Editorials Nationwide Slam Bush Spy Bill

"Last week, under heavy political pressure from the White House, Congress approved the White House-backed version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which provided expansive spying authority to the Bush administration. The White House had earlier rejected a...

The Government Is Spending $100 Million In Tax Dollars On A Jet Engine Deemed...

"Pratt & Whitney has the government contract to make the jet's high-performance engine. But your tax dollars are also paying for GE to develop a spare engine — and it has cost you $1.6 billion so far. [...]The military doesn't want the alternate engine. The Air Force...

Russia Halts Participation In Arms Pact For Europe

Doesn't sound like Bush accomplished anything in the Kennebunkport meeting with Putin."Russia on Saturday formally suspended its participation in a conventional arms treaty dating from the last years of the Cold War that limits NATO and Russian military deployments in...

Immigration Bill's Unnecessary Time Constraints

"Immigration Bill's Unnecessary Time Constraints by Rep. Tom Feeney (More by this author) Posted: 06/01/2007 Considering that it is the result of secret, closed door negotiations, it's not surprising that Sen. Ted Kennedy's new amnesty proposal was finished over a weekend...

What Kind of Democracy Is This?'' A grieving father wants to know

"May 23, 2007 'What Kind of Democracy Is This?' A grieving father wants to know by Justin Raimondo The family of Andrew Bacevich, a 27-year-old first lieutenant who was recently killed in an ambush north of Baghdad, doesn't want to see its beloved son and brother turned into...

Who Will Govern Israel After Ehud Olmert? by Patrick Seale

"Ever since the fiasco of last summer’s war in Lebanon, Israel’s beleaguered prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has been living on borrowed time. His leadership has been fatally tarnished and his popularity is at rock bottom. The Winograd Commission condemned him severely for...

Book Review: Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire by Doug Bandow

"Because of the Iraq fiasco, it is fashionable to blame the Bush administration for being the Ziegfeld of America's foreign policy folly. True enough, Iraq may be the height of U.S. recklessness – an unnecessary war against a phantom threat that has given jihadists a...

Biometric Scanners in the Workplace

Is this the future of work place commonplace, where you would be tracked every step of the way.  It seems interesting that these new technologies, emerging everyday, are generating faster than unions can mobilize against them.  Will unions be able to protect worker...

''Belkin Box Clever''

"A FORWARD thinking company is urging others to follow its example and save money as well as helping the environment. Ken Simpson joined computer and consumer electronics manufacturer Belkin, of Rushden UK, 10 months ago as European regulatory compliance manager. Part of his...

Sex during pregnancy: An unnecessary taboo?

"If you want to get pregnant, you have sex. No surprises there. But what about sex while you're pregnant? The answers aren't always as clear. Here's what you need to know about sex during pregnancy. Is it OK to have sex during pregnancy? As long as your pregnancy is...