3 administrators whose huge salaries sparked outrage in this small blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles have agreed to resign, the City Council said. Council members emerged from an hours-long closed session at midnight Friday and announced that they'd
The White House recently released a draft of a troubling plan titled "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" (NSTIC). In previous iterations, the project was known as the "National Strategy for Secure Online Transactions" and emphasi
The United States will impose new sanctions on North Korea in a bid to stem its nuclear weapons ambitions, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said.
Is the United States government or outside forces the real threat to cyber security? Alex Jones says that the government is trying to silence free speech in America by expanding their reach on the internet. He also says his own personal sites have be
A constant critic of President Barack Obama, Republican Rand Paul on Saturday defended the president's right to make decisions on the war in Afghanistan without interference from Congress.
The contents of a secretly recorded video threaten to gravely embarrass not only Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister but also the US administration of Barack Obama.
From the outside, Jerry Erwin’s home in the northwestern US state of Oregon is a nondescript house with a manicured front lawn and little to differentiate it from those of his neighbors.
Pizza eaters have been invited to grab a piece of the Transportation Security Officer pie. Co-worker Michelle Basch at WTOP writes: "...I ordered pizza tonight from a local place, and it came in boxes with ads on them, recruiting for the TSA! I've ne
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has lived in seclusion since falling ill four years ago, will appear on Cuban television and radio on Monday evening to discuss his theory that the world is on the verge of nuclear war, the Communist Party newspa
GENEVA — Swiss authorities have rejected a US extradition request for director Roman Polanski over a child sex case and the film-maker can go free from house arrest, the justice minister said Monday
Start with a cage containing 5 monkeys.... this story illustrates how human society keeps doing the same things over and over again because - "that's the way....
The NSA has a new program called “Perfect Citizen” that lets it monitor the networks of utilities and other “critical” infrastructure to identify potential electronic attacks, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
It is a myth that these regulators actually achieve much that is useful. They are an outgrowth of the desperate economic times of the 1930s, coupled to the political advantages of layering in more and more government in the name of reform and fairnes
I'm disgusted... I'm absolutely amazed by the agenda-driven destruction that I'm witnessing... in slow motion.
At the bottom of this disaster are Monsters... not people... there's no way to classify the vermin that are allowing this to take pl
Nearly four weeks ago, the 32-year-old unemployed military veteran turned South Carolina's political scene upside down when he won the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat. And unlike that high school student, he's taking a big chance: runnin
Gov. Schwarzenegger apologized for a decision by state transportation officials to paint over a giant American flag mural on the side of a Northern California freeway that was painted on a concrete slab near Interstate 680 just after 9/11 attacks
Surprisingly -- as Economix points out -- the biggest public sectors aren't in liberal states like California. They're in states like Kansas, where people often rail against big government.
Our nation’s capital contains much for the tourist and history aficionado. Unfortunately, bureaucrats and PC has turned DC into some sort of Tourism Hell. Nancy Morgan recently returned and reports.
Government does do things right; indeed, it does something right every day on a massive scale. The oldest of America's major public services carries on as an essential arm of the federal government, a service that has only begun to tap its potential.
Laura Hall is the first person to be banned from buying or drinking booze ANYWHERE in the country. Magistrates slapped the Drinking Banning Order (DBO) on Hall after she was involved in a run of alcohol-related public order offenses.
As far as we know, this is nothing new, still it's pretty remarkable. The Treasury is taking online donations to pay down the debt. Look http://www.businessinsider.com/holy-cow-the-treasury-is-taking-online-donations-to-pay-down-the-debt-2010-4
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• By Joanne Allen, Editing by Vicki Allen, Reuters
(Reuters) - Nearly 80 percent of Americans say they do not trust the U.S. government to do what is right, expressing the highest level of distrust in Washington in half a century, according to a public opinion survey.
Only 22 percent of Americans sa
2 Columbia sanitation workers took dozens of cases of expired brew from the city landfill. Police and city supervisors are trying to determine whether the salvage was a crime — theft of city property — or just a policy violation.