Bush issued two presidential directives that granted the president the power to declare emergency, regardless of location, that results extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption affecting U.S., infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions... ..…

In 1865, Civil War ended and Thirteenth Amendment to United States Constitution abolished slavery. ..…

For seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to secretive, vast misdirected complex of security institutions, reflexes, and beliefs that so define our present world that we forget that there was ever America.. ..…

Hundreds of federal employees gathered outside AFL-CIO headquarters Washington, D.C., Jan 10 to rally for end to the government shutdown that has lasted for nearly three weeks... ..…

Endnotes: . 1 Here is the Council on Foreign Relations' Task Force Report on the NAU. . 2 The US Constitution is unique. ..…