Yet again a cash now pusher has tried to factor a structured settlement annuity owned by the United States of America and someone has pissed on its leg. This time it's the United States District Court for the District of Kansas ordering summary judgment for the United States on March 10, 2009 in an ...

and, yes, all of the fears of those of us who were talking about a quiet, hidden "coup," were not only justified, but were much worse than we imagined... If history gets this recent era right, future textbooks will have to show that the US narrowly averted a carefully planned but thorough and unmist...

And so begins another fight over data retention. As Declan summarizes: Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records...

A newly revealed e-mail indicates the Justice Department was close to completing an internal investigation on senior lawyers who wrote controversial positions on the legality of waterboarding....

    Kellogg, Brown & Root, the engineering, construction, and services company, and its former parent, Halliburton, have agreed to pay a combined $579 million to settle US criminal and civil allegations that KBR bribed Nigerian government officials to obtain contracts.  &nbs...

RIAA-fan Biden's influence in the Obama administration may be larger than anticipated, at least when it comes to file sharing: His good pals with RIAA and BSA connections keep getting Department of......

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

A federal judge yesterday rejected the claim by a coalition of historians and nonprofit groups that Vice President Cheney intended to illegally discard some of his official records, and instead accepted the pledge of a senior White House aide that key Cheney documents and other materials will be......

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

Loyal Bushie, scourge of Tommy Chong, and all-around unpleasant person Mary Beth Buchanan is refusing to leave her position as US Attorney in Pittsburgh. Scott Horton: The political appointees present Obama and his new attorney general, Eric Holder, with a different headache. By tradition, political...