Now that compromise on health care reform looks almost certain, America looks ready to confront other hot-button issues, like immigration . Representative Luis Gutierrez has taken his first kick at this can of worms, introducing legislation supported by 92 Congressional

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Perhaps smarting from the fact that rank and file Democratic voters find his entire political persona loathsome , Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman has indicated that he would join with a Republican filibuster attempt to prevent health care legislation from coming

Sponsors of the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act have gotten over 680,000 signatures to put their initiative on the California ballot in November 2010 . California may thus become the first state to legalize and tax cannabis , bringing

Director James Cameron's films are a pretty big deal. They tend to be blockbusters and they tend to make a profit. And they cost a lot to make. His newest film, AVATAR is the most expensive movie ever made. It

For the past three years, Google has been silently building a quantum computer. This week it produced its first research paper on the subject, Binary Classification using Hardware Implementation of Quantum Annealing ( pdf ), at the Neural Information Processing

Even if you find all religions basically irrational, you have to love The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life's occasional reports on religion in America. Its latest, "Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths" , tells us that millions of Americans

I believe he [Osama Bin Laden] is an iconic figure at this point, whose — whose survival emboldens al-Qaeda as a franchising organization across the world...I don't think that we can finally defeat al Qaeda until he's captured or killed."

Confidently heterosexual actor, Office Space 's Ron Livingston, has filed suit against an anonymous Wikipedia editor, who he claims changed his Wikipedia entry to read the 42-year-old Livingston was married Nov. 2 to Rosemarie Dewitt "although he is gay and

America's House of Representatives has just passed sweeping legislation overhauling regulation of U.S. financial markets and curbing Federal Reserve powers. Its Consumer Financial Protection Agency ("CFPA"), "endowed with broad powers to regulate financial products sold to consumers", has lobbyists and

The nations are not something eternal. They had their beginnings and they will end. A European confederation will very probably replace them. But such is not the law of the century in which we are living. (Ernest Renan, What is

There's an old joke about the only things coming from Texas being steers and queers. If nothing else, the results of the runoff election for Houston mayor is liable to breathe some life back into that old howler. City controller

When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took power in Iran in 1979, he declared that Iranians would be "exemplars for all the world's oppressed." By being one of the only countries in the region to confront Israel and the United States, and

The KnowCampaign is one of those good government outfits. Their mission is to "educate voters so they may elect an effective and accountable government." The organization recently kicked up a storm of controversy over its intention to do a mass

America has taken certain steps to make treatment of detainees more humane. Its Guantanamo Bay Detention Facilities have been scheduled for closure, secret CIA prisons have been closed, and Red Cross officials have been allowed into jails in Iraq and

First impressions are the most important. If you have an appointment with someone and a lot is hanging in the balance, you likely want to make sure you present the right appearance. So it is for John DiTullio of New

Have climatologists been trying to censor the views of those who disagree with the scientific consensus that anthropogenic global warming presents serious environmental dangers over the next century? Have they been "cooking the books" to make it look like the

Did you notice that all your search activity is being recorded now? No? Then you must have missed this little blurb on the googleblog: Today we're helping people get better search results by extending Personalized Search to signed-out users worldwide,

Did you ever wonder how bankers got the reputation as a group of scum-sucking assholes? You know, the type who will accept forkloads of cash from the public with one hand while the other hand signs foreclosure document bringing an

destiny writes ""For the past 9 years, many of the world's leading researchers have been quietly collaborating on a scientific roadmap to reverse — yes, completely reverse — the human aging process ," explains David A. Kekich. He's the founder