Unfortunately, the "$10 trillion" number was produced by government accounting, which among other things allows one to ignore Social Security, Medicare, and the new prescription drug benefit. This is like ignoring rent, food, and utilities
China's intense efforts to block any protest that would mar the Olympic Games were challenged by foreign activists equally bent on diverting attention to issues as varied as Tibetan independence, the crisis in Darfur and religious freedom.
Not long after Staff Sgt. Matthew D. Blaskowski was killed by a sniper’s bullet last Sept. 23 in eastern Afghanistan, his mother received an e-mail message with a link to a video on the Internet. A television reporter happened to have been filming a
Customers and police agencies across the USA are dealing with another pain at the pump — thieves who install hard-to-detect electronic devices at stations to steal credit and debit card data.
The skimmed data are used to create cards used at the v
The theater where "The Merchant of Venice" and "Romeo and Juliet" likely debuted and where William Shakespeare himself may have trodden the boards has likely been discovered in east London, archaeologists at the Museum of London s
"This latest security breach illustrates again the dangers inherent in consolidating personal information through the process of conducting the inherently flawed identification-based domestic aviation security program."
ISRAEL is building up its strike capabilities amid growing anxiety over Iran's nuclear ambitions and appears confident that a military attack would cripple Teheran's atomic program, even if it can't destroy it.
"No decisions have been made. And so we are trying to work all this through with the DNC and with the Obama campaign." ( Now how many of us saw this coming? :)
While Hamdan was convicted on 5 counts of providing material support for terrorism, the judge said the charges duplicated each other and ordered him sentenced for 1 count, which he summarized as "driving Mr. bin Laden around Afghanistan."
Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers beheaded and cannibalized another traveler. The ad's tag line was "There's a reason you’ve never heard of 'bus rage.
Diehard Hillary Clinton backers stepped up a campaign Wednesday to get their heroine onto the nominating ballot alongside White House hopeful Barack Obama at this month's Democratic convention.
Search warrant affidavits related to the government's ongoing investigation into the 2001 anthrax mailings were unsealed August 6, 2008, in federal court in Washington, D.C. The tainted mailings killed 5 people and injured 17 others.
Since the Constitution is no small deal to most Americans, it has become, sadly enough, a key issue which candidate can actually uphold the Constitution. BeatTheChip.org and most poli-bloggers will be watching the competitive race for the Presidenti
Congressman Ron Paul fears that a staged incident exploited as a pretext to attack Iran may be the precursor to a national draft, as he responded to Sy Hersh's astounding report that Dick Cheney proposed faking a Gulf of Tonkin style incident by
A new report to the Connecticut state legislature shows police have used the state's unique gun seizure law to confiscate more than 1,700 firearms from citizens based on suspicion that the gun owners might harm themselves or others.
The anniversaries passed with little fanfare in America. No nation really likes to remember its crimes. Stories appeared about the bombings in the German and Japanese press—though both nations feel honor-bound to place them in the context of fascist
It is time -- arguably, it is past time -- for you to get your family and your wealth safely outside the borders of the United States. America has become a police state that is moving quickly toward total surveillance and, in typical American fashion
The chief judge of Washington's federal courthouse on Wednesday unsealed hundreds of pages of documents in the FBI's nearly 7-year investigation of anthrax mailings that killed five people.
[Here's a shocker.] Four of the six officers on the jury must agree on a conviction, according to the system's rules. Defense lawyers feared a guilty verdict was inevitable.
On Monday, the Nevis, West Indies, company, its founder and two senior directors all agreed to plead guilty to various charges related to money laundering and the operation of an unlicensed money transfer business. The agreement ends a nearly four-ye
In a case that has drawn international attention, Texas executed José E. Medellín on Tuesday night in defiance of an international court ruling and despite pleas from the Bush administration for a new hearing.
He goes by the nickname A-Z and is one of Russia's bright young tech stars. He's a crack programmer, successful entrepreneur and creator of sophisticated software tools that help his customers make millions.
Trouble is, A-Z's masterstr
Iraq has benefited handsomely from this year's surge in oil prices and is well-positioned financially to shoulder a greater share of its own economic and security needs, the U.S. government's accounting watchdog concluded in a report released
In the wake of 3 murders and the recent attack on a federal prosecutor in a NY courtroom, a group representing the nation's federal prosecutors is calling for stepped-up security, including home alarms, self-defense training and the right to carr
* Iran to press on with atomic work despite demand to halt * U.S. sees more sanctions unless Iranian reply "positive" * Iran's Revolutionary Guards say can shut Strait of Hormuz
When Carol Greenberg got stuck in a work-zone backup on southbound I-275 at its merge with I-75 in Monroe County late last month, she did more than just fume about it.
First, she sent the Michigan Department of Transportation an e-mail complaint. Th