Spies and teenagers normally have little in common but that is about to change as America's intelligence agencies prepare to launch "A-Space", an internal communications tool modelled on the popular social networking sites, Facebook and
Texas congressman Ron Paul's fund-raising is a smoothly-oiled machine that continues to generate funding in support of his free-market candidacy. Sources close to the campaign believe that August was another good month.
The Pentagon's counterintelligence office is shutting down a database that contained information gathered within the US, including intelligence about Iraq war protestors. The Talon reporting system on threats to the Defense Dept
(I'm so shocked) The CIA's top leaders failed to use their available powers, never developed a comprehensive plan to stop al-Qaida and missed crucial opportunities to thwart two hijackers in the run-up to Sept. 11, the agency's own watch
Fox News asked former CIA field officier Bob Baer on Tuesday whether the US is "gearing up for a military strike on Iran." Baer has written a column for Time indicating that Washington officials expect an attack within the next six months.
Experts are reassuring investors that U.S. money market mutual funds, which have gathered about $165 billion in new assets over an eight-week period, are safe from the subprime mortgage problems that have caused steep losses at several hedge funds.
The number of foreclosure filings reported in the U.S. last month jumped 93% from July of 2006 and rose 9% from June, the latest sign that homeowners are having trouble making payments and finding buyers during the national housing down
Had the “case for war” been proven, would Iraq look any different today? Would it be any less of a bloodbath; any less of a quagmire for U.S. troops; any less of a geopolitical disaster; any less of a drain on U.S. blood and treasure? Would the U.S.
Military interrogators posing as "lawyers" are attempting to trick Guantanamo prisoners into providing them with information. This incredible and illegal practice contributes "to the prisoners' suspicions that the (real) lawyers ar
"The prime minister is a tool for the Americans, and people see that clearly. It will probably be the Americans who decide to change him when they realize he has failed. We don't have a democracy here, we have a foreign occupation."
California plans to hold an administrative hearing on the fate of Election Systems & Software for violating state election codes. ES&S, the top voting machine company in the country, is being accused of selling at least 5 CA counties a version of its
Sunday’s GOP barbecue fundraiser could have been dubbed “The Ron Paul Show,” based on the attention the Texas congressman received and the number of his supporters in attendance. Over 500 people ponied up $18, making it the most successful barbecue i
Skyspot Advertising is a night aerial advertising business. Using similar technology to the Goodyear blimp, they scroll messages with an electronic sign from a Cessna 172 aircraft that can be seen over a large area of reach. Ron Paul's rEVOLution
Though President Bush has been telling us for months we need to listen to our military leaders about what's going on in Iraq, we now learn that General Petraeus won't actually be writing this report. The White House will...
The lawsuit alleges adult actress China Barbie used a domain name containing the word "barbie" in a "bad faith attempt to profit from Mattel's Barbie trademarks" and had damaged Mattel's good name.
Brought to you by the same people who see no threat in fingerprinting their kids or depositing them in gov't schools, parents are getting domain names for their young kids, long before they can do more than peck aimlessly at a keyboard. What coul
While the Sicilian Mafia was imploding under a ruthless crackdown, another crime syndicate rooted in the rugged mountains at the tip of Italy's boot was quietly eclipsing Cosa Nostra in power and reach. They now own the european drug trade.
Researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city's sewer plant and get a good snapshot of what people are taking.
How many more American children will be killed because of the Sanctuary City policy practiced three dozen U.S. cities? How many deaths from drunk illegal alien drivers are in store for American citizens? What happens when the "Newark Massacre*
Once again, the burden of responsibility to help maintain America's
liberty rests upon the shoulders of the men in the pulpits. That
should not surprise us, because it has always been this way.
In 1776 the founders of the United States boldly created a society allowing the maximum amount of liberty for the individual and restricting government activity to the absolute minimum ever seen in the history of the world. Based on the wildest noti
It always perturbed me that the wide variety of neocon commentators on television regularly pronounce with such fury and unison that Ron Paul "can’t win" but never give any reasons why he couldn’t win the presidential race. At first, I ass
Business involves risk, and businesses that miscalculate risk should be liquidated, their assets reallocated to businesses that correctly judge risk and make profits. Instead, the Fed has injected $64 billion into the jittery markets, effectively a b
he two-day summit is the third of its kind during Bush's presidency, and each one has been meant to bolster a compact dubbed the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America that serves as a way for the nations to team up on health, secur
Veteran CBS newsman Bob Schieffer offered a commentary on the upcoming report from General Petraeus on conditions in Iraq, observing, "When I ask a question and guests start laying out conditions ... I know that we're headed down the old rab
A number of blogs have apparently picked up on a particular thought in the recent article by Jon Utley, “What To Do With Cheney?” That perhaps Rove’s sudden resignation is because he has been unable to stop the Cheney gang from a coming attack on Ira
The Government was accused of hiding the true casualty rate of troops in Afghanistan yesterday as it emerged that nearly one in two soldiers fighting on the front line had been wounded.
A high-profile Chinese dissident freed from prison called for a "taxpayers revolution" in China to bring about greater openness and accountability in the world's most populous nation.
Yang Jianli, a veteran of th
US troops are holding nearly 800 children and teenagers on a Baghdad base, boys who are largely illiterate and picked up for allegedly planting bombs and now the focus of a multi-million-dollar education project.
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