After deadly shootings at schools in Illinois and Virginia, 12 states are considering legislation to allow guns on college campuses. Part of a movement that says college students have the same gun ownership rights as others.
If Al Qaeda strikes the West in the coming months, it's likely the mastermind will be a stocky Egyptian explosives expert with two missing fingers. His alias is Abu Ubaida al Masri. Hardly anyone has heard of him outside a select circle of anti-t
We asked a dozen national security experts what Congress should ask the top military commander in Iraq at next week's hearings. Here's what they came up with:
When people think of tax havens, they usually picture the Swiss Alps or Caribbean islands. But traditional venues are finding competition from the U.S., where lawyers in 7 states, such as Nevada and Alaska, are muscling in, looking to grab business f
Below are excerpts from a court case proving the Federal Reserve system's status. As you will see, the court ruled that the Federal Reserve Banks are "independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations", and there is not
As long as there have been offices, there have been office pranks. There is just something about spending 8 hours behind a desk or inside a cubicle that awakens the prankster inside us all.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday he planned to launch more security crackdowns like the one in Basra against "criminal gangs" in Baghdad. [Because the last one worked so well.]
Intruders ransacked offices of the main opposition party and police detained foreign journalists in an ominous sign that President Mugabe might turn to intimidation and violence in trying to stave off an electoral threat to his 28-year rule.
The first amendment was kicked to the curb after Air America host Randi Rhodes made a nasty comment about Senator Hillary Clinton while on stage in San Francisco. Randi spoke the truth and paid the price. Watch the video
A memo from March 2003 asserts President Bush has unlimited power to order brutal interrogations of detainees also reveals a radical interpretation of the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable search and seizure.
"There are force requirements there [in Afghanistan] that we can't currently meet," Adm. Mike Mullen said. "Having forces in Iraq at the level they're at doesn't allow us to fill the need that we have in Afghanistan,"
Princeton High School officials issued 250 after-school detentions to students who walked out of class March 19 -- the day after the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. "We had to take it in our own hands to educate ourselves and other
It is illegal for anyone to possess a "photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation of such vital military and naval installations or equipment without first obtaining permission of the commanding officer of the militar
Just days after ordering supporters to desist from fighting Iraqi and US troops, radical Shiite cleric al-Sadr called for 1 million Iraqis to march against the US "occupation" next week. The cleric also called for a "peaceful sit-in
The only sensible strategy is to withdraw rapidly but in good order. Only that step can break the paralysis now gripping US strategy in the region. The next step is to choose a new aim, regional stability, not a meaningless victory in Iraq.
A 14-year-old student at Morgan School in Clinton is facing a weapons charge, accused of tinkering with a disposable camera to make it capable of zapping people with an electrical charge.
The people of the Bay area of California are about to be sprayed with a new pesticide not registered with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in a pre-emptive strike against a non-existent threat.
Beck sets the scene for where he wants his show to go, but then starts out with a live interview of Ron Paul on the Capital Hill steps. (I am guessing right before or after he will be grilling Fed Chair Bernanke.)
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul questions Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at Joint Economic Committee on April 2nd, 2008. (video)
Author of 9/11 book claims the federal government was behind the 9/11 attacks. al-Qaeda denounces book and presents documentation they were behind the attack.
Charles Goyette discuss the use of the pejorative “conspiracy theorist,” to shut down debate of controversial issues, the continuing danger of war with Iran, the Federal Reserve Board’s war against the American people, their total lack of accountabil
Osama bin Laden flew to London in 1986 to help negotiate the purchase of Russian-made surface-to-air missiles to be used by Arab fighters then battling the Soviet military in Afghanistan. The deal for Russian SA-7 missiles was arranged
On April Fool's Day, the House fools were grilling oil companies over their 8-cents per gallon profit--while remaining silent on government's almost 50-cent/gallon tax take. We take a look at three of the biggest jokers.
Empire or Humanity?
What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire
by Howard Zinn
Narrated by Viggo Mortensen
Art by Mike Konopacki
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