asylum for thousands of people seeking refuge from persecution.
[spine?] Democratic leaders who had hoped to emphasize their domestic agenda in the opening weeks of Congress have concluded that Iraq will share top billing, and they plan on aggressively confronting administration officials this week in a series of
When American soldiers woke Saddam Hussein in his cell near Baghdad airport at 3:55 a.m., they told him to dress for a journey to Baghdad. He had followed the routine dozens of times before, traveling by helicopter in the predawn darkness to the cour