And much of the peace movement is selling out to the Democrats…Even as they call for an end to the war and pledge to bring the troops home, the Democratic presidential candidates are setting out positions that could leave the United States engaged in
Russian bombers are flying more missions than normal near U.S. territory, including Alaska, demonstrating their long-range strike capability, U.S. and Canadian officials said on Monday.
The Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program has a built-in feature the Justice Department believes may shield it from ever being challenged as unconstitutional: secrecy.
US researchers said Monday that they have invented a super lightweight, flexible, biodegradable battery in the form of a piece of paper in a development that is sure to create a buzz among makers of consumer electronics.
The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country’s
Internal investigators have uncovered more than $1.4 billion of dubious payments at Siemens' telecoms and turbines divisions, far more than previously thought, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung said. "We're talking about enormous sums," the
China is still freeing people — including children — forced to work as slaves in illegal brick factories, two months after the scandal involving the brick yards was exposed, officials said Monday.
Federal watchdogs discreetly collected information and discussed fine legal points as the assaults piled up. More than 2,000 allegations of staff abusing inmates were confirmed by the Texas Youth Commission from January 2003 to December 2006.
All would-be passengers on international OR domestic flights to, from, over, via, or within the U.S. would have to have government-issued ID AND explicit case-by-case prior permission from DHS to the airline to allow each passenger to b
"Ron Paul jumped two full points on Intrade today to reach 6.0% to get the Republican nomination, by far a new high for him. Guess that means Iowa musta been a success, eh? McCain is at 6.2%, which means that if Paul goes up a little tomorrow an
With the Paul campaign at the Iowa Republican Straw Poll. Father Mitt delivers a gauzy speech about the joys of the Hawkeye State. Then the video cameras pick up an awful din. “Ron PAUL! Ron PAUL! Ron PAUL!”
Hours after Karl Rove announced he would leave the White House, political observers began predicting where the political guru would next work his magic.
Speculation centered on Fred Thompson's campaign, which observers said would be a logical
After Surveying 3000 Republican Americans by phone
these are the results: Ron Paul - 45% Mitt Romney - 20% John Mccain - 8%
Giuliani - 7% None of the above - 20%
The link between the size of government and the mismanagement that leads to wasted money. If the government was restrained within its proper constitutional functions, it would be far better managed and much more readily would proper oversight occur.
I would first like to congratulate Mitt Romney for his impressive win at the Ames Straw Poll before I start criticizing him and tell you what the media is not reporting. I cannot give the Romney campaign the win here today because his 31% at Ames is
Singled out Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaida in Iraq and said the Shiite extremists were being backed by Iran. The military accused Tehran of supplying militias with arms and training to attack U.S. forces. Iran denies the allegations.
Who will stand up for America? Who will speak out against our country being overrun by millions of illegal aliens? Answer: Peter Boyles of Denver's KHOW Clear Channel. Watch him take on the president and win!
Karl Rove, President Bush's close friend and chief political strategist, plans to leave the White House at the end of August, joining a lengthening line of senior officials heading for the exits in the final 1 1/2 years of the administration.
In a hidden corner of Rome's busy Fiumicino Airport, police dug quietly through a travler's checked baggage, looking for smuggled drugs. What they found instead was a catalog of weapons, a clue to something bigger.
Last night, at the pre-Straw Poll "Ronstock" concert at the Bali Satay House in Ames, a Ron Paul volunteer played back a recording of competing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney joking about cheating in a State Fair popularity c
President Bush responding to criticism: "I've been around long enough to be able to understand how it works. Nobody likes to be called names. We've got a bigger enemy than name-callers. That's al-Qaeda. Or people losing jobs."
Jon Stewart this week had some fun at the expense of a Florida state representative's claim that he was not actually offering to give an undercover officer $20 in exchange for letting him perform oral sex on the officer, rather was afraid that he
Daily Show host Jon Stewart has a novel explanation for the fact that the military has lost nearly 200,000 firearms in Iraq.
The military says the misplacement of 190,000 AK-47s and pistols was just a "clerical error." Stewart tries to c
The only person the speechwriter Michael Gerson made look better than President Bush was Michael Gerson. The shaping of a Washington reputation, as witnessed by a White House colleague.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romeny took the top spot in Saturday's Iowa Straw Poll, as was expected, and the poll also energized some lower-tier candidates. Saturday's vote was candidate Ron Paul's chance to show his anti-war and liber
The US "surge" of troops in Iraq is likely to fail, a British parliamentary committee said Monday as it delivered a critical report on London's foreign policy in the Middle East.
For three days, Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, had haggled with congressional leaders over amendments to a federal surveillance law, but now he was putting his foot down. "This is the issue," said the plain-spoken re
hen Joel Hestermann returned after a year in Iraq, counselors at the Army's Camp Shelby, Miss., warned him to get help.
They told Hestermann that he had gone through too much combat to step straight back into civilian life.
They also wanted