Depression - Totally unavoidable. Bank on it. Well . . . you won’t be able to bank on it, but you can bet on it. We are not only headed for a Depression, but a violent Depression that will be far worse than 1929.
Maybe they understand that a war with Iran would finally kill off our weakened and anemic democracy. Maybe they see this as the dawn of a new era, an era when the last impediments to a global totalitarian capitalism can finally be removed
Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents' trash to make sure pizza crusts aren't mixed in with chip bags or wine bottles under a proposal by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
"Answering a question about his approach to combatting crime, John McCain suggested that military strategies currently employed by US troops in Iraq could be applied to high crime neighborhoods here in the US. You go into neighborhoods,
[practice] As soldiers prepare to be deployed on Italian streets, a city mayor has been accused of Fascism after he passed an edict banning groups of more than three people congregating in parks and public gardens.
Even releasing detainees they knew to be entirely innocent was dangerous, since once released they could talk. "People will ask where they've been? What have you been doing with them?" Cheney said. "They'll all get lawyers!
When the four arrested people came before the judge, he asked them what they had done. They answered that they tried to carry out a citizen’s arrest on Karl Rove, which the judge responded to by saying “It was about time”. (video)
Suzanna Hupp called three Libertarian Party candidates for the state House on Friday to request that they drop out of their races rather than take votes from their Republican opponents.
The US cannot conduct an effective counterterrorism campaign against al Qa'ida or other terrorist groups without understanding how such groups end. Less clear is how the government should prioritize U.S. efforts. (PDF link)
That picture, which has now been widely reproduced at blogs, shows a long-haired man, wearing a Blackwater tshirt and with a pistol at his belt, passing a box marked "DEA Evidence" to other agents participating in the raid.
Agents removed 2 public computers from the library's second floor. They were taking them back to Washington, D.C. It was the first time they came without a court order. They seemed to know which ones they needed access to, he said.
E-paper cover a "stupid gimmick"? No way, Brian. Esquire's animated 75th anniversary cover is the flashing, squawking future of magazines.
It's pretty easy to see the far future. Cheap, disposable e-paper magazines on subway news
Two men drove a truck into a group of jogging policemen before attacking them with explosives and knives killing 16 policemen, according to the Xinhua news agency.
Longtime Packers quarterback Brett Favre flew back to Green Bay Sunday. The NFL announced it will reinstate the quarterback and add him to the team's active roster Monday. (VIDEO)
This morning, I and 45 of my fellow co-plaintiffs will sue New York State, Governor Paterson and a rogues’ gallery of co-defendants to stop the state from ladling out taxpayer money to wealthy corporations.
The increasing Islamification of the American Justice system, how Muslims are taught in the Koran it’s okay to lie and the fallacy of not fighting during Ramadan.
Parents are to receive official letters telling them if their child has a weight problem under a Government crackdown on obesity, it has been announced. [well, as long as it's for the children....]
This year’s presidential campaign has drawn more voter interest than any other race in generations. For mainstream news media, however, capitalizing on that interest has been hit or miss, though not for lack of trying.
Iraqi lawmakers on Sunday failed to settle a dispute over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and pass a provincial elections bill viewed as vital for national reconciliation, despite intense pressure from the United States and the United Nations.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was protected by the United States until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his 'deal', Serb newspaper Blic reported Saturday, quoting a US intelligence source.
American companies will spend $2.5 billion next year complying with new country-of-origin food label rules [100% of cost which will be passed on to the consumers], the Agriculture Department now estimates.
As politicians and policymakers in Washington struggle to control the damage from the housing crisis, the banks' credit crunch, $4 a gallon gasoline, rising food prices and mounting unemployment, bad economic news is beginning to bite in their ar
“When the napalm hit our village, many people were still sleeping in their homes,” said Lee Beom-ki, 76. “Those who survived the flames ran to the tidal flats. We were trying to show the American pilots that we were civilians. But they strafed us, wo
Internet mogul Elon Musk started the company six years ago after eBay purchased his company, PayPal, for 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. The company, one of the most promising examples of an entrepreneurial "new space" movement, has 525 employee