People in Venezuela took to the streets to protest the Chavez government's steady march to turn the country into a private club for Chavez and cronies. They were shot by masked gunmen. Does anyone doubt who arranged this?
We received a letter and the writer was angry. What upset the writer? The same thing that angers millions of Americans across the USA each and every day: an ever-increasing web of regulations, laws and edicts by--in many cases--unelected officials.
A claim by President Ahmadinejad that Iran has 3,000 working uranium-enriching centrifuges sent a tremor across the world yesterday amid fears that Israel would respond by bombing the country’s nuclear facilities.
Federal prosecutors are expected to ask a federal grand jury tomorrow to indict former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik for failing to pay taxes on free apartment renovations and rent, two federal sources say.
Sen. Chuck Hagel, speaking to an audience of High School students, warned the nation may need to turn to compulsory military service "or some kind of draft" to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I'm just stating the obvious
A school superintendent’s decision to suspend, and perhaps expel, two dozen students who took part in a protest against the Iraq war at a suburban high school drew criticism from the students and their parents, who demanded their children be allowed
The Neocons are still winning. Four and a half years after the Neocons tricked the nation into launching the most foolish military adventure in its history, the U.S. military continues to execute their policies. The occupation of Iraq and the six-yea
House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday on a $460 billion Pentagon bill that bankrolls pricey weapons systems and bomb-resistant vehicles for troops, but does not pay for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
One year ago yesterday, we elected the Democrats in overwhelming numbers to amplify our screaming voices to a decibel loud enough to penetrate the unchecked corridors of power in Washington -- and the Democrats have done nothing to make good on their
The government has appealed a federal court ruling that struck down the National Security Letter provision of the PATRIOT Act. The provision, used without probable cause or judicial oversight, gives the FBI the ability to secretly demand access to th
For developing countries like China, the technology could be crucial to bringing wind power to places where it is currently un-utilized and perhaps too costly to build. For the developed world it could make wind much cheaper, and turbines at home a r
More than 15,000 people have appealed to the government since February to have their names removed from the terrorist watch list that delayed their travel at U.S. airports and border crossings, the Homeland Security Department says.
The National GOP has lost it's fricking mind! It's like they've become too damn arrogant for their own constituents! Have they forgotten politicking 101! They've become an exclusive, "I know more than you so shut up" club th
While voter anger grows, politics in America is still controlled by a traditional system of big-money donors, powerful special interests and political professionals who have little regard for the will of the people or the future of the nation. {Wow}
Ron Paul sat down with reporters and talks about his first action as president and Commander-in-Chief of the military, and motivations for the rise in the price of oil, the motivations of terrorists, and the private contractors in Iraq.
The law which pushed Michigan's presidential primary up to Jan. 15 was ruled unconstitutional by a court Wednesday, at least temporarily jeopardizing the state's plan to leap to the front of the 2008 nomination contests.
Other rules deemed utterly stupid included one that permits a pregnant woman to urinate in a policeman's hat and and another that says it is OK to murder bow-and-arrow-carrying Scotsmen within the city walls of York, northern England.
Gallup details Bush's falling numbers in a series of graphs that appear below. They note that Bush's "strongly disapprove" rating is the highest Gallup has ever measured for a US president.
Listings are shown with green signs, foreclosures are represented by gavels. Foreclosures can be at any stage from having received a "Notice of Trustee’s Sale" to being a REO.
"...There will at some point have to be a 'Wile E. Coyote moment' -- a point at which expectations are revised, and the dollar drops sharply." Enjoy the chart.
NY Attorney General Cuomo sent subpoenas to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae over allegations of appraisal fraud at WaMu. Last week, Cuomo sued First American Corp. for allegedly colluding with WaMu to use a list of preferred appraisers to artificially inf
Clinton's campaign Web site touts that she has "battled the big drug companies." Yet she has sponsored many bills that would directly subsidize Barr Laboratories, maker of the emergency contraceptive pill Plan B, which also functions a
The former New York mayor backs abortion rights and gay rights, positions that put him in conflict with conservative GOP orthodoxy, and has been trying to persuade evangelical conservatives like Robertson to overlook their differences on those issue
On October 2nd we posted an article in which we announced that the Clean Election Lawsuit was being expanded to all fifty states. We said we were in the process of filing an amended complaint to name all of the nation’s chief election officials as de