The United States is massively building up its potential for nuclear and non-nuclear strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean by acquiring unprecedented freedom of action in seven new military, naval and air bases in Colombia.
The debate over how effective the Obama administration's efforts have been at turning the economy around now seems to hinge on the question of whether saving a job is as good as creating one. The answer is clearly yes...
A Texas lawyer and candidate for attorney general, Barbara Ann Radnofsky, has found a little screw-up in the legal wording of some 2005 anti-equality legislation that passed overwhelmingly in the state.
Senate Democrats moved to the brink of a crucial preliminary victory on major health care legislation as Senator Mary L.
"Democratic Sen. Carl Levin said after a briefing from Pentagon and Army officials that his committee will investigate how those and other e-mails involving Hasan were handled and why they were not brought to the attention of the US military prior to the Nov. 5 shooting.
Last January I proclaimed in the The Hill's Congress blog: "Marijuana law reform is no longer a political liability; it's a political opportunity." Ten months later it appears that an unprecedented number of state-elected officials are heeding the message.
Fired Up! Missouri points out that the Lafayette County Republican Central Committee is highlighting a new billboard in the state with steps for a "citizens guide to revolution of a corrupt government":
The July 1998 issue of The American Journal of Medicine explains it as follows:
"Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery — essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them on a …
"In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the message of Anwar al-Awlaki, an eloquent Muslim cleric who has turned the Web into a tool for extremist indoctrinati …