Long lines of disgruntled customers wrapped around city blocks across the globe today as Apple scrambled to fix a glitch in iTunes that prevented iPhone acolytes from activating the next-generation phones they had waited hours, even days, to buy.
The psychiatric profession itself is under attack in Congress, accused of allowing the relationship with the American Psychiatric Association and pharmaceutical companies to become too cozy.
Rep. Charles B. Rangel is enjoying the luxury of four rent controlled apartments overlooking Upper Manhattan in a building owned by one of New York's prestigious real estate developers.
The housing bubble has popped. This is going to take the price of housing in the United States lower than it is today. I think 20% lower is a conservative figure. The commodity bubble is still in full force. It is a worldwide bubble. The price of ene
We may be the last generation that will have ever known privacy.
Every day, we are one step closer to the Total Surveillance Society. Every day, we lose a little more of that part of being human that claims the right to be left alone, that knows f
To let more antigunners organize to submit comments. The period for public comment on a controversial rule change that would allow loaded guns in national parks has been extended to August 8 after pressure from congressional leaders.
Democratic leaders have agreed to give Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich a day before the House Judiciary Committee to make his case that President Bush ought to be impeached for allegedly lying to Congress in order to get approval to invade Iraq.
It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be. The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environme
Ludwig von Mises had a theory about interventionism. It doesn't accomplish its stated ends. Instead it distorts the market. That distortion cries out for a fix. The fix can consist in pulling back and freeing the market or taking further steps to
In the most detailed examination yet of Senator John McCain’s eligibility to be president, a law professor at the University of Arizona has concluded that McCain’s birth is not enough to satisfy the constitutional requirement the president must be a
U.S. banking regulators swooped in to seize mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp Inc on Friday after withdrawals by panicked depositors led to the third-largest banking failure in U.S. history. California-based IndyMac, which specialized in a type
The Chief Judge of the US District Court in California has ruled that President Bush is a felon. The ruling stems from the case of Al-Harmain Islamic Foundation Inc. v Bush, a case which will now be remembered as making it official that Bush's pr
Top 25 Censored Stories for 2007: Sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month's Olympics and September's Paralympics. Dog is eaten not only by the large Korean community in China's
What came first: The nuclear accident or the earthquake? A high-level Chinese military source secretly disclosed last week that the recent earthquake in Sichuan Province caused a chain-reaction of explosions in the Sichuan mountain areas. The explo
We've got pot growing out of our skin? Essentially, yes. The skin has joined the growing club of organs that is known to produce "endocannabinoids" — the body's own reefer. The biggest producer of endogenous pot is the brain. [buste
Wall Street sank further Friday, as investors dumped stocks on troubles at mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and oil's continuing climb into record territory. Dow Jones industrials slid below 11,000 for the first time in 2 years
The questioner began, "I was curious about a document. Back in September of 2000, the Project for a New American Century, or PNAC, whose members included Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush and Paul Wolfowitz, wrote a document entitled 'R
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures continued their record-breaking run higher this morning, hitting a fresh all-time high of $147.27 a barrel in electronic trading on Globex
UK stocks sank to their lowest since 2005 as crude oil prices hit fresh highs, sending the FTSE into the jaws of a bear market - which is defined by shares falling by more than 20pc from their recent peak.
Paulson's statement "Institutions Must Be Allowed To Fail" is in reality an implicit admission the Fed is powerless to stop a credit implosion. We have finally reached the point at which the mess is too big to bail
Professor Camayd-Freixas has written a 14 page essay stating that the immigrant defendants whose words he translated, did not fully understand the criminal charges they were facing or the rights most of them had waived.
Supporting the single company who wishes to be their greatest competitor, Google launches its Second Life competitor without a linux client. [not that bad, but somebody else will have to give you a personal review because of it]
It is not popular to come to the defense of Jewish settlers. In fact, the media blitz that is being waged against these people inspires outright hatred.