New proposals to ease our great mortgage meltdown keep rolling in. First the Treasury Department urged the creation of a new fund that would buy risky mortgage bonds as a tactic to

Terri and Sharon wanted to play mommy and mommy, but when it wasn’t fun anymore, Sharon left. Now, Terri wants Andy to play daddy - or, more accurately, she wants London fireman Andy Bathie to… Continue reading

As should be expected, in the wake of the mall shooting in Omaha, our rulers, or rather their “experts,” are calling for our “beloved malls” to be turned into Gestapo zones same as… Continue reading

Kristin Wallace bought some very wet land as an investment. Eight acres of it, all underneath Lake Lynn.The Cary woman bought the land for $12,500 last year at a public auction of property with delinquent… Continue reading

From the separation of powers to the Bill of Rights, the United States Constitution remains brilliant in its overall composition. Since 1787, however, we have seen tremendous growth in our technologies, economy, population and… Continue reading

What is the relationship between the mass production of synthetic chemicals, workplace chemical exposure, environmental pollution and rising cancer rates in the 20th and 21st centuries? In her new book, The Secret History of the… Continue reading

MORE than one in 10 people around the world paid a bribe in the past year, with police and the judiciary seen pocketing the most illegal money, an international corruption watchdog said today.

Figures from Berlin-based… Continue reading

To the dog lover, the ability of man’s best friend to bark at the postman and fetch a stick is proof of his intelligence. But they may be… Continue reading

BP teamed up yesterday with the Canadian oil group Husky Energy in a multibillion-dollar deal that will give the UK group a strategic presence in oil sands for the first time. BP is following Shell… Continue reading

CNN host Lou Dobbs, who has gained widespread notoriety for his scathing condemnation of the Bush administration’s open border policy and the push for… Continue reading

A 7-year-old-girl is being hailed as an “angel from heaven” and a hero for jumping in front of an enraged gunman, who pumped six bullets into the child… Continue reading

Corporations now are so powerful they threaten democracy and capitalism itself. Says who? Robert A.G. Monks*, a true capitalist-insider. His book Corpocracy was published yesterday; it would be difficult to overstate its importance… Continue reading

“ I spent 33 years in the Marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle-man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer… Continue reading

Earlier this year at the Berlin International Film Festival, Morgan Spurlock made waves because he unveiled a 15-minute footage from his mysterious documentary about Osama Bin Laden that was… Continue reading

Last June a revealing marketing video from the law firm, Cohen & Grigsby appeared on the Internet. The video demonstrated the law firm’s techniques for getting around US law governing work visas in… Continue reading

On the Great Seal of the United States, first suggested by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, there was to be emblazoned a new motto: “E Pluribus Unum” – “Out of many… Continue reading

The Senate plans to take up legislation as early as this week to rein in the Bush Administration’s spying powers by reforming the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Caroline Fredrickson, director of… Continue reading

Leave it to Fox News to set the record straight, at least for authoritarian thugs.

On “Fox & Friends,” former prosecutor Tom McKean tells us the Utah cop who tasered a motorist… Continue reading

A Lauderhill woman was charged Saturday with attempted first-degree murder, accused of partially blinding her autistic nephew with a military-style knife as the boy’s grandmother looked on, then leaving him to bleed overnight, authorities said.

The… Continue reading

A BEAMING Zhang Zi Lin was busy plotting her travels round the globe after the Chinese beauty wowed the home crowd to become China’s first-ever Miss World.

The statuesque 23-year-old pipped… Continue reading

Federal lawmakers are considering the broadest effort ever to limit what children eat: a national ban on selling candy, sugary soda and salty, fatty food in school snack bars, vending machines and cafeteria lines.

Whether the… Continue reading

Homes built on flood plains against official advice should be refused insurance to stamp out the threat of millions more flats and houses being erected in high-risk areas, according to the head of Britain’s Environment… Continue reading

The ship slices through a murky darkness, the sea casting matt-black shadows across its path. Above, the sky is vast and low, a broad sweep of charcoal, as… Continue reading

Tabitha Cain has fed a feral cat she calls Wild Oats for several years, but now she’s thinking of changing the feline’s name to Survivor.

That’s because she says the cat survived for 19 days… Continue reading

More than 40 new state laws went into effect Saturday, some of them aimed at drunken driving or underage drinking, with others providing stiffer penalties for desecrating a cemetery or killing an animal.One law bans… Continue reading

It’s one thing to bounce a check and it’s another to be so far in the red Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Donald Trump combined couldn’t come close to bailing you out. A Cobb County… Continue reading

A New York man who said he donated sperm to a female co-worker as a friendly gesture and sent presents and cards to the child over the years likely will owe child support for the… Continue reading