Economic Woes Trump Entitlement Fears in Special House Elections
Growing dissatisfaction with the nation's economic woes appeared to trump fears of cuts to Social Security and Medicaid in special elections for U.S. House seats in New York and...
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How FDR’s Court-packing Plan Saved Social Security
The "real question," former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney said in Monday night's debate among republican presidential candidates, is: "Does Governor Perry continue to believe that Social Security should not...
Ex-FBI Man Knocks CIA Interrogation Practices
Former FBI agent Ali H. Soufan remembers being at the American embassy in Yemen on September 11, 2001 when, a few hours after the terrorist attacks on New York...
Has Anything Changed Since the 9/11 Attacks?
"At 8:46 on the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States became a nation transformed," the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9-11 Commission)...
U.S. to Iraq: Please Ask Us to Stay
The U.S. is leaning on the government in Baghdad for a new Status of Forces Agreement that will keep American troops in Iraq beyond the end of the year....
Crocker: Afghan War Is “Ultimate Guarantee” Against Another 9/11
U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker told Reuters that American forces must continue the fight against the Taliban and for a stable Afghanistan as "the ultimate guarantee that...
Debt-ridden Postal Service Faces Default
Post Offices through the country may be closed early next year unless Congress either makes an emergency appropriation or changes the laws governing the debt-ridden U.S. Postal Service, the...
Romney Touts Business Credentials at Tea Party Express Rally
Mitt Romney was the keynote speaker when the Tea Party Express rolled into Concord, New Hampshire, and staged a rally at Rollins Park Sunday evening. But the former Massachusetts...
In Iowa, Palin Rips “Permanent Political Class”
Republican firebrand Sarah Palin tore into Barack Obama, the "permanent political class, " and unnamed practitioners of "crony corporate capitalism," but made no mention of her yet undeclared candidacy...
College Asks Students Their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
Higher education is getting "Curioser and curioser!" as Alice said in Wonderland. Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois, is now asking prospective students about their sexual orientations and "gender identities,"...
Documents Show CIA Helped Qaddafi Fight Libyan Rebels
Documents discovered in the rebel-occupied capital of Libya offer evidence that the CIA assisted the now-deposed Libyan ruler Muammar el-Qaddafi in apprehending and jailing suspected terrorists. Those suspects include...
Its Helicopters in Iraq, Vermont Gets Help from Other States
With all six of its National Guard's Black Hawk helicopters still deployed in Iraq, flood-devastated Vermont received help from neighboring New Hampshire and distant Illinois this week in bringing...
Court Denies Police Immunity in Video Arrest
Declaring a First Amendment right to videotape police making an arrest in public, the federal First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has denied a police claim of immunity...
Shakeup Linked to ATF “Fast and Furious” Scandal
Two federal officials have been reassigned and a third has resigned in the wake of controversy over "Operation Fast and Furious," the controversial sting that is also known as...
Colin Powell Knocks Former Veep Cheney
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell (left) took sharp issue Sunday with what he called "cheap shots" at him and other officials in the Bush administration by Dick Cheney...
Biden “Not Second-guessing” China’s One-child Policy
For decades, the most common argument for legalized abortion has been that a pregnant woman should be able to choose whether or not to bring a child to term....
Sarah Palin Soon to Join GOP Presidential Race?
Chances are it has already played at a theater near you, though you may not have noticed. The Undefeated, the Sarah Plain bio-pic, has not been a box office...
Bachmann Stands by Pledge: Gas Under $2 a Gallon
Michele Bachmann Friday defended her campaign promise made earlier in the week that the price of gasoline will drop back down below $2 a gallon when she is in...
Ron Paul Says Rick Perry “Makes Me Sound Like a Moderate”
Ron Paul wants to make it quite clear that he has never accused Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke of treason. He has merely accused him of counterfeiting, which is...
Guest Workers Protest Conditions at Hershey Warehouse
While unemployment nationwide remains above nine percent in the United States, the State Department continues to bring in foreign exchange students to work for American employers. And at least...