The Beer Barrel

Singing mouse was born by chance
Now there's more than 100 singing mice
Researcher hopes to make a Mickey Mouse
JAPANESE scientists have produced a mouse that tweets like a bird in a genetically engineered "evolution" which they hope will shed light on the origins of human language.
A team of researchers at the University of Osaka created the...

Red Light Cameras: Safety Devices or One More Step Toward a Surveillance State?

by John W. Whitehead

Before Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, unleashed full body imaging scanners and "enhanced" pat downs on American...

Attorney General Eric Holder has an urgent message for Americans: While he is confident that the United States will continue to thwart attacks, "the terrorists only have to be successful once."


And while it is not certain we will be hit, the American people, he told ABC News, "have to be prepared for potentially bad news."

"What I am...

While international media is abuzz over the discovery of the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, a glaringly-obvious fact was inconspicuously left in the article: the pot stash was part of the tomb of a blond-haired, blue-eyed man who lived in China some 2,700 years ago.

Chinese legend is full of blond-haired, blue-eyed people who brought...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Before too long, the government check will no longer be in the mail.

Officials have settled on the dates when millions of people will no longer be able to get their Social Security and other benefit checks by mail.

New recipients of benefits will have to accept paperless payments starting on May 1 of next year, three...