cato-at-liberty.org | A recent Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the U.S. Postal Service’s dire financial prospects found little enthusiasm for the USPS’s idea to eliminate Saturday mail service. Financial Services subcommittee chairman Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) said “serious questions ...

blogtownhall.com | Right now there are just way too many people on the planet. A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels would be ideal.” – Ted Turner who voiced the reason behind the mass spraying of deadly substances over the masses. (Once again, you go ...

Foxnews | WASHINGTON -- Federal prosecutors are considering filing weapons charges against former top officials of the Blackwater Worldwide private security company on allegations that they illegally stockpiled automatic rifles at its headquarters, The Associated Press has learned. Senior Justice D...

newsweek | As education secretary Arne Duncan begins his review of equality in the nation's schools—he recently called it the "civil-rights issue of our generation"—he may want to take a close look at North Carolina. Previously a model of desegregation, the state's classrooms have begun to divide ag...

(CNN) -- Ten states plan to file a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health care reform bill, Florida's attorney general announced Monday. Bill McCollum, the Republican attorney general under fellow Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, told a news conference that the lawsuit wo...

newledger.com | For as long as the political fight took over the past year, the abbreviated review process on the health care legislation currently pending on President Obama’s desk is unquestionably going to result in some surprises — as happens with any piece of mashed-up legislation — both for th...

Huffingtonpost | BAGHDAD — Iraq's Human Rights Ministry says a Saddam Hussein-era mass grave dating to his 1991 suppression of a Shiite revolt has been unearthed in the south. Ministry's spokesman Kamil Ameen says government teams working on an irrigation project found the grave in an agricultural ...

alternet | MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. -- It looks like nothing more than a 2,500-acre military complex, but sinister plans are afoot. One day soon -- if it hasn't happened already -- law-abiding U.S. citizens will be rounded up and imprisoned here by their oppressive federal government. It's perfe...

RICHMOND, Va., March 22 (UPI) -- As soon as President Barack Obama signs the healthcare bill into law, Virginia will file a lawsuit challenging it, the state attorney general said Monday. "The Office of the Attorney General of Virginia will move forward with our lawsuit against the federal governme...

rawstory.com | Chinese cooking oil siphoned from restaurants' waste tanks and stripped out of raw sewage is being resold on the cheap and has for years tainted approximately one out of every ten meals cooked in the eastern nation, according to a recent study. The revelation, first noted by state me...

blacklistednews.com | The government originally got involved in the health insurance industry in the 1920's, because health insurance was originally too inexpensive. That's right: too inexpensive. At the time, "fraternal societies," of which one-fourth of Americans were a part, contracted with indiv...

deadlinelive.info | At the 53rd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna, Russia is trying, albeit belatedly, to raise global awareness of the need to counter the Afghan drug trade. According to the report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Russia is seco...

investors.com | With House Democrats poised to pass the Senate health care bill with some reconciliation changes later today, it is worthwhile to take a comprehensive look at the freedoms we will lose. Of course, the overhaul is supposed to provide us with security. But it will result in skyrocketi...

bnet.com | When is a medical experiment in which you implant microchips in 200 old people with Alzheimer’s disease not a medical experiment? According to PositiveID (PSID), it’s when you forget to get permission from an institutional review board, which oversees medical experiments on humans.

MIAMI, March 22 (Reuters) - Florida's attorney general will file a lawsuit with nine other state attorneys general opposing the healthcare legislation passed by Congress, a spokeswoman said on Mon"The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly viola...

telegraph.co.uk | Sources in Washington said the inquiry sent out emails "about three weeks ago" to senior officials in Mr Bush's government including, it is believed, the former president himself. Other requests are understood to have been made to Dick Cheney, Mr Bush's vice-president, Condoleezza...

dailymail.co.uk | An £8million exhibition chronicling the empire of the SS within the Nazi state opens next month in Germany at the Rennaissance castle that was once its spiritual home. Organisers of the exhibition say its principal aim is educational rather than glorifying the regime.   The...

timesonline.co.uk | At least six Iraqis died while being held in British military custody during the first two months of the war in Iraq, a public inquiry has been told. Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas Mercer, the former head of the Army’s legal team in the country, also disclosed that there was a shor...

Huffingtonpost | Shomari Jennings was willing to pay the $70 ticket he received for driving without a seatbelt, but not the slew of tacked-on fees and penalties that ballooned the cost more than tenfold. Every $10 of his base fine triggered a $26 "penalty assessment" for courthouse construction, a ...

Alternet | Wielding the gavel used by Rep. John lingell, D-Mich., to mark the passage of Medicare some 45 years ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made history Sunday night as she ushered in a new era in health care. The late-night vote marked the final passage of the health-care reform legislation ori...