With a groan of pleasure akin to torment, George surged into the Fertile Crescent again and again.
Government auditors told a Congressional committee last week that computer security at the Department of Homeland Security still needs improvement, even after years of work to remedy the problems.
U.S. marshals in New Hampshire have made plans to arrest convicted tax protesters Ed and Elaine Brown of Plainfield, along with their supporters, according to an anonymous Justice Department source who also threatened this author with jail.
I'm spending the week at the Porcupine Freedom Festival in Gilford, New Hampshire, this week, and so there likely won't be any posts for this week.
A new audit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s use of national security letters to gain access to information about domestic phone calls, e-mails and personal financial information revealed over 1,000 cases where agents may have violated the law or regulations governing the use of the letters.
You may have noticed a significant drop in the frequency and number of postings in the last week or so. While I attempt to resume normal activity around here I wanted to let everyone know what's been keeping me away. And yes, it has to do with the federal government.
When it comes to freedom on the Internet, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is at the forefront of the battle. Whether it's the national ID card, digital rights management, online privacy or domestic spying, EFF is doing the hard work of defending against those who would abuse the power of government against the people.That's why I give them money.
The military desperately needs Arabic linguists in order to provide translation services in the ongoing war in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. But at least one Navy linguist is no longer providing those much-needed services, because, for some in the Pentagon, there's a war more important than the war on terror.
The State Department announced Friday it would suspend a rule requiring Americans to have passports in order to re-enter the country from Canada, Mexico and certain Caribbean islands which went into effect earlier this year due to a months-long backlog of passport applications.
Do you know who's sleeping with whom in Washington? Is it you? If you can prove it, you just might make a cool million bucks.Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt on Sunday offered up to $1 million for "documented evidence of illicit sexual or intimate relations with a Congressperson, Senator or other prominent officeholder."
A fax sent by Bank of America's corporate office to its Ashland, Mass., branch last week was garbled in transmission. When it came out the other end, a bank employee saw clip art of a hand lighting a match to a bomb and called police. You can guess what happened next.
The U.S. government is trying to prevent a Kansas meat company from testing all of its cows for mad cow disease.
A short while ago I heard some loud banging noises downstairs. Not like knocking on the door, more like someone trying to break the door apart.I grabbed my pistol and went to find out what was going on. What happened next is one thing that sets New Hampshire apart from the rest of the country, and perhaps even the world.
Karl Marx would love the popular moves among politicians in various state governments and the federal government to ban so-called "junk" food in schools, and to "put healthy food in" convenience stores and on the tables of those they define as poor. It's a very elitist and arrogant mindset that promotes this ideology, and it needs to be addressed.
Ultimately, the war supporters in Congress prevailed in the vote on the resolution. Still, the vote was significant because it places every member of Congress on the record as supporting or not supporting the unconstitutional, costly, violent occupation of a country that never attacked us. This vote should serve as an important reminder to the American people of where their representatives really stand when it comes to policing the world, empire building, and war.
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