Since taking office, Bush has increased domestic discretionary spending at a rate greater than any president since LBJ. He has also increased defense spending by 50 percent and doubled spending on homeland security.
PHOENIX, ARIZONA - Two major Phoenix events have been announced that will coincide with the 10-year anniversary of "The Phoenix Lights" UFO incident. Posted Posted: 23:30 January 30, 2007 (just in case...)
"I went in, took care of things, went out, and I washed my hands, and that was just fine, there was soap there. And when I was done washing my hands, I turned to look." Ryan said. "And there were no paper towels."
"This is not an emergency," said Nelson, who routinely works closely with the governor, also a Republican. She said she plans to ask Attorney General Greg Abbott for an opinion on the legality of Perry's order. "It needs to be dis
"I think we have to start thinking about a war on terrorism tax," Lieberman said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Bush's defense budget. "I mean, people keep saying we're not asking a sacrifice of anybody but
In some cities in Europe and the US, a person can be videotaped by surveillance camera hundreds of times a day, and it's safe to say that most of the time no one is actually watching. But the advent of "intelligent video" -- software t
As children today spend so much time watching TV and are influenced by the programming and advertising they see, (and which you control) and as the problem of childhood obesity rises, (the FCC has decided to become the media parents.)
Like many of his colleagues, Abu Zaid was issued an Austrian-made Glock pistol when he joined the new US trained and equipped Iraqi police force. But after narrowly escaping death twice, including being shot at near a polling station in Baghdad.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched its long-awaited online movie download store, entering a market that has yet to catch on with consumers but is expected to grow rapidly. A "beta" version of the online video store, which debuted Tuesday
The deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in London, said Washington was not trying to hide the truth of the incident but has its own procedures for investigations. It was reviewing whether the cockpit video could be declassified.
Adoption of RFID tags did not meet projections last year, but baggage tracking, fashion and smartcards will to drive growth this year. RFID analyst IDTechEx says sale of one billion tags in 2006 was below forecasts but more than 1.7 billion tags
Proponents of same-sex marriage in Washington state have introduced a ballot measure that would require heterosexual couple of have a child within 3 years or have their marriages annulled. The Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance
The Sun today publishes the full, disturbing truth about how the US pilot of an A-10 tankbuster jet broke all the rules the shoot up a British convoy in the Iraq war. We obtained the cockpit videotape at the centre of a diplomatic row between the 2
(because they can) Second, privacy will take center stage, as Congress confronts the problem of authorizing and controlling mass surveillance by government agents, while making little change in the rules that permit targeted surveillance of individua
A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the US and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Malik's ruling coalition, according to US military intelligence. Jamal Jafaar Mohamme
Eminet domain is the power of government to forcibly take private real estate from the title holders. Under the Constitution of the US, the Fifth Amendment limits the power of eminet domain, stating: "nor shall private property be taken
A US-Iraqi offensive against militants in Baghdad will begin within days and take place on a scale never seen during 4 years of war, American officers said yesterday. A military spokesman, meanwhile, acknowledged for the first time that hostile fire
The maker of the iPod and the guardian of the Beatles' music resolved their long-simmering dispute yesterday over who has the right to the Apple trademark. The settlement between Apple Inc. and Apple Corps -- which holds the rights to the band**
In a historic ruling against the FBI, a federal court jury unanimously held that the FBI illegally retaliated against Jane Turner, a 25-year veteran agent. The federal jury found that the FBI retaliated against Ms. Turner when it downgraded her perf
President Bush denied that his 2008 budget contained a hidden timeline for the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. Bush denied that he was setting a timeline for the end of the war by assuming that by 2009 war spending would be down to 50 billion doll
Zimbabwe's national security minister has told the country's last remaining white farmers that they will be jailed if they refuse to abide by a deadline that passed for them to leave their farms.
Unable to put the Iraq war on trial, the lawyer for Lt. Ehren Watada launched an attack on the military legal proceedings against his client.
Said rulings that have gone against the officer rendered the proceedings "almost comical" and at
An Iranian diplomat was abducted Sunday evening when his convoy was stopped by men with official Defense Ministry identification in the Karrada neighborhood here, senior Iraqi and American officials said.
The director of the political office in Diyala Province for the powerful anti-American Shiite militia leader Moktada al-Sadr was shot and killed by troops during a raid on Sunday, a Sadr political spokesman said.
I differ with your views in two regards. You write as though the past 60 years of US policy in the Middle East amount to little more than a series of stupid and unsuccessful episodes. Of course, if one supposes that these policies were intended to re
Former CIA analyst, and author of the trilogy Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic and now Nemesis: the Last Days of the American Republic, Chalmers Johnson di
U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday asked a skeptical, Democrat-run Congress to approve $700 billion in new military spending -- much of it for the Iraq war -- and to curb many domestic programs.