Former president Bill Clinton dropped a hint Monday that the end might be nigh for his wife Hillary's dogged campaign for the Democratic White House nomination, according to reports. (This would be a shock to me - something's up :)
With discounts as large as banks are offering, entire neighborhoods and regions are being marked-to-market overnight. This is pulling thousands of other home owner’s values down sharply forcing them into a negative equity position
Just this past weekend (5/22–25/08) I attended the Libertarian Party Convention in Denver. In what follows are some reflections on this experience, and ruminations on the future of the party in particular, and on the libertarian movement in general.
S&P also said today that it revised its outlooks on Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to negative. Citigroup Inc. was taken off review for a downgrade and given a negative outlook, while Wachovia Corp. was placed on review for a downgrad
This remarkable proceeding is the final proof, if any more were needed, that the fascist takeover of America is complete. A federal court has no business intervening in a city's business, not even if the company's owner is a friend of Bush an
"Stop! Please. Get beneath the hype over former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception. Don’t miss forest for trees."
Getting lost in the media furor over McClellan's memoir is the new autobiography of retired Lt. Gen Ricardo S. Sanchez, the onetime commander of US troops in Iraq, who is scathing in his assessment that the Bush administration
It was where Robert Zemeckis shot the electrifying clock-tower climax with Michael J. Fox in "Back to the Future." It was also the courthouse backdrop for Gregory Peck's Oscar-winning performance in "To Kill a Mockingbird."
A former Chicago police officer charged with being part of a ring that falsely arrested and stole from drug dealers has detailed how the operation led to a plot to kill two colleagues, according to interview excerpts released on Friday.
Ships that are understood to have held prisoners include the USS Bataan and USS Peleliu. A further 15 ships are suspected of having operated around the British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...
In advertising these days, the brass ring goes to those who can measure everything — how many people see a particular advertisement, when they see it, who they are. All of that is easy on the Internet, and getting easier in television and print.
Two veteran police officers were charged Friday with providing protection for purported shipments of cocaine and stolen goods in what was actually an undercover FBI operation.
Voters here took the state's official permissiveness on marijuana to new heights in 2000, allowing residents to grow up to 25 pot plants for medical, recreational or personal use.
“In our society growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest; one that can - and will - overturn the corporate powers that be.”
State Police are harassing motorcyclists at a roadblock en route to a biker rally in the Adirondacks. The National Coalition of Motorcyclists calls this "unconstitutional" and has taken the first steps necessary to file a lawsuit to put an
The appeals court upheld a ruling that the school acted appropriately in disqualifying the student from running for senior class secretary despite no precedent involving student expression that did not occur at the school or school-sponsored event
Capitalizing on Senator Larry Craig's restroom bust, a Minnesota minor league baseball team this Sunday is giving away a promotional item celebrating the Republican politician's arrest last year in an Minneapolis-St.Paul airport toilet.
Six peace activists were acquitted on charges of criminal trespass for failing to obey a police request that they abandon their sit-in outside U.S. Sen. Susan Collins' office in the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building in Maine.
The sad news just reached us that retired General William E. Odom has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 75. Odom served as director of the National Security Agency during Ronald Reagan’s second term. He had a reputation as a military hard-line
[As one wag put it, Australia joins the Coalition of the Going. Will Tonga step up?] About 500 Australian combat troops pulled out of their base in southern Iraq on Sunday, fulfilling an election promise to bring the soldiers home this year.
Don't be protesting outside the US Supreme Court. No free speech there. No Bill of Rights there. Thirty-four people were convicted yesterday of misdemeanor charges stemming from a demonstration at the Supreme Court in January in which they decr
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, on a state visit to North Korea in 1993, smuggled in critical data on uranium enrichment -- a route to making a nuclear weapon -- to help facilitate a missile deal with Pyongyang, according to a new boo
JEFFERSON CITY — Your bosses can still make you work weekends and give you projects you loathe. But Missouri lawmakers have voted to make it a crime if they order that a microchip be implanted in your arm. (Where else might they implant it!?!)
We The People Foundation Chairman Bob Schulz challenges the leaders of the Future of Freedom Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union to do more in the defense of the Constitution.
Dean Ahmad from http://minaret.org educates the audience on Islam and relationships between people and their governments in the War on Terror. Dean is a well known libertarian in both the West and the Middle-East
The meeting of the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee has been an interesting one to watch. All sides in the unfortunate matters of fighting over how to seat (or not) the delegations from Florida and Michigan at this year's national convention