District Attorney Juan Guerra spoke regarding his investigation of injustice within the prison systems which led to the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, along with other officials.
In case you missed it, the planet Pluto transited from Saggitarius to Capricorn at 7:05 p.m. on Wednesday night, and will cruise through that sign for the next 16 years, bringing CHANGE that gives me hope for America, and the world.
Look at the price of rhodium in these charts. Compare June 08 ($10K/ounce) with September 08 ($5K/ounce) and then snag up all you can get at today's unheard of price of $760./ounce (low) and $1060./ounce (high)! Once the automakers get their ba
In part 2&3 of this video interview Robert Shiller talks about changes in the zeitgeist, culture and how 'Bubble Thinking' took hold in residential real estate.
If requiring gun owners to obtain a government license seems like a harmless idea to you, you may want to know about "Firearms Form 101." That's the "Application for a Firearms Certificate" that must be filled out by Britons i
Defense Secretary Robert Gates also called upon Congress to “mandate that the National Guard and Reserves have the lead role in and form the backbone of DoD operations in the homeland.”
People of many nations ask when we're going to wake up to the loss of life we cause in other nations. We don't really seem to care about our own soldiers either.
Paulson and Bernanke are effectively writing checks that President Obama is going to have to cash. I suspect he is going to find that this will get extraordinarily difficult some time in 2009, and when it does, that's when the real trouble will
With a substantial majority, the Iraqi Parliament on Thursday ratified a sweeping security agreement that sets the course for an end to the United States’ role in the war and marks the beginning of a new relationship between the countries.
The man who came to Elsie Bacon’s ranch house door in July asked the 71-year-old widow to grant access to a right of way across the dry hills and short grasses of her land here. Ms. Bacon remembered his insistence on a quick, secret deal.
Student advocacy groups are urging the Treasury Department to prevent a new $200 billion consumer-lending program from benefiting private student lenders, which they say are largely unregulated and prey on students with risky, high-interest loans.
Counterterrorism officials and experts said the scale, sophistication and targets involved in the Mumbai attacks were markedly different from previous terrorist plots in India and suggested the gunmen had received training from outside the country.
"They were bailed out before, this is the second bailout, so what's going on? Are they going to ask for another bailout soon?" asked Cheril Nichols, a 50-year-old nurse from New Jersey.
Even as the holiday shopping season begins in full swing, the same events poisoning the housing market are now at work on commercial properties, and the bad news is trickling in. Malls from Michigan to Georgia are entering foreclosure.
In this excellent piece of intelligence they are speaking of, among other things, the fact that the president elect of the United States could NOT get a security clearance order to serve our country. We have come to a pretty rough part of the road,
First, Gitmo would be a just place to deliver [many] of the lamest decision-makers in America's history who've past or presently mal-served the American people. Legal luminaries (ahemmm...) such as Alberto Gonzales, the Dark Lord, Mr Rove...
Iraq's parliament approved Thursday a security pact with the United States that lets American troops stay in the country for three more years — setting a clear timetable for a U.S. exit for the first time since the 2003 invasion.
Experts say discounts are only going to get even better as stores resort to more extreme measures to clear out unsold items. The value of coats and sweaters drops dramatically as the winter months wear on.
The Federal Government has committed trillions of dollars through a wide range of rescue programs to shore up the economy. Below, the costs of some key programs and the dates they were announced.
In an internal note, Citigroup has predicted a “gloom” and “doom” scenario, of inflation, depression, and potentially war. DBKP takes a look at the period before the Great Depression, the Roaring Twenties, to see if there are any “similarities” to ou
The housing numbers are as grim as expected. The CAR housing numbers reflect Oct 2008 which are actual sales in late August and September . The price declines range from 30% to 60% with median price declines between $130,000 and $800,000.
They won’t tell you who put you there, and they won’t take you off either. That has to be done by the agency that reported your name—the one they won’t identify to you. It’s straight out of Kafka.
I suppose it's highly traditional for an American author to wax nostalgic on a holiday. Time to think of traditions that tie us to the past, that tie us to family and community. Time to put aside the cares of the world and make time for what'