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

Lost among the news on Wednesday of the Senate’s rejection of President Barack Obama’s plan to close down the prison at Guantánamo Bay was a federal court ruling that said the government can continue to hold certain terrorism suspects indefinitely...   read more

It has been five years since Massachusetts decided to legalize same-sex marriages, and the decision has proven to be a smart one from an economic standpoint, argues The Williams Institute at UCLA. According to two studies produced by the institute...   read more

After forty years of running Libya as a harshly anti-Western dictatorship, Libya’s leader, Muammar al-Qaddafi has discovered that the United States and other developed nations are willing to turn a blind eye to his continued human rights violation...   read more

When it comes to finishing in last place in the U.S. government’s “The Best Places to Work” survey, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) is a repeat champion. Once again, the independent federal agency responsible for handling labor issues...   read more

Life in The Gambia, which has been quite oppressive since dictator Alhaji Yahya Jammeh first seized power in 1994, took a turn for the truly strange in recent months when people were rounded up as part of a campaign to rid the country of sorcery. ...   read more

More Americans than ever are going completely wireless, with the latest survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing that more than one in five households use only cell phones. A household is defined as a single-person ...   read more

A nine-year investigation into child abuse by Irish Catholic institutions has revealed a system that protected child molesters and trapped thousands of poor Irish children in an abusive environment for six decades. On top of the lack of adequate...   read more

Not since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda has there been a such a large-scale humanitarian crisis as the one currently growing in Pakistan. As a result of the massive offensive that Pakistan’s military has launched to root out the Taliban in the Swat ...   read more

The political art of redrawing urban boundaries, long an American tool in elections, is being applied to the U.S. effort to keep troops in cities in Iraq despite a legal agreement to remove them. Under the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that of...   read more

Perhaps the future for human-robot coexistence is a lot friendlier than portrayals like I, Robot. Kacie Kinzer, a graduate student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, conducted an experiment with small, disposable robots to see if New Yorkers would...   read more

The next time American voters shake their heads in disgust over criminal allegations against a politician, they can take solace in the fact that the U.S. political system has a long way to go before it sinks to the problems India has. Following re...   read more

Chief Judge David B. Sentelle, and two other judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia have ruled that the government does not have to release records relating to the violence that a group of individuals or their loved one...   read more

Officials at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are feeling some serious heat from Congress after they admitted that a computer hard drive containing huge amounts of data from the Clinton White House has gone missing. The driv...   read more

The unemployment rate, the statistic most commonly used by government and media to tell how the economy is doing, does not indicate just how bad things really are in the United States. That’s because the unemployment rate, calculated each month by...   read more

No matter how egregious their medical care may be, even resulting in death, military personnel cannot sue the government. This reality, in existence now for almost 60 years, has left Tommy and Connie Wilson of Hartwell, GA, sickened, fearing the d...   read more

When Gallup released a poll last week showing a majority of Americans considered themselves pro-life (51%-42%), opponents of abortion used the data to show that President Barack Obama’s liberal policies had galvanized Americans into moving away fr...   read more