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If Gonzales failed the American public, what makes anyone think Chertoff would make a competent Attorney General of the United States? Call it a collusion of incompetence foisted on the American people. Results: Deadly!
The recently passed law which allows President Bush to continue wiretapping Americans' telephone calls overseas may allow for domestic spying as well, according to a new report commissioned by Congress. A recently-acquired
Who would ever guess that in 2002, 45.3% voted to end the Income Tax in Massachusetts. This is going to be on the ballot again in 2008. With the Ron Paul campaign in full gear, one just never knows.
(I had a grin on my face the entire time :) RON PAUL in the Air.
From late 2004 until mid-2006, a little-known data-mining computer system developed by the US Dept of Homeland Security to hunt terrorist, weapons of mass destruction, and biological weapons sifted through Americans' personal data with little reg
In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded 9/11. Until now, those failures have attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the
(What a shocker) The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Homeland Security Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This 12 page feature contains an expert roundtable forum of leading indu
Jacksonville, Florida's Ron Paul Revolution - 3 Days - 30 People - $300 can change the world.
Authorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program(SCHIP) runs out at the end of September. This gave the Dems and some Reps in Congress an opportunity to vote in July to expand this government health insurance program.
As America comes to resemble a command economy, we need a transition plan here too. Yuri Maltsev proposed a "One-Year Plan" for the U.S.S.R. We're not in that bad a shape (yet), so we could do it in 30 days.
Iraq has failed to meet all but 3 of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a Government Accountability Office report. The document questions the positive assessment by the White House last month adeq
video of Aug 26 event
China welcomed U.S. pressure on Taiwan to drop its plan for a referendum on membership of the United Nations, saying the island's attempts to assert nationhood were doomed to failure. China considers Taiwan as part of its territory, part of
Poland and the US may be nearing a breakthrough in talks to locate parts of a US anti-missile shield on Polish soil. A deal after Washington signaled a compromise on a Polish request for Patriot missiles or similar air protection to defend its citie
President Bush is preparing to ask Congress for as much as $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq. The request signals increasing White House confidence it can fend off mounting congressional pressure to begin withdrawing troops from I
The Daily Breeze article about a Rolling Hills Estates resident sentenced to six months in county jail for building on his property without permits has sparked a fierce backlash and a tidal wave of national and media attention.[Roaches hate the light
The FBI has built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device,
Hackers have figured out how to unleash Apple's iPhone from AT&T's cellular network, but people hoping to make money from the procedure could face legal problems. At least one of the companies hoping to make money by unlocking iPhones said
[You've been Jewelled now in our lexicon.] Richard Jewell, the former security guard who was wrongly linked [by FBI leak] to the 1996 Olympic bombing and then waged a decade-long battle with news organizations to defend his reputation, died Wedne
But when it comes to hits and errors on terrorists, Uncle Sam could not qualify even for a tryout for the minor leagues. The federal government has had far more strikeouts than people realize when it comes to terrorist suspects.
On September 24, 2005 at noon, there will be thousands--if not millions--gathering at the White House to collectively shout, figuratively at least, "I told you so." And then will begin the call for impeachment that should have been called b
The Republican National Committee plans to penalize at least 5 states holding early primaries, including New Hampshire and Florida, by refusing to seat at least half of their delegates at the national convention in 2008, a party official said.
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick took the witness stand and defended his decision to remove the head of the police internal affairs unit. The former internal affairs chief claims he was fired because he was looking into drunken-driving accidents, falsified ove
BBC News reports "an embarrassed American military has said it regrets that eight Iranians ... were arrested, handcuffed, and blindfolded by US soldiers in Baghdad." They acknowledge the Iranians are engineers in Iraq to rebuild the electri
Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr suspended all armed actions by his Mehdi Army. Asked if the unexpected order meant no attacks on U.S. troops, one senior aide said: "All kinds of armed actions are to be frozen, without exception."
Margin calls are mounting at Carlyle. A letter from the CEO says conditions are worse than what caused the demise of Long Term Capital Management. The apology misses the mark. The real problem is Carlyle borrowed money and bet it all. Basis Yield Alp
Federal Reserve officials, underestimating the impact of credit-market turmoil, focused at their Aug. 7 meeting on inflation and slowing productivity. Minutes of the session released yesterday showed that the Fed was intent
For the last 15 years, California authorities have been trying to figure out what happened to a businessman named Norman Hsu, who pleaded no contest to grand theft, agreed to serve up to three years in prison and then seemed to vanish.
Every adminstration has its share of politically appointed deadwood--ex-campaign workers, big fundraisers, incompetent ideologues. Traditionally, after duds like Reagan Interior Sec James Watt were exposed, presidents showed them the door.
It's hard to know how scared to be if you don't know the size of the threat. No, not terrorism, housing. The US mortgage-lending business is a sprawling, varied enterprise that no one regulator oversees, making it impossible to know how man
