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How much would you sell your private data to a company for? Would you take $100 to let someone see every site your have visited over the past year, how about $1,000? Today, many major companies spend millions collecting
Entered By: Jean Carbonneau
In the controversy now raging over whether income inequality in America is growing a lot or a little, some pro-market people say it doesn't matter. This attitude is unjustified, not to mention harmful to the cause of invididual freedom because i
Bush adminstration official acknowledged Friday that they had yet to compile evidence strong enough to back up publicly their claims that Iran is fomenting violence against US troops in Iraq. Adminstration officials have long complained that Iran
The Bush administration, which made exaggerated or false claims about Iraq's weapons programs and ties to al-Qaida to justify its 2003 invasion of Iraq, hasn't provided evidence to back up its charges that Iranian-backed Shiites, have mounted
Keeping troops in Iraq for another year and a half will cost nearly a quarter-trillion dollars — about $800 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. this year— under the budget President Bush will submit to Congress Monday.
The Pentagon is expected to send Congress a $622.6 billion defense budget for 2008. The sum includes $141.7 billion to continue fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The numbers were confirmed by a Pentagon official Feb. 2.
"All our client did was get up at a public meeting and express himself vigorously, and he was arrested for it," said Glen Lenhoff, Leonard's attorney.
No matter what you believe about who was responsible for 9/11, and how it went down, we're all amazed at how much political capital the events of that day produced for this administration: A bipartisan consensus on torture; an era of permanent wa
Apparently snippets of the Iran NIE are given a little corner inside the Iraq NIE just released (the declas parts of it). The consensus among all 16 intelligence agencies debunks the latest White House talking point (something along the lines of
Recruits are training to fight Iran, one of the four countries that rule the fractured Kurdish people. And although they belong to an organization officially outlawed as terrorist by Washington, they appear to be operating unhindered either by Iraqi-
"It's clear the intent was to get attention by causing fear and unrest that there was a bomb in that location," the prosecutor said. But White-Lief said the only intent was to get people to watch a cartoon.
Scooter Libby acknowledged in November 2003 that he and Vice President Cheney may have talked in July about whether to tell reporters that Valerie Plame worked at the CIA bolsters Cheney being behind this whole sordid tale.
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Entered By: Powell Gammill
Universities from Massachusetts to California began receiving formal requests for information from the NY attorney general investigating financial relationships they or individual college officials have with student loan companies.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are close to developing a new composite with an internal structure resembling fudge-ripple ice cream that is actually comprised of environmentally safe materials to do the job even bet
To meet its 2006 goal, the Army hired more recruiters, raised the maximum allowable age for recruits, doubled the percentage of recruits who scored low on aptitude tests, issued waivers for some recruits' prior convictions, and significantly incr
The deputy director of force health protection and readiness at the Defense Department, said the previous method of tallying casualties was misleading and might have made injuries and combat wounds seem worse and more numerous than they really were.
Four months ago, Baker was one of 71 people arrested during a protest in Washington for crossing a police line to sit on the steps of a Senate office building. As punishment, the 60-year-old was sentenced to sweep the streets of the nation's capi
President Bush’s national security advisers have ordered a delay in publication of evidence intended to support Washington’s contention that Iran supplies lethal technology and other aid to militias in Iraq, senior administration officials said.
Increasingly concerned about the escalating rhetoric against Iran by senior U.S. officials, including President George W. Bush, members of Congress are trying to put limits on his ability to attack the Islamic Republic.
While congressional Democrats test how far they should go in challenging George W. Bush’s war powers, the time may be running out to stop Bush from ordering a major escalation of the Middle East conflict by attacking Iran.
The Navy intended us to know our obligations under the Hague Conventions of 1889 and 1907, the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Nuremberg Conventions. They have legal standing as US law having been ratified by our Senate.
It is worth pondering why it is that, after nearly 4 years of effort, the loss of thousands of American lives, and an outlay of perhaps half-a-trillion dollars, the US has not succeeded in pacifying a small country of some 24 million people, much
Marcus Aurelius once said, "Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." That is the reason we study history: to recognize the mistakes our race has made before and to learn fr
The White House has manufactured a crisis that pits the United States against Iran. In what looks like the military and diplomatic equivalent of a full court press, Washington has unleashed a barrage of threats, maneuvers and limited military actions
A federal judge found that the president of the United States broke the law, committed a serious felony and violated the Constitution. Had the president been an ordinary citizen the F.B.I. would have conducted an investigation, a United States attorn
Senior Congressional Democrats are brushing off questions about cutting off funding for the Iraq war, and indicate they will do little to forcefully stop President George W. Bush from sending 21,500 additional U.S. troops to Iraq.
As George W. Bush himself approved of Saddam Hussein's fate being decided by the Iraqi people, let's hold him and Cheney to the same legal standard and afford them the same measure of dignity in considering their high crimes and treason, unju
New York officials claim this was an isolated mistake and that police review tickets before they are issued. In this case, it is clear an SUV appears in the photograph, not a boat. Nonetheless, the city's camera program has generated more than $1
Texas has become the first state to require schoolgirls to be vaccinated against sexually transmitted HPV. The order was imposed not by the legislature, but by a fiat from governor Rick Perry.
