Right up to the hot August night his apartment exploded, Louai Sakka's neighbors took him for a newlywed. The lanky Syrian was not seen much in the corridors of the high-rise residential complex where he lived in this sunny resort city, but he sp
Over popcorn, football, and Lodge gossip we discussed how the NeoCons have used the missteps of civil libertarians to suborn America's instiutions of government. When you start compromising our rights the end is always slavery.
It is easy for strangers to ooze opinion about someone when that person has been six feet under for a half a century. James Byron Dean died when he was 24 years old; he died having completed only three movies but those movies burn with the intelligen
The year was 1977. She picked up her mail and opened the first envelope. Inside was the bill for her yearly property taxes. She read the amount due, stunned. She sat down, her heart pounding. She could never afford to pay it. We do not know he
"I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?" Chief Harold Hurtt told reporters Wednesday at a regular briefing.
Whether the U.S. will use nuclear weapons against Iran if a military confrontation erupts is in the hands of a single person, President Bush, as stated in NSC 30 from 1948: "the decision as to the employment of atomic weapons in the event of war
CAIRO, Egypt Feb 20, 2006 (AP)— Osama bin Laden vowed never to be captured alive and said the U.S. military had become as "barbaric" as Saddam Hussein in an audiotape reposted on a militant Islamic Web site after first being broadcast last
WHITE HOUSE -- President George W. Bush is heading out on a three-state tour promoting technologies that he hopes will help the United States kick its imported-oil habit. The tour is taking him to Wisconsin, Michigan and Colorado, and it will reprise
CIA jets suspected of flying terrorist suspects to secret prisons for torture have landed at commercial British airports and received help from UK air traffic control, the authorities have admitted for the first time.
Remember when the Internet was supposed to liberate everyone? Well, that was then. Today, it’s a different story. But wait! Here comes the U.S. government, defending our freedom. On Tuesday, the State Department announced its Global Internet Freedom
The twin-aisle jet is designed to carry 301 passengers up to 10,840 miles. The competing Airbus A340-500 has a flight range of about 9,980 miles, according to model specifications listed on the company's Web site.
The advance potentially clears one of the biggest hurdles facing the progress of Moore's Law, the observation of Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder of the Intel Corporation, that the density of chips doubles roughly every two years
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
As you read this our government is ramping up a campaign of oppression against the heartland of America. Operation Cyber Storm, aimed directly at the right of free speech, is ready to be deployed against all of us.
We need to come together and ta
I'd wax poetic about the parallels between Dick Cheney's shooting a man in the face and the entire history of the Bush Administration - But Newsweek beat me too it.
More than one million rock fans in Brazil have enjoyed a Rolling Stones concert on Rio's Copacabana Beach - one of the biggest gigs the world has seen.
Learn the truth about what happened at the World Trade Center on 9.11.2001 from eyewitness testimony and scientific analysis. High quality, three-chip digital video (at 50min 20 sec you'll learn something new)
If the subpoena succeeds, it will establish an ominous precedent: that the Justice Department can seize Google's (and anyone else's) time and property...
In a move virtually without precedent locally, the Phoenix Society of Professional Journalists chapter staged a meeting to examine, "Why Journalists Get It Wrong," at a quiet private location in the northeast valley.
Top Democratic lawmakers also criticized what they called Ehrlich's "last-minute endorsement" of paper ballots and called the governor's concerns inconsistent with his prior support for the Diebold machines.
The number of government agencies that can accost, prohibit, tax, impound, impede, detain, subpoena, confiscate, search, indict, fine, audit, interrogate, wiretap, sanction and otherwise harass and subjugate citizens or their property and rights...
"That's right, men only. Women need not apply. Sexist? Maybe, but that's the law of the land. Don't think it's right? Then change it with a constitutional amendment. Until then, the U.S. Constitution bars women from the Oval Off.
Everything "Bond". Stay up to date on the new Bond film. Who's cast for what roles - storyline - gadgets - past "Bond Girls" and where they are now - lots of fun for fans of 'Bond,... James Bond"
There are lots of people who appear to be morbidly depressed—to the point of conceding defeat—as a result of yesterday’s unilateral obstruction by the incomparable White House shill Sen. Pat Roberts of the long-planned and long-promised investigation
The White House announced its support for a legislative proposal by Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine to exclude Bush’s NSA wiretapping program from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. "We don’t want to have any kind of debate about whether it’s cons
I have run across some interesting information -- and have some questions that we should all pose to those at the helm in the White House. The March 25, 2003 Executive Order by President Bush, No. 13292, that amends President Clinton's Executive
[Morocco must be ready.] Tony Blair said the US detention camp at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba was an "anomaly" that would have to be "dealt with. I would prefer that it was not there. I would prefer it was closed, yes". Asked whether i
According to the suit, the Bush-Cheney Administration initiated numerous illegal and perpetual surveillance methods on Mr. Tooley and his family after he was incorrectly placed on the TSA's "selectee" or watch list.