"Prince of Pot" Indicted After U.S., Canadian Investigation
Sunday July 31, 2005
A Canadian man who calls himself the "Prince of Pot" has been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Seattle, WA after an 18 month investigation by U.S. and Canadian ... Read More
U.S. Muslim Council Issues Fatwa Against Terrorism
Sunday July 31, 2005
About's Guide to Islam and Muslim educator, Huda reports that Muslim leaders and scholars do speak out against terrorism, and condemn it in all its forms. On Friday. the leading ... Read More
Daylight Savings Time's Effect on Small Business
Saturday July 30, 2005
With passage of the new Energy Policy Bill, daylight savings time will be extended, starting 3 weeks sooner in March and ending 1 week later in November than it does ... Read More
Sen. Frist Backs Stem Cell Research: Reactions
Saturday July 30, 2005
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn), a surgeon himself, rocked the worlds of some of his fellow conservatives on Friday by announcing he would now support legislation providing federal funding ... Read More
About Presidential Recess Appointments
Friday July 29, 2005
President Bush may bypass the U.S. Senate confirmation process by installing his nominee for U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, through a process known as a "recess appointment." Is ... Read More
Utah Okays Gay-positive License Plate
Friday July 29, 2005
On an appeal filed by the ACLU, a Utah woman has won the right to display a personalized license plate bearing the gay-positive message, "GAY WE GO."
Utah's tax commission approved ... Read More
African Dust Cloud Moves Over Florida
Thursday July 28, 2005
In news you probably won’t read elsewhere, a team of scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is tracking and collecting samples from a large African dust cloud that originated ... Read More
Disabled Face Discrimination in Rental Attempts
Thursday July 28, 2005
Even as President Bush honored the 15th anniversary of signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, a disturbing new report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban ... Read More
Gun Maker Protection Bill Gains Support in Senate
Wednesday July 27, 2005
The U.S. Senate now appears likely to pass a bill that would effectively shield gun and ammunition makers from lawsuits when their products are used in the commission of crimes.
The ... Read More
Rebuilding Iraq: Centcom Update on Task Force Baghdad
Tuesday July 26, 2005
The U.S. Central Command has issued the following press release regarding the progress of Task Force Baghdad, the U.S. mission to rebuild Iraqi infrastructure following the fall of Saddam Hussein:
BAGHDAD, ... Read More
NASA May Waive Shuttle Launch Safety Rule
Monday July 25, 2005
NASA has announced it may waive one of its flight safety rules in order to finally launch space shuttle Discovery on its Return to Flight Mission today. Flight safety engineers ... Read More
Bill Would Help Protect Against ID Theft
Monday July 25, 2005
Since few things are more politically safe to hate, a bipartisan coalition of U.S. senators has proposed legislation designed to protect consumers from identity theft. The Identity Theft Protection Act ... Read More
Rice Comments on Sharm el Sheikh Bombings
Sunday July 24, 2005
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued the following statement about the terrorist bombings in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh that killed at least 83 people:
SECRETARY RICE: "I condemn ... Read More
Geography Jobs Earnings Reported
Sunday July 24, 2005
In May 2004, median annual earnings for occupations in the field of geography ranged from $30,380 to $74,980, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). A geography job is ... Read More
Grand Theft Auto Sex Scene is Grand Mistake
Sunday July 24, 2005
When Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) heard about the hidden raw sex scene in the blockbuster video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," she went ballistic, demanding a search ... Read More
U.S. Postal Service Teams With eBay - Why?
Saturday July 23, 2005
The U.S. Postal Service is, after all, a business. As a business, the Postal Service sees a business relationship with online-auction giant eBay as a good idea. A very good ... Read More
Daylight Savings Time Extension Reduced by Congress
Friday July 22, 2005
House and Senate negotiators, working a compromise energy policy bill, have agreed to an amendment that would start daylight-saving time (DST) three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March, ... Read More
John G. Roberts, In-depth
Friday July 22, 2005
Wikipedia is in the process of building a great in-depth analysis of Judge John G. Roberts, President Bush’s nominee to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court. Of special ... Read More
John Roberts - Yes, John Roberts - No
Thursday July 21, 2005
While Senators, who will be voting on his nomination, have been extremely reserve in expressing opinions on Judge John Roberts' qualifications to serve on the Supreme Court, advocacy groups have ... Read More
Consumers' Union Calls for Mad Cow Hearings
Thursday July 21, 2005
In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Michael Johanns, the Consumers' Union (CU) has requested that Johanns organize and host a series of public hearings on the risk to the public ... Read More
NASA Sets Shuttle Launch for July 26
Wednesday July 20, 2005
NASA is now targeting Tuesday, July 26 as the earliest possible date to launch the Space Shuttle Discovery on the Return to Flight mission (STS-114). The determination was made during ... Read More
Bush Nominates Judge John G. Roberts for Supreme Court
Tuesday July 19, 2005
President Bush has nominated 50-year-old Judge John Glover Roberts, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to replace retiring Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the ... Read More
U.S. Reports 3.5 Million Job Openings in May 2005
Tuesday July 19, 2005
On the last business day of May 2005, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported 3.5 million job openings in the United States, and the job openings rate was 2.5 ... Read More
Law Would Shield Gun Makers from Lawsuits
Monday July 18, 2005
A bill sponsored by NRA board member and U.S. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), would effectively ban lawsuits against gun manufacturers when their products are used in the commission of crimes. ... Read More
Columbia House Fined for Telemarketing Violations
Sunday July 17, 2005
The Columbia House Company, a well-known direct marketer of home entertainment products, has agreed to pay $300,000 in civil penalties for violations of the federal "Do Not Call" telemarketing law. ... Read More
Eyewitness to the Dawn of the Atomic Age
Saturday July 16, 2005
On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time, then 25 year old Private Daniel Yearout saw this:
"Suddenly, without any sound, the whole world lit up. When I came ... Read More
Bush Pledges "Mainstream" Values for Supreme Court
Saturday July 16, 2005
President Bush promised America he would pick a judge with "mainstream" values to replace retiring Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. "My nominee will be a fair-minded ... Read More
Rehnquist Nixes Retirement Talk
Friday July 15, 2005
U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist announced Thursday that he is not about to retire his post and would continue to preside over the nine-member Supreme Court, “as long as my ... Read More
Fear of Lawsuits Driving Up Health Care Costs
Friday July 15, 2005
A new survey finds that emergency physicians most concerned about lawsuits are more likely to admit patients with cardiac symptoms and to order more tests, thus needlessly driving up health ... Read More
Six-point Plan for Better Homeland Security: Chertoff
Thursday July 14, 2005
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has unveiled his six-step agenda for improving the security of the homeland. “Our Department must drive improvement with a sense of urgency. Our enemy ... Read More
SBA to Host Live Web Chats for Small Business
Thursday July 14, 2005
Small business owners and those who want to be are invited to a great series of live Web chats to be hosted by experts at the Small Business Administration (SBA). ... Read More
Chief Justice Rehnquist Hospitalized
Wednesday July 13, 2005
Eight months after undergoing surgery for treatment of thyroid cancer, 80-year-old U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist was hospitalized today in Arlington, Va.
Responding to press inquiries, a Supreme Court spokeswoman stated ... Read More
Group Calls G-8 Statement On Global Warming "utterly meaningless"
Wednesday July 13, 2005
President Bush and Tony Blair were pretty proud of the G-8 Partners' action statement on global warming and climate change. However, Philip Clap, president of the National Environment Trust in ... Read More
Open CRS Project: Reports for the People
Tuesday July 12, 2005
American taxpayers spend nearly $100 million a year to fund the Congressional Research Service (CRS), a "think tank" that provides reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics ... Read More
NASA Looks To Rent Out Shuttle Landing Site
Tuesday July 12, 2005
What do you do when you own one of the longest, widest, beefiest runways on Earth, but only use it a couple of time a year? In the case of ... Read More
BLM Keeping Wild Horse Herd in Check
Monday July 11, 2005
Outside Eureka, Nevada, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is trying to capture all but 60 of the 390 wild horses in the Seven Mile Herd Management Area. The big ... Read More
G-8 Action on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy
Monday July 11, 2005
Almost unnoticed among the grief of the London terrorist bombings were results of the G-8 Conference in Scotland. On July 8, President Bush and the G-8 Partners agreed on a ... Read More
Hurricane Dennis: Surviving the Aftermath
Sunday July 10, 2005
As Hurricane Dennis slams into the Gulf Coast, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) warns residents in its path of the deadly dangers that can exist after a natural ... Read More
U.S. Healthcare Spending in 2003
Sunday July 10, 2005
Consumer healthcare spending showed little change in 2003, rising 2.8 percent on average, following increases of 7.7 percent in 2002 and 5.6 percent in 2001, according to the Bureau of ... Read More
NASA Buys Machine Guns?
Sunday July 10, 2005
They don't say why, but thourgh federal Purchase Solicitation number NNK05113940Q, NASA, the space exploration agency, is looking to buy four, 7.62 mm, helicopter-mountable, machine guns. The machine guns are ... Read More
Army Solution to Recruiting Slump? Hire Civilians Instead
Sunday July 10, 2005
Strategypage reports on The Outsourcing of the U.S. Army.
Faced with a "recruiting crisis," the U.S. Army has, for the last 18 months, been "outsourcing" -- hiring civilians -- to do ... Read More
Should Picking a Supreme Court Justice Cost $100 Million?
Saturday July 9, 2005
Even before President Bush has named his nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and with Chief Justice William Rehnquist expected to retire soon, liberal and conservative advocacy groups launched ... Read More
Amtrak Raises Rail Security Levels After London Bombings
Friday July 8, 2005
While the railroad has received no specific threats, U.S. passenger rail carrier Amtrak has increased its security threat level in response to the terrorist bombings in London's transit system. Amtrak ... Read More
Federal Report Ranks States for Chemical Terrorist Threat
Thursday July 7, 2005
A new report from the Congressional Research Service details the number of chemical facilities in each state that could become targets of terrorist attack. As reported here by the National ... Read More
U.S. Terror Threat Level Raised to Orange for Rail, Transit
Thursday July 7, 2005
The Department of Homeland Security has elevated the U.S. terrorist attack threat level to “Orange,” indicating a high risk of terrorist attack, for rail and mass transit facilities only. The ... Read More
Bush Orders U.S. to be ‘Extra Vigilant’ After London Bombings
Thursday July 7, 2005
President Bush ordered U.S. Homeland Security operatives to be “extra vigilant” in response to the bombings that rocked downtown London early Thursday morning.
Speaking from the site of the G8 summit ... Read More
London Bombings Kill Dozens
Thursday July 7, 2005
At least 37 people have been killed and scores more injured in a series of four bombings that struck London’s subway and bus system early today. CNN reports here that ... Read More
Smoking Deaths Cost U.S. $92 Billion a Year
Thursday July 7, 2005
While fewer Americans light up every day, smoking-related deaths still costs the nation about $92 billion a year in the form of lost productivity, according to new data from the ... Read More
Vitamin E Does Not Protect Women from Heart Attack: NIH Study
Wednesday July 6, 2005
Vitamin E supplements do not protect healthy women against heart attacks and stroke, according to new results from the Women’s Health Study, a long-term clinical trial of the effect of ... Read More
The Ideal Social Security System
Wednesday July 6, 2005
What if Social Security had never been invented and President Bush calls you up and asks you to come up with a system to ensure the future of all working ... Read More
Court Expands the Power of Eminent Domain
Wednesday July 6, 2005
In its 5-4 decision in the case of [i]Kelo v. City of New London,[/i] the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important, if very controversial, interpretation of the government's power of ... Read More
What if the Senate Holds Up O'Connor's Replacement?
Tuesday July 5, 2005
The Senate has until Sept. 26, 2005 -- the start of the Court's next term -- to consider and confirm a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day ... Read More
How to Really Support Our Troops
Monday July 4, 2005
Want to do more than slapping a ribbon on your car to support U.S. troops fighting the war on terrorism? The Department of Defense has a huge list of government ... Read More
President Bush Wishes America a Happy 4th of July
Sunday July 3, 2005
President Bush wished all Americans a happy 4th of July today in his radio address to the nation. "On Independence Day, we are also mindful that the promises of the ... Read More
Senators of Both Parties Call for Supreme Calm
Sunday July 3, 2005
We rarely do politics here, but this just too sweet. Reuters reports that senior senators of both the Republican and Democratic parties urged their fellow lawmakers to "remain calm" and ... Read More
O'Connor Replacements: The Long List
Sunday July 3, 2005
Let the speculation begin. Before the ink on Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement letter had dried, pundits across the nation began punditizing their lists of learned and deserving jurists President ... Read More
Short History of the Declaration of Independence
Sunday July 3, 2005
On July 4, most Americans will take a day off work, many will set off fireworks, attend parades and consume adult beverages. Some of us will praise our government and some ... Read More
Justice O'Connor's Voting Record
Saturday July 2, 2005
On the Supreme Court Nomination blog, Anisha Dasgupta presents a summary of Sandra Day O'Connor's voting record during her 24 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. In ... Read More
Replacement Justices: Can You say "Politics?"
Friday July 1, 2005
The system sounds so easy. A Supreme Court Justice retires or dies. The president nominates a noted jurist as replacement and the Senate, after due deliberation, confirms the nominee. Fat ... Read More
O'Connor Retirement Deepens Rehnquist Doubt
Friday July 1, 2005
The retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor only deepened the uncertainty surrounding the courtly future of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog writes here that O'Connor may ... Read More
Sandra Day O'Connor Resigns from Supreme Court
Friday July 1, 2005
Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, has resigned her position at age 75. Nominated by President Reagan, O'Conner had served on ... Read More
Online Banking Needs Better Security, FDIC Says
Friday July 1, 2005
As Internet-lurking identity thieves hone their dark skills, banks and financial institutions need to employ more advanced technology to protect the identity and information of online banking customers, according to ... Read More