Gary McKinnon of Crouch End, North London, was branded a 'cyber-terrorist' by the US government. In 2002 he was arrested for hacking into Pentagon and NASA computers. The US Justice, Defence and Homeland Security Departments have been fighting a seven-year long extradition battle to the USA under the 2003 UK...

The Republican Party needs an intervention.

When a comedy news quiz show makes them apoplectic with rage, I worry that their stressors to try and remain relevant -- big movie trailer voice here -- "in a world where only 20% of the people identify with them ..." are overloaded...

A visibly shaken Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands somberly addressed her rattled nation on Queen's Day, the day that traditionally honors the birth of her grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina. Earlier that day she and her entire family (including crown Prince Willem Alexander) were the intended targets of an attack in the...

It was a message not directly spoken but heard by all... yesterday President Obama met privately with House and Senate Republicans all without aids in the Roosevelt Room. Simply said, there's room on this train for everyone, I want your opinion and help if you offer solutions vs. attack. Make...

On the day Hillary Clinton was confirmed by a 94-2 vote as Secretary of State, thus defeating attempts at partisan payback by her husband's enemies, the New York media wolfpack claimed a prized scalp as Caroline Kennedy decided her privacy, fragile health of her uncle, family and indeed life itself...

While winter grips Northern Europe with an icy deep freeze and many look nervously to possible natural gas shortages as Russia's Gazprom dispute with the Ukraine lingers, the residents of The Netherlands' northernmost province of Friesland look anxiously forward to this coming week as the mercury has dipped each night...

Almost everyone knows coffee drinking is the last reason anyone visits an Amsterdam Coffee House. Stroll into one of the many flag festooned café-like establishments along the Kalverstraat and you are handed a unique menu that instead of Kenyan, Javanese or Blue Mountain beans, contains the daily list of available...

While Maricopa County (Phoenix) Judge Edward O. Burke agreed with the state's Libertarian Party that county elections director, Karen Osborne, did not follow election law, ensure ballot integrity and provide an unbroken custody chain, he ruled against them saying, "in a county the size the size of Maricopa (sic), perfect...

Keith Olbermann will utter the words: "That's Countdown for this the 2,000th Day since the declaration of Mission Accomplished in Iraq. I'm Keith Olbermann. Goodnight and good luck" thus closing Monday night's MSNBC broadcast, two weeks before Election Day 2008.

If children have been born during this two year...

Could Sarah Palin really be a Walt Disney creation? At some point the comparisons between her and perky Mouseketeer Annette are hard to push out of consciousness. Annette learned her lines and recited them with real "Gosh, Shucks" authenticity in such a way that she became and old man's and...

The rhetoric of fear made its way into the election as Still-President George W. Bush (for 111 more days) put on his serious face, stared into the camera and lied to bail out his Wall Street pals just like he did for his oil buds 6 years earlier. They need...

In a stunning deregulation reversal, President Bush in a one-minute statement before retreating back into his sealed White House bunker, called for the creation of a massive $700 billion dollar toxic mortgage bailout RTC-like organization to allow 'business as usual' for his Wall Street, white tie base. When you can...

"For decades I prayed for a woman Prime Minister, then we got Margaret Thatcher," said Sam(antha) dismissively at a local village store, "this woman [Sarah Palin] scares me."

Here in the village of Monknash, 38-residents strong and sitting high above the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, is a microcosm of rural Great...