[Don't worry, be happy.] Americans have a very strange relationship with debt. We seem to take on more of it than any other society ever has, but, boy, do we like to beat ourselves up about it. Benjamin Franklin implored his fellow citizens, for
The end of Moore's Law is expected to come more quickly for memory chips than processors because of the different ways in which they work. Whereas the circuits on processors act as pipes that guide streams of electrons, memory chips use pools of
David Ray Griffin is widely recognized as one of the leading spokespersons of the 9/11 truth movement. This is by virtue of his previous four books on the subject. Professor Griffin and a growing list of scholars, other researchers as well as diverse
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal court ruled on Thursday that a 1998 law designed to block children from viewing Internet pornography violates the U.S. Constitution's free speech protections.
Companies from across IT face criminal sanctions, including prison time for employees, if their networks, software programs or online services are ever used to carry illegally copied material such as music or film, according to a draft law from the E
The mayor of New York City asked Congress to reopen the government fund for victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks _ and spare his city the prospect of losing billions of dollars in related lawsuits.
A House panel approved subpoenas for President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove and other top White House aides, setting up a potential constitutional showdown. The Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled a vote Thursday on its own set of subpoen
Underpayment due to cheating or confusion is causing audits to rise, and new rules could be on the way. [Of course over payments are accepted by America's largest terrorist organization.]
The grocer, the butcher, a cabinet maker and several other members of the town's Mennonite community are said to be planning to move to Arkansas over a Missouri requirement that all drivers be photographed if they want a license.
"If they want to threaten us and use force and violence against us, they should not doubt that Iranian officials will use all they have in their power to deal a blow to those who assault them," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned a
655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the 2003 US invasion according to a study published in the October 2006 issue of Lancet available at: http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles/images/journals/lancet/s01 40673606694919.pdf
CODEPINK's Desiree Fairooz interrupts Hillary Clinton Fundraiser with the "Why, Why, Hillary Why?" song to the tune of "American Pie" as another CODEPINK protester Jodie Evans gets dragged out by 3-4 secret service officers. [
Peace activists armed with poetry occupied the Capitol Hill office of Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, to protest Democrats’ support for a bill funding the Iraq war.
I don't want readers to get the impression that the Fed under Alan Greenspan was unique in this regard. The primary function of all central banks is to send false signals to borrowers and creditors all the time. Their secondary function is to b
This week, the IMF posted its first draft of the sixth edition to the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual. Among the revisions were accounting changes for gold loans, which are not publicly disclosed at present,
Upgrading to Windows Vista has been banned by the US Dept of Transportation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Federal Aviation Admin, tech giant Texas Instruments and other corporations and government agencies.
A lawsuit nearing trail has opened a rare window into the inner workings of Pat Robertson's Virginia Beach-based media empire. At the heart of the case is an issue that has bedeviled Robertson repeatedly over the years: the fuzzy line between h
The Turkish army invaded bordering regions of Northern Iraq preparing a large scale operation against Kurdish guerillas, one of Iraqi internet web-sites close to Patriotic Union of Kurdistan reported on Thursday. "The Turkish army with large fo
With this week's release of more than 3,000 Justice Dept email messages about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors, it seems clear that politics played a role in the ousters. Of course, as one of the eight, I've felt that way for some
2 weeks after Arizona U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton was ordered to give up his post, he sent an e-mail to a top Justice Dept. official asking how to handle questions his ouster was connected to his investigation of Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz.
A drunk Chicago cop who pummeled a female bartender for refusing to serve him alcohol was initially only charged with misdemeanor assault by his buddies in the police department. When the video went public, the prosecuting attorney bumped the charges
The FBI was already hip to "deficiencies" in the system before the report hit the presses, FBI Director Robert Mueller insists in an addendum to the report, while thanking the Inspector General for finding a pile more. Embattled Attorney Ge
As amazing as this will sound, the most fundamental problem of foreign-policy analysis — even among libertarians — is the absence of the state. If you look closely at most discussions, you will notice that government plays an insignificant role in th
Insurgents detonated a bomb in a car with two children in it after using the children as decoys to get through a military checkpoint in Baghdad, an American general said.
In its biggest one-week drop in more than 3 years, Washington Post-ABC News Consumer Comfort Index is down 7 points to -5 on its scale of -100 to +100. The index has fallen precipitously only 3 other times in more than 20-year history of the poll.
[It has always bothered me that no evidence of burrowing dinos existed.] Fossil hunters have found the remains of small dinosaurs that made their home in a burrow, a finding the reptiles could exploit a much wider habitat than thought.