Drudge Retort: Zap's blog

Behavioral screening -- the future of airport security?

Zap — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:08:36 -0500

Keep your shoes and belts on: Waiting in long airport security lines to pass through metal detectors may soon be a thing of the past.

FEMA Spends $28 Million Yearly to Store Trailers

Zap — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:33:21 -0500

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is spending $28 million annually to store travel trailers and mobile homes at five Mississippi sites while the agency determines whether they'll be reused or sold as scrap.

Pentagon to Deploy 20,000 Troops for Domestic Emergencies

Zap — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:06:16 -0500

The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.

Bush Admin Undercuts Work-Safety Rule

Zap — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:33:46 -0500

The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job.

The Bush Pardons

Zap — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:27:06 -0500

How does the George W. Bush presidency most resemble that of his father, George H.W. Bush?

Giants' Burress Shoots Self in Leg

Zap — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:21:15 -0500

New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg with his own gun at a New York City nightclub Friday night. Burress spent the night in a hospital but that the injury was not considered life-threatening.

British private security crew abandon ship to Pirates

Zap — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:25:20 -0500

Three British private security workers guarding a chemical tanker jumped overboard yesterday after Somali pirates attacked the vessel.

Hannity And Colmes Breakup Footage

Zap — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:52:14 -0500

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India's Suspicion of Pakistan Clouds U.S. Strategy

Zap — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:14:37 -0500

The terrorist attacks in Mumbai occurred as India and Pakistan, two big, hostile and nuclear-armed nations, were delicately moving toward improved relations with the encouragement of the United States and in particular the incoming Obama administration.

Iraqi Parliament Backs US Pullout

Zap — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:26:32 -0500

The Iraqi parliament has voted to accept a deal on the future presence of US troops in the country. Under the deal, all 150,000 US troops will have left Iraq by the end of 2011.

GM Seeks to Hide Corporate Jet Use

Zap — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:30:57 -0500

General Motors, criticized by lawmakers for its use of corporate jets, asked aviation regulators to block the public's ability to track one of its planes. "We availed ourselves of the option as others do to have the aircraft removed" from a Federal Aviation Administration tracking service, GM spokesman Greg Martin said. He declined to discuss why GM made the request.

Military Examines Role in Domestic Defense

Zap — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:33:37 -0500

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday ordered his top department leaders to conduct a broad review to determine whether the military, National Guard and Reserve can adequately deal with domestic disasters and whether they have the training and equipment to defend the homeland.

Jury deliberating whether MySpace hoax was crime

Zap — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:24:02 -0500

Jurors on Tuesday began deliberating whether a Missouri mother conspired with her daughter and an assistant to harass a 13-year-old girl with Internet messages that allegedly prompted the girl's suicide.

Ringed by Foes, Pakistanis Fear the U.S., Too

Zap — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:10:37 -0500

A redrawn map of South Asia has been making the rounds among Pakistani elites. It shows their country truncated, reduced to an elongated sliver of land with the big bulk of India to the east, and an enlarged Afghanistan to the west. That the map was first circulated as a theoretical exercise in some American neoconservative circles matters little here. It has fueled a belief among Pakistanis, including members of the armed forces, that what the United States really wants is the breakup of Pakistan, the only Muslim country with nuclear arms.

Carbon dioxide levels already a danger

Zap — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:15:46 -0500

A team of international scientists led by Dr James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, say that carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are already in the danger zone.