One of the biggest mistakes a new administration might make in its first 100 days would be to ignore the impact technology has had on the privacy of our communications and the striking need to update the law accordingly. If the President fails to act early in his first term...
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Old Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., which houses most of the White House staff, including the office of the Vice President, caught fire today (Dec. 18th). Fire was contained quickly but rescue...
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It never really occurred to me that you could save a buck on a burial; then again I'm not in the business. Fairfax Mortuary, in Virginia, is.I watched the mortuary being built, a consequence of its location being...
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Washington, DC -- The meeting here Tuesday night, held in a sweltering conference room of the Cleveland Park public library, didn't have the star power cast attraction of Ocean's 11 or 12 or for that matter, Ocean's 13, but for the 35 or so folks that showed up and fought off...
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Oh man, I love these yearly surveys. You know, if Eddie Haskell had this information in hand you can bet he'd have been hitting up the Beaver's mom for a loan instead of just trying to scam a ham sandwich.My wife is...
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Imagine Bill Gates launching into a full-on voodoo rhythm rant about how much time is wasted fiddling with his company's software, doing needless but mentally-masturbating tasks... ok, maybe that's too close to...
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How would you like to break a national news story while sitting on a beach, drinking a cold one, your toes buried in the sand? That's exactly what I did a month ago, while on a trip to Nicaragua. The story scored a...
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As the terrible story of the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus began to unfold last week, the tens of thousands of moving pieces that make up the main stream media were kicked into high gear. The effort to get...
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A gunman took two hostages in building 44 at NASA's Johnson Space Center Friday. The gunman shot a male hostage, identified as David Beverley, and hours later killed himself as a Houston SWAT team broke through a...
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Just when residents of Mogadishu thought their unbearable lives were, well, becoming bearable, new violence has broken out turning the city into a "ghost town." "MOGADISHU, April 20 (Reuters) - Faced with the heaviest fighting in Mogadishu for more than a decade, residents...
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Embattled U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales stepped up to the plate Thursday to face congressional critics and answer questions about his involvement in the firing of eight U.S. district attorneys. Although he defended his actions, he does admit that mistakes were...
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Screen grab of video put out by MSNBC.com of the release of material sent by VT shooter to NBC News. In the package, from which this image is drawn, was a "multimedia manifesto," according to NBC Nightly News anchor...
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With the nation, natch, the world, still listing from the worst mass murder in U.S. history, emotions have risen to the surface and lay exposed, like a raw nerve. People are sad, depressed, confused and underlying...
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With the nation, natch, the world, still listing from the worst mass murder in U.S. history, emotions have risen to the surface and lay exposed, like a raw nerve. People are sad, depressed, confused and underlying all of it, they are pissed off. And they have no...
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Death at a distance is doable. At least that's what I always told myself as a foreign correspondent, even as bullets tore through bodies left and right of me as I traveled with the Afghan rebels in early 1989. You...
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