Dear Bureaupat, I was discharged in 2006 with an honorable discharge. I completed 22 months of active duty after 9/11. What sort of benefits can I expect? Dear Honorably Discharged, The new Post-9/11 GI Bill is complex (what isn&#...

The government of Nepal has come up with a pragmatic solution to stop airport officials from lining their pockets with bribes: by removing them. Not the officials… the pant pockets! The Nepalese Ministry of Civil Aviation will soon see to...

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd may seem wantonly unsympathetic or justifiably pragmatic, depending on how you feel about the government's role in managing obesity. Last month, Rudd objected to the use of tax money to fund weight loss cour...

Last week the Oregon House of Representatives passed a law so graphic that proper decorum dictates that it not be discussed on this fine, upstanding media website. Fortunately we have never been...

Thanks to the Center for a New American Security, a think tank, Internet street mapping software has now moved beyond saving Gen Y drivers who never learned to read a map and become a proactive...

Though most of December lies ahead of us, the 2009 “year in review” lists are already rolling in online. Five major search engines have aggregated eleven months’ worth of their most popular queries. Many a distracting entry threatened...

In an effort to stop smugglers and terrorists from entering the U.S. through underground tunnel systems at the Canada and Mexico borders, the federal government has begun using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles fitted with tunnel detection sensors. The...

It sounds sacrilege in a country where dog ownership seems as much a right as guns, gas and greed, but it may be time to start taxing pet owners. Go ahead and buy local organic food, replace your incandescent bulbs, drive a hybrid — your pooch may...

Wishing you could be in Copenhagen for the Climate Conference? If you can't get to Denmark, there's an alternative closer to home. The Solar Energy Industries Association of Maryland, Washington DC and Virginia (MDV-SEIA) will be hosting a solar...

The Department of Homeland Security has been looking into all sorts of technologies to protect our nations boarders since 9/11. Now, they're looking to the future brains of this country to help enhance security where some argue it's needed most,...