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

Some Americans who owe Uncle Sam will have to pay their taxes through a private contractor that previously allowed a hacker to access the personal financial data of 1.5 million people. The IRS hired RBS Worldpay to process credit card payments by ...   read more

Fans of “South Park” know that it’s good to have a scapegoat, and that Canada fits the bill. Unfortunately, in real life, some politicians are still blaming Canada. Culprits #1 and #2: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Senator ...   read more

Fallout from the Bernard Madoff scandal has spread to JPMorgan Chase, which is accused of being complicit in the scam, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by a Florida partnership that lost almost $13 million last December in the Ponzi scheme. T...   read more

The secrets of China’s nuclear weapons testing are being revealed now that many army veterans are speaking out about the dangerous work they were ordered to perform during the Cold War. Operating in the remote Gobi desert, a special military detac...   read more

Rather than worrying about the government nationalizing banks, the American people would do well to worry more about the banks controlling the government. Thanks to the missteps of the Obama administration in handling the financial industry crisis...   read more

Once again, the United States has delayed imposing a tariff hike on imported goods from the European Union (EU). The latest delay, which will suspend trade action until May 9, is due to ongoing negotiations regarding a trade dispute involving an E...   read more

To fathom just how destructive the U.S. invasion of Iraq has been for Iraqis, imagine if 1.2 million Americans had died violent deaths from 2003 until now. That would be the proportional equivalent to the number of Iraqis who have perished as a re...   read more

In a classic case of damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t, the US Supreme Court is deciding a discrimination case (Ricci vs. DeStefano) that has huge ramifications for affirmative action. In 2003 the city of New Haven, Connecticut, gave a test t...   read more

Attorney General Eric Holder’s new policy to not go after medical marijuana operations operating within state law is already being tested by the case of Charles C. Lynch. Operator of a small medical marijuana dispensary in the California coastal t...   read more

City officials in Hardin, Montana, have one thing to say to those worried about detainees from the soon-to-be shuttered facility at Guantánamo Bay coming stateside: Send them our way. The small town of 3,400 has a brand new prison waiting for occu...   read more

Action film star Jackie Chan has angered many of his fans with his comments about Chinese democracy at a business forum for state officials, scholars and businessmen: “If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. Ta...   read more

Officials at the University of North Dakota (UND) are proud of their school’s nickname: the Fighting Sioux. But many local members of the Sioux Nation are not thrilled with it, and the university has only one more year, according to a legal settle...   read more

On April 16 Volvo announced its launch of three new child seats that offer a wider range of protection for children up to the age of ten, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has banned the sale of these child seats in th...   read more

“A perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm,” was how one former CIA official described the decision by high-ranking members of the Bush administration to utilize torture methods against detainees that had been proven ineffective years earlier by...   read more

According to former intelligence and military officials, former Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pushed interrogators to use torture to prove once and for all that a link did exist between al Qaeda and the regime of...   read more

Because of the current recession, more Americans are staying put than ever before, or at least since the government began keeping track of such figures. The U.S. Census Bureau announced on Wednesday that the national mover rate declined from 13.2%...   read more