For 35 years, the U.S. Government continues waging a "War on Drugs" with zero results but at a cost of $80 billion annually. It's a fraud on the U.S. taxpayer. It's time for a change by a man who rides high in the saddle across Am
President Bush got a different reaction from a 13-year-old girl who asked him about immigration during a forum. The Washington Times reports Jessica Hackerd was left in tears after Bush gave her a wry "yeah, thanks" in response to her query
The Defense Department put U.S. troops in Iraq at risk by awarding contracts for badly needed armored vehicles to companies that failed to deliver them on schedule, according to a review by the Pentagon's inspector general.
The results of California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's "top-to-bottom review" of electronic voting systems previously approved for use by her predecessor is still underway. But before any of the findings from her teams of security s
Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches.
CNN's Situation Room documented Fred Thompson's struggles to distance himself from past lobbying activity on behalf of a pro-choice organization, first reported by the Los Angeles Times.
Congress had prevented the sale of any equipment that could deliver nuclear weapons. Barlow pointed out that selling the jets to Pakistan would violate non-proliferation laws and complained that the Pentagon was misleading Congress on the issue.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified he was unaware of civil liberties violations committed by the FBI during its exercise of Patriot Act powers. But Gonzales was sent notifications when such violations occurred and had reported to the Intelli
At the Pentagon’s request, Senate defense authorizers tucked deep within a defense bill a repeal of the department’s restriction on granting security clearances to ex-convicts, drug addicts and the mentally incompetent.
Even the worst-case scenario after a total U.S. withdrawal – a full-blown Iraqi civil war that drags in neighboring states – would be bad for Iraqis, but it would have only minimal effects on U.S. security. No one would care if it weren't for its
A U.S. man accused of plotting to blow up oil pipelines sought to bring down the Bush administration and expressed regret for the death of an al Qaeda leader, an FBI official said. Reynolds faces charges of planning to attack energy installations, tr
A Massachusetts woman was found innocent of animal cruelty after New Hampshire prosecutors failed to prove she was responsible for the welfare of a dog left outside her parents' home overnight in subzero temperatures.
[Well, what have the last 5 years, $2 trillion, 3,600 lives, 25,000 wounded been about?] U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded al-Qaida has rebuilt its operating capability to a level not seen since just before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Bee
Detailed schematics of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq. Geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad. Plans for a new fuel farm at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
The military calls it
In a video being released Wednesday, New York City firefighters and their families criticize former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his handling of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Wednesday, July 18, at 10:00am Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the House Committee on Financial Services on "Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy," with questions from Committee members, including Ron Paul.
Romney is leading in Iowa and New Hampshire but did not even get double digits. We've yet to see a credible scientific poll taken in Iowa since Ron Paul's Iowa Rally and that would be particularly more telling for Ron Paul's campaign than
Palestine is today occupied territory and every day people are dying. Christopher Hedges reports seeing young children enticed to throw rocks by Israeli military so they could be shot to death. The enticement? Calling their mothers whores.
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The speed with which London's ubiquitous surveillance cameras helped identify would-be bombers has prompted calls for extensive closed-circuit television networks in the US.
In the first such public effort in the US, New York is planning to be
The Gullible Person of the Year is anyone who leaves their children in a public school after learning what’s truly going on inside their child’s classroom.
For the first time ever, the 22-nation Arab League is set to send a delegation to Israel. Its mission: to discuss a sweeping peace initiative with the Jewish state, as well as the threat posed by Hamas and other Islamic extremist movements.
July 12, 2007 -- According to Double-Tongued Dictionary: a lexicon of fringe English, focusing on slang, jargon, and new words, “drylabbing” is defined as the faking of laboratory test results, especially when the test has not been [read more]
About 390 CIA-run flights through German airspace were in violation of German law, and Berlin could have collected millions of euros in fines. Now internal investigations could make things embarrassing for Gerhard Schroder's government as well a
Struggling to stem growing opposition to his Iraq policy even among Republicans, President Bush contended anew Tuesday that the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks in the US are the same as al Qaida in Iraq, a violent insurgent group
The Navy is making plans to reduce the American presence in the Persian Gulf by the end of the summer to a single carrier group, down from the two carrier groups in the Gulf. The preparation to reduce the American presence in the Persain Gulf