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

If the United States’ war on drugs was succeeding, the prices of narcotics should be going up. After all, a reduction in the supply of drugs—the main objective of the government’s efforts—should result in less availability and thus a higher price ...   read more

More than 40 years since organic foods began as mom-and-pop operations, the multi-billion dollar movement that has transformed into Big Organic has lost much of its “organic” quality.   The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), which, as a pr...   read more

Officials in Florida concealed a federal health report warning of a serious tuberculosis outbreak, while at the same time Governor Rick Scott approved the closure of a hospital that specialized in caring for TB cases.   The Centers for Disease C...   read more

For centuries prospectors panned for gold and silver. Today, those seeking precious metals need only tear apart used computers and other electronics.   The market today for PCs, cell phones, tablets, and other electronics consumes an enormous am...   read more

Pennsylvania has adopted legislation intended to help relatives of dead farmers from having to sell off farms they inherit just to pay taxes owed.   The new law, approved overwhelmingly by the state legislature in bipartisan votes, exempts adult...   read more

A growing number of United States citizens have been wrongfully detained under a government program intended to detect undocumented immigrants who are arrested by local police–and now one of them is fighting back.   Chicago-area resident James...   read more

In the ongoing fight between the energy companies that want to drill for natural gas via hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” and the environmental activists warning of the technology’s dangers, the Republican-dominated Pennsylvania state legisl...   read more

The June unemployment data released by the Department of Labor last week showed a disturbing rise in unemployment among African-Americans, from 13.6% to 14.4%, nearly double the rate for the white population, which was unchanged at 7.4%, and hig...   read more

The federal government last year fell short of its “small business” contracting goals for the eleventh straight year, a streak that stretches back to the first year of the George W. Bush administration. Federal agencies awarded contracts worth $...   read more

JPMorgan Chase has been accused of evicting a family of four just days after their father died of a stress-induced heart attack brought on by the foreclosure, which they were duped into by the bank.   In their lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase, t...   read more

Before it nearly imploded and was bought out by Bank of America during the 2008 financial crisis, Countrywide Financial used a VIP program to loan money to members of Congress as a way to influence their decision-making.   At least seven curre...   read more

As a means to raise more money for poor nations, a 1% tax should be imposed on the world’s billionaires, a United Nations’ report suggested.   The “World Economic and Social Survey 2012: In Search of New Development Finance” states that more t...   read more

With at least 30 million surveillance cameras watching Americans every day, one aspect of the world of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 has already come to pass, and more is on the way. In the next two years, for example, the FBI plans to te...   read more

At least one female member of the Marine Corps doesn’t believe women should be serving in combat roles for the nation’s elite fighting force.   Marine Captain Katie Petronio, a combat veteran, wrote in an editorial in the Marine Corps Gazette ...   read more

A career diplomat who has served mainly in Eastern Europe is President Obama’s nominee to be the next ambassador to Serbia, the Balkan nation with which the U.S. has had sometimes tense relations since the breakup of Yugoslavia began in the earl...   read more

Generally speaking, election tacticians for both major parties pursue two strategies: make sure your supporters actually go to the polls on Election Day and try to persuade undecided voters to lean your way when they cast their ballots. But this...   read more