by John Nichols
American Freedom Agenda asks that candidates to start talking about the lawless of George W. Bush has created a Constitutional crisis. So far one candidate has expressed support it: Texas Congressman Ron Paul
The renegade cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged Iraqi forces to stop cooperating with the United States and told his guerrilla fighters to concentrate their attacks on American troops rather than Iraqis. [Guess he got the message.]
The pipeline carries oil from surrounding fields to storage tanks in Basra for export to the Gulf region, according to the official with the South Oil Co. But he said the tanks were full and export supplies had not yet been affected.
The official, w
Security cameras are just about everywhere, and it's pretty well known that you shouldn't expect much privacy in any public space. Still, it was a bit surprising last year to find out that officials in the UK were experimenting with security
If you didn't have a front door to your house, would you feel safe while sleeping at night? Today, our president no longer secures our border. We're losing our order. Soon, we'll lose our nation.
Who drives this country toward our dangerous future? Who won't ask the hard questions about overloading the land, air and water? Top scientists give dire warning as to our future dilemmas with 100 million added.
When you were a child peddling five and 10 cent drinks at your makeshift lemonade stand, did you ever consider asking the government for a publicly funded “incentive” to assist your business in its start up costs?
Pittsburgh police hit, choke and arrest anti-war demonstrators protesting new marine officer recruiting station in Shadyside. What happened yesterday was an attack on our ability to continue regular pickets. If we lose the space to be in front of the
Tacoma police say last month's 12-day anti-war protests cost the city an unbudgeted $500,000 to provide a large-scale law enforcement presence.
The rough estimate covers overtime, regular compensation, equipment and food for hundreds of worker
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit against Ferndale, challenging the constitutionality of its police department's policy of ticketing antiwar protesters who hold signs encouraging motorists to honk.
A year ago, Donald Vance learned what its like to be falsely accused by the US military of aiding terrorists. He was held without charge for more than 3 months in a high-security prison in Iraq, and interrogated daily after sleepless nights without l
There's a certain perverse charm to President Bush's charge that Democrats are "more interested fighting political battles in Washington than providing our troops what they need." These sentiments reflect utter shamelessness and ama
In crude and brutal societies, the Party Line is publicly proclaimed and must be obeyed – or else. What you actually believe is your own business and of far less concern. In societies where the state has lost the capacity to control by force, the Par
No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch. We would never dream of treating captives like this - allowing them to smoke cigarettes, even though it has been proven that smoking kills.
This entire incident has been extremely odd, alright, but it isn't the Iranians who made it so. The behavior of the captured Brits is what struck me as truly bizarre.
A 13-year-old girl was handcuffed and placed under arrest in front of her classmates in Dyker Heights after she wrote "Okay" on her desk.
The "suspect," Chelsea Fraser, says she's sorry for scribbling the word on her desk,
We have come to the conclusion the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that has passed $1 billion, House Democrats offered to buy a MP3 player or iPod for every school child in Michiga
Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says he misspoke in comments he made about security in Baghdad and acknowledged that heavily armed troops and helicopter gunships accompanied him when he visited a market there. McCain tells this to Scot
Despite claims by some critics that the Bush administration invaded Iraq to take control of its oil, the first contracts with major oil firms from Iraq's new government go not to US companies, but to companies from China, India, Vietnam, and Indo
A senior Justice Department aide and White House liaison who refused to testify before a House committee investigating the firings of eight U.S. attorneys has resigned.
Five convicted sex offenders are living under a noisy highway bridge with the state’s grudging approval because an ordinance intended to keep predators away from children made it nearly impossible for them to find housing.
The most infamous feud in American folklore, the long-running battle between the Hatfields and McCoys, may be partly explained by a rare, inherited disease that can lead to hair-trigger rage and violent outbursts.
In an about-face by the US government 4 years into the war, America's fallen troops are brought back to their families aboard charter jets instead of commercial flights, and are met by honor guards in white gloves instead of baggage handlers with
In the battle over next generation DVDs, pornography could prove to be the XXX factor that helps determine a winner.
Thirty years ago, VHS toppled Betamax in part because of the adult film industry, and now some see blue movies playing a key role
[Justice] A second test following the arrest of Cody Nicole Rodbell, daughter of the Scottsdale police chief, showed her blood-alcohol content was 0.072 percent, just below Arizona's 0.080 percent presumed level of intoxication.
The initial Br
98% of those arrested between Oct. 1, 2000, and Sept. 30, 2005, were never prosecuted for illegally entering the country. Those 5.2 million immigrants were simply escorted back across the Rio Grande and turned loose to slip into the US again.
The program, which ran at the Army's Edgewood, Md., arsenal from 1955 until about 1972, concluded that counterculture staples such as acid and pot were either too unpredictable or too mellow to be useful as weapons, psychiatrist James Ketchum sai