Senate bill sets guidelines for cybersecurity center

"A new authorization bill would give the White House more oversight of the Homeland Security Department's much-beleaguered cybersecurity efforts. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on...

Veoh wins copyright suit, sets precedent

"In a decision that should bode well for larger video sharing sites that are in legal trouble such as YouTube, a federal judge has absolved Veoh of any responsibility in the unauthorized posting of copyrighted...

Zimbabwe: Foreign JournalistsReleased on Bail

Two foreign journalists jailed during Zimbabwe's controversial recent elections have, thankfully, been released on bail."Barry Bearak, a New York Times reporter, and a British journalist were released today on...

Indigenous Panama region Suffers Mystery Illness

 "PANAMA CITY, Panama – Local officials are reporting that 42 people have died, almost all of them children, in an outbreak of a still unidentified disease in the remote Ñurum district of Panama’s...

No New Nuke Cash: Perhaps a Bake Sale

Those bumper stickers may well be right: they'll have to hold that bake sale after all."The House Appropriations subcommittee that controls the U.S. nuclear weapons complex's funding voted yesterday to eliminate...

Show Me The Intelligence - by Ray McGovern

"Show Me The Intelligence by Ray McGovern Have you noticed? Neither President George W. Bush nor Vice President Dick Cheney have cited any US intelligence assessments to support their fateful decision to send 21,500 more troops to referee the civil war in Iraq. This is a far...

DoD Continues to fail at Addressing Private Sector Pay Disparity

For Active Duty Military members and their families 2007 will be another tight year as the Department of Defense announces a 2.2 percent across-the-board pay raise, effective January 1. Virginia Penrod, DoD’s director of military compensation, said the 2.2 percent...

The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002

Answered my own question, I guess an AUTHORIZATION to use force is the same as a declaration of war......smells fishy to me.

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