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A fresh wave of cyber attacks that slowed U.S. and South Korean websites this week hit more targets on Thursday, a Web security firm said, while the South's spy agency has said the hacking may be linked to North Korea. The impact of the attacks, aimed so far at dozens of sites including the White House and the South's presidential office, was seen as negligible, experts said, but served as a reminder that Pyongyang has been planning for cyber warfare.

For the first time in more than a quarter-century, a new space vehicle will begin stacking on a mobile launch platform (MLP) at Kennedy Space Center, thanks to the hard work and dedication of an experienced team of employees from NASA and contractors United Space Alliance (USA) and Alliant Techsystems. The Ares I-X aft skirt, which was mated to a solid fuel segment in the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility at KSC, rolled over to the 528-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building, where it will be lifted and placed on the MLP in High Bay 3.

I received a letter from the PA Department of Revenue stating that I had not paid Use Tax in 3 years and they were allowing me to catch up without penalty. They included a brochure explaining what Use Tax is. I had never read anything that had led me to believe I owed this tax. I thought it was a tax on rentals & leases. Boy was I wrong. Use tax is tax on anything you purchase that is normally taxable and that you did not pay tax on. For example, let's say you purchase something off the Internet for...

CNSNews.com) – Former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders got a standing ovation after speaking at the annual summit of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice where she advocated health clinics offering contraceptives on public school campuses and comprehensive sex education in the schools starting in kindergarten.

The U.S. government stimulus package passed in February promised to reinvigorate the renewable-energy industry with new capital and programs, but the prospect of large flows of government money to the industry is holding up private-sector investment. New incentive programs haven't yet been defined, and uncertainty about program rules has deterred investors from backing companies that also may get government money. At the same time, companies are holding off from accepting private capital because of the possibility of getting it more cheaply from the government. "It artificially slowed the recovery," Matt Cheney, chief executive of Renewable Ventures, the U.S. subsidiary of...

Pelosi not thrilled about Michael Jackson resolution @ 11:44 am by Eric Zimmermann A Congressional resolution honoring Michael Jackson isn't necessary, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Tex.) introduced the legislation, H. Res. 600, shortly after Jackson's death. Jackson-Lee held up a copy of that resolution while speaking at Jackson's memorial service in Los Angeles on Tuesday. "What I have said to my colleagues over the years, and certainly as leader and as speaker, is that there's an opportunity on the floor of the House to express their sympathy or their praise any time that they wish," Pelosi...

The recent Rasmussen poll that found a significant deterioration in the level of support for Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor warrants a tad more scrutiny. In a poll conducted May 26–27 Rasmussen found that likely voters wanted to confirm Sotomayor by the margin of 45% to 29%. This was an underwhelming margin, to be sure, given all the laudatory media coverage, and may have been an early warning sign that Sotomayor could be vulnerable. A month later that 16-point advantage has disappeared. Rasmussen’s June 29–30 survey found that support for her confirmation has fallen 8 points, to 37%, while opposition...

Are you feeling better off today than you were six months ago? Perhaps more importantly, do you think you will be better off six months or six years from now? Quite frankly, I don’t see how you can possibly think you will be more prosperous in the years to come because it is rather apparent that the Democrats want us all to be poorer. Why do I say that? Let me count the ways: 1. Obama and Pelosi are trying to share your wealth. Remember when Obama told Joe the Plumber that “I think when you spread the wealth around,...

BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Is the Google OS a bluff? f anyone thinks that the recent attention being paid to Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, and the sudden announcement of a free OS from Google is a coincidence, then you haven't been following the tech business closely. Everything is strategic. See release here. Here are some factors to note before you take this too seriously: Telltale sign number one is that this Google Chrome OS has nothing to do with Google's real OS, the Android. Why doesn't it? The second telltale sign is the supposed release date. This thing is...

Arch swindler Bernard Madoff will not appeal the 150-year prison sentence he received for masterminding a global multibillion-dollar investment fraud, his main lawyer said on Thursday. Madoff, 71, was sentenced on June 29 by U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin to an effective life term for Wall Street's biggest swindle and had the right to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York. "We are not going to be appealing," Madoff's main lawyer Ira Lee Sorkin said. "That's our decision and we have no further comment." The disgraced financier is jailed in a cell...

As Obama's poll numbers continue to slide As the country gets that palpable sense that we are heading in the wrong direction. The Democrats decide to pull out their oft used tactic.....blame Bush for everything: Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee decided to reveal CIA Director Leon Panetta's admission that the agency misled Congress after waiting weeks with no response from Panetta, sources familiar with the matter tell POLITICO. The Democrats, in a letter released Wednesday night, said "top CIA officials have concealed significant actions… and misled" members of Congress since 2001. Notice the time period? Yeah... In a June...

The number of US companies featured in a emminent business magazine's annual list of the world's top 500 global companies fell to its lowest level ever, Fortune magazine has said, while more Chinese firms appeared than ever before. Signaling the effects of the devastating financial crisis on the US economy, a non-US firm topped the list for the first time in over a decade, with Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell coming in first. The firm brought in 15 billion dollars (11 billion euros) more in sales than second place oil rival Exxon Mobil of the United States. China, Asia's...

If Barack Obama's idea of ending the occupation in Iraq is to transfer most of the troops to Afghanistan, he won't have accomplished much.

Rasmussen's daily presidential tracking poll reported Obama’s approval rate at an all new low yesterday and today doesn't appear anymore hopeful for the president...

ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- The lead FBI agent in the investigation of former Rep. William Jefferson denied Wednesday that he had instructed cooperating witness Lori Mody to play on Jefferson's emotions, get him drunk, and lure him into taking a bigger share of her company. "That's not on her, that's on him, " special agent Timothy Thibault said, explaining that Jefferson continued to escalate his demands for a piece of Mody's business even when he wasn't under the influence of her wiles and wine. In its redirect, the prosecution played a videotape from the four-hour, $1,023 dinner Mody and Jefferson shared...

The current (July 20) issue of The New American includes our first congressional scorecard on the 111th Congress, which convened in January. The scorecard, entitled “The Freedom Index,” rates congressmen based on their adherence to constitutional principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, national sovereignty, and a traditional foreign policy of avoiding foreign entanglements. Our newly published “Freedom Index” shows how every member of the House and Senate voted on key issues, such as the TARP funding to bail out financial institutions, SCHIP (children’s health insurance), the federal budget, and the economic stimulus package. The average House score for this index...

Read it all at BrainTerminal During the first five months of this year, with the Senate under the control of its first African-American majority leader, [State Senator Malcolm] Smith, top Democrats bemoaned the lack of minority Senate staffers. But instead of trying to recruit new hires, they fired nearly 200 almost exclusively white workers and replaced them with a large number of minority employees, many of whom were seen by their fellow workers to be unskilled at their new jobs. The move produced severe racial tensions, made worse by the fact that, as a high-level Democratic staffer confided, “We’ve been...

Pope Benedict XVI (C) poses with the wives of leaders of South Africa, Mexico, Sweden, India, the European Commission and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) at the Vatican July 8, 2009. VATICAN CITY, JULY 8, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI was visited today by the wives of some of the presidents and prime ministers in Italy for the Group of Eight meeting; he used the occasion to urge these influential women to help Africa. The audience was in a room adjacent to Paul VI Hall, where the Pope held today's general audience. Filming by the Vatican Television Center showed the...

There could be a potential “tax break” the no one in the news has really picked up on with this ailing economy – a big drop in the price of oil. Although the media hype price increases, oil prices are dropping and could be heading toward lows not seen since 1999. Philip Verleger, a business professor at the University of Calgary and visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics told CNBC’s July 8 “The Kudlow Report” how the cost of oil might drop. Verleger explained why the current price of oil – at $60 a barrel, off its...

Some readers will remember Aesop’s Snake Fable; the story of a snake convincing a buffalo to carry him across a river if the he promised not to bite. As soon as the duo reached the shore, the snake bites the stunned buffalo then says, “Well, you knew what I was.” The sane among us KNEW what Barack Hussein Obama was; the most liberal Senator in our history who carried with him a deep seeded hatred and mistrust for white people, as clearly evidenced by his writings, the “church” he chose to attend for 20 years, and in his selection of...