CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden says his agency wants to use every inch of US law to protect the American people, but that it does not go beyond the legal way to carry out its duty. Amidst criticism that the CIA misallocated funds
The authorities also seem to have trouble implementing policies already in place. Government reports suggest that airline security procedures are remarkably ineffective, routinely failing to catch explosive materials carried by undercover agents.
Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson Inc(HOG) said on Friday that 2007 earnings would come in 4 percent to 6 percent lower than last year because of tough times for US consumers, sending its shares down 7 percent.
The drop in employment, following a month-long increase in the cost of credit prompted by losses in the mortgage market, is the clearest sign yet that the U.S. expansion is in jeopardy. Payrolls are one of the main indicators, along with sales, wages
UBS is recommending "swaption" strategies because "turmoil in global credit markets will ease". What's in this for UBS? Why is turmoil set to ease? Banks like Citigroup are in a bind over off balance sheet SIVs, LBOs, etc. Bef
By dismissing this case in such an off-hand manner the court is desperately trying to screw back on the lid of something they wish they had never opened. However, in doing so, they have screwed the lid on crooked and this matter will not remain conta
“You permitted Bush to complete his first term, and stranger still, chose him for a second term, which gave him a clear mandate from you — with your full knowledge and consent — to continue to murder our people in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then you claim
A spokesman for GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney slammed an earlier report that claimed the candidate's Utah finance committee co-chair, who is co-founder of a group facing child abuse and fraud allegations, was asked to resign his position a
President Bush's trademark struggles with the finer points of public speaking were on full display, when he thanked his "Austrian" hosts for inviting him to the "OPEC" summit. Bush was in Australia attending the APEC summit.
"If we look weak and divided in this country, we're going to pay a heavy price for it in the future." he went on. "We're living in the era of the suitcase bomb. And they're not going to go away. They're here now, they**
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says public opposition to a host of new border security programs stalls government efforts to tighten security. Such opposition ranges from Texas ranchers who don't want border fences built on their p
When a thousand Republicans are in a room and one man of the eight on the stage takes a sharply minority viewpoint on a dramatic issue and half the room seems to cheer him, something's going on.
Abuse of the custodial role for the world reserve currency invites retribution. The Wall St hucksters were well aware of the foreign pipelines to recycle trade surpluses into US$-based securities. They expoloited the situation for private gain,
New 'strategic partnership' against China. Ships, aircraft and submarines from four countries begin week-long war games in the Bay of Bengal on 4 September. It is the first flexing of muscles by the newly-formed "Quadrilateral Initiati
The entire 6,000-page French legal dossier into the death of Princess Diana has vanished from the court archives in Paris, a lawyer claimed last night. The mass of official documents - which stand one metre tall - was stored at the Palais de Justice
US gold futures prices rose above a key psychological target of $700 an ounce to a four-month high on Thursday as funds renewed their buying ahead of expectatioins for a weak US employment report on Friday, traders said.
In a testy public exchange Friday with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, President Bush said the US would formally end the Korean War only when North Korea halts its nuclear weapons program. (After that statement, his nose grew)
After the recent FoxTV-managed GOP debate fireworks in New Hampshire, CNN is actively seeking to set up an "immediate" further debate between Ron Paul(R-Tex) and former governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee(AR).
It's official: Ayad Allawi is no longer represented by Barbour Griffith & Rogers, the White-House connected lobbying firm he retained to sell the US government on his "parliamentary coup" to become Iraq's next prime minister. Well
The first "North American Union" driver's license, complete with a hologram of the continet on the reverse, has been created in North Carolina. "The North Carolina driver's license is 'North American Union' ready,
The National Security Archive today sued the White House seeking the recovery and preservation of more than 5 million White House e-mail messages that were apparently deleted from White House computers between March 2003 and Oct 2005.
The August jobs report was a total disaster. 4,000 jobs were lost and there were huge backward revisions as well. Nonetheless the model used by BLS moonbats keeps adding financial service and construction jobs even as 149 mortgage lenders imploded an
The United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) has just announced plans for an anti-terrorism exercise called Vigilant Shield 08. The exercise which is slated to run from October 15th to October 20th is described as a way to prepare, prevent and...
The agency said it was opposed to "network neutrality", the idea that all data on the net is treated equally. The comments put the agency at odds with companies such as Microsoft and Google, who have called for legislation to guarantee equ
This may come as a major shock to the nation just discovering the latest presidential wannabe. Major publications have written long profiles of Thompson without revealing this detail. And it's not news Thompson wanted to leak out right at the pea