One of the reasons e-voting systems turned out to be such a failure is that the only people involved in checking these systems were the vendors, who wanted to sell their technology, and the local election officials, who were ill-equipped to understan
2 off-duty female cops yelled, "We are the police!" - and then pistol-whipped a man in a case of road rage. NYPD Officers were charged with assault, gang assault and criminal possession of a weapon for the Williamsbridge beatdown.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, was hospitalized Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm. Her local newspaper later reported she passed away without regaining consciousness.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will give the keynote address at the Republican National Convention next month and Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Joe Lieberman also will take center stage at the GOP gathering. [Pleased?]
Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice — handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it — was slowly th
Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac dove to their lowest levels in more than 18 years on mounting fears of a government bailout that would wipe out shareholders of the two U.S. housing finance giants.
The Jamaican wunderkind hurtled to his second world record and his second Olympic gold medal, finishing the 200-meter race in 19.30 seconds to break Michael Johnson's 12-year-old mark. In doing so he became the first man ever to break the world r
Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate in 2000 and now an independent who is one of John McCain's strongest supporters, will speak at the Republican National Convention, an official said.
(Publisher's note: I remember a story we posted back in June of 2007 about large gold 'options' actually taking possession. I'll be doing some more research for us all, buuuut I am bias towards the idea that what is being sold (future
Immigrants have the lowest rates of imprisonment for criminal convictions in American society. Both the national and local-level findings present a challenge to criminological theory and sociological perspectives on "straight-line assimilation.*
Bob Barr and his 'conservative' friends from the Republican Party, have demonstrated just how much they believe they _are_ the Libertarian Party now. The realization by the rank and file libertarian will cause a much greater backlash t
Santiago Perez admitted he pistol-whipped an unarmed man and forced another to his knees and held a gun to his head. Perez faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $500,000 at his November sentencing.
ABC News reports an overzealous TSA employee attempted to gain access to the parked aircraft by climbing up the fuselage... reportedly using the Total Air Temperature (TAT) probes mounted to the planes' noses as handholds.
Who in the world is this Christine Smith? She sounds like the usual addlebrained "reporter" of today who continues to push their BOO HOO stories about the illegals on us (that's the reason why I don't read "news"papers or
Fox News reports the FBI admits to listening to citizens via their turned off cell phones. Cell phones are now tracking and monitoring devices so the state can keep track you, your whereabouts, you conversations and who you are with.
Krause has his spray-on condom. Inspired by the mechanics of a drive-through car wash, the German sexual-health educator designed a custom-fitting male contraceptive using liquid latex and some materials from a hardware store. "I felt a little l
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"Augmented Reality is all about added a layer (or multiple layers) of real-time data on top of what’s happening all around us. You can look at a building or a car in front of you. With augmented reality, your phone (or another device) will have
Recording industry and motion picture lobbyists are renewing their push to convince broadband providers to monitor customers and detect copyright infringements, claiming the concept is working abroad and should be adopted in the US.
[This time they did not shoot the mayor's dogs.] Prince George's Co. officials will investigate the shooting of a man as 2 witnesses say the off-duty officer beat the unarmed man with a baton before firing a bullet into his torso.
Soaring U.S. producer prices, which last month rose at their sharpest rate in 27 years, show inflation is still running high even as the U.S. economy slows.
Kenneth Rogoff, former chief economist for the IMF currently of Harvard and Carmen Reinhart of the U. of Maryland have done an extensive study of financial crises, going back 900 years, and more intensive work on post 1800 and post World War II episo
Note that while the Fed still published M1 (narrow money, currency plus demand deposits) and M2 (M1 plus time deposits, savings accounts, and non-institutional money market funds), it stopped reporting M3 (M2 plus large time deposits, institutional m
The federal government has been using its system of border checkpoints to greatly expand a database on travelers entering the country by collecting information on all US citizens crossing by land, compiling data that will be stored for 15 years and m
Financial conditions are continuing to worsen at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, leading investors to prepare for a government bailout of the housing giants even as the Treasury Department and the companies say such taxpayer intervention will not be nece
Taliban insurgents mounted their most serious attacks in 6 years of fighting in Afghanistan over the last 2 days, including a coordinated assault by at least 10 suicide bombers against 1 of the largest American military bases in the country, and anot