People threw up, passed out, were injured, got into altercations and climbed onto sculptures at Martinifest, a semi- formal event organized by Clear Channel Radio and held at the museum, according to several people who attended or worked at the event
[No wonder we haven't caught him.] President Bush said his 2004 re-election victory over Sen. John Kerry was aided by Osama bin Laden, who issued a taped diatribe against him the Friday before Americans went to the polls, The Examiner newspaper
No more difficult task as legislators than balancing the need for security against civil liberties. 5 years after the tragedy of 9/11, and in the midst of a war against terror without any clear endpoint, it is increasingly clear that we are failing i
New broadband taxes may be on the horizon, if an influential senator and his like-minded colleagues get their way. Several senators from largely rural states called for expansion of the Universal Service Fund, a multibillion-dollar pool of tax money
Nearly 9,000 people who bought on the Internet to avoid the state's $2-a-pack cigarette tax have been snared in the first year of a state crackdown and forced to pay about $5.9 million in taxes, an average $650 apiece.
CBS Radio announced it has filed suit against Howard Stern, his company One Twelve, his agent, and Sirius Satellite Radio for multiple breaches of contract, fraud, unjust enrichment, and misappropriation of CBS Radio's broadcast time.
A 20-year-old legal fight over protests outside abortion clinics ended with the Supreme Court ruling that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used against demonstrators. The 8-0 decision was a setback for abortion clinics
After e-mails emerged indicating that Florida Governor and Presidential Brother Jeb Bush had a role in facilitating a $236 million Katrina aid contract between Carnival Cruise Lines and the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Months overdue in a midterm election year, the USA Patriot Act renewal cleared a final hurdle in the Senate on its way to President Bush's desk. Several Democrats voted "no" on the test vote, but said they would vote for the bill on fi
About 5,000 personnel including snipers, commandos and US marines using helicopters, bomb detectors and electronic jammers will protect President Bush during his visit to India this week. Part of a 3-ring security cordon around the president
Confronting the defendants at the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals with the evidence against them is like dragging vampires into the sunlight the chief prosecutor said. [If your evidence was compelling you would have no problem with a real trial.]
[Remarkable & important] Ledeen believes that mankind is inclined toward war and has a dismal, Hobbesian view of history. He says, "I'm not sure Machiavelli was wrong when he said that 'man is more inclined to do evil than to do good.**
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Air America—Phoenix has now disappeared into the ether and Phoenix is left with multiple Christian formats, some in English and others in Spanish, several “brokered’ time stations ... and a bagful of right wing "Conservative Talk stations."
US intelligence agencies repeatedly warned the White House beginning more than 2 years ago that the insurgency in Iraq had deep local roots, was likely to worsen and could lead to civil war, according to former senior intelligence officials who help
Scooter Libby made a mistake. He thought he was a NeoCon Insider. It was a natural mistake for him to have made, his business cards, the perks, the deference, the salary, and the access to power, all spell out Insider using the usual formula for such
A series of suicide attacks, car bombs and mortar barrages rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 77 people and wounding scores as Iraq teetered on the brink of sectarian civil war. In the latest attacks, 2 explosions hit Shiite targets in north
Lawyers for the Bosnian government screened shocking video footage of killings of Bosnian Muslims to show the International Court of Justice what genocide looks like. "... premeditated, calm, cowardly, cruel ... killing of boys who did nothing w
President George W. Bush on Tuesday stood by his support for allowing a Dubai-based company to run terminals at six major U.S. ports, as lawmakers raised concerns about a Coast Guard report on security issues.
1 in 5 troops want to heed Bush call to stay “as long as they are needed.” 42% say US role is hazy. Almost 90% think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 9/11, most don't blame Iraqi public for insurgent attacks. 72% think the US should exit w
Google has begun offering a new payment option for a handful of people who had listed items for sale on the Google Base posting service, a step that could eventually put the Mountain View Internet giant in direct competition with eBay and PayPal.
Few films have ever captured the feel of the desert Southwest better than Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. It's all there: the dust, the cattle, the brush, the waitress in the coffee shop with flyspecked window
Arab legislators meeting in Jordan will seek to introduce international laws barring religious slander following the insults to Islam recently made by European media. [Does that include attacks on Judaism?]
The economy, sagging under the strain of lofty energy prices, grew at an annual rate of 1.6% in the final quarter of last year—a mediocre performance. Economists said the economy is already rebounding smartly prdicting a robust 4.5% pace in the curre
Poor prewar planning left the US without enough skilled workers to efficiently rebuild Iraq's economy and public works, according to a report issued Monday. It recommended the government establish a "civilian reserve corps" to deploy ar
Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz warned the UN Security Council not to stand idly by while Iran did everything in its power to play for time to develop nuclear weapons. "Israel has the right and need to defend itself," the Iranian-born
Sunni Muslims from across central Iraq, alarmed by how easily Shiite Muslim fighters had attacked their mosques during last week's clashes, said that they were sending weapons to Baghdad and were preparing to dispatch their own fighters to the Ir
Look in the pockets of Iraqis whose jobs take them around Baghdad every day and you are likely to find a clutch of passes and identity cards, one for every police, military or militia checkpoint they may run into.
The United States said that Iran had a one-week "opportunity," before the March 6 meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog agency, to ease fears that it seeks atomic weapons.