he journalist and author, Russ Baker, says he had a taped interview of Bush’s onetime biographer in which he says Bush told him he intended to invade Iraq as early as 1999, during his presidential campaign. The interview with former Bush ghostwriter Mickey Herskowitz took place before the 2004 election
Boston Magazine has a long, shocking piece about how the people running the world's greatest university almost bankrupted the school through a series of very dumb financial decisions after a decade of unbelievable growth in the endowment. Reading the litany of horror
Eighteen US soldiers in Kuwait have been tested positive for swine flu, health authorities have said.
The cases are the first to be reported from the Gulf region since the H1N1 outbreak of influenza type A began last month in Mexico.
Ambassador Benny Dagan says action will not deter him from further advocacy work in the Scandinavian country
A man has filed suit against his former employer, a New York currency trader, claiming his supervisor harassed him with ribbing about his vegetarianism.
Two Japanese boys have brought a World War II bomb to class, flustering teachers on the island of Okinawa, which was the scene of the Pacific conflict's bloodiest battle
GAZA CITY -- Israeli aircraft launched air attacks across Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 155 people, including the Hamas police chief and other officials, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources.
A new report from the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute says that the U.S. military must quickly prepare for massive civil unrest that could be precipitated by an “unforeseen economic collapse”.
The families of three men who were killed last week during a search of a grain warehouse want to press charges against American soldiers under the terms of a new security agreement between the U.S. and Iraq.
Several prominent Republicans have announced their support for Barack Obama, which means Stephen's not getting any attention. The media can now talk about the courage it took Stephen to cross party lines into the one that has a pretty good shot of winning.
Neil Cavuto of Fox Business blasts John McCain: Frankly, neither of your numbers adds up. But I’ve come to see a consistent pattern in Obama's....Senator Straight Talk, I see no such straight thing with yours. .... That's why you're losing right now, Senator McCain....because on economic matters, you have no convictions, period.
A Canadian man has been found guilty of participating in a terrorist group that allegedly planned to storm parliament and behead the prime minister.
For the first time since 1932 a presidential election is taking place in the midst of a genuine financial crisis. The reaction of the candidates was revealing. More revealing, though, was to whom both candidates turned on that panic-ridden morning of Sept. 15, and how the messages evolved before and after that day.
The Australian government has issued the world’s first licence for the cloning of humans, reports the Reuters news agency. Sydney IVF has been given permission to clone human embryos in order to harvest stem cells. Because these cells have the ability to transform into cells of all types, they are potentially invaluable in the treatment of some diseases.
John McCain’s campaign manager played a role in helping the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac beat back regulatory challenges when he served as president of their advocacy group
People still live at the cliff ’s edge. Hundreds of children play at the cliff’s edge. And the cliff is crumbling, right under their feet, huge mustard-colored boulders, tumbling away from the mountain wall. The children play. Their parents worry.
Many years ago, courtesy of Turner Classic Movies (my favorite TV station), I watched The Farmer's Daughter, a 1947 film starring Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten. Over the years, I've carried a strong memory of liking the movie a great deal, and no memory at all of the plot. So, when I saw that The Farmer's Daughter was coming around again, I asked
Disney, inventors of childhood itself, told Daniel they would foot the bill after he got injured on their California Adventure ride. Then when Daniel and his wife Jane tried to collect, they got strung along for months by Garth Steever in guest claims. By this time, the medical bills had already been sent to collections
On Monday night, three journalists from the Kentucky Kernel were arrested while documenting the protests outside the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Nothing indicates that any of the three were actually participating in the protests, much less violating any laws that would warrant their arrest.
Several "hippie homes" are raided this morning by automatic-weapon-wielding police squads
In an interview with Newsmax today, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) — Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) newly minted running mate — was asked for her “take on global warming and how is it affecting our country.” Palin said, adding, “I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.”
A Chinese man accused of murdering six policemen has attracted increasing levels of approval and adulation from internet users as his trial begins in Beijing.
Love him or hate him as a presidential candidate it was quite the cute moment.
Just when you'd think we've hit bottom, the White House outdoes itself. Doctored Oct. 2002 White Paper was actually written in July 2002 - 3 full months before evidence and conclusions arrived from the intelligence community. A new low in a long line of simply awful behavior.
Syria says it’s ready to put a Russian missile system on its soil as a counterweight to U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Sen. Barack Obama has picked Delaware Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate. He announced this early Saturday Morning, confirmed by CNN and CBS News
The build in crude stockpiles was "way more than what the market was looking for and as a result we have come off our hi
In a story straight out of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, three MIT undergraduates concocted a scheme to hack Boston's transit payment system, the Charlie Card (no relation). The students managed to reprogram the cards to increase their credit balance, thus allowance them to ride the subway for free
Recording industry and motion picture lobbyists are renewing their push to convince broadband providers to monitor customers and detect copyright infringements, claiming the concept is working abroad and should be adopted in the United States.
The presidential campaign of Barack Obama says the Democratic candidate raised more than $51 million in July. 65,000 new donors contributed to the Obama campaign, and more than 2 million now have given Obama money for his presidential bid.
In Oregon, road side solar panels will power the highway it sits next to.
More than 5,000 teenagers die in car accidents ever year. It's the No. 1 killer of teens. In a first-ever analysis, Reader's Digest takes an in-depth look at state laws to see which are the toughest. States with the strictest driving laws tend to have lower fatality rates. Read on to see how your state fares. Plus, find out how to lobby for tougher laws, and join our discussion on this special report.
Through the Internet, hundreds try to unlock meaning of mysterious missive
The Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco has just recently submitted signatures to city election officials "hoping to place on the ballot an initiative that would rechristen the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant as the George W. Bush Sewage Plant."
The media is controlled, look at the facts yourself! (Since Sept 2000) - # Children Killed (Israeli: 123; Pals: 1,050!); # Killed Total (Isr: 1057; Pal: 4,862!); # Injured (Isr: 8,341; Pal: 32,744!); $ US Aid PER DAY (Isr: 6.8 Million!!!; Pals: $300,000 t
