Channel 10 reported Tuesday evening that Attorney General Menachem Mazuz plans to instruct Israel Police to launch an investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over 3 affairs he is allegedly connected to
A lawyer for a former CIA station chief accused of involvement in the alleged kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect withdrew from the case Tuesday, saying statements by Italian spymasters implicating US agents had underminded
Daniel Ortega, who led a Marxist government that spent the 1980's fighting US backed insurgents, returns to power Wednesday promising to respect free trade and private business and maintain relations with Washington. (Danny Boy, good luck)
Sirius Satellite Radio paid shock jock Howard Stern a bonus worth nearly $83 million Tuesday for surpassing subscriber goals set in a 2004 contract that had already turned heads with its $500 million compensation package.
Citizenship in the US is a highly valueable asset because it gives its owner enormous productive potential. American citizens are able to take advantage of the opportunities to combine their ambition, ingenuity and labor with an unparalleled
The nomination of retired Vice Admiral John Michael "Mike" McConnell to be Director of National Intelligence is part of an effort by the Vice President to tighten the Adminstration's grip on domestic intelligence and grease the wheels f
Many moons ago, a certain Senator named Barry Goldwater warned that it's possible that the US would adopt socialist policies borrowed from Communist countries, and communist countries would adopt more capitalist ideas. Vietnam is one of them.
President George W. Bush's brand of conservatism is something completely foreign to traditional norms. He has outspent even the most liberal administrations. He has led the nation into undeclared foreign wars under false pretenses.
Bush needs someone with experience in managing escalations and he needs look no further than this man. It is Negroponte who oversaw the implementation of the "Salvador Option" in Iraq, as it was referred to in Newsweek in January 2005.
Although escalation would help Bush retain what remains of his political base, it is totally unnecessary. He doesn't have to run again for re-election. He doesn't have to throw more troops to their deaths to rhetorically say he has done all h
For sale: the world's smallest country with its own flag, stamp, currency, passports. Apply to Prince Michael of Sealand if you want to run your own nation, even if it is just a wartime fort perched on 2 concrete towers in the North Sea.
US spending on health care hit nearly $2 trillion in 2005, fueled by the cost of hospital care, doctor fees and prescription drugs, government experts said in an annual report released on Tuesday.(I'm from the government, and we will make you hea
There's no need to riffle through our love letters and birthday cards, recipe exchanges and condolences without a warrant. But that's what you have reserved the power to do. Last month, in signing Postal Service legislation, you declared yo
Any system that encrypts your entire hard drive is overkill for most PC users. I prefer encrypted safes, which are files that contain encrypted folders and files. To the outside world, a safe looks like a big file filled with gobbledygook.
Another indication of how totailitarian the US has become. I have been monitoring via email updates the ongoing American Historical Association conference now being held in Atlanta. I would love to attend one of the AHA conferences
With the release of "Freedom to Fascism", I've been going back and forth. Here's a website that has an opposing view. I know what this site represents, but it's good to know both sides, even though I think the pro side is wron
Israeli pilots have been making the 2,000-mile run to Gibraltar to train for strikes with bunker-busting nuclear bombs on Iran's heavy water plant at Arak, the uranium hexaflouride facility at Isfahan and the centrifuge cascade at Natanz.
Bombers, fighter jets and attack helicopters unleashed a thundering attack today as U.S. and Iraqi troops closed in on a web of irrigation canals east of Baghdad where they thought Sunni Arab insurgents were massing.
The predawn strikes shook the
"It's a fundamental constitutional principle that Congress can initiate and regulate war," law Prof. Neil Kinkopf of Georgia State University told United Press International.
Kinkopf, a former Clinton administration Justice Departmen
The cost of building and maintaining a double set of steel fences along 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border could be five to 25 times greater than congressional leaders forecast last year, or as much as $49 billion over the expected 25-year life span
A Dallas-based pizza chain which caters to the Hispanic community is accepting the Mexican currency at all of its 59 U.S. stores starting on Monday, giving the greenback some unusual competition at the cash register.
With the new Democratically-controlled Congress taking power it's time to start thinking about congressional hearings that would lead to impeachment trials. That the Bush Administration has committed impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanor
When the World Trade Center and Pentagon were hit by hijacked commercial airplanes, the majority of the American public reacted with shock and surprise, as well as anger and fear. As though history had begun with those attacks.
All of the global economic development efforts may be for naught if the Mexican Civic Association for Silver are not successful in bringing honest money back into circulation in Mexico; providing a model for the rest of the world to follow.
Chinese police have killed 18 people in a raid on an alleged militant training camp in the western autonomous region of Xinjiang, officials say.
One policeman was killed and another injured in the raid.
Insurgents using simple cell-phone cameras, laptop editing programs and the Web are beating the United States in the fierce battle for Iraqi public opinion.
Some experts in Washington are looking beyond the question of US troop levels to what might happen if worst-case scenarios come true. Call it Plan B: How the United States might handle Iraq's partition?
Archaeologists in the Netherlands have uncovered what they believe is part of the military road Roman soldiers patrolled nearly 2,000 years ago while guarding against hostile Germanic tribes at the Roman Empire's northern boundary.
Villagers whose crops have failed after a second devastating drought are giving their young daughters in marriage to raise money for food. [What we have wraught.]