Trump said he would send the National Guard to Toronto and impose 50% tariffs on all Los Angeles products. AllGov reporter Sidney Finster suggested that perhaps Trump had confused the two cities. Because Toronto is in Canada, not the United States, Trump can’t send the National Guard there. And because Los Angeles is in the United States, Trump can’t impose tariffs on a U.S. city. Trump defended his position by saying, “I’m always right.”   read more

A federal appeals court has upheld a controversial South Dakota law that requires doctors to tell patients considering an abortion that the procedure can lead to increased risks of suicide.   Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit challenging the 20...   read more

Regardless of President Barack Obama’s public declarations that the U.S. will not provide arms to Syria’s rebels, the White House has approved a secret order authorizing support for those seeking to depose dictator Bashar al-Assad.   The order, ...   read more

“Justice delayed is justice denied.” This legal maxim describes the fundamental legal principle that when the legal system moves too slowly its remedies can become meaningless and people’s rights will suffer. “Pop-up” groups that falsely claim to ...   read more

It is a big, scary number—$1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars)—that politicians, including President Obama, military leaders and anti-virus software companies allege is the annual cost of cybercrime. And it is a number that is very likely wro...   read more

Mitt Romney has tapped a leading public relations expert with a long resume of controversial work to help deflect attack ads targeting the Republican candidate’s years at Bain Capital.   Michele Davis, currently a partner at the Brunswick Group,...   read more

The state of America’s children is a decidedly mixed bag, according to a newly released federal report, as the Great Recession continues to take a toll on the youngest Americans. On the plus side, teen pregnancy and violent crime against children ...   read more

Because I am the president of the International Society of Olympic Historians, a lot of people have been asking me if I think Michael Phelps is the greatest athlete in Olympic history. The short answer is that he is one of the greatest, but not ...   read more

Although the Supreme Court in June ruled that it is unconstitutional to sentence someone convicted of homicide to life without the possibility of parole if the defendant committed the crime as a juvenile, the response of several states seems to be...   read more

Australia, already the skin cancer capital of the world, is now the first place where fish are known to get the deadly disease as well. The Land Down Under sits under the planet’s largest hole in the ozone layer, a stratum of the atmosphere that a...   read more

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has finally launched its online database that’s supposed to provide information on who’s spending what on television commercials related to election campaigns.   But the database is not user-friendly f...   read more

Republican voters in Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District decided this week to keep Tea Partier and Congresswoman Diane Black as their party’s nominee, even though she was accused by her GOP rival of not being anti-Muslim enough.   In the Repu...   read more

Lieutenant General David G. Perkins serves as the commander of the Combined Arms Center (CAC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, which oversees the Command and General Staff College and 17 other schools, centers, and training programs located throughout...   read more

Facebook has nearly one billion profiles. It also has tens of millions of phony ones, too.   The social media giant has admitted that nearly 9% of all “users” on Facebook are not real. That translates into 83 million fake profiles, out of 955 mi...   read more

Like it or not, the tobacco industry will continue being monitored and regulated by both the federal courts and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), according to the U.S. Appeals Court in Washington.   Cigarette makers filed motions to end co...   read more

Alan Gourgue served four years in the Marine Corps and was honorably discharged. But that didn’t stop the military from wrongly arresting him years later, claiming he was a deserter.   The resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is now suing the ser...   read more

A longtime critic of the defense industry, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) surprised many observers when he hired a former Lockheed Martin executive to help him on the Senate Armed Services Committee.   Ann Elise Sauer, a one-time Lockheed vice ...   read more