Abu Ghraib’s Suppressed Rape, Abuse Photos
The Obama administration has often promised a more open and less secretive presidency, but on May 28 Obama was again on both sides...
Surveillance of North Korea Increased
One day after Russia said it was going to step up its military surveillance around North Korea in response to North Korea’s recent...
Read more“Merchant of Death” Trial Still Looms
The Russian parliament and media refer to him merely as a “Russian businessman.” But to much of the rest of the world, Viktor...
Read moreTracking Your Digital Trail
Innocent-seeming questionnaires, tests, and surveys are increasingly being disseminated by government officials so that they have complete histories on every citizen. ...
Read moreEU Banks on More Control
“European Union regulators may get the power to overrule national banking authorities under plans to tighten banking supervision that are aimed at avoiding...
Read moreU.S. General: 10 More Years of Iraq War
U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey told reporters earlier this week that a “reality scenario" for Iraq means “we're going to...
Read moreMore Belligerence From North Korea
North Korea’s belligerence has now extended to restarting its main nuclear reactor, declaring itself no longer bound by the 1953 Korean War armistice,...
Read moreGuantanamo Recidivism: Numbers Inflated?
The New York Times published an article on May 20 that divulged that “an unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven...
Read moreObama Names Bolden for NASA
“Obama's NASA selection is a boost for manned spaceflight” proclaimed the headline to the May 24 Los Angeles Times story. Apparently, “the choice...
Read moreAdding “Sexual Orientation” to Hate-crime Statutes
It’s ironic that secularists will accuse traditionalists of being hung up on sex, when they are the ones who cannot stop talking about...
Read moreCalifornia’s High Court Upholds Proposition 8
In a 6-1 ruling yesterday, the California Supreme Court voted to uphold Proposition 8, which amended the state’s constitution so as to define...
Read moreObama’s Foreign Policy Described As Pragmatic
Item: A May 6 Reuters article, detailing President Obama meeting with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, described the...
Read moreWhite House Restructures National Security
President Obama announced the merger of the Homeland Security Council with that of the National Security Council in order to make Americans safer,...
Read moreSotomayor: Discriminating to Not Be Discriminatory
The nomination of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court is bound to produce some interesting confirmation hearings....
Read moreNorth Korea’s Nuclear Saber Rattling
“One day after its nuclear test drew angry and widespread condemnation, North Korea continued to defy the international community on Tuesday by test-firing...
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