On his corner of College Street, Jim Peterman stares at the four American flags planted in his front lawn and rubs his forehead. Peterman, 74, is a retired worker at Cooper Tire, a father of two, an Air Force veteran and a self-described patriot. He took one trip to Washington in…

On the television in his living room, Peterman has watched enough news and campaign advertisements to hear the truth: Sen. Barack Obama, born in Hawaii, is a Christian family man with a track record of public service. But on the Internet, in his…

Venture capital firm, Highland Capital Partners, gives undergraduate and graduate students a business boost with a summer camp for aspiring entrepreneurs. In its second year, the Highland summer camp offers entrepreneurs a $7,500 stipend, free office space, and access to expertise and contacts.

Highland's summer camp, which started its second year with the arrival of 10 new students this month, is a practical compromise. VCs focus on their business and maintain control over investment decisions, but they get an injection of new ideas…

For much of its term, the Supreme Court muted last year’s noisy dissents, warmed to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s vision of narrow, incremental decisions and continued a slow but hardly steady move to the right.

A victory by the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, would probably mean preserving the uneasy but roughly balanced status quo, since the justices who are considered most likely to retire are liberal. A win for his Republican…

The grandson of Prescott, that dreamer of the 1930s, established with very little resistance that the U.S. government can kidnap, detain indefinitely on no charge, torture, and murder. The United States under Prescott Bush’s grandson adopted policies that heretofore had been considered only Nazi policies….

Actually, if you listen to the 30-minute BBC story, there is not one word of so much as speculation as to why this story is so little known. I think a clue to the answer can be found by looking into why this BBC report has not led to any U.S….

Will Mini Laptops push Dell and HP to the brink if the become the acceptable home and/or office computer?

He's changing the public's perception of Asustek, too. The Taipei-based company has long operated in the obscurity that characterizes the manufacturers of computer components for Western tech vendors. Asustek has never built a brand…

A baby boy had both legs broken by supporters of President Robert Mugabe to punish his father for being an opposition councillor in Zimbabwe.
Blessing Mabhena, aged 11 months, was seized from a bed and flung down with force as his mother, Agnes, hid from the thugs, convinced that they were about to murder her.

Compared to the Zanu-PF leaders Mugabe is Gandhi. If this story can be believed they are effectively embarking on a "political" cleansing reminiscent of the ethnic cleansing of Rwanda/Former Yugo & on par with the…

Isikoff told MSNBC, The Homeland Security Department is talking about expanding the program to use military satellites really, for domestic purposes. They say the primary driver is natural disasters ? like the recent flooding in the midwest ? to pinpoint areas that are most hard hit and to help with responses, first responses.

“And that is where the concerns about civil liberty abuses come in. First of all, there are strict laws about the act that limits the use of the U.S. military for law enforcement purposes. But the precision of these satellites, they can…

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In his 531-page book, the former Fed chairman sharply criticizes President Bush for not vetoing bloated spending bills and for continuing to focus on issues, such as adding prescription drug benefits to Medicare even though the budget surplus of just a few years ago had disappeared and deficits were mounting.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues, who meet in Washington Tuesday, have kept their target for short-term interest rates, which influence borrowing costs economywide, at 5.25% for more than a year. Greenspan's assertion that…

Jon Stewart offered a new Daily Show segment, “Be Patient — This Gets AMAZING.” “It begins back in President Bush’s first term,” Stewart began, “when the crisis of global warming compelled the president to take a bold stand — for doing nothing. … Finally, last year the Supreme Court ruled … that the EPA must regulate greenhouse gasses.”

“It begins back in President Bush's first term,” Stewart recalled, “when the crisis of global warming compelled the president to take a bold stand — for doing nothing. … Finally, last year the Supreme Court ruled ……

You really don't understand a concept until you know what it's made of. The taxonomy of marketing (filled with a bazillion tactics) is murky at best. The tactics are so numerous, expensive and sometimes emotional that we easily focus on the urgent instead of the important. Perhaps we could try a different approach:

DATA is observational. What do people actually do? Wal-Mart uses data to decide if an end cap is working. Google Adwords advertisers use data to decide which copy delivers clicks and sales. The library can use data to decide which books to buy…

It would be years before production hits the market?and Big Oil would have to spend heavily. Even then, prices may not drop

Bush's preferred response: lift a ban on drilling off the U.S. coast, open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, develop oil shale resources, and expand domestic oil-refining capacity. He echoed the views of the GOP…

Sen. Obama has surged to the lead in national polls and is planning a campaign that will be a first for presidential politics-running major operations in every state, even those considered hard-core Republican territory. Newsweek poll released this weekend shows Obama with solid double-digit lead, 51%-36%,with USA Today-Gallup national lead 50%-44%

And in Ohio, a state where Senator Obama was trailing Senator McCain by a big margin following the Jeremiah Wright controversy, he now has a double-digit lead, according to a poll taken five days ago by Public Policy Polling: 50% to…

Survey Shows Age, Too, May Affect Election Views. While prejudice affects views of Obama, his strengths and McCain?s age could be bigger factors in November election, Post-ABC News poll shows.

At the same time, there is an overwhelming public openness to the idea of electing an African American to the presidency. In a Post-ABC News poll last month, nearly nine in 10 whites said they would be comfortable with a black president. While…

Keith Olbermann delivered a special report Wednesday on the “Enron loophole” — a regulatory gap that is the single greatest cause of out-of-control gasoline prices — and how McCain’s leading advisors created that loophole. John McCain voted to close the Enron loophole in 2002 and 2003, but during this election he’s never mentioned it.

John McCain voted to close the Enron loophole in 2002 and 2003, saying at the time that “we're all tainted” by Enron's money. But, notes Olbermann, “for most of this campaign, McCain has offered explanations other than the…

That’s right. The head of the Associated Press addressed Barack as “Osama” while John McCain was given a box of Dunkin’ Donuts — with sprinkles, by none other than AP writer Liz Sidoti, who just wrote a partisan attack article against Obama. (Video clip included.)

Normally, I wouldn't waste my time or yours with Sidoti's nonsense, but there's an amusing story to tell involving her that's just too good not to share. It goes back to April 14, when both John McCain and Barack Obama appeared at…

An eight-month McClatchy investigation of the detention system created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has found that the U.S. imprisoned innocent men, subjected them to abuse, stripped them of their legal rights and allowed Islamic militants to turn the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into a school for jihad.

DETAINEES PROFILE DATABASE: Read 66 profiles and data cards of former U.S. detainees. Many have photos, audio or video.

Secret negotiations between U.S. and Iraqi officials over a multi-year security agreement aren’t so secret anymore. Details have been dribbling out over the last several days. Bush claims he is trying to make things easier for his successor. Paley and DeYoung write that the American demand for 58 long-term bases in Iraq is actually a compromise.

Bush held a joint press conference this morning with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In his response to a question from Washington Post reporter Dan Eggen, he tried to spin the dissent in Iraq as a positive sign, expressed no concern about the…

On Monday evening, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) took to the floor of the House of Representatives to read out 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush in an almost five-hour marathon. Kucinich’s action made an immediate splash on the Internet, but the mainstream media were far more reticent in their coverage.

In contrast, Salon.com's political blogger, Alex Koppelman, wrote dismissively, “Some liberals in the blogosphere are complaining about the dearth of coverage of Kucinich's resolution. I have to disagree — as I've pointed…

A draft treaty proposes draconian measures to protect copyright.The US (surprise, surprise) has circulated a draft (ACTA) for the next G8 meeting. Any border guard, in any treaty country, can check any electronic device for any content that they suspect infringes copyright laws. They need no proof, only suspicion.

Fortunately they are on the wrong side of history. When the full details and consequences of this treaty become widely known, I believe the effect will be the opposite of what its authors intend. It contains so little understanding of the way the…