It looks like the major governments of the world are turning a little more interest towards sending manned missions to the moon - and even establishing bases there. Last week, at a global conference on space exploration held in …

According to VOA news, Congress did not approve Bush’s budget for the coming fiscal year. As a result, Bush is signing emergency legislation to keep the government functioning for the next seven weeks.

The main disagreement seems to be over …

Connecticut Catholic hospitals have agreed to issue emergency contraceptives to rape victims in accordance with a new state law, Plan B, set to go into effect next week. This announcement comes as a surprise, since it was generally expected …

So Edwards is going to start relying on public funding to keep him running in the Democratic nomination campaign. All right, fine. I am certainly influenced deeply by the media and it’s portrayals of this and that, but …

“If we don’t walk down this path of dialogue, we’re going to end up in conflagration.”

These words were spoken in New York today by Mary Ellen McNish, general secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization. Quaker …

There is talk of the American right to free speech in reference to the platform that Amadinejad was offered yesterday by Columbia University - and usually it precedes the sound of a but. That’s a but, not a butt. …

Whenever I approach an issue that is obviously vast and foreboding, I have to give a verbal shudder.

Israel.

*Shudder* There. Now, it’s already old news that Israel sent a strike force of F-16s into Syria …

This week, the Senate will conduct hearings to consider the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Referred to by its opponents (many of whom are conservative pundits in this country) as the …

Oh, intoxication. Is there any problem you can’t not solve? As it turns out, the majority of idiotic criminal actions that that might seem like a really great idea to a drunk person …

Maybe it’s stating the obvious, but there can be some pretty sticky hang-ups to using the “consent” defense in a criminal trial.

First of all, if the person who gave consent had no authority to do so (for example, I can’t …