When it comes to the risks of identity theft, the U.S. government isn't taking its own advice. The nation's Medicare agency and the Pentagon compel at least 52 million Americans to carry their Social Security numbers in their wallets, contrary

E-mail scams seem to have gone on since the Internet began taking off in the 1990's. The Nigerian lottery scam, the Barack Obama is a Muslim scam, and many others have taken in people, but a new one is taking

The nation's psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of pessimismpalpable. Young or old, Republican or Democrat, economically stable orstruggling, Americans are questioning where they are and where they aregoing. And they wonder who or what might ride to their