A growing number of Western diplomats argue privately that it time for Kofi Annan to declare his bid to resolve the Syrian crisis has failed. The first U.N. monitoring team in Syria.[Photo:worldnews.msnbc.msn.com]
In 1996, Congress passed a law to privatize the Amarillo helium by requiring the federal government to sell nearly all of its reserves. But the law expires in 2014, years before the sell-off will be complete. Last week a Senate committee heard testimony about the bipa …
FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: Top Democrats are jumping all over Mitt Romney for comments he made about Russia. Russia Threatens To Target U.S.Defense Sites With Nuclear Missiles[Photo: theblaze.com]
The New York Times is, journalistically bankrupt, damned lazy, or a dumping ground for special interest, agenda driven tripe. The substance of its editorial, The Grand Old Party and the Sea is a partisan slam, and a slighting of bi partisan politics. The EDF Catch Sha …
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As The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur pointed out in the segment above, if the Supreme Court ends up ruling that the Affordable Care Act, otherwise commonly referred to as "Obamacare" is not Constitutional or against the individual mandate, Republicans may very well find themselve …
The chemical-laced water used in hydraulic fracturing can migrate through fractures and faults up to overlying aquifers in as little as tens of years.
The House on Friday ignored a presidential veto threat and passed a $642 billion defense bill that abandons the deficit-cutting agreement that President Obama and congressional Republicans backed last summer. On a 299-120 vote, lawmakers backed the spending blueprint that adds …
One of the original advocates of overhauling Medicare by providing direct but limited government support to individual patients says the current House Republican plan that includes this provision should be rejected by Congress. In a hearing before the House Ways and Means Comm …
It wasn't an accident that OUR President took positions that pushed the opposing party off a right wing cliff. The further right he moved the further right they moved. It isn't often that one can control their opponents the way OUR President has played the GOTP. He even gave the …
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The Donald has weighed in. And he says that the USA is “crazy” for enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). “If you want to operate in Mexico, you have to pay bribes,” Donald Trump said on CNBC’s Squakbox program. “This is how …
112th United States Congress has not initiated any private discussions.