Certainly the outlook for democracy seems pretty bleak-and how could it be otherwise? The surest way to make a problem worse is to pretend it isn't there, which is exactly what our press and politicians have been doing; and the rest is, unfortunately, history.
Senators are working overtime this week to push through a massive housing bill.
Senator Barack Obama concerned with the housing crisis.
Governor Randall Kroszner concerned with current refinance methods to avoid crisis.
A video taken inside a secret Syrian facility last summer convinced the Israeli government and the Bush administration that North Korea was helping to construct a reactor similar to one that produces plutonium for North Korea's nuclear arsenal, according to senior U.S. officials who said it would be shared with lawmakers today.
A mortar barrage hit Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq's government and the U.S. embassy, police said, a day after Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to stand down.
New President Raul Castro's government has lifted a ban on Cubans staying at hotels previously reserved for foreigners, ending another restriction that had been especially irksome to citizens.
The VA legislature is one local battleground where open government and civil liberties/privacy advocates are facing off against federal efforts to expand the reach of domestic intelligence gathering at the expense of democratic oversight.
If you're getting ready to file your 2007 taxes, you'll want to make sure you take advantage of every available tax break.
