[so why have the trial? ah show!] Even if he is found innocent, he may not leave this U.S. Navy base. The military retains the right to hold those considered to pose a threat to the United States — even those who have been cleared of charges at Guant
The social networking that takes place via instant messaging, microblogging, or e-mail further steals from newspapers the mindshare they once owned. Radio, which once served a similar social role with its menu of music, news, and talk, is plummeting.
Philippe Petit (born August 13, 1949) is a French high wire artist who gained fame for his illegal walk between the Twin Towers in New York City on August 7, 1974.
They have swapped U.S. Treasury bonds for toxic securities," he told Barron's. "It is privatizing the gains and profits, and socializing the losses as usual. This is socialism for Wall Street and the rich."
In tactics that the researchers considered heavy-handed and often threatening, they were interviewed and polygraphed as early as 2002, and reinterviewed numerous times. Their labs were searched, and their computers and equipment carted away.
Writers on this page and elsewhere long have exposed the U.S. War on Drugs for what it is: a fraud that has killed or destroyed many more people than ever have been injured or killed by illegal drugs themselves.
Christians support for, the U.S. government’s latest military adventure often recite the mantra, "Obey the powers that be," a loose paraphrase of Romans 13:1, as if that somehow means that Christians should blindly follow whatever the gover
The cease-and-desist orders issued in June said the four banks needed to raise more capital, expand their loss allowances and better oversee and diversify their loan portfolios. A fifth bank was cited for violating consumer protection laws.
"We can put unmanned aircraft -- Predator, Reaper, and other assets -- overhead for long endurance periods. We call that persistent stare. "And with the Reaper, armed with Hellfire and 500-pound precision weapons, we'll be able to have
US claims that the military surge is bringing stability to Iraq. By travelling through the heart of Baghdad its easy to see by enclosing the Sunni and Shia populations behind 12ft walls, the surge has left the city more divided and desperate than eve
It appears that America's Jewish silent majority is beginning to revolt against the nasty, noisy, neocon minority that dominates the Bush Administration. Time magazine's Joe Klein is fighting back and he may belatedly spark a Jewish revolt ag
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps [and communism in general], has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89.
Why shouldn’t there be a war memorial on the National Mall in Washington to commemorate those who have died in the Iraq war? Something facing the White House so future leaders could be reminded of the dead.
When Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica on April 26, 1937, more than 1,650 people were killed and nearly 900 wounded. This slaughter of civilians was broadly condemned in the United States and Great Britain.
TEHRAN,Iran (AP) - Iran will not give up "a single iota of its nuclear rights," the country's president said Saturday, rebuffing an informal deadline to stop expanding uranium enrichment or face more sanctions.
The mass access to the Internet, which helped ex-CEO Lee Myung-bak to his resounding presidential election victory, went on to become the instrument helping shatter that popularity in just five months in office. Now he is doing something about it.
The KC Star's Aaron Barnhart attempts to explain to the paper's readers why they were kept in the dark about the John Edwards' story. He says it was likely "veiled threats" to reporters and the "vigorous denials by the camp
Back in January, John Edwards exited the Democrat primary race. But his withdrawal was announced by Hillary Clinton. We revisit the phone call between Edwards and Clinton the night before the announcement. Does Hillary Clinton read the National Enqui
RON PAUL 4409 -- It's not about Ron Paul...Ron Paul is an idea...It's about how many minds I can free. Sincerely, Ernest Hancock. I love the quote so I will use it! sorry ernie......Please vote Libertarian Candidate Michael Shoen for Congres
Saudi Arabia is to build five modern prisons in the kingdom to replace US Guantanamo detention facility. CIA and Saudi officials are cooperating to construct the prisons which are to replace Guantanamo and US secret prisons in Europe.
The news will be an embarrassment to the US government, which has persistently denied claims that it operated a secret “War on Terror” prison on Diego Garcia, and a source of even more consternation to the British government, which is more closely b
Since real-estate tanked, many new planned communities across the country are half-empty, with for-sale signs outnumbering residents by a large margin. Daily life in these developments seems a bit post-cataclysmic. Unfinished houses and vacant lots s
2006 exit polls revealed that corruption in government was second only to the Iraq war as the driving force behind the Democratic takeover. A major part of that corruption was earmarks -- pork projects members often secure in secret.
Gary McKinnon, a British computer expert, claims he's just fascinated with UFOs. Using his home computer and a modem he infiltrated military networks and accessed thousands of computers trying to find evidence of alien contact.