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Broadband Initiative Stimulates Interest
The Obama Administration, under the rubric of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, poured a few more letters in the giant...
Court Sets New Rules for Computer Searches
In a ruling with broad implications for computer privacy, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that federal investigators...
Read moreFed’s Bernanke a Victim of ID Theft
While the Fed fights efforts to air its dirty laundry, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has had his own personal bank account information compromised...
Read moreClimate Change Benefits From Good PR
In December world leaders will convene in Copenhagen, Denmark, to discuss the reputed danger we all face from climate change. Interestingly, many environmental...
Read moreStudents Sent Home for Anti-Islamic Shirts
When students show up at school wearing shirts emblazoned with the words, “Islam is of the Devil” it is not too hard to...
Read moreABC, NBC Refuse Anti-Obamacare Ad
The League of American Voters has sponsored a 33-second television commercial criticizing President Obama’s healthcare reform proposals, but ABC and NBC are refusing...
Read moreObama Creates New Interrogation Unit
In an effort to distance himself from the much-criticized interrogation methods used by the Bush administration and its agents, President Barack Obama has...
Read moreCIA’s “Interrogation” Instructions Unveiled
A Washington Post article details some of the appalling tactics employed by the CIA as operatives (some lacking any interrogation training) attempted to...
Read moreAging Dams Prompt Call for Federal Bailout
In a culture resounding with motifs of decay and collapse on so many levels, Wired.com is reporting that a breathtakingly large number of...
Read moreState Department Passport Snooping & RFID
A sixth U.S. State Department employee or contractor has pleaded guilty to illegally looking at electronic passport files, the U.S. Department of Justice...
Read moreScientists Bioengineer Mouse Teeth
Scientists from Tokyo University have successfully grown bioengineered replacement teeth in the mouths of mice, according to their August 3 report at the...
Read moreEvaluating Sen. Ted Kennedy’s Real Legacy
The moment Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died, the gushing tributes started pouring in from both sides of the political aisle, many of them...
Read moreFed Ordered to Release Documents, Fights back
A federal court ordered the secretive Federal Reserve (Fed) to hand over documents about its “emergency” lending programs Monday under a Freedom of...
Read moreMich. Supreme Court Allows Judges to Ban Veil From Court
To cries of outrage from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Michigan branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Michigan...
Read moreCIA Torture Investigation Declassified
The declassification of the CIA Inspector General's report on torture of detainees provided more hard evidence of what most Americans already knew: the...
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