The Grand Ole Docket tracks trial dates, court appearances and sentencing hearings for players in the current array of national political scandals. But not just any crook can make it on the Docket - it only tracks perps who've been named b
Residents of Baghdad's suburbs have been experiencing serious water shortages for a month due to poor infrastructure, leaking pipes and wastage. In some areas, water is available for only a few hours at night and for less than 2 hours during the
Alarmed at an outbreak of brazen killings in their once relatively peaceful enclave of Hai al-Salam, Shiite Muslims, Sunni Muslims and Christians have begun working side-by-side to guard their western Baghdad neighborhood. [Best wishes!]
To the displeasure of the Israeli delegation the resolution on Iran states: "... the objective of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, including their means of delivery."
Majority Leader Boehner said Republicans risk losing seats in the election if violence and instability in Iraq continue. Lawmakers are concerned about polls showing the public is pessimistic about the situation in Iraq. President Bush's Iraq stra
All the Superbowl commercials. Unfortunately most suck IMHO. Includes some of the rejected GoDaddy ads and V is for Vendetta trailer. My fav: FedEx's Stick
Protests against Chinese police erupted in the home village of a detained rights activist in Shandong province on Sunday, a week after Premier Wen Jiabao visited the province to promote "harmony" in the countryside.
In an interview that aired on PBS on Friday, Feb. 3, Colin Powell's former chief of staff claimed that the speech Powell made before the UN on Feb. 5, 2003, laying out a case for war with Iraq, included falsehoods of which Powell had never been m
Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame, the
A new counterterrorism strategy devised by the Pentagon will measure and review military operations to determine whether or not more terrorists are being stopped or "created," the plan "orders the military to focus on 9 areas identifie
[Interesting account of how well organized is al-Qaida.] An al-Qaida operative sentenced to death for plotting the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said
Intelligence officers who eavesdropped on thousands of Americans in overseas calls under authority from President Bush have dismissed nearly all of them as potential suspects after hearing nothing pertinent to a terrorist threat
Minnesotans who rely on getting medications through over-the-border pharmacies have been getting a letter from the Customs Service instead. Minnesotans buying mail-order prescription drugs from Canada are having medications confiscated by U.S. Custom
The blues was a gift so great that it is now almost the only reason many foreigners still like the USA. Foreigners love us for our jazz. They don’t hate us for our purported liberty and justice for all. They hate us for our arrogance. No matter how c
US-sponsored democracy-building programs are facing increased scrutiny worldwide, has bolstered Chávez's claims that the US is meddling in Venezuelan affairs. US aid agencies have been under scrutiny in Venezuela since it was revealed that some m
The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work i
[It is called the Constitution morons!] As Capitol Hill prepares to battle the White House over George Bush's expanding war powers, moderate Senators on both sides of the aisle are quietly considering a range of options that would attempt at the
[Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?] A Justice Department official suggested that in certain circumstances, the president might have the power to order the killing of terrorist suspects inside the United States.
Battered by government scandals, Costa Rica slid further into uncertainty on Monday when a presidential election that could decide the future of a trade deal with Washington hung by a thread.
The 17 members of Congress who went to Dublin, Ireland, on an Aspen Institute-paid trip last summer got a walking tour of the city. They also spent 6 hours each of the 4 days in discussions with scholars and policymakers about US relations with Europ
The campaign to stop
Iran from developing a nuclear weapon has now moved to the
U.N. Security Council, but countries there have vastly different ideas of what the council should do.
The use of military force to quash
Iran's nuclear plans appeared more likely after a UN agency resolution on the issue and amid Tehran's continued resistance to a Russian compromise solution, Russian media said.
This year's State of the Union address, which was panned by a chorus of conservative commentators, has intensified the debate about Bush's political philosophy. ['Blame Bush, re-elect me' campaign, eh?]
Applying economic sanctions on
Iran without U.N. backing would be legitimate if other efforts failed to convince Tehran to halt uranium enrichment, a senior U.S. State Department official said.
President Bush will propose shrinking an array of domestic programs and cut billions from the Medicare health program when he sends Congress a $2.7 trillion budget on Monday.
The
Pentagon is tripling its spending to about $3.5 billion, on a newly expanded effort to combat the rising number of increasingly powerful homemade bombs that are the No. 1 killer of U.S. troops in
Iraq.
Cave drawings thought to be older than those in the famed caves of Lascaux have been discovered in a grotto in western France. First analysis suggests the drawings were made some 25,000 years ago.
2 of the world's biggest e-mail account providers, Yahoo Inc. and America Online, plan to introduce a service that would charge senders a fee to route their e-mail directly to a user's mailbox without first passing through junk mail filters