The supreme irony of President Bush's campaign to blame Iran for the sectarian civil war in Iraq, and attacks on US forces, is that the Shi'ite militias started to drive the Sunnis out of Baghdad in 2004 with the support of Iran and the neoco
A senior Justice Department official acknowledged yesterday that a top federal prosecutor in Arkansas was removed to make room for a former aide to presidential adviser Karl Rove, but he said that six other U.S. attorneys were fired for "perform
A furniture deliveryman who was shot last month by a Prince George's County homeland security official has recovered to the point where he is able to speak, an attorney for the man said.
Vice President Cheney regarded a former ambassador's accusations that President Bush misled the nation in going to war in Iraq as an unparalleled political assault and held daily discussions about how to debunk them.
They'd effectively be admitting to leaking Plame's ID after having learned of it through classified channels, making it a possible violation of the IIPA (barring, of course, a Cheney claim to have declassified Plame's identity before leak
Step forward, Jeremy Grantham -- Cheney's own investment manager. "What were we thinking?' Grantham demands in a four-page assault on U.S. energy policy mailed last week to all his clients, including the vice president.
As professors at Southern Methodist University have mobilized against the plans to build President Bush’s library there, their focus has not been the library, but a policy institute to be affiliated with it that would have as its mission promoting th
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has agreed to mediate a long-running dispute over government reimbursement for land that was taken during World War II. The case involves 36,000 acres of farmland, and the valuable natural resource
Low-cost, illuminated signage for todays responsible citizen courtesy of the GRL and the Eyebeam OpenLab. This tutorial will explain the tools and processes we used to combine LED christmas lights, plexi-glass and rope to make our own low-power signa
Baghdad's streets were electric with tension Wednesday as U.S. officials confirmed the new security operation was under way. U.S. armor rushed through streets and Iraqi armored personnel carriers guarded bridges and major intersections.
The impending confrontation between New Hampshire tax-resister Ed Brown and local authorities is reaching a turning point, according to several sources. Coverage of the situation by mainstream media may be fomenting what he terms "a Waco-Style M
(Video - If America doesn't get back to representing the rights of the smallest minority, the individual, no one stands a chance against the whims of a young, energetic and angry majority)
(I know I'm being cute here) Australina country singer Keith Urban has filed a suite against a New Jersey painter also called Keith Urban, claiming the painter's use of the domain Keithurban.com is misleading. The painter's website says
The Chinese government is taking action to implement a new policy of diversifying the disposal of the country's over US$1 trillion foregin exchange reserves which was initiated by the Central Conference on Financial Affairs three weeks ago.
Some of our members contacted us yesterday after listening to the Sean Hannity Show. Though we didn't hear it ourselves, our members indicated that Mr. Hannity accused the Birch Society of being liberal. (this whole left-right debate has to go)
Is this just bad math or political math spin by the President?
The actual number of troops being sent to Iraq may be close to 40,000.
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Two of the government's top investigators told lawmakers Tuesday that the Homeland Security Department has delayed and complicated their investigations, specifically because of the problems they have had with the department's office of genera
Russian prosecutors have leveled new charges against imprisoned oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and one of his partners, accusing the fallen businessmen of money laundering and embezzlement in the theft of $20 billion from Yukos
A secret air war is being waged in Iraq -- often in and around that country's populations centers -- about which we can find out little. The US military keeps information on the munitions expended in its air effort under tight wraps, refusing to
From the Neo-Con think tank members who brought you PNAC (Policy for New American Century) and the modern tempo of Mid-East foreign policy. What was one of the more outspoken Neo-Con supporters hyping to these West Point grads. What was he trying t
New Yorkers who blithely cross the street listening to an iPod or talking on a cell phone could soon face a $100 fine. "Government has an obligation to protect its citizenry. This electronic gadgetry is reaching the point where it's becoming
Officials of the National Nuclear Security Administration, which runs the nuclear weapons complex, said they hope to receive administration and congressional authorization for the development and production of a [thermonuclear] warhead that could be
The Army made a tape warning of the effects of depleted uranium which was never shown to troops despite the fact the Pentagon knew the agent to be potentially deadly, CNN reports.
By Brian Doherty and Angela Keaton - "I could see that Saddam was bad for you. You weren’t happy with him. He was abusive, he was controlling, and there’s no way you were better off with him than with me..."
2 newly reported complete skeletons of primates show that this group that includes humans' closest relatives such as chimps and lemurs is 10 million years older than previously thought, pushing our earliest ancestors closer to the Age of Dinosaur
A germ that kills males triggers a vicious cycle of increasing female promiscuity and male sexual exhaustion in a species of butterfly. The germs can also turn males to females and cause infected females to reproduce without males.
Nighttime clouds detected for the first time on Mars help keep the planet’s surface warm after sunset when temperatures drop. The nocturnal clouds are 5 times thicker than their daytime counterparts and hover close to the ground, almost like a fog.
Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a couple buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, hugging each other. "There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging -- and they really are hugging."