Month: January 2006

Cross-posted from The 10,000 Things In the first formal challenge of the Bush administrations domestic spying practices the Albany Times Union reports: “Attorneys for the Muslim men, Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain,...

The past couple of years have seen an accelerating trend away from traditional, defined benefit pension plans for American workers.  The trend is away from fixed retirement benefits, paid over a retiree’s lifetime, to...

It is a strange feeling to be deeply touched by someone who never existed for me except as a string of ASCII characters.  But I have to accept it, as it is.  This past week I have been going over Oldman’s...

In the wake of the West Virgina mine tragedy troubling revelations are emerging about the safety record of the Sago Mine which claimed the lives of twelve miners the other day — the lone survivor still in a coma and...

Were Christiane Amanpour’s telephone calls illegally intercepted by the NSA? In a recent interview with the author of the CIA tell all book,”State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush...