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

Lawmakers in Washington think one way to help stimulate the depressed housing market is to make it more appealing for wealthy foreigners to buy American homes.   Senators Charles Schumer (D- New York) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have introduced legisl...   read more

When President Barack Obama announced on Friday that all U.S. military forces will be withdrawn from Iraq before the end of the year, it seemed like the end of an era. However, in reality, thousands of Americans will still be in harm’s way in the ...   read more

This month’s Dictator of the Month award to Islam Karimov is given in honor of Herman Cain’s complete lack of awareness of Uzbekistan and the important controversy regarding President Barack Obama’s decision to lift sanctions against Karimov despi...   read more

On September 9, 2011, Marina Kaljurand, the new Estonian Ambassador to the United States, presented her credentials to President Barack Obama at the White House. The first female Estonian ambassador to Washington, Kaljurand, ironically, is not eth...   read more

What Americans wanted to learn about and what they got from the media weren’t in sync during the middle of October, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.   The think tank’s News Interest Index for October 13-16 found t...   read more

A key part of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has finally been fulfilled, with the crossing of the first Mexican truck bound for the interior of the United States.   As part of NAFTA, Mexico’s trucking companies were suppose...   read more

Once a cornerstone of America’s nuclear weapons production, the former nuclear fuel factory at Hanford, Washington, is now a colossal clean-up project that has dragged on for decades, cost billions of dollars and sparked controversy between the fe...   read more

Since May 2010, the ambassador from Nicaragua to the United States has been Francisco Obadiah Campbell Hooker, an experienced diplomat and academic who previously served in Nicaragua’s embassy in the early 1980s. The Nicaraguan opposition objected...   read more

Since June 2010, the Ambassador to the United States from the Caribbean island nation of Dominica (population: 73,000) has been Hubert J. Charles, a longtime employee of UNESCO who is also a former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education ...   read more

For a conflict that’s involved more unmanned aerial attacks by the United States than the American onslaught in Pakistan this year, the “war” in Libya sure seems to be just that, regardless of what the White House has said.   Since the U.S. got ...   read more

In the nation’s capital, crime does pay for defense contractors.   The Department of Defense has admitted that it has rewarded hundreds of companies convicted of fraud with new deals that totaled more than $1.1 trillion.   Senator Bernie Sande...   read more

Louisiana residents buying used goods such as clothing, furniture and household items can no longer do so with cash, under a new state law signed by Governor Bobby Jindal on July 1.   State representative Rickey Hardy, who co-authored the legisl...   read more

The West African nation of Guinea gained a new ambassador to the United States on July 6, 2011. Blaise Chérif, a specialist in refugee issues, presented his credentials to President Barack Obama on September 9.   Born September 25, 1945, in N’Zo...   read more

Since July 2009, the small Caribbean island nation of Grenada, which the United States invaded in 1983, has been represented in the U.S. by Gillian M.S. Bristol, who is concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Mexico and Permanent Representative t...   read more

Now that congressional auditors have gained access for the first time to the financial records of the Federal Reserve, their assessment has turned up serious conflicts of interest for the board members overseeing the branches of the national bank....   read more

On top of the enormous national debt and crippling mortgages burdening the United States, college graduates have become saddled with student loans that now total more than $1 trillion. This includes $555 billion in federal education loans.   Wit...   read more