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Soldiers also support Ron Paul over John McCain, suggesting troops want to get out of Iraq sooner than later.

By Daniel Soar | For a moment in the late 1990s, it looked as though mobile phones might make us free. You could work in the park, be available when you wanted to be, choose who you answered to. You could be anywhere while you did anything. If location was mentioned it was gratuitous chatter [...]

By Stephen C. Rose | Today the Internet is rife with speculation about whether John McCain heard the questions Rick Warren asked Barack Obama. McCain seems to have done predictably well answering the questions, whether he knew them or not. In fact anyone would think the man had a permanent pass. All he does is say [...]

Legalise Cannabis Alliance | A BREAST cancer victim made medical history recently, as the first person in Scotland to be prescribed cannabis as a treatment for chronic pain.
Former National Health Service nurse Jeanie Rae, 57, has been taking a purified extract of the controversial drug to treat the agonising nerve damage in her right arm [...]

Support for Obama should not require a lack of candor about his defects.

Support for Obama should not require a lack of candor about his defects.

America’s largest veterans organization has launched a hard-line attack on undocumented immigrants that’s at odds with its mainstream image.

“If you don’t have money to pay bribes, you can’t get a job,” says one mechanical engineer. “I’d drive a garbage truck; I’d do anything,”

(IPS) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s resignation Monday brings to an end an extraordinarily close relationship between Musharraf and the George W. Bush administration, in which Musharraf was lavished with political and economic benefits from the United States despite policies that were in sharp conflict with U.S. security interests.
It is well known that Bush repeatedly [...]

The Guardian | It’s a novel way to take your own life. Just as Russia demonstrates what happens to former minions that annoy it, Poland agrees to host a US missile defence base. The Russians, as Poland expected, respond to this proposal by offering to turn the country into a parking lot. This proves that the [...]

The use of torture by the US Government in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001 has come under increasing criticism.
In 1863 at the height of the US civil war, president Abraham Lincoln set the principles for interrogation of prisoners with a famous instruction “military necessity does not admit [...]

By Ellen Nakashima | The federal government has been using its system of border checkpoints to greatly expand a database on travelers entering the country by collecting information on all U.S. citizens crossing by land, compiling data that will be stored for 15 years and may be used in criminal and intelligence investigations.

Officials say the Border [...]

Werther | The first crisis over North Korea’s nuclear program arose in late 1994. It was obvious there was not much the United States could do to step in unilaterally and disarm the North Korean regime. Sanctions, the normally inevitable option short of war, had no meaning – the United States had no trade with [...]

But so far, Democrats have been refusing to accept the gift.

From birth certificates to Bernie Mac, a look at the goofiest attacks against the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Evolution didn’t quite hit perfection when it comes to human thought processes.

Consumer spending is starting to play a lesser role in our economy, as households — even wealthy ones — downsize their lifestyles.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has unanimously denied clemency for Jeff Wood, a man who killed no one. This cannot be tolerated.

The Texas populist’s new book shows how ordinary Americans can in fact make a difference, and have.

From birth certificates to Bernie Mac, a look at the goofiest attacks against the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Andy Lechter has written an essential book on shrooms, and taken a key step in the evolution of how we talk about the history of entheogens.

The editor of a noted election law blog offers a preview of November’s contest.

The editor of a noted election law blog offers a preview of November’s contest.

Absent from any conversation has been weighing the various VP candidates’ environmental record. Let’s end that silence.

Hundreds of Palestinian students with dreams of improving their lives are stagnating intellectually in Gaza.

Poll results show that with Hillary on the ticket, Obama can’t lose.

In the U.S., 89.3 percent of tap water is deemed safe, but what if you’re one of the 29 million people whose water missed the mark?

As a recent example in Texas proves, what passes for “independence” these days is more like lazy and foolish.

A spate of detainee deaths begs the question: what have we become?