When Pope John Paul II visited Damascus in May 2001, Bashar used his welcoming speech to denounce the Jews, saying, “They tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.”   read more

In a report by the Defense Department’s inspector general issued May 11, an audit of 133 of 1,106 task orders from a prominent Navy program showed that 39 contracts, valued at $469.3 million, were awarded without adequate competition. The program ...   read more

While the government spends billions to keep things secret, it also splurges a little on information that’s not so tightly locked away. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, home to the country’s top spook, has published a handbook ...   read more

Mitsubishi, the Japanese conglomerate best known for making automobiles and electronics, is being accused of helping wipe out the bluefin tuna through its efforts to corner the market on the endangered species. A subsidiary of Mitsubishi is the la...   read more

Ramesh G. Khilnani, a native of India who owned a pizza restaurant in Houston, tried to get out of paying nearly $50,000 in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service by bribing an agent with pizza and other enticements. All told, Khilnani, 51, of...   read more

When the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, it not only killed 70,000 Japanese, but also a dozen captured American fliers. The names of the 12 airmen, who were imprisoned at the Chugoku Military Police He...   read more

What destroyed General Motors goes beyond specific business decisions made by the automakers’ former executives, argues Les Leopold, author of The Looting of America and director of the Labor Institute and the Public Health Institute. Excessive gr...   read more

Last month, New York legislators passed legislation to end the practice of shackling imprisoned women during labor and childbirth. If signed into law by Governor David Paterson, New York would join California and Illinois in being the only states ...   read more

As President Barack Obama prepares to visit Egypt and deliver a much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world, there are three American citizens sitting in Egyptian prisons waiting to be tried…for trying to adopt Christian children.   There are tw...   read more

Keeping government secrets doesn’t come cheap. According to the latest report from the National Archives and Records Administration’s security office, it cost the U.S. government $9.85 billion in FY 2008 to maintain the volume of classified materi...   read more

Consumers in California who buy bottled water from Safeway thinking it’s a healthier alternative to tap water may have to reexamine this assumption. The source of the Safeway store brand “purified” water is none other than the city of Merced in th...   read more

Things got so bad at the Securities and Exchange Commission under the leadership of former chairman Christopher Cox that dedicated enforcement officials lost interest in doing their jobs to keep Wall Street from breaking the law. This situation ev...   read more

As a part of a $55.7 million project that is being started at Logan Airport in Boston Massachusetts, the airport will be adding a number of “solar trees” to the top deck of their five-story parking garage. The trees will be solar panels that are m...   read more

IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman claimed in testimony delivered to the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on May 19 that audit rates for the wealthy have been steadily increasing. However, th...   read more

Whether or not Judge Sonia Sotomayor gets confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, her nomination has hopefully taught Democrats a lesson about brandishing people on the right with the ugly tag of “racist.” So many times, writes columnist Mona Charen,...   read more

Education standards for K-12 students have historically been decided by each state, creating a disparate system of requirements for children across the country. This 50-state model could change if reformists manage to create a uniform set of math ...   read more

The Obama administration has made clear where it stands between victims of Sept. 11 and the Saudi royal family, as the president prepares to meet with King Abdullah this week. Last Friday, the Justice Department filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme...   read more