— Like their traditional counterpart, the new preachers speak with great confidence that their religion -- science -- contains all the truth we need to know and all the truth that can be known. They call us to worship at the altar of science, a summons of which I am ...

— Here is a look at five areas where tax law was changed along with housing law, and the good news and bad news that goes along with each: Read the Full Story: The hidden traps in the housing rescue bill

— That logic could explain BlackLight's success in garnering investors, despite its lack of scientific approval: While the academic community stresses theoretical backing for a new discovery, the business world is more concerned with practical applications. Read the Full Story: BlackLight's physics-defying promise: Cheap power from water

— Commuters are driving less, the federal government says. Workers are leaving their cars at home and finding other ways to get to work.

— The Internet has flourished because it has operated under the principle that engineers, not politicians or bureaucrats, should solve engineering problems. Read the Full Story: Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis?

— Notes in the millions of dollars are useful only as toilet paper and it's cheaper to light a fire with low denomination bills than with newspaper Read the Full Story: Zimbabweans battle money shortages as collectors buy hundred billion dollar notes on eBay

— "Socialism means social justice and equality, but equality of rights, of opportunities, not of income," the 77-year-old president said in a speech that was taped and later aired on national television. "Equality is not egalitarianism." Read the Full Story: Raul Castro: Communism is not egalitarianism

— With the exception of the fact that Che killed a lot more people, what's the difference? You shouldn't be wearing an "I heart abortion clinic bombers" T-shirt, and if you have any respect for humanity, you shouldn't be wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt, eithe Read the Full Story: Che ...

— The United States government has direct ownership of almost 650 million acres of land (2.63 million square kilometers) - nearly 30% of its total territory. These federal lands are used as military bases or testing grounds, nature parks and reserves and in Read the Full Story: Federal Lands in ...

— Thus, the Wall Street of the Morgans and the Astors and the bloated bondholders is today an institution of the mixed economy. It is hand-in-glove with the government, while the government is, of course -- in theory -- by and for the people Read the Full Story: Why No ...

— As high as they are, though, the new bills still aren't enough to buy a loaf of bread. They can only buy four oranges.

— House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday blamed the "two oil men in the White House," President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, and their Republican allies in Congress for gas prices exceeding $4 a gallon. Read the Full Story: 'Two oil men' to blame for high gas prices, Pelosi says ...

— For too long, the refrain has gone, Congress and the administration have been asleep at the wheel when they should have been steering the economy by expanding government control over the housing and financial markets. Economist Paul Krugman slams the administration's "free-market ideology"; he urges Bush to "reverse course ...

— Ask your average citizen how they feel about socialism and you’ll probably get an earful of criticism. But try to explain that we already live under a form of socialism and you’ll be speaking to deaf ears.

— For the third year in a row, Congress has just given up on passing a law reforming how patents are awarded and litigated. This despite growing evidence that for most industries, today's patent system causes more harm than good Read the Full Story: Information Age