United States
Has Bush Gone Green?
When President George W. Bush announced a new greenhouse gas reduction goal in his April 16 Rose Garden speech on climate change, environmentalists...
Pope Benedict XVI’s Comments Give Pause
On April 20, Pope Benedict XVI, the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics, concluded a six-day visit to the United States,...
Read more“Funding Father of the Right” Backs Hillary for President
Neoconservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife has had a change of heart concerning Hillary Clinton. Scaife, the partial heir of the Mellon family fortune,...
Read moreMain Concern Doesn’t Sway Voters
As part of the pulse-taking of the electorate to see what makes Americans’ hearts beat faster as the United States heads toward another...
Read moreCongress Reverses Posse Comitatus Act Changes
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (H.R. 4986), which Congress passed on January 22 and President Bush signed into law...
Read moreTransatlantic Two-Step
A few quick showers moved through the Washington, D.C., area on the morning of April 30, 2007, but they wouldn’t stay long. By...
Read moreGlobal Food Prices on the Rise
The recent precipitous climb in global food prices is nothing less than “mass murder,” according to UN food envoy Jean Ziegler. In a...
Read moreSPP Moves Forward Under Different Name
The leaders of the United States, Canada, and Mexico met in New Orleans on April 21-22 for the fourth round of annual talks...
Read moreIraq and Afghanistan Veterans Report Psychological Problems
A Rand Corporation report indicates that 18.5 percent of current and former U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans recently surveyed reported symptoms of depression...
Read moreWill Independent Truckers Survive the Cost of Diesel?
Think you’ve got it tough? Spending up to $80 bucks to fill your tank with gasoline? ...
Read moreGlobal Blowback
Long before 9/11, Osama bin Laden’s terrorist activities around the world were being cited as a classic case of “blowback.” Quite obviously, the...
Read moreA Bad Investment: US Funding, Training PLO Terrorists
Tuly Wultz and his 16-year-old son Daniel were enjoying a Passover holiday dinner at a Tel Aviv restaurant when the suicide bomber struck....
Read more2008 Climate Debate
According to former Vice President Al Gore, “the science is settled” on climate change. “The planet has a fever,” Gore said during testimony...
Read moreWeather Channel Founder’s Forecast
Interview of John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, by William F. Jasper on the subject of man-made global warming. ...
Read moreAmerica’s North Star
Georg Steller thought he was seeing a mirage. After weeks at sea on the frigid, storm-tossed waters of the north Pacific, Steller, along...
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