If you hire a lawyer, the chances are you won't be sentenced to death in Houston. If you are too poor for an attorney, to the electric chair you go.

In writing this, I'm bracing myself for being called an anti-Semite, an appeaser of terrorists and propagandist for the Palestinian cause. I'm none of those things. I say this simply because these days, it seems, anyone who dares criticise the policies

He promised change, but has delivered none. His health care bill is held hostage by the private insurance companies seeking greater profits. The most likely outcome will be cuts in Medicare and Medicaid in order to help fund wars that enrich the military

The Indian government on Thursday has refused to allow foreign journalists to cover the Dalai Lama's visit on Sunday to a region at the heart of a border dispute with China. The government did not give permits allowing foreign correspondents

Young women in Fallujah in Iraq are terrified of having children because of the increasing number of babies born grotesquely deformed, with no heads, two heads, a single eye in their foreheads, scaly bodies or missing limbs

Many of the most conservative Democratic senators hold coveted committee chairmanships that give them significant power within the Senate

The AARP and the American Medical Assn. announce their endorsements. Meanwhile, employer groups are mounting opposition.

A visit to one, or both, of these cities as well as a speech to the world from Hiroshima would be a bold statement of hope in the months preceeding the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference (May 2010).

In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would occur (To their advantage!)

This year there was a Special two-part Session to take an in-depth look at the Changing Role of Hunting in North American Conservation. The first session of the program dealt with the human value, motivation and the importance of hunting in human terms.