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Heres one for Pea and her Starbucks :lol: Starbucks says it was hoping to inspire old-fashioned coffee-house conversations when it introduced a campaign this year featuring the words of notable Americans on its coffee cups. But at least a few of those words are sparking more discord than...

Check this guys nickname out at the end of the story 8O Before he died when his truck overturned during combat in Baghdad, Sgt. Thomas Strickland, 27, posted an entry on his weblog sharing his...

The American Civil Liberties Union today released an FBI document that designates a Michigan-based peace group and an affirmative action advocacy group as potentially "involved in terrorist activities," RAW STORY has learned. The ACLU release follows. # The file was obtained through an ongoing...

Astronomers are debating what to do about Earth's close encounter with an asteroid in 2029 and again in 2036 — passages that might be too close for comfort. Apophis, a 1,059-foot-wide asteroid, has excited astronomers since it was spotted last year. After observing it for a while, scientists...

MARTIAL LAW DECLARED: Situation Deteriorating CBS News | August 30, 2005 MARTIAL LAW DECLARED: Situation Deteriorating New Orleans, LA (CBS) - Martial Law has been declared in New Orleans as conditions continued to deteriorate. Water levels in The Big Easy and it's suburbs are rising at...

by Paul J. Nyden Oil may be achieving a new impact on daily news, people’s pocketbooks and world history — perhaps even the end of history and the world. Cover stories in magazines this month include: “After Oil: Powering the Future” in National Geographic; “Crossroads for Planet Earth,” a...

Damspot writes "‘Laugh In looks at the news, La da di da.’ Anybody out there think that Dan Rowan and Dick Martin would think anyone would remember that little dinger from 1968? So, let’s look at this week. It’s been a busy one, so settle in for awhile. We’re still in Iraq (big surprise...

Ann has made a nice living trashing liberals, war veterans, and President Clinton over the years and turned it into a highly paid profession for a lot of other wannabes like Bernard Goldberg. Being offensive is her gift, and she's parlayed that into book deals, speaking events (25K a pop) and...

Is it just me or did anybody else notice how fast the Corporaate media has jumped on the its going to cost you more for gas and insurance cause of Katrina ?I think were being sold a bill of goods the economy in the states is falling apart and there going to use every excuse they can to blame...

Editor's Note: We do not publish the quotes below as any defense for Bill Clinton. We often remind people that Clinton is as responsible for the war on the Iraqi people as George W. Bush. Through 8 years of sanctions and weekly missile attacks, he killed over one million Iraqis. Clinton brought...

The United States may have lost the war -- but Bush had not." Serious Business Below is an excerpt from the newly revised Empire Burlesque, the book-length collection of columns and new material that comprises an alternative history of history of Bush Regime. The e-book version is being...

"If he [Hugo Chávez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. And I don't think any oil shipments will stop." - Pat Robertson...

John Byrne Pat Buchanan, a leading conservative pundit and former presidential adviser, quietly suggested House Republicans mull impeaching President Bush -- though not for the liberals' cause celebre, Iraq -- but rather for what he sees as Bush's 'criminal' failure to stem the tide of illegal...

BEIJING, Aug. 29 - Chinese police raided the office of a American-financed human rights group shortly before the arrival of the United Nations human rights chief today, as authorities sought to keep a tight lid on dissent during the sensitive visit. Police searched the offices and copied...

The Bush family does not care for the recent disclosures of documents and other inside information on WMR that point to their close business connections to the Saudis, Bin Ladens (Osama included), and various front companies, and brass plate "folding tent" shell corporations around the world...

In fiscal year 2006, the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bracing for a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding. It would be the largest single-year funding loss ever for the New Orleans district, Corps officials said. I've been here over 30 years and I've...

WASHINGTON, DC -- August 25, 2005 -- WMR has obtained further paper trails linking George H. W. Bush's longtime mysterious Swiss German money mover (see July 24-25 article below) to a now defunct bank operated on behalf of Osama Bin Laden, his family, and some of his closest business associates...

Government vehicles equipped with license-plate snapping camera systems are rolling through cities like Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Toronto, looking for scofflaws. The AutoFind License Plate Recognition system reportedly feeds license plate information to a central database to monitor not...

When Henry Ford told a New York Times reporter that ethyl alcohol was "the fuel of the future" in 1925, he was expressing an opinion that was widely shared in the automotive industry. "The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds...

Bush's lying is not a matter of human frailty or corruption, but a statement of administration policy by Mike Whitney August 25, 2005 ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality". Bush aide; Ron Suskind, New York Times Magazine 10-17-04 A great deal of print has...