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

Teenagers from Gaza hoping to study in the U.S. have been forbidden to leave, on orders from Hamas, the elected government of the Gaza Strip.   Eight students were given AMIDEAST scholarships to spend a year in America. But, according to the P...   read more

They supervised a controversial program that allowed guns to fall into the hands of drug traffickers, all in the name of law enforcement tracking, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) officials still managed to get p...   read more

The dictionary defines combat as “to oppose in battle; fight against” or “to engage in fighting.” On August 31, 2010, President Barack Obama announced that the United States’ combat mission in Iraq was finished. However, based on what the U.S. m...   read more

Faced with putting graphic anti-smoking images on their packs and cartons, tobacco companies have filed suit to overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new requirements on the marketing of cigarettes.   In June, the FDA issued the fi...   read more

Common sense would dictate that a country that’s spent 10 years fighting two different wars would at least keep track of the fiscal sacrifice that’s been made. But the truth is that Uncle Sam really can’t say for sure how deep it’s had to dig to...   read more

They supervised a controversial program that allowed guns to fall into the hands of drug traffickers, all in the name of law enforcement tracking, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) officials still managed to get pro...   read more

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to help animal rights advocates stop a wild-horse roundup by using the argument that the capture had already taken place.   At issue was the 2010 round-up of more than 2,000 wild horses and 200 wild b...   read more

Concerns over the reliability and loyalty of Pakistan’s government in the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda are well established. But the compromised nature of Pakistan’s military and intelligence service has not stopped U.S. defense contra...   read more

Humans are responsible for about half of the recent melting of polar ice, according to scientists at the nation’s leading climate research center.   Using supercomputers and advanced climate models, scientists at the National Center for Atmosp...   read more

The Department of Defense’s inspector general is launching a series of audits aimed at examining all contracts issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) since Regina Dugan became its director in June 2009. DARPA funds proje...   read more

Executives in charge of San Antonio’s public utility are in serious trouble after a local news station discovered that CPS Energy contributed several thousand dollars—provided by taxpayers—to the Republican Party.   The $5,000 contribution was...   read more

Stepping foot outside in Orlando, Florida—as well as many of the state’s other large cities—can be a life-threatening experience. The risk has nothing to do with pollution or extreme weather, but everything to do with automobiles.   On an aver...   read more

District of Columbia v. Heller was supposed to bring legal salvation to gun-rights advocates, after the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision in June 2008, invalidated the District of Columbia’s strict gun-control law. Another 5-4 pro-gun ruling...   read more

Based on the large, and expensive, legal team he has assembled, Rupert Murdoch appears to be gearing up for a big legal fight, both in the United Kingdom and the U.S., over the phone-hacking scandal.   According to John Dean, writing in The Gu...   read more

House Republicans seem bent on biting the hands that feed them…and every other American.   Farmers, usually stalwart supporters of the GOP, are upset over a Republican bill that would require them to verify the immigration status of field work...   read more

Rather than allow residents to exercise their rights to free speech, operators of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) in the San Francisco Bay Area decided last week to shut down cell phone service to four stations where a protest was plann...   read more