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Wal-Mart is mailing deceptive brochures to residents living in the vicinity of Northcross Mall


Wal-Mart is mailing deceptive brochures to residents living in the vicinity of Northcross Mall, which ignore the significant community positions and   read more
Location: Austin, Texas

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Wal-Mart Issues Threat to Austin Neighborhood to Build Big Store Unless They Backdown


On Friday, Wal-Mart sent the City a letter offering a small and final reduction in the size of its planned Northcross Supercenter.   read more
Location: Austin, Texas

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Democrats Kiss Up to K Street


Democrats who were sent to Congress in the tide-turning election of 2006 are selling out the economic populism that got them elected in the first place.   read more

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King George W.: James Madison's Nightmare


In 1795, James Madison wrote of war's far-reaching and corrosive effect on public liberty. He could well have been warning us about our own King George, just the sort of imperial president that Madison and other founders of our nation feared most.   read more

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Orwell rolls in his grave: Britain's endemic surveillance cameras talk back


Observed by over 4.2 million closed circuit - or CCTV - cameras across the country, Britain is already the most surveilled industrialized state in the Western world. It was recently estimated that the average Briton is captured by electronic eyes mo   read more

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Wait, There Actually Is a Bridge in Brooklyn You Can Sell Me?


In these weird times of privatization fever, selling off bridges, toll roads and airports is no longer considered preposterous -- for the billionaires who can afford them it's good business.   read more

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National Security Adviser Townsend 'tap dances' on Fox News


Fox News host Chris Wallace attempted on Sunday to pin down Homeland Security Adviser Fran Townsend about certain questions raised by the recent National Intelligence Estimate, asking her repeatedly why al Qaeda is stronger now than it was two years   read more

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Bush says Iraq war about al-Qaeda


US President George W. Bush, trying to reverse ebbing support for the Iraq war, sought Tuesday to tie deadly violence there directly to Al-Qaeda terrorist chief Osama bin Laden.Facing mounting calls for a US withdrawal, and intelligence findings that   read more

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Reid: Bush's comments on Qaeda and Iraq are 'misguided and dangerous'


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV-D) issued a sharp rebuke to the commander in chief on Tuesday, shortly after President Bush gave another speech defending his strategy in Iraq as a way to keep al Qaeda from attacking the United States."The Presi   read more

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The Myth of America's Rags-to-Riches Presidents


Almost all grew up wealthy. That doesn't mean they couldn't serve the less fortunate.   read more

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