Article Search - BSAlert.com

Hello Visitor!

You aren't a registered user here.

Won't you consider registering with our site? You can unlock more features of the site, leave comments and even elect to receive our "Weekly Shoveling" - a summary of all the coolest stories added each week! It's totally free and takes a few seconds. We don't give out your e-mail or personal information to anybody! Try it!

Main

Home Page
BSAlert Radio!

Info/FAQ
Links
Feedback
Fallacy List
Bookmark BSAlert
FreeThought Wiki
BSA on Twitter

Articles

Submit Article (Login required)
Latest Articles
BSA Exclusives
Article Summary
Articles by Main Topic
Most Popular
Latest Comments
Active Articles

Features

Fairness Doctrine
Great Recession
Crypto-currency

Visit the BSA:

Bumper Sticker Store

T-Shirts & More

Utilities

Have a GREAT day!

PATH: BS | National Security

Bombs Explode In London; Brit Hume Wants To Play The Market Posted by Pile (8311 views) [E-Mail link]	[Television]
During Fox News' coverage of the July 7 London bombings, Washington managing editor Brit Hume commented, I mean, my first thought when I heard -- just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, "Hmmm, time to buy." This is in stark contrast to CNN Host Anderson Cooper, who, during a remote broadcast in the middle of the worst part of Hurricane Dennis, said to a fellow commentator, "This might be vain, but you've got a leaf in your hair."
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

Operation Yellow Elephant: Republicans Put Up Or Shut Up Posted by Pile (6036 views) [E-Mail link]
In response to the seemingly never-ending diatribes on the part of republicans over "supporting our troops" and the merciless criticisms they levy against "filthy liberals" who they claim are "against the war" Operation Yellow Elephant has been launched. Opponents of the war are basically sick and tired of the hypocrisy of the right wingers and are now demanding that they sign up and truly support the troops, or shut their trap.
READ MORE

ACLU: Science is Under Seige Posted by Pile (5119 views) [E-Mail link]	[Science]
The American Civil Liberties Union has released a detailed report stating that, "academic freedom and scientific inquiry have come under sustained assault since September 11, 2001. Spurred by misguided and often disingenuous security concerns, the Bush Administration has sought to impose growing restrictions on the free flow of scientific information, unreasonable barriers to the use of scientific materials, and increased monitoring of and restrictions on foreign university students." Apparently this whole science thing is overrated, but I say, we obviously need science. Without science, wouldn't episodes of CSI be lame?
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

US Passes Bloody-Chainsaw-Wielding Murderer Thru Customs Posted by Pile (5264 views) [E-Mail link]	[Society]
On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States.
READ MORE \| 4 comments since 2005-06-19 02:28:42 \| Comment on this Article

Entire Mainstream Media Jumps on Geneva Convention Trash-A-Thon Posted by Pile (5801 views) [E-Mail link]
By now, everyone's heard about the UK press publishing pictures of Saddam Hussein in prison in his underwear. The American media is buzzing about this being a horendous act, a violation of the Geneva Convention, and inappropriate... at the same time the American press, being the whores that they are, have re-printed the Saddam-underwear picture themselves. Yes, almost every major news organization has published the picture. I guess all you need is one company to start it, then everybody can do it and it's not the same?
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

The Size of United States' Nuclear Stockpile Posted by Pile (5403 views) [E-Mail link]	[Military]
Ben Cohen, one of the founders of Ben & Jerry's ice cream empire, has produced a provacative short outlining the size of America's nuclear stockpile (which is frighteningly excessive - far beyond what is necessary for either defense, or to destroy every other country on the planet). And the sad part is how many things could be improved if just some of the ongoing taxpayer money that is required to maintain this huge stockpile was put to other uses. Check this link out - it's information you need to know.
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

Terror Suspect Invited To Have Dinner With President Bush Posted by Pile (5367 views) [E-Mail link]
A year after federal agents raided his home in a terrorism investigation, Muslim businessman Syed Maswood is lucky to get on an airplane without being detained and searched. But that didn't stop him from getting an invitation to dine with President Bush.
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

Burrito Incites School and Law Enforcement Into Action Posted by Pile (5332 views) [E-Mail link]
A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. After seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High, authorities lept into action. The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt. I feel safer already.
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

Florida Legalizes Gunfighting, Killing Posted by Pile (5419 views) [E-Mail link]
The NRA has pushed through some new legislation in the state of Florida that's likely to get a lot of insecure, middle-aged white men almost as excited as when they discovered Viagra: Manslaughter with a gun is now legal in Florida! Yes, the new "Meet Force With Force" law, signed by good 'ol boy Jeb Bush, has done away with that wimpy idea that you can't shoot someone dead in a conflict if running away was an option. The NRA plans to sweep similar laws throughout the South and eventually the entire country.
READ MORE \| 4 comments since 2005-05-09 12:59:51 \| Comment on this Article

FOI Records Show Prostitute Guckert/Gannon Active In White House Posted by Pile (5002 views) [E-Mail link]
In what is unlikely to stem the controversy surrounding disgraced White House correspondent James Guckert (aka Jeff Gannon), the Secret Service has furnished logs of the writer�s access to the White House after requests by two Democratic congressmembers. What's scary is that there's evidence to indicate that Guckert/Gannon checked in to the White House on a schedule that conflicts with his purpose there. So who in the white house was this gay prostitute serving?
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

Sick And Twisted Is What Happens When You Use Outlook & IE Posted by Pile (6043 views) [E-Mail link]	[Humor]
This is one of the most insightful and crazy online comics I've seen in a long time. Check it out.
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

Wrong Bumper Sticker On Car Gets You Thrown Out Of Bush Rally Posted by Pile (4911 views) [E-Mail link]
Three Denver residents yesterday charged that they were forcibly removed from one of President Bush's town meetings on Social Security because they displayed a bumper sticker on their car condemning the administration's Middle East policies.
READ MORE \| 1 comment since 2005-03-31 10:47:30 \| Comment on this Article

Bush Administration Seeks To Secretize Everything Posted by Pile (5939 views) [E-Mail link]
Slate has a very scary article on how the Bush administration is pushing the boundaries of what previously public information should now be classified as secret and made unavailable to most people, citing terrorist concerns. What information may no longer be public? How about how taxpayer money is spent and Federal budgets, maps, old science archives that have been public for more than 50 years, government telephone directories, and much more. This plays right into the plan of the current administration to hide as much information on what the government is doing as it possibly can.
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

Treasury Dept Socially Engineers IRS Employees Posted by Pile (5739 views) [E-Mail link]
How safe are your government records? It turns out not very. Treasury Department auditors called 100 IRS employees and managers, portraying themselves as personnel from the information technology help desk trying to correct a network problem. They asked the employees to provide their network logon name and temporarily change their password to one they suggested. 35% complied. The good news [sic] is that this is better than 75% of the IRS employees that fell for the ruse in 2001.
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

New Media Action Alert: Demand Investigation of Gannon/Guckert Posted by Pile (4773 views) [E-Mail link]
The powers that be are still hoping this story goes away, but an ever-increasing grass roots effort is underway to have people contact their senators and demand an investigation into the activities of the Jeff Gannon / James Guckert national security breach.
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

Gannongate: New Media Refuses To Let Story Be Marginalized Posted by Pile (9859 views) [E-Mail link]
On HBO's Real Time (click read more for video clip) Senator Joe Biden claims the mainstream media is ignoring the serious implications of the Jeff Gannon (aka James Guckert) news story and keeping it from the people. In the meantime, the independent media who do have influence in small areas of the market are not letting go of this story until the mainstream media gives it the attention it deserves. Read more to see what Bill Maher thinks would have happened if this situation unfolded under any democratic administration. Update: While American MSM is still ignoring the story, British press are all over it: "White House's loyal reporter once worked as gay hooker."
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

ChoicePoint compromises security of millions of Americans Posted by Pile (5265 views) [E-Mail link]
Criminals posing as legitimate businesses have accessed critical personal data stored by ChoicePoint Inc., a firm that maintains databases of background information on virtually every U.S. citizen.
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

Administration Repeatedly Ignored Reports of Bin Laden Attack Posted by Pile (4599 views) [E-Mail link]
Nearly half of the Federal Aviation Administration's daily intelligence reports in the months leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks mentioned Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, according to newly released documents that the Bush administration has been trying to keep secret.
READ MORE \| 4 comments since 2005-02-22 01:32:20 \| Comment on this Article

Fight Terror--Mow the Lawn Posted by wizeGurl (4356 views) [E-Mail link]
A recent audit shows that some of the $600 million in federal anti-terrorism funds given to the state of Texas went for something slightly different than their intended uses.
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

Florida Congressman accused of developing vote-rigging software Posted by Pile (5177 views) [E-Mail link]
In a sworn affidavit [pdf] Monday, a former programmer for a NASA contractor said that he developed a vote-rigging prototype at the request of a then-Florida state representative, Republican Tom Feeney, who is now a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
READ MORE \| No comments \| Comment on this Article

20 Articles displayed. Show More Articles.

Pursuant to Section 230 of Title 47 of the United States Code (47 USC � 230), BSAlert is a user-contributed editorial web site and does not endorse any specific content, but merely acts as a "sounding board" for the online community. Any and all quoted material is referenced pursuant to "Fair Use" (17 U.S.C. � 107). Like any information resource, use your own judgement and seek out the facts and research and make informed choices.