In what has become the year of the flip-flop, U.S. presidential candidates have been accusing each other of switching positions on policy issues as often as they change their clothes.
Campaign researchers are leaving no stone unturned in their sea
More than a year after he took the lead in investigating claims 3 men raped a stripper at a March 2006 party thrown by Duke's highly ranked lacrosse team - the Durham County district attorney will stand trial on ethics charges ranging from lying
What gets little notice, however, is a series of academic studies over the last half-dozen years that claim to settle a once hotly debated argument - whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent to murder. The analyses say yes. They count between th
As of Sunday, June 10, 2007, at least 3,505 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the
Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,864 died as a resu
A DePaul University professor who has accused some Jews of improperly using the legacy of the Holocaust to get compensation payments has been denied tenure after a drawn-out public fight.
Norman Finkelstein, whose work led to a long-running public
Alan Greenspan, when chairman of the Federal Reserve, brushed off an idea to boost scrutiny of subprime mortgage lenders, a former Fed governor told the Wall Street Journal.
Iraq's Foreign Ministry accused Turkey of "intensively shelling" northern Iraq this week and said it had handed the Turkish envoy in Baghdad a protest letter.
Hollywood party girls don't have a monopoly on trouble in California. A disproportionate number of the state's congressional Republicans are facing ethics questions that threaten to sink their careers and their party's political fortunes
In the first instance, our loyalty belongs foremost to the U.S. Constitution, which is the safeguard of our freedom, then to the party, and last to elected officials. It is a happy thing when all three are in harmony... (when was that?)
2008 - The Year That The People Saved America,... or at least pointed out that it needed saving. - Today: Opinion Polls, Media (formerly known as MainStream) & The Revolution Between Our Ears
A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange US military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
The American soldiers in Amiriyah have allied themselves with dozens of Sunni militiamen who call themselves the Baghdad Patriots -- a group that American soldiers believe includes insurgents who have attacked them in the past -- in an attempt to dri
(It was Chinese who knocked down the towers?) Ahktar Qassim Basit says he's not angry about the 4 years he spent as an American prisoner at Gitmo,Cuba, before his captors mumbled a brief apology and flew him to this drab Balkan capital to begin
A British company has been closed down after being caught in an apparent attempt to sell black-market weapons-grade uranium to Iran and Sudan, The Observer can reveal. Anti-terrorst officers and MI6 are now investigating a wider British-based plot
(Another reason to vote for Ron Paul, and join JPFO) In what Congress-watchers call a "stunning breakthrough," the powerful NRA and Senior Democrats on Capitol Hill have cut a deal that will strenghten background checks on those buying fir
Several FMNN feedbackers have pointed out that the "Petition for Fair and Equal Treatment in the Media of Dr Ron Paul's Presidential Election Campaign" is sponsored by "Steve Martin"(not the actor) and must, therefore, be a **
(Ever wonder why Iran was arresting Americans there?) Five Iranians imprisoned by US forces in Iraq since January will probably be released in the next few weeks, according to some US and Iraqi officials, a development that could help
gltskline (1 hour ago) - I have changed my mind but not on murder. Romney can not be trusted. He has one goal and that is to get elected. I am a Mormon too but I would never support him. He will be nothing but a puppet.
Son tantos los problemas entre Mexico y los EU, que el solo listarlos sería una labor verdaderamente titánica. Pero hay uno que amenaza en mutar hacia lo realmente grave....."Inmigración ilegal.
For once, Senator McCain may have actually been telling the truth when he told Lou Dobbs “But it (SB 1348) will also enhance interior enforcement and put employers on notice that the practice of hiring illegal workers will no longer be tolerated”
Both the US Postal Service and postal customers should be concerned by recent First Class mail volumes trends. For the first half of fiscal year 2007 First Class mail is down by almost 650 million pieces, or 1.3 percent.
The brain cranks out memories near its center, in a looped wishbone of tissue called the hippocampus. But a new study suggests only a small chunk of it, called the dentate gyrus, is responsible for “episodic” memories—information that allows us to te
If the machinations going on in this country regarding so-called "deep integreation" were instead a communist conspiracy to take over the country (you will, of course, have to try hard to imagine this) the news media would be blaring the st
According to Newsday, Russell Defreitas, commonly identified as a former "baggage handler" at JFK, actually worked as a baggage handler and/or a "trainee supervisor" in the employ of Evergreen Inter Airlines, a CIA front company b
Remember those old photographs taken after World War II, with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt, plus selected others, posing as masters of the universe? The victors were meeting to carve up Europe, divide the spoils, plan the future, map out a plan f
The Ames straw poll is something of an unofficial kickoff to the campaign season, but it’s a little late this year for that. Since Rudolph W. Giuliani and John McCain have opted out of Ames, people close to Mr. Thompson say, Ames has become meaningle