There is a chasm the size of the Grand Canyon between Republicans and Democrats on the Iraq war. More ominous for the GOP is that independents are coming down on the anti-war side, if slightly less vociferously than Democrats.
I sat down with a leader of Hamas, the extremist organization that won last year's elections. He pushed a 2-state Israeli-Palestinian solution and deplored suicide bombers. But officials in Washington do not want to hear Hamas calling for peace.
With upwards of 60% of their campaign contributions coming directly or indirectly from the Israel Lobby, the Democratic congressmen are not free to respond to their antiwar base.
Argentine scientists said they had created four cloned and genetically modified calves capable of producing human insulin in their milk, a step they said could cut the cost of treating diabetes.
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Department of Defense will launch a satellite carrying an Internet router into space in 2009. Called Internet Routing in Space (natch), or IRIS, the project will allow voice, video and data communications for U.S. troops.
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of two dozen children who were apparent sacrificial victims to a rain god by ancient Indians in Mexico, researchers said.
The U.S. Defense Department ordered a contractor to hire a World Bank employee and girlfriend of then-Pentagon No. 2 Paul Wolfowitz in 2003 for work related to Iraq, the contractor said.
Following reports of abuse, the U.S. government temporarily barred college loan firms from accessing a database containing confidential personal information on millions of student borrowers. [Mighty white of them.]
Despite efforts to improve wireless security the past 4 years, the Inspector General's assessment of 20 buildings in 10 cities discovered 4 separate locations at which hackers could have easily gained access to IRS computers using wireless techno
The Virginia Tech student who went on a shooting rampage has prompted some calls for background checks on college applicants.
"It's an idea whose time has come," says Catherine Bath, executive director of Security On Campus, a national
The sport utility vehicle carrying Gov. Jon S. Corzine to meet Imus and Rutgers Girls BB team was traveling about 91 mph moments before it crashed. He was not wearing his seat belt as he rode in the front passenger's seat.
America forces human beings into high speed lives that overload their emotional, intellectual and spiritual capacities. Millions eat their way through their dilemmas. Others play sports. Many find passive avenues. Others turn to violence. This is
The 1st Birthday Party for novaM Radio Network is tonight and Stephanie Miller and Bill Press spends some time with Ernest Hancock while these national talk show hosts enjoy themselves with the fans.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has a simple solution to future shooting massacres such as the one that ripped apart Virginia Tech university Monday: more guns.
I don't like having to say it. But it _is_ the truth, it has to be said, so I'm going to get it over with right up front: the deaths and woundings at Virginia Tech this week were in fact -- each and every one of them -- self-inflicted
In four mass killings the shooters unexpectedly found themselves facing armed resistance from potential victims. I discuss these four cases. (There probably are more.) These included two schools, a school dance and a shopping mall.
The CorporaState is looking hungrily at America. As an appetizer they ate Lt. Eric Shine, the Federal Maritime Officer who tried to stop them. Today Privatization has been converted by the CorporaState to Piratization
Internet radio broadcasters were dealt a setback when a panel of copyright judges threw out requests to reconsider a ruling that hiked the royalties they must pay to record companies. Many webcasters will be put out of business.
Yesterday all Americans paid their annual homage to their government by either filing their 1040 tax form with the IRS or a request to file that form later. The form must be filed in order for Americans to know how much of their hard earned income t
American truckers plan to circle the White House and state capitals in a "rolling blockade" to protest a federal government plan to allow Mexican long-haul rigs to operate throughout the U.S.
Drivers who participate in "Truck-Out
On July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-
There will be a time when future generations will look at us and wonder why President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not removed from office. They will look at us and question why, when confronted by the most corrupt and incompetent administra
Two years ago, anyone who wrote about the housing bubble was dismissed as a conspiracy nut. Now hardly a day goes by that the headlines aren’t splattered with the details of the massive meltdown in the real estate market.
What changed? The facts a
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' assertion that he was not involved in identifying the eight U.S. attorneys who were asked to resign last year is at odds with a recently released internal Department of Justice e-mail, ABC News has learned.
In what could prove an embarrassing new setback for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the eve of his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a group of influential conservatives and longtime Bush supporters has written a letter
In the past month, as a new security crackdown in Baghdad began, U.S. forces arrested another 1,000 Iraqis, bringing to 18,000 the number of detainees jailed in two U.S.-run facilities in that country.
The average stay in these detention centers i