A new political accord between Iraq's main Sunni Arab, Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders will not be enough to lure boycotting Sunni Arabs back into the government, a spokesman for the biggest Sunni Arab bloc said.
Some drivers carrying yellow "Don't Tread On Me" flags paid their tolls with pennies Monday to protest the number of toll booths in town -- and caused a major traffic headache by the afternoon.
Most drivers do not have the patience or desire to risk fines and court costs of up to A$5000 for daring to challenge a speed camera ticket in Victoria, Australia. Instead, they pay the fine...
The two sales are being referred to by market traders as "bin Laden trades" because only an event on the scale of 9-11 could make these short-sell options valuable. There are 65,000 contracts @ $750.00 for the SPX 700 calls for open interes
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).
This is not a report about a UFO that I know of, nor did an alien abduction take place as far as I know. These things could have happened. It’s just that I am not aware of any of these things taking place the night of my wife’s and my encounter with
A call by Puerto Rico's governor for a US withdrawal from Iraq earned a standing ovation from a conference of more than 4,000 National Guardsmen. The administration has "no new strategy and no signs of success" and prolonging the war ne
This is the night that many observers in N. America, will get to see a very deep Total Eclipse of the Moon. The western regions of the USA, will be favored for seeing this event in it's entirety. Total eclipses of the Moon are safe to view and ve
Are you sick of the chaos of this presidency? Are you sick of the fraud and lack of leadership? What would you do if you were president of the United States? You would probably do much better than Bush. Here's what I'd do to change course
The "War on Drugs" continues to spend your tax dollars to the tune of $70 billion annually. In 35 years, this war on drugs accomplished nothing. Drugs today continue to be more abundant and easier to buy than 35 years ago. Here is why.
Bush will likely nominate Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to the position, senior administration officials said. Chertoff has headed Homeland Security since 2005. He served as a federal appellate court judge, a federal prosecutor and as
When a federal judge dismissed Valerie Plame's lawsuit against the CIA earlier this month, she ruled that the agency was entitled to stop Ms. Plame from publishing the dates of her agency service, even though these dates had been supplied to Cong
The Homeland Security Dept on Wednesday announced broad changes for using a database that collects and stores information on foreign travelers to the US. In one of the biggest changes, the dept plans to regularly share information with US intelligen
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has told President Bush he will resign, the New York Times reports Monday. Gonzales told Bush of the resignation Friday and the decision is to be officially announced later Monday, the Times reported.
"I'm with Fred" enticed the placards set up here at the Midwest Republican Leadership Conference at a table touting the noncampaign of actor, ex-senator and possible presidential candidate Fred Thompson. In exchange for a $250 check,
With much fanfare Bush signed the "Secure Fence Act" but only 15 of 700 miles have been completed. One look at the pathetic fence is enough to prove the fence isn't secure and a total waste of $billions. Protectionist sentiment is risin
The Americans were getting close. It was early in the winter of 2004-05, and Osama bin Laden and his entourage were holed up in a mountain hideaway along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Suddenly, a sentry, posted several kilometers away, spotted a p
Top military lawyers have told senators that President Bush's new rules for CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists could allow abuses that violate the Geneva Conventions, according to Senate and military officials.
After a bloody raid by American military forces on an enemy camp in Rawah, Iraq, on June 11, 2003, a Defense Department report took inventory. Eighty suspected terrorists killed. An enormous weapons cache recovered. And, in what the report called “po
The scale of the human disaster in the Iraq war has become clearer from statistics collected by two humanitarian groups that reveal the number of Iraqis who have fled the fighting has more than doubled since the US military build-up began in Februar
This year's U.S. troop buildup has succeeded in bringing violence in Baghdad down from peak levels, but the death toll from sectarian attacks around the country is running nearly double the pace from a year ago.
Some of the recent bloodshed ap
US-led and Afghan troops struck Taliban posts inside Pakistan, which denied giving permission, as new clashes left more than 30 rebels dead and there were claims of civilian casualties. The US-led coalition received the go-ahead from Pakistan to stri
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President William Poole termed "troubling" a rising tide of protectionist sentiment in Washington, which could undermine U.S. exports. "Some U.S. legislative proposals seem to be based on a presumption th
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said the risks of a recession are greater now than at anytime since the September 11 attacks due to real estate and mortgage market troubles. "But I would say that the risks of recession are now greater
Well, it appears that Ernest Hancock is home from the r3VOLutionary front for a short while. Naturally I have to pitch in my two cents worth about what Ernie's been up to and what I think will happen next. In short - It's all good.
Marcelle Shriver has about 80,000 cans of Silly String and all she needs is a way to get them to Iraq.
For almost a year, the New Jersey woman has been collecting Silly String to send to troops, who use it to detect trip wires connected to bombs.
If the Federal Reserve is waiving a fundamental principle in banking regulation, the credit crunch must still be sapping the strength of America's biggest banks. Fortune's Peter Eavis documents an unusual Fed move.