Trump announced that from now on the NFL will be known as the NTL: The National Trump League. The Super Bowl will be renamed the Trump Bowl, and professional players must be called Trumpball Players. Anyone, on any level, who refuses to comply with Trump’s orders will be arrested and charged with being a threat to national security.   read more

Law enforcement agencies in post-September 11, 2001, America have stockpiled billions of dollars in military equipment, some of which seems unnecessary for local police forces.   Police departments have managed to collect vast quantities of mi...   read more

Not satisfied with the billions of dollars earned from defense contracts, leading arms manufacturers now want some of the credit for killing Osama bin Laden.   Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the Lexington Institute, a conservative ...   read more

The same U.S. Supreme Court majority that tossed restrictions on corporate giving in federal elections has now nullified Montana’s century-old law banning companies from spending on campaigns.   Business interests and anti-abortionists last ye...   read more

Unwilling to impose rules on themselves that they have on others in government, 130 congressional lawmakers have invested in company stocks while making legislative decisions impacting the very same corporate interests.   Federal laws adopted ...   read more

If the Obama administration wants Private Bradley Manning convicted for releasing classified documents to WikiLeaks, federal prosecutors first must disclose proof that the soldier’s action did harm to national security.   This week Col. Denise...   read more

A Bush-era program designed to help poor people improve their lives through healthy marriages wound up consuming hundreds of millions of dollars and producing few results.   Announced in 2004, the Healthy Marriage Initiative was launched two y...   read more

Demonstrators in Bahrain have a new villain in their protracted struggle to gain democratic freedoms: the United States.   Instead of exclusively blaming the dictatorial regime of King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, protestors have called upon Wash...   read more

The devastating impact of off-shoring American jobs to other countries is no more apparent than in the apparel manufacturing industry. From 1990 to 2011, 80% of the jobs in this industry disappeared in the U.S., downsizing from 902,800 to 151,80...   read more

Regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration’s federal healthcare reform law, most Americans probably assume the lower courts have decided against the controversial ...   read more

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in the case of Arizona v. United States, which struck down three key provisions in Arizona’s immigration enforcement statute known as S.B. 1070 for conflicting with federal immigration law and policy, provoked ...   read more

A towering cross on federal property atop Mount Soledad in San Diego may have to come down after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to let stand without comment an appeals court ruling that the memorial illegally conveys a religious message. But it ...   read more

The water Americans drink is threatened from below. For the past half-century or so, U.S. corporations have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid waste deep into the earth, believing that multiple layers of rock would prevent th...   read more

In yet another ominous sign that the Great Recession is threatening the future, a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that in 2010 public school system spending declined by 0.4 percent, a small decrease to be sure, but this marks the firs...   read more

Although during his 2005 confirmation hearing Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts tried to reassure the Senate that he would be unbiased because “Judges are like umpires,” he and his fellow Republican justices seem to have a strike zone tha...   read more

Two unnamed women are suing Blue Cross and St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Westchester County in New York state over the Catholic hospital’s refusal to grant benefits to same-sex couples. One of the women is an employee of the hospital.   The l...   read more

On October 7, 2012, hundreds of conservative political activists will intentionally violate federal law by engaging in illegal electioneering despite the presence of a law on the books since 1954 that forbids them to do so. They believe, apparen...   read more