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The United States has decided to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country's 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a "specially designated global terrorist," according to U.S. officials, a move that allows Washingto
Hear ye! Hear ye! The Ron Paul Campaign has confirmed to callers what was repeated at the event itself -- that the campaign bought and gave away 800 tickets. The “Adopt an Iowan group” (an independent effort) has published that they had collected $22
Despite his “pro-life” campaign pitch, former Gov. Mitt Romney owns stock in two companies involved in embryonic stem cell research, a controversial field of study he previously cited as the reason for his rightward shift on abortion.
What's the #1 most viewed, top rated, most discussed, and top favorite News and Politics video on YouTube? This one: Ron Paul's Speech at Iowa Straw Poll
When Fred Thompson was a lobbyist, he advocated for his home state’s biggest government-funded boondoggles. He made some important connections, a nice chunk of change, and for the spending of a whole lot of taxpayer money.
ES&S failed to disclose the foreign facility's role in assembling its voting machines to the Federal Election Assistance Commission. Voting machine companies are required to disclose the names and locations of their manufacturing and assembling f
A day after Rudy Giuliani promised in South Carolina that "we can end illegal immigration," an aide to one of his rivals sends along a video of the former mayor taking a much more pragmatic line on the issue. "We're never ever goin
Tommy Thompson - former governor of Wisconsin - just dropped out of the GOP presidential campaign, and now his big brother Ed Thompson is said to have endorsed GOP candidate Ron Paul. “Ed’s endorsement will certainly help them in Wisconsin,”
Despite U.S. claims that violence is down in the Iraqi capital, U.S. military officers are offering a bleak picture of Iraq’s future, saying they’ve yet to see any signs of reconciliation between Sunni and Shiite Muslims despite the drop in violence.
New passport requirements that have complicated travel this summer also have uncovered untold numbers of child-support scofflaws and forced them to pay millions.
Detractors of the exit poll claim this difference was caused by the exit pollsters being obvious Paul supporters—driving away supporters of other candidates.... But here is a representative shirt worn by an Iowa Straw Poll exit pollster:
The bulk of what many observers see as “obnoxious” about Ron Paul supporters is simply the joy of total political commitment. And I will never, ever apologize for that, or seek to alter it, no matter who it offends. The Republican party needs MORE of
Secretary of State Debra Bowen's recent decision to ban most touch-screen voting machines in California could usher in a new era of skepticism about electronic voting across the country, some election experts say. California isn't the firs
[Old, but wow.] Police may enter Californians' homes without warrants to arrest those suspected of driving under the influence, the California Supreme Court ruled in a case testing the scope of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasona
The tax evasion indictment against San Diego-based evangelist Morris Cerullo has been dismissed by a judge who ruled federal prosecutors and IRS agents misled the grand jury on the key legal issue in the case.
Slay Your Traffic Tickets!
In 1967, the Supreme Court cracked open the door to provide legal sanction to what police officers were already doing around the country in violating the Fourth Amendment (performing traffic stop seizures for non-criminal civil infractions).
U.S. stocks fell sharply, wiping out the year's gains for the benchmark S&P 500, after Countrywide Financial shares plunged on a brokerage downgrade and rumors it was having trouble raising money. The clouds enveloping the No. 1 U.S. mortgage len
Countrywide Financial Corp. could face bankruptcy if liquidity worsens, according to a Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst who downgraded the largest U.S. mortgage lender to "sell" from "buy." The downgrade suggests deepening problems at
Goldman Sachs injects $3bn into its troubled quant hedge fund that has lost 30% this year. In addition fees were lowered to 0% from 2% and performance fees lowered to 10% from 20%.Will this stop the redemptions? Is it Deal or No Deal?
Future hard times will arrive slowly and engineered by the Federal Reserve
Jose Padilla is known worldwide as the man who plotted with Al Qaeda to detonate a radiological "dirty bomb" in a major US city. He allegedly presented his plan to top Al Qaeda leaders Abu Zubaydah and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Moham
Tonight I stumbled across an article on washingtonpost.com detailing the extensive expenditures of the Mitt Romney campaign in the months and weeks leading up to his victory the Iowa Straw Poll. I’ve always thought that math is fun, so let’s see if
When the president and Karl Rove delivered brief statements at the White House yesterday, reporters were not allowed to ask questions. One spoke up anyway.
On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digi
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cites her experience as a compelling reason voters should make her president, but nearly 2 million pages of documents covering her White House years are locked up in a building here, obscuring a large swath of her record a
The Justice Department is putting the final touches on regulations that could give Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales important new sway over death penalty cases in California and other states, including the power to shorten the time that death row inmat
An Iraqi official who heads the government committee tasked with inspecting detention facilities announced shocking figures this weekend, estimating the number of detainees held in US and Iraqi-run prisons at 67,000. The admission sparked the Iraqi g
What should be our reaction when American troops in Iraq behave in troubling ways?
It was classic bureaucratic bungling in a report criticizing the Pentagon's failure to keep proper records and track weapons flows. But there may have been another factor -- the government's dangerous and bumbling use of bad guys.
Confronted by the gravest crisis of his eight-year rule, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s president, faces an ever-shrinking menu of options. In recent weeks he has spent much of his time shut away in his military camp in Rawalpindi, surrounded by self-i
