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Bush Signs Executive Order Limiting Eminent Domain Powers of Federal Government

WASHINGTON — President Bush declared Friday that the federal government can only seize private property for a public use such as a hospital or road. The president signed an executive order in response...

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U.S. Forces Still Taking Fight to Taliban in Afghanistan, Military Spokesman...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2006 – Two engagements with Taliban extremists in Afghanistan yesterday demonstrate that the U.S. continues to take the fight to the enemy, a U.S. military spokesman said today. In...

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Analysis: Taking On al-Sadr Carries Risk

Analysis: Taking on al-Sadr Carries Risk Wednesday August 30, 2006 6:46 PM By ROBERT H. REID Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - This week's intense clashes between the Iraqi army and a Shiite...

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Taking Sides In Battle Of The 'Hobbit'

Taking sides in the battle of the 'hobbit' 05:00 09 October 2006 Jeff Hecht The battle among paleaoanthropologists over Homo Floresiensis, popularly known as "the hobbit", threatens to become an epic...

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Iraqis Taking the Security Lead

1st Lt. Larry Rubal (kneeling), of Old Forge, Pa., a platoon leader with Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, watches as Lt. Col. Ahmed Abdullah, the local police...

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Attorney Tommy Cryer Beats the IRS in court; Jury says not guilty!

Today a Louisiana Federal Jury found Attorney Tommy Cryer NOT GUILTY of 2 counts of willful failure to file an income tax return. Earlier on Monday July 9th the Government had on its own motion...

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World’s First Image Taking of the Moon by HDTV (HD Luna)

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world's first high-definition image taking by the lunar explorer "KAGUYA"...

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Half Moon Bay grapples with $36.8 million judgment against it

Half Moon Bay is wrestling with unpleasant options for responding to a court ruling that officials say threatens the "very existence of our city government" - a $36.8 million judgment against the city...

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Half Moon Bay to hire consultants to deal with $36.8 million ruling

The Half Moon Bay City Council was poised late Tuesday to hire a team of appellate lawyers and a financial adviser to help it address a potentially ruinous federal court order that the city pay $36.8...

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Garage Owner Jailed After Taking Blame for 120 Speeding Tickets in Exchange...

It's believed that he earned upwards of £24,000 through his scam.Abdul Musa, a garage owner from Blackburn, Lancashire, today begins a 16 month stretch in jail after police discovered he was getting...

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Septic proposals get crowd's attention (Rural Californians, watch out!)

As expected, the Fresno Unified School District board room was jammed last Thursday as the State Water Resources Control Board conducted a workshop/hearing on proposed septic and well system...

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Kulakafornia:Why Aren't Cities Helping Farmers With Appeal to End...

Something like the purges of the Kulaks during the Russian Bolshevik Revolution is about to happen to many of California's Central Valley farmers. Only in a Capitalist society like ours the government...

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Public lands bill fails in House as Democratic leaders miscalculate

WASHINGTON – Democratic leaders suffered an embarrassing defeat Wednesday as the House failed to pass a public lands bill. The 1,248-page bill, which included provisions ranging from new Pacific...

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Riverboat Robbery -- When does a tax become an illegal 'taking'?

Illinois politics seems to be everywhere this year -- and now it may be headed to the Supreme Court in the form of a lawsuit brought against the state. The case, which has ties to impeached Illinois...

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Is Obama Taking Advice from Former President re Sestak? (video)

It suddenly all makes sense why the White House thinks it can decide what they’re doing is legal or illegal –they must be taking advice from a former president who would know.

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Spitzer: 'Fringe' Taking Over GOP; Guest: Obama'More...

Eliot Spitzer returned to attacking the Tea Party and their allies on Thursday's Parker-Spitzer, lamenting that people "kind of from the fringe" like Christine O'Donnell "seem to be taking over the...

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Taking names, Napolitano style

Did you see the Washington Post this morning? That was the one sentence e-mail I received yesterday from my DHS contact who alerted me to the DHS/TSA memorandum about the domestic intelligence agency’s...

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"White House: We're Not Taking Sides in Egypt

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that it is "not for me or our government to determine" whether Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak should leave office amid massive protests against...

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Smartphones are taking over people's lives as users...

They are often hailed as an essential component of modern life. But smartphones are taking over some people's lives, according to a study that has identified repetitive and obsessive use of the...

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Let Us Help You Pack (Kewl Kountry Korus)

LET US HELP YOU PACK! A rally call to patriots by Joyce Shaffer

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