I’ve got a theory - an untested, unprovable theory - that the more interesting your life is at… Continue reading
Jul 14
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So, you believe in conspiracy theories, do you? You probably also think you’re the Emperor of Pluto
WASHINGTON - It’s not just the American dollar that’s losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn’t worth what it used to be. The "value of a statistical… Continue reading
Dmitry Medvedev today warned Russia may take retaliatory steps after being “extremely upset” by a US defence pact… Continue reading
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki raised the prospect on Monday of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops as part of negotiations over a new security agreement with Washington.… Continue reading
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union are near a deal on letting law enforcement and security agencies obtain private information like credit card transactions and travel histories about people on… Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans can keep guns at home for self-defense, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in the justices’ first-ever pronouncement on the meaning of gun rights under the Second Amendment.
The court’s… Continue reading
Missouri will get $17 million to help develop and test the Real ID program and will… Continue reading
Jun 20
The Return of the Neocons
Ever since the Rumsfeld era at the Pentagon ended abruptly in the aftermath of the Democratic victory in the 2006 mid-term elections, the civilian hawks who ruled the Defense Dept. during the early years of… Continue reading
During an appearance at a Long Island bookstore last month, former Speaker of the House… Continue reading
On Wednesday night, CNN’s Jessica Yellin talked to Anderson Cooper about Scott McClellan’s tell-all memoir and agreed with the former press secretary that White House reporters “dropped the ball” during the run-up to… Continue reading
AlterNet
“Liberal Hollywood” is a favorite whipping-boy of right-wingers who suppose the town and its signature industry are ever-at-work undermining the U.S. military. In reality, the military has been deeply involved with the film
“Liberal Hollywood” is a favorite whipping-boy of right-wingers who suppose the town and its signature industry are ever-at-work undermining the U.S. military. In reality, the military has been deeply involved with the film
The Bush administration moved forward on Friday with a program to expand collecting DNA samples from people in federal custody.
But it was unclear how federal laboratories would be able to… Continue reading
Editor’s Note: John Stewart should be ashamed of himself for entertaining the war criminal Douglas Feith, who should be doing the perp walk in an orange jumpsuit.
Last night, Iraq war… Continue reading
IN OCTOBER, if the Bush administration has its way with the Supreme Court, you will lose the right to sue a drug company if you are harmed by a… Continue reading
The number of Americans being secretly wiretapped or having their financial and other records reviewed by the government has continued to increase as officials aggressively use powers approved after the Sept. 11 attacks… Continue reading
Further evidence that times are tough: It now costs more than a penny to make a penny. And the cost of a nickel is more than 7½ cents.
Prices for
War with the U.S. government was at the heart of a terrorist plot to destroy Chicago’s Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices, a prosecutor said… Continue reading
Five years ago, as the Bush administration was preparing to attack Iraq, it claimed that the war would cost $50 billion to $60 billion. We are now spending for military operations alone that… Continue reading
Comments made by justices in an ongoing landmark case, which seeks to address the very meaning of the second amendment, have been heralded as a “victory” for the individual right to bear arms… Continue reading
Feb 19
What Do We Stand For?
Paul Craig Roberts
Americans traditionally thought of their country as a “city upon a hill,” a “light unto the world.” Today only the deluded think that. Polls show that the rest of the… Continue reading
I’m an innumerate, but the figures on this — the saddest story of our Iraq debacle — are so large that even I can do the necessary computations. The population of the United States is… Continue reading
“I’ve got nothing to hide, so electronic surveillance doesn’t bother me. To the contrary, I’m delighted that the Bush Administration is monitoring calls and electronic traffic on a massive scale, because catching
Presidential candidate Ron Paul believes that an attack on Iran is highly likely within a year and that the Bush administration is simply waiting for the right opportunity, or event on which… Continue reading
The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose… Continue reading