Court Seals Unclassified Docs in Drake “Leak” Case
Prosecutors in the case of the former National Security Agency official Thomas A. Drake, who is suspected of leaking classified information to a reporter, last week asked the court to block public...
View ArticleProtocols on Nuke Free Zones in Africa, Pacific Sent to Senate
With little fanfare, the White House last month transmitted the protocols of two treaties on nuclear weapons free zones in the South Pacific and Africa to the U.S. Senate for ratification. The...
View ArticleFraudsters Rely on Digital Economy Act to Convince Users to Pay Up
The UK’s anti-piracy bill known as the Digital Economy Act (DEA) has given fraudsters new ideas on how to dupe … Read More
View ArticleRepublicans line up to rip Michele Bachmann – Politico
They were long afraid to do it, but now conservatives have their knives out for Rep. Michele Bachmann.Senators in her own party, congressional candidates, a lawmaker in her state’s delegation and...
View ArticleThe NDAA Retroactively Legalizes Gitmo, Black Sites, and the Worst of the War...
With 500-some pages of text, the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) covers a lot more than just section 1021(b), but the majority of the debates over the bill involve the very reason the...
View ArticleStudy: Climate change disbelievers get most column space in U.S. and UK...
Climate sceptics feature more prominently in newspapers in the US and UK than other countries, and their views are more likely to go unchallenged in right-leaning papers, an academic study has shown....
View ArticleRoyal mail revealed: Queen Mother on her marriage dilemma and ‘sharp as a...
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was known for not giving interviews. She stayed loyal to her habit of writing letters her entire life instead. The highly-anticipated selection of her diaries and...
View ArticleWeather Channel’s senior meteorologist issues grave warning
In case you are unaware about the havoc Hurricane Sandy will unleash upon the East Coast, the Weather Channel's Stu Ostro, who is "not prone to hyperbole," has attempted to put it in...
View ArticleBachmann doubles down on anti-Muslim accusations in debate
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MI) said she stood by five letters alleging that Muslim extremists had infiltrated the U.S. government in a debate Sunday against Democratic challenger Jim Graves. “I...
View ArticleThe GOP’s horrible California nightmare
Republicans are having a bad day. But it's going to get a lot worse when they look beyond the White House and U.S. Senate and fully absorb what just happened in California. The future of American...
View ArticleMick Jagger’s love letters up for sale
It was the summer of 1969 and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger was the poster boy for rebellious youth. But a cache of secret love letters he wrote to US singer Marsha Hunt, to be auctioned next...
View ArticleWorld War II love letters discovered on beach after Hurricane Sandy
A New York woman says her 14-year-old son was walking along a beach in Atlantic Highlands the day after Hurricane Sandy devastated the region and found 57 World War II-era love letters. The letters...
View Article‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ School Field Trip Criticized By Atheist Group For...
An atheist group is accused of waging war against Christmas by attacking an Arkansas elementary school for a field trip to see "A Charlie Brown Christmas" at a local church. The group is arguing that...
View ArticleCarrier Pigeon Code From World War 2 Era Stumps English Spy Agency
A carrier pigeon's last wartime message has baffled the code breakers at Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the spy agency in charge of signals intelligence.The message consists...
View ArticleLove Letters: Coach Fisher Loves Tallahasee
Eighty thousand people cheer as Chief Osceola throws his spear into the center of a beautiful new brick stadium.Read More... More on Love Letters … Read More
View ArticleSea Level Rise Accelerating Faster Than Initial Projections
From Climate Central's Michael D. Lemonick:Sea level is rising as the planet warms up, but how much it will rise, and how fast is still something climate scientists are working out. And according to a...
View ArticleWashington Gay Marriage: 30 Couples To Wed In Group Ceremony
Same-sex couples across Washington received marriage licenses for the first time on Thursday, and one Seattle church is planning to celebrate in a big way.Seattle First Baptist Church, which has been...
View ArticleMobster uses mass campaign emails from Obama and other politicians in court...
Collection of letters presented to the court include standard mass email replies from Bill Clinton and Barack Obama From the fictional Tony Soprano to the real word “Dapper Don” John Gotti, US mafia...
View ArticleColin, You’re Amazing: Cast Of Amazing Race Gives Heartwarming Message To A...
Amazing Race 2012 winners "The Beekman Boys," Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge, have received more than 8,000 letters of congratulations from various fans after their triumphant finish. One of those...
View ArticleLetters: Redundancy rights change gives an amnesty to bad employers
As a trade unionist and socialist for some 40 years I understand why managements wish to cut the redundancy consultation time to 45 days (Cut in redundancy rights an attack on jobs, says TUC, 19...
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