TONY Blair wants to hand the European Union radical new powers in his last act as Prime Minister, it emerged today.
The Prime Minister has welcomed controversial plans to bring back the troubled EU constitution by the back door - totally bypas
Tony Blair, the British prime minister, could end up swapping Downing Street for a job as the first full-time European Union president, under a plan being actively touted by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.
Mr Sarkozy is understood to have d
A data storage device with the Social Security numbers and other personal information on all 64,000 Ohio state employees was stolen from a 22 year old state intern's car last weekend, Gov. Ted Strickland said Friday.
Late Friday, the governor*
Imagine a world where every single manufactured item is tagged with a tiny RFID chip that holds various bits of information about that item. And as each item moves along a supply chain—pharmaceutical, aerospace, consumer goods, automotive, livestock
Cheap, skinny aluminum foil lamps may soon illuminate our lives instead of big, bulky light bulbs.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign made the low-cost lamps by treating aluminum foil bought at the grocery store with an
[Now that we are bankrupt.] President Bush warned Congress he will use his veto power to stop runaway government spending.
"The American people do not want to return to the days of tax-and-spend policies,'' Bush said in his radio addr
Mitt Romney's proposed answer to this refusal to allow "the people" to choose was that "we need to have a Federal marriage amendment ... because states like Massachusetts will take the course they did."
During this whole excruciating war in Iraq, one of the journalist's few acts of creativity has been reading the tea leaves left in whatever our generals have been swigging before getting us into such a disaster.
At first, they were still fille
Private security companies, funded by billions of dollars in U.S. military and State Department contracts, are fighting insurgents on a widening scale in Iraq, enduring daily attacks, returning fire and taking hundreds of casualties that have been un
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has refocused his antiwar crusade as his and Congress' job-approval ratings plummet to all-time lows.
Mr. Reid began the week Monday by vowing to "push very, very hard" for troop withdrawal from Ir
A bumper crop of poppies in Afghanistan is prompting Congress to push a reluctant US military into a bigger role to rid the country of the illegal trade.
The reason? Officials have long suspected that the centuries-old opium industry is funding th
His law license lost and reputation in tatters, Mike Nifong seemingly can fall no further. But the disgraced prosecutor who committed "intentional prosecutorial misconduct" in his pursuit of the Duke lacrosse rape case faces an uncertain -
What will it take to solve the problems of "Peak Oil", economic stagnation, and the "Clash of Civilizations"? Author Brian Bloom thinks he has a good idea... actually several ideas that he is laying out in a new novel. But he woul
Responsibility for the disaster of Iraq lies not only with the President of the United States, but also with the Joints Chiefs of Staff. The president needs expert and candid military counsel. Not yes-men in uniform.
How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties. Taguba knew his report would make him unpopular: "If I lie, I lose. And if I tell the truth, I lose".
"Ricardo" and I headed to the offices of Cassidy & Associates, perhaps the most prominet of all the Washington lobby shops. It was founded thirty-two years ago by Gerald Cassidy, a former staffer for George McGovern, and ofr much of its ex
Look out on a river or a lake and you're likely to see recreational boats galore. Look up in the sky and you'll see plenty of private planes. Small planes and boats seem to be everywhere, especially this time of year. They also may be the
And so it was, that in November, 2006, the American people cried for change and reform, an end tot he quagmire in Iraq, as well as to the open and crass corruption of Dennis Haster, Tom Delay and their fellow Congressional Republicans.
Here's an article translated into English from a French website. I've communicated with people from the Philipines and the Middle East, and even they have heard of him. This is awesome!!!!
Cops raided the wrong house and forced a 77-year-old La Plata County woman on oxygen to the ground last week in search of methamphetamine. "They didn't give me a chance to ask for a search warrant or see a search warrant or anything,"
Do your elected officials get a little crazy around election time? Do they seem worried that they haven't done enough to win voters' trust and ensure another term? They might be suffering from Chronic Re-Election Paranoia (CREEP).
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Ron Paul speaks to the 100+ supporters that greeted him at the airport. (BTW - the airport called the Ron Paul National campaign to complain that they need to be informed when Ron Paul comes in the future so they can plan for crowd control :)
Connecticut for Lieberman Party Chairman John Orman called Tuesday for Sen. Joe Lieberman to resign, saying his advocacy of a military strike against Iran could explode into a global conflict.
Dairy farmers are paying higher prices to feed their cows as a result of ethanol production that depends on corn and other rough grains. "We have a new competitor, and the government is subsidizing this competitor." Good thing the governme
Repeatedly, investigators found Brock reported failures in field sobriety tests when his patrol car video camera documented the opposite. He also said drivers incorrectly recited the alphabet, used arms for balance and slurred speech - when the video
In discussing the US Attorney firings, "Tony Snow, the White House lip-mover guy, was adamant months ago that the dismissal of these attorneys had nothing to do with politics." Stewart turned from Snow to an apparent misrepresentation by Mi