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

Facing political pressure from both left and right, President Barack Obama announced last week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will no longer deport persons simply because they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Speci...   read more

Despite economic and financial problems of their own, European nations have continued to expand renewable energy sources. The United States, meanwhile, has not progressed in terms of what it gets from solar, wind and other non-fossil fuel source...   read more

Drug dealers are successfully using Florida’s controversial stand-your-ground law to get away with murder.   The law, which has gained national attention since the Trayvon Martin shooting, was intended to help citizens avoid punishment when de...   read more

Six years after Congress authorized a new incentive program for tax whistleblowers, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has paid less than a handful of awards to those exposing tax cheats. The result has been demoralizing for whistleblowers, acco...   read more

A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that the University of Cincinnati’s anti-protest policy constitutes a violation of the First Amendment’s right to free speech and must be amended.   The university’s chapter of the Ron Paul-inspired Young Amer...   read more

Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, now the next in line to take over the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was one of several defendants sued last year for his alleged support of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.   After paying more than $21...   read more

Move over super PACs and make way for the “social welfare” organizations.   As hyped and deep-pocketed super PACs are, their spending power was eclipsed during the 2010 election, according to the Center for Public Integrity and the Center for ...   read more

Asian immigrants have surpassed Hispanics as the largest group entering the United States, bringing with them an unmatched degree of higher education backgrounds.   According to the Pew Research Center, 61% of adults emigrating from Asia have ...   read more

Brett McGurk has withdrawn from becoming the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq following the disclosure of racy emails he wrote in 2008, while he was married, to a reporter he later married.   Half a dozen Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relation...   read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of William Fairey, who was convicted by a South Carolina court without him being aware he was on trial.   In 1998 Fairey was charged with obtaining goods and moneys under false pretenses. H...   read more

The Department of Defense downplayed the seriousness of a June 1 attack on an American military outpost in Afghanistan, raising questions as to why officials were not forthcoming two weeks ago.   Following the assault on Forward Operating Base...   read more

Lobbyists for large defense contractors have complained that Congress is trying to make life difficult for them by limiting how large their six-figure executive salaries can be and how much government business they can hog.   In the Senate ver...   read more

Doing business as a small government contractor has distinct vulnerabilities, like getting used and tossed aside by bigger contractors.   In a survey by American Express, almost 30% of small contractors said they had been victimized by bait-an...   read more

Comedian Stephen Colbert recently made light of multi-millionaire Mitt Romney’s efforts to portray himself as being just like average Americans, zeroing in on the Republican candidate’s investment in the elitist sport of equestrian dressage.   ...   read more

While competing candidates each declared victory following the presidential election, Egypt’s military made clear just who is in charge of the country, which has been trying to transition towards democracy.   Hours after the polls closed, mark...   read more

The Roman Catholic Church in America, whose complicity in decades of sexual abuse of children by its priests and other clerics has already cost it at least $2.5 billion for legal fees, out-of-court settlements and prevention programs, is fightin...   read more