[The smartest people in the world.] Majority Democrats plan to include the requirement in broader energy legislation to be debated in the context of $90-per-barrel oil, $3-plus pump prices and growing concerns about climate change. The House plans to
Goldman Sachs analysts said they were surprised by the size of the discount on E*Trade's portfolio because 73% of the assets were backed by prime mortgages, or loans to people with solid credit.
A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.
In almost every appearance as he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, Rudolph W. Giuliani cites a fusillade of statistics and facts to make his arguments about his successes in running New York City and the merits of his views.
The Bush administration is laying out a new secrecy defense in an effort to end a court battle about the White House visits of now-imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
In a mark to reality event long overdue, ETrade's assets were sold from 11-27 cents on the dollar. What happens if Citigroup mark's its assets to reality? There seems to be easily another $26 billion at risk. Citigroup is desperately trying t
Former congressman Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican and conservative icon who oversaw House impeachment proceedings against then-president Bill Clinton, has died at 83.
Ron Paul won an informal straw poll of Virginia Republicans Saturday at the state party's annual weekend retreat. (So if you're paying attention,...that means party activists and precinct committeemen, folks!)
Maybe you've heard rumors about an explosive newspaper expose on a major political figure that would rock the political world just as the presidential voting is about to begin.
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether or not the District of Columbia's ban on personal ownership of handguns violates the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Poll: Individual Right or Not?
Ron Paul for President 2008 - Campaign Song Written by and performed by Shelby Lindley. Some silly friends dropped in and joined me on this version. ;)
Permission to use this song in its original form or as an mp3/audio version at rallies and publ
The simplest explanation of how the U.S. tax system works ever. Beer drinkers and who pays the freight in the United States. From an economics professor at the University of Georgia.
Kagan, who is with the American Enterprise Institute, a thinktank with strong ideological ties to the Bush administration, told the Guardian. "We need to think now about our options in Pakistan,"
"Drop the Ice Breakers and step away from the car." Cops and judges attack Hershey's for the confusion between breath mints and crack cocaine. Are readers fooled by candy?
Virginia Republicans on Friday voted to rescind their demand that voters in the February presidential primary sign a written oath of loyalty to the party's presidential nominee. [anti-Ron Paul measure, because they care]
Ron Paul joked during Wednesday's Republican debate that so much money is pouring into his campaign from the Internet that he's "struggling to figure out how to spend" it all.
Well before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan. "She used the PD as her personal taxi service," said one former city offici
Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
The Summit County, Ohio sheriff believes roadblocks are unconstitutional and ineffective in fighting drunk driving -- except when they come with cash. Sheriff Drew Alexander will accept $175,000 in government grants to conduct roadblocks...
A doctor gives verbal advice to protect the life of an unconscious man and she duly gets hit with attempted felonies by vindictive campus cops, with the connivance of the University of Michigan. Jury selection for her trial began this week.
Bill Risner was on John C Scott radio show and Bill nailed the problems we voters have with Pima County Board of Sups, their Election Department and billshit vote stealing Diebold Equipment. And we both know that Maricopa is no better.
According to Locke and his spiritual heirs such as Thomas Jefferson, the function of government is to secure the liberty of individual citizens. Thus, the American political philosophy begins with the individual.