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With budget deficits improving, the government said Wednesday it is discontinuing sales of three-year Treasury notes. The Treasury Dept said the last auction of three-year notes will occur next week as part of the regular series
A state official acknowledged Monday that a breakdown in security procedures caused personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, to be discarded in a Dumpster, where the records were uncovered by a TV reporter.
An Interior Dept official accused of pressuring government scientists to make their research fit her policy goals has resigned. Julie MacDonald, deputy assistant for fish, wildlife and parks, submitted her resignation letter to Interior Secretary
State investigators listened in on more than 3 million phone conversations last year as local prosecutors sought a record number of wiretaps, mostly to investigate drug crimes. As the federal government has focused its resources on national security
Some governments key to Iraq's future are balking at entering into an ambitious contract with the country that commits them to substantial aid in exchange for a promise of unity in Iraq with five years. The International Compact with Iraq,
We suggested above that given the current growth of M-3, a price for gold of $4,800 was in line. If, God forbid, we enter into a hyperinflation, then the nominal price of gold could be virtually infinite. So, while it may require a wheelbarrow full
Court orders in January that brought President Bush's warrantless terrorist surveillance program under existing law have limited the intelligence that agencies can collect, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told a Senate committee
On May 1, 2003, President Bush stood underneath a “Mission Accomplished” banner and announced that “Major combat operations have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the US and our allies have prevailed.” Here’s a by-the-numbers look at then, compared to no
The bitter fight over the latest Iraq spending bill has all but obscured a sobering fact: The war will soon cost more than $500 billion. That's about 10 times more than the Bush administration anticipated before the war started four years ago,
A secret court approved all but one of the government's requests last year to search or eavesdrop on suspected terrorists and spies. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court signed off on 2,176 warrants targeting people in the United States be
Anyone who knows much about real power in Congress knows that almost every member of the House and Senate lusts after a seat on the Appropriations Committee and hopes one day to achieve the status of Cardinal. The Cardinals, of course, are the folks
A man operated a "warehouse bank" out of his home in the south Seattle suburbs, taking at least $28 million from people around the country who wanted the discretion of a Swiss bank account without going to Switzerland. Robert Arant, of Des
Rep. Rick Renzi paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes to settle charges that his businesses improperly financed his first campaign for office. He already faces a federal corruption probe over allegations that he tried to use legislation
Bush administration police state actions against targeted victims
The University of Granada study of Gorham's cave on Gibraltar shows the Neanderthal extinction could have been determined by environmental and climate changes, and not by competitiveness with modern humans.
Dell Inc., the second-largest maker of personal computers, has chosen a version of the Linux operating system to sell with its consumer PCs as it works to win back customers from rival Hewlett-Packard Co.
Paul was the fourth candidate to pay it. Earlier, Sam Brownback, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain had paid it. Those who don’t pay the filing fee this month will not be invited into the 2nd Republican presidential debate.
"Read my lips...." used to be a figurative saying. Now the British government is considering taking it literally by adding lip reading technology to some of their four million or so surveillance cameras.
Three states this week advanced legislation that make it harder for motorists to travel without throwing coins in a basket or having their movements tracked electronically.
Turkey's constitutional court today supported an effort to block a candidate for the country's presidency whose background is in political Islam, pitching the country into early national elections and a referendum on the role of religion in i
Iraq's prime minister has created an entity within his government that US and Iraqi military officials say is being used as a smokescreen to hide an extreme Shiite agenda that is worsening the country's sectarian divide.
With the help of the US Government and a US based technology company, the Government of Mexico plans to install a communcations interception system that would enable its federal investigations agency to monitor and record any landline, cellular or vo
Having Republicans approve all the big government programs in the Democratic agenda and the Democrats approve all the law-and-order crackdowns and new prisons in the Republican agenda is not reason to celebrate.
(Bargain for whom Mr. Bartlett) the study looks more carefully at the costs and benefits of war to Iraq than any previous analysis. It concludes that war is actually a good thing for Iraq. (There's link to the study here as well. My God)
Sen. Dianne Feinstein(D-CA) introduced legislation Monday that would close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "Guantanamo Bay has become a lightning rod for international condemnation," Feinstein said.
Both countries blame each other for the suffering in Somalia despite Sparse Contacts.
Napalitano's deal with Google is wrought with unexpected intrusions into the average mans personal information. The public has no idea the extent of information the government distributes or sells on a daily basis
The neoconservative hubris that the US can and should reshape the world has been a casualty of the Iraq war, both substantively and politically. The practical limitations on the ability of the US to direct the destiny of other peoples and cultures,
The most frequent and popular of these proposed remedies has been the simple one of seizing from the rich to give to the poor. This remedy has taken a thousand different forms, but they all come down to this. The wealth is to be "shared,"
Bush should not be credited with cutting our tax burdens. He has engaged in tax shifting and in hiding the burdens of his expansions of the welfare and warfare state, and he has demonstrated that he's opposed to lowering our tax burdens.
