President Donald Trump gleefully announced that, under his direction, U.S. military troops had swooped down on the Governor’s Mansion in Sacramento and kidnapped California Governor Gavin Newsom. “We’re charging Newscum with fraud.” When a reporter asked for specifics about the fraud charges, Trump pointed to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Bondi, clearly taken by surprise, said, “We’re looking into it and will let you know the details as soon as we’ve created them.”   read more

A subsidiary of American Airlines this week became the first in the industry to be penalized by the federal government for making passengers endure lengthy delays on an airport tarmac.   The U.S. Department of Transportation fined American Eagle...   read more

In need of new revenues because of budget cuts, a Colorado school district has approved the printing of advertisements on student report cards.   The Jefferson County School District, west of Denver, will receive $90,000 over three years for run...   read more

Americans are continuing to lose health insurance coverage and to struggle paying for serious medical conditions, according to two separate surveys.   A Gallup poll found the proportion of adults with no health insurance has been above 17% for t...   read more

Bank of America may have lost the battle over its proposed $5/month debit card fee, but, along with other major banks, it is not giving up on charging customers for other services in order to maintain profits.   At BofA consumers can expect to p...   read more

A cleanup worker involved in last year’s BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico claims the company and the U.S. Coast Guard worked in secrecy while attempting to burn the petroleum off the ocean’s surface. Malcolm Coco, who worked for BP for three and...   read more

Baby Boomers are making it harder on the earth than Millennials in terms of contributing to global warming.   Researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute, led by Emilio Zagheni, using data from the United States, examined carbon dioxide emissi...   read more

In the wake of MF Global losing more than half a billion dollars of client money, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has decided to audit every single futures trading firm in the country.   There are currently more than 100 futures ...   read more

Despite lacking what critics say is a clear purpose or mission, the Department of Energy is planning to invest $6 billion in building a new plutonium facility at the nation’s leading scientific lab.   Los Alamos National Laboratory wants to have...   read more

The housing market crisis of 2007-2008 continues to bleed money from the U.S. Treasury as mortgage giant Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) takes another bailout from Washington.   The government-controlled firm needed anothe...   read more

Federal Judge Jed Rakoff of New York blasted the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week after it proposed what Rakoff said was a weak and inappropriate settlement with Citigroup for defrauding customers.   The bank sold $1 billion in...   read more

TGIF has long conveyed the relief of not only the ordinary American worker happy that the work week is done, but also that of officials at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) who can’t wait to bury the news.   Fridays are notorious in...   read more

Tea Party Congressman Joe Walsh (R-Illinois) is a “True Blue” family man, according to the conservative Family Research Council. Apparently, being a deadbeat dad didn’t disqualify Walsh from being so honored.   The Family Research Council, which...   read more

Chosen to perform at a dinner hosted by President Barack Obama, and attended by Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and other world leade...   read more

Local law enforcement agencies in the U.S. have increasingly become more militaristic in tactics and look in response to the wars on drugs and terror.   Writing in The Atlantic, Arthur Rizer and Joseph Hartman note “a proliferation in incidents ...   read more

It might look, smell and taste like it, but in most cases what’s sold in American stores is not technically honey.   According to the Food and Drug Administration, honey that does not contain pollen is not honey, officially. Often the thickly sw...   read more

Despite criticism from taxpayer groups, Vice President Joseph Biden has decided to continue charging rent to the Secret Service for guarding him at his home in Delaware.   Earlier this month the Secret Service approved yet another year of paying...   read more