Rumors are spreading that the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to rule that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for anything he does while he is president. Some Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden bring a gun to his first debate with Donald Trump. If he shoots Trump, he would be immune, but if Trump shoots Biden he would be prosecuted because he is not a sitting president.   read more

Affirming what other reports from academics have said, the past three decades witnessed the rich greatly expand their earnings and share of the nation’s income, while the middle-class and poor enjoyed far smaller gains.   The non-partisan Congre...   read more

If it’s not American gangs infiltrating the ranks of the U.S. military, it’s the U.S. government infiltrating the ranks of Mexican cartels.   For the U.S. Army and its auxiliary groups, keeping gangbangers out of the service has become a serious...   read more

Americans have had nearly 11 years to think it over and they’re still of the opinion that the Electoral College needs to go.   Following the deadlocked 2000 presidential contest, voters learned all about the Electoral College’s role in electing ...   read more

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the U.S. campaign against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan, have proven to be the ideal marketing grounds for unmanned aircraft, whose popularity is soaring to new heights.   Nine years ago the De...   read more

Reliance on antidepressants has soared over the last two and a half decades, and Americans are increasingly getting these medications without seeing a psychiatrist or therapist.   The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates in...   read more

The Obama administration wants to make it more difficult for the public to determine if secret documents exist by allowing agencies to lie about them.   Under a new rule crafted by the Department of Justice, the Freedom of Information Act would ...   read more

Here’s another economic marker that helps explain the desperation so many Americans feel these days: half of all wage earners in 2010 made less than $26,364.   This comes out to $507 a week, the lowest level (after adjusting for inflation) since...   read more

Banks these days are practically turning away customers who have money to deposit, due to the fact they’re already sitting on top of too much cash.   Financial leaders claim the weak economy has left them with limited investment options, while w...   read more

Consumers in Massachusetts have been getting duped by unscrupulous restaurateurs and fish suppliers who have routinely used cheaper species in place of what was actually ordered, according to a five-month investigation by The Boston Globe.   Tes...   read more

Don’t forget the hand sanitizer after filling up at the pump, because it could be coated with cold and flu germs.   So says Kimberly-Clark Corp., which tested gas stations, bank machines, mail boxes and other objects commonly touched every day i...   read more

  In an ominous sign for the economy, Bank of America, in an attempt to protect itself from its toxic assets, recently moved $75 trillion (with a “t”) in derivatives from its non-federally-protected Merrill Lynch securities unit to a subsidiary i...   read more

Saddam or Gaddafi, who cost the United States more? It’s not much of a comparison, in terms of dollars or casualties for Americans.   President George W. Bush’s decision to invade to Iraq in 2003—first to eliminate non-existent weapons of mass d...   read more

Established by Congress to investigate and expose government waste, the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan has decided to not reveal its volumes of materials to the public for another two decades.   After three years of wo...   read more

The redrawing of political boundaries after each census has become a windfall for the legal industry, with the process of redistricting now largely settled in courtrooms.   In more than half of the states, litigation has been filed to challenge ...   read more

Nearly 30 years after he committed his crime, Dieter Krombach of Germany has been convicted and sentenced in France to 15 years in prison for killing his 14-year-old stepdaughter.   Krombach’s crime drew international attention, not so much for ...   read more

Protestors around the world who have been saying that 1% of the population controls far too much power will be gratified to learn that social scientists in Switzerland have compiled data that supports this contention.   A group of complex system...   read more