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Meet Murray Hill, Inc., the first corporation to run for Congress in the United States. |
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| U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours. |
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Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking. |
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| Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a "big lie" used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported. |
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| It is not so surprising that WeAreChange has been added to the updated list of Active Patriot Groups in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s special issue of their magazine “Intelligence Report”. |
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| Rhodes Scholar, Supreme Court clerk, top grades at both Stanford University and Yale Law School and now law professor University of California, Berkeley |
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| Tea Party leader paid by GOP-run campaign to promote party goals |
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| The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a case that could affect the ability of states and cities to pass gun bans, and, more broadly, could shift the balance of power between the states and Washington. |
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| Program sent children to colonies such as Canada and Australia in first half of 1900s, where many were abused or forced into labour |
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| According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday, only 26 percent of the public trusts the federal government most of the time or always. |
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| At the highest levels of the US military, a quiet discussion is going on about putting in place a legal framework that would permit the US government to strip American citizenship from terrorists. |
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When a man fueled by rage against the U.S. government and its tax code crashes his airplane into a building housing offices of the Internal Revenue Service, is it a criminal act or an act of terrorism? |
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| Gadhafi saw a dark motive behind a recent speech by Obama in support of Israel. "Obama offered $300 billion in aid to Israel and more military support. He avoided talking about Israel's nuclear weapons," he said. |
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With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities. |
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| The Senate may vote on a second temporary extension of several controversial counterterrorism authorities as part of the jobs bill unveiled Thursday. |
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| In its ostensible attempt to create a nondiscriminatory application process, the Department of Justice is inviting candidates with “mental retardation” to pursue attorney posts. |
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| Voters are madder than ever at the current policies of the federal government. |
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| Pres. Barack Obama’s newly proposed 2011 budget would reduce the number of Border Patrol agents along the Southwest border by 180 and cut the funding for the “virtual fence.” Homeland Security said it plans to cut the jobs through attrition, and it would result in increased pay for the remaining agents. |
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| Tony Blair today launched an extraordinary attack on the Iraq Inquiry - as the chairman warned that he and others could be recalled over 'gaps' in their evidence. |
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| The South Carolina blog FitsNews describes the new law as "bureaucracy for terrorists." |
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| Dubai will issue an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if Israel is found to be implicated in the murder of a top militant Palestinian in the emirate, The National newspaper reported on Friday. |
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| Bush administration lawyers whose secret memos justified waterboarding and other forms of torture will not be referred to authorities for possible sanctions, according to a forthcoming ethics report. |
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Conservative opponents of the Obama administration are urging supporters to resist the upcoming US census, saying it asks too many questions and reflects increasing government intrusion into private matters. |
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| Hoyer pointed to the fact that projected federal revenues have stopped declining and have stabilized as evidence that people must be making money in America. |
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| Among the issues being investigated by Barofsky are why the Fed in Manhattan sought to keep the names of AIG’s trading partners a secret, and why it was reluctant to acknowledge that banks received 100 cents on the dollar for their AIG contracts when they agreed to tear them up. |
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Seeking a way to help alleviate his state’s chronic budget shortfall and prison overcrowding, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested on Monday sending illegal immigrant prisoners to Mexico to save money |
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| In a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down laws that banned corporations from using their own money to support or oppose candidates for public office. |
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| Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has once again accused the United States of playing God. But this time it's Haiti's disastrous earthquake that he thinks the U.S. was behind |
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| US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has has in effect carried out a "coup" against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be "taken out." |
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| House speaker sounds confident of reform passage, even with a big loss for Democrats possibly on the horizon |
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| World Vision, an international Christian humanitarian organization, does not hide its employment policy. To work for the billion-dollar charity, except on a temporary basis, one must be a Christian. This religious-based hiring preference has drawn complaints in light of the fact that World Vision received |
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| Asked on CBS’ ”Face the Nation” whether it was true that he often called Clinton, Bush replied: ”I don’t know about often, but I did. I called him. He didn’t call me because he knows how busy a president is. I called him and we chatted on occasion.” |
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| A 20 year friend of Ron Paul, Austin Texas’ NAACP Director Nelson Linder is interviewed by Scott Horton of Anti War radio concerning the accusations of racism against the congressman |
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| Under such a policy, hospitals would harvest organs from people who never gave permission for this to be done. |
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McLaughlin’s involvement with the CIA ranges from the Reagan administration, when he went along with the creative intelligence efforts of Director William Casey and Deputy Robert Gates, to the George W. Bush years. |
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| While some sunlight has been shed on the hefty sums shoveled into congressional campaign coffers in an effort to influence the Democrats' massive healthcare bill, little attention has been focused on the far larger sums received by President Barack Obama while he was a candidate in 2008. |
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| IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman does not file his own taxes in part because he believes the tax code is complex. |
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| Few would argue with the U.S. having a presence at the Copenhagen Climate Summit. But wait until you hear what we found about how many in Congress got all-expense paid trips to Denmark on your dime. |
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| FOIA Request Filed for OPR Report on Bush's Lawyers |
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The legislation that the Senate passed Christmas Eve, which is expected to resemble closely the final bill that is hashed out between the House and Senate over the next month, would leave about 8 percent of the population under age 65 without health insurance, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. |
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| It's a new year and a time for a slew of new laws around the country. |
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| With the health-care battle still unfinished, the Obama administration has been laying plans to take up an issue that could prove even more divisive — a major overhaul of the nation's immigration system. |
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| Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz will demand between 450 million to 1 billion euros in reparations from Germany on behalf of Jews forced into slave labor during the Holocaust, it emerged on Sunday. |
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| Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today took shots at those who are not supporting the health care legislation. During a floor speech, he excoriated Senate GOP members for holding up the pending health care bill and accused their supporters of being birthers and fanatics in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups |
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| Senate Democratic leaders have laid out an ambitious timetable for passing the health care bill on Christmas Eve. But if they're successful with their strategy, the vote that matters most and sets the stage for final passage would happen on Monday. |
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| The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet. |
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| Republican Congressman Ron Paul says Obama's recent war plans show he shouldn't have been awarded the peace prize |
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| Rejected by Irish voters in a referendum last year, the treaty received overwhelming support in a second referendum in October after the Government received guarantees on taxation, military neutrality and ethical issues. |
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Is libertarian rock star and Texas Republican Ron Paul going mainstream? |
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| A Senate panel cleared Thursday a climate bill that would reshape the U.S. economy. Republicans boycotted the vote. |
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| US credibility in the Arab world has suffered a serious setback after Hillary Clinton dropped demands for a halt to Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank. |
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| How the ex-PM has become a one-man multinational money-making machine. |
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| Gov. David Paterson declared a state of emergency, saying a recent rise in swine flu cases has created a “disaster” and that certain provisions of state law needed to be set aside to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible. |
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| The White House on Saturday said Obama signed a proclamation that would allow medical officials to bypass certain federal requirements. Officials described the move as similar to a declaration ahead of a hurricane making landfall. |
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| The White House is not going to allow the president’s newly created “czars” to testify before Congress. |
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| The decline in Barack Obama's popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years. |
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| The president issued a little-noticed "presidential determination" Sept. 29 that delegated authority for determining whether missile and space exports should be approved for China to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. |
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| The possible – or even probable – appointment of a 23-year-old Paris law student to run Europe's largest office development has generated a storm of protest and mockery in France |
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| For all the hoopla about the EU presidency, the foreign minister could have more power, writes Con Coughlin. |
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| Frédéric Mitterrand, France’s culture minister, was under pressure to resign after it emerged that he had admitted to paying “young boys” for sexual acts while on holiday in Thailand. |
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| House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) promised after the Democrats won the House in 2006 and then after Obama's election this year that the House would hold longer workweeks. But as the fall of 2009 wanes, the House has taken to starting on Tuesdays at 6:30 pm and adjourning "before the sun goes down" on Thursdays. |
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| US President Barack Obama, speaking at the Counterterrorism Center in McLean Virginia on Tuesday, pledged that the US would target al-Qaeda "wherever they take root" and do everything to wipe out safe havens, where Osama bin Laden's network can plot against the United States.
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| Under an agreement involving local enforcement of federal immigration law, Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies will no longer have the authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants in the streets in the course of their duty. |
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| The Obama administration formulates its economic policies from the playbooks of communist philosophers Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky, joked White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee. |
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| Ireland voted strongly in favor of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, overturning a previous, shock No vote and taking a key step towards ending the 27-nation bloc's deadlock, ministers said on Saturday. |
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| The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is ‘rotting away’ — and don’t expect Barack Obama to save it |
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| The president said he is "happy to look at" bills before Congress that would give struggling news organizations tax breaks if they were to restructure as nonprofit businesses. |
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| The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent. |
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| Recount order affects 10 pct of Afghan vote sites over suspect counts in presidential election |
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| Massachusetts health authorities took the unprecedented step yesterday of deputizing dentists, paramedics, and pharmacists to help administer vaccines against both the seasonal flu and the novel swine strain expected to make a return visit in the fall. |
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| The White House strategy of turning supporters into snitches when they see "fishy" information about the health care debate may run afoul of the law, legal experts say. |
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| US President Barack Obama’s approval rating has slumped to 50 percent, the lowest since his inauguration, according to a poll released Thursday on the eve of his 200th day in office. |
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