After a year and a half of conversely trying to dump their failed voting unit and/or lying to customers about the reliability and security of their voting systems, corporate parent Diebold is giving up the ghost of their election business which
A new law swept through Congress by the US government before the summer recess is to give American security agencies unprecedented powers to spy on British citizens without a warrant. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Following Karl Rove’s appearance on “Meet The Press” former Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper who was dead center in the Valerie Plame scandal, stops just short of calling Karl Rove a liar, insisting he did, in fact, leak Valerie Plame’s name to him
Sapped by nearly six years of war, the Army has nearly exhausted its fighting force and its options if the Bush administration decides to extend the Iraq buildup beyond next spring.
The Army's 38 available combat units are deployed, just retur
Texas is poised to execute a man for a crime he did not commit. While the perpetrator of the murder in San Antonio was executed last year, Kenneth Foster, was sitting in a car 25 yards away at the time of the shooting, was sentenced to death under th
Chained to a 55-gallon drum, protesting the potential development of a vacant lot, Jonathan Crowell wasn't violent or threatening anyone. But he refused police orders to unshackle himself and leave, so they zapped him with a Taser until he did. T
As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home, we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil,
A MIRACLE material for the 21st century could protect your home against bomb blasts, mop up oil spillages and even help man to fly to Mars.
Aerogel, one of the world’s lightest solids, can withstand a direct blast of 1kg of dynamite and protect a
The US dream of home ownership is going up in smoke in Cleveland, now littered with broken promises and lost hopes as it tops the nation's tragic roll call of foreclosures.
In the first seven months of this year, ther
An illegal immigrant who stayed in a Chicago church for a year to avoid separation from her 8-year-old son, a U.S. citizen, was arrested Sunday and being processed for deportation.
Elvira Arellano, who arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday after leav
Every other indicator is that these are fairy tales cooked up by the White House PR machine to try to cauterize their bleeding support. Almost like clock-work the White House breaks the glass of their magical PR machine every time they're about t
The yen fell against the euro and the dollar for a second day as a rebound in stock markets across Asia prompted investors to borrow in Japan to buy higher-yielding assets.
Japan's currency declined as the Morgan Stanley Capital International
The SCO Group’s $5 billion threat against Linux is effectively finished. On Friday, Aug. 10, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO doesn’t actually own the copyrights that it was using to threaten — and in some cases, sue — Linux users.
The Rev. Wiley S. Drake of the First Southern Baptist Church who endorsed former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee for president, has asked his followers to pray for the deaths of those who lodged a complaint against him with the IRS.
I’ve noticed a number of people on the Internet complaining about Ron Paul supporters recently. Many of them have the same complaint, that Ron Paul supporters are too pervasive. They call them Ron Paul spammers. They claim that a very few people are
Illinois head of GOP tears Ron Paul sign out of hands of a supporter and hands it to a colleague who stands on it about half way through the video. Chicago Tribune reported this, video just shows man standing on sign.
A weekly roundup of the buzz from the Sunday talk shows. He confided that it was not even his idea to come on the shows. "Somebody else made the decision for me," he said, "and I'm just doing what I was instructed to do."
The ACLU, is fighting mad over the newly approved domestic surveillance, and their new ad campaign is pulling no punches in identifying Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi as letting themselves be led like sheep to the shearer.
As a presidential candidate, Democrat John Edwards has regularly attacked subprime lenders, particularly those that have filed foreclosure suits against victims of Hurricane Katrina. But as an investor, Mr. Edwards has ties to lenders foreclosing on
Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. says customers are "running out of money."
Earlier this week, consumer juggernauts Home Depot and Wal-Mart reported softer than expected earnings.
Armed robots -- similar to the ones now on patrol in Iraq -- are being marketed to domestic police forces. None of the gun-toting 'bots appear to have been deployed domestically, yet. Both cops and company officials say it's only a matter o
I was never one of those who believed the Bush administration was getting ready to attack Iran in 2006 or early 2007. But it is now clear that at least Vice President Dick Cheney is conspiring to push through a specific plan for war with Iran. And Se
The collapse of Iraq's infrastructure has created a worsening water crisis that is killing untold numbers of Iraqis.
Iraq, with its famous Tigris and Euphrates rivers that run the length of the country, is now unable to provide drinking water
Scott Horton takes Stu Bykofsky of the Philadelphia Daily News to task for his suggestion that America needs another 9/11. By the end of the interview, Scott is practically straddling Bykofsky and pummeling him with facts, when Bykofsky goes whoops!
Listing the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group would set in motion a series of automatic sanctions that would make it easier for the United States to block financial accounts and other assets the Guards control.
Why now?
The New York Times actually painted the conviction of terrorism suspect Jose Padilla as "a significant victory for the Bush administration." If anything, it was a repudiation of the way the administration handled his case. But that doesn’t
Sentinel Management Group Inc., a U.S. futures commission merchant whose decision to freeze client accounts on Tuesday helped roil global financial markets, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late on Friday.