President Donald Trump invited the Dodgers to the White House. Many of their fans feared that the team, by accepting, would humiliate themselves and betray the team’s large Latino, Asian and African-American fan base. Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter, along with co-owner Magic Johnson, have proposed a solution. Trump has promised that if he can keep the championship trophy, the Commissioner’s Trophy, he will end all seizures and deportations of immigrants.   read more

Writing in favor of the creation of a new industrial policy for the United States, Pat Buchanan cites some grim facts. “As a source of American jobs, manufacturing, for the first time in our history, fell below health care and education in 2001, b...   read more

Throughout its eight years in power, the Bush administration stubbornly opposed U.S. involvement in any international treaty that would control mercury pollution. Mercury, most of which is generated by coal-fueled power plants, settles in the ocea...   read more

According to estimates released by the White House, each of the 435 Congressional districts in the United States will gain between 6,000 and 11,000 jobs as a result of the just passed stimulus bill. However, strange as it may seem, Republican dist...   read more

The United States Army will begin offering American citizenship to skilled immigrants who are living in this country with temporary visas, in exchange for their military services.   Currently, only immigrants who are permanent residents with “gr...   read more

During the presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain, there was lots and lots of talk about helping the middle-class, but we didn’t hear much about the 38 million Americans who are living below the poverty line. That’s because lowe...   read more

One sentence in the new stimulus bill (aka the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”) reads, “For an additional amount for ‘Defense Environmental Cleanup,’ $5,127,000,000.” Five billion dollars is a lot of money to spend without explain...   read more

One of the biggest winners in the new stimulus package is the field of education. To begin with, in the bill’s section on aid to state and local government, at least $43.8 billion is allocated to reverse cutbacks and layoffs that have been caused ...   read more

The new stimulus bill (aka the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”) includes $98.3 billion for transportation and infrastructure. The biggest ticket item is $26.7 billion to go to the Federal Highway Administration to give grants to s...   read more

Representatives of nine Latin American countries, including ex-presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, have issued a report calling for a reevaluation of the “War on Drugs.” Among the other members of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and ...   read more

To hear its critics talk about it, you would think that the just-passed stimulus bill (aka the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”) was a wild-eyed liberal trick full of wasteful spending. In fact, the $789 billion bill includes $280 ...   read more

Once powerful Blackwater has such a tarnished reputation that it is changing its name to Xe (pronounced “zee”). Founded as a private military company by Erik Prince in 1990, the company formerly known as Blackwater received more than $1 billion in...   read more

University of California, Berkeley, Professor John Yoo, who crafted the Bush administration’s legal justification of torture, is on leave from his tenured post at UC Berkeley to teach foreign relations law as a visiting professor at Chapman Univer...   read more

An audit report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed the disturbing fact that more than one third of the 242,203 small arms and light weapons shipped to the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police cannot be a...   read more

Even as Americans deal with the pressures of two wars and a struggling economy, a USA Today/Gallup Poll found that about two-thirds of those surveyed are in favor of investigating some of the Bush administration’s tactics that may have been illega...   read more

Judd Gregg’s withdrawal as nominee to be Secretary of Commerce does not come as a great surprise. The Republican Senator had blasted the president as “Obama spend-o-rama” when he unveiled his legislative agenda, and once voted to eliminate the Com...   read more

It made for great theater: the heads of eight banks that received $166 billion in bailout funds being grilled and tongue-lashed by members of Congress channeling the public’s anger. But if most of the members of the House Financial Services Commit...   read more