John Edwards Drops Out
"The two-time White House candidate notified a close circle of senior advisers that he planned to make the announcement at a 1 p.m. EST event in New Orleans that had been billed as a speech on poverty,...
View ArticleHillary's word: It's worth nothing
"COURTING VOTERS in Iowa and New Hampshire, last August Sen. Hillary Clinton signed a pledge not to "campaign or participate" in the Michigan or Florida Democratic primaries. She participated in both...
View ArticleFed Rate Cut Won't Stop a Recession
"The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut a key interest rate for the second time in just over a week, reducing the federal funds rate by a half point. It signaled that further rate cuts were possible.The...
View ArticleRon Paul, Is America Really Going Bankrupt?
"Individuals in our country can't print their own money, but there is a private bank that can. It's called the Federal Reserve. And they do. And then they lend it to our government with interest. There...
View ArticlePoliceman tells Ron Paul Campaigner: "Be careful. I wouldn't want you to get...
"Adam Wood walked from door to door, each slamming in his face. He was in a far away state, yet every person in the Botany Woods suburb of South Carolina seemed to hate him. The police were called, and...
View ArticlePirate Bay Admins Charged with Assisting Copyright Infringement
"The Swedish prosecutor Håkan Roswall has announced the charges against four individuals involved with The Pirate Bay. The four, aged 23 to 37, are being charged with “assisting copyright infringement”...
View ArticleSexist Comments from NOW Chapter President in Support of Clinton
"Marcia Pappas, the President of the New York State chapter of the National Organization of Women, gained a bit of notoriety on Monday when she called Sen. Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Sen. Barack...
View ArticleIs the Surge Working?
"Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch has spent years thinking about the war in Iraq, both as a senior strategist in 2005 and now as a division commander. He has seen strategies, missions and buzzwords come and go,...
View ArticleNew travel document requirements for USA citizens
"Under new regulations and procedures announced to take effect over the next month, citizens of the USA will, for the first time, be required to obtain USA government permission in order to return home...
View ArticleInvisible Ink on Ballots?
"Some votes were apparently lost, however, when about 20 folks at a Chicago precinct were given styluses designed for touch-screen machines instead of ink pens. When voters complained the devices made...
View ArticleNano not transport solution for India: Pachauri
"New Delhi: The launch of the Rs1-lakh car was received with scepticism by Dr RK Pachauri, head of the UN body on climate change, which this year shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former US...
View ArticleThe Future of Recorded Music?
"The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, became so outraged when he discovered that iTunes was effectively pirating his music, that he uploaded copies of his latest album to BitTorrent. TorrentFreak caught up...
View ArticleMore Clinton Race Politics
From a reddit discussion about Obama v. Clinton:"If Hillary Clinton is named the Democratic nominee, remember, she did it by attacking the rights of black people to vote in Presidential primaries.Look...
View ArticleThe Potential for Danger in Particle Collider Experiments
"The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by...
View ArticleExxon wins court order freezing sale of billions in oil assets by Venezuela
"Exxon Mobil has won court orders freezing as much as $12 billion in petroleum assets controlled by Venezuela's government in an escalation of a dispute over efforts by President Hugo Chávez to assert...
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