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

The U.S. government has been hit with a double whammy in a new report showing job discrimination complaints—and retaliation for making said complaints—on the rise among federal employees and applicants.   According to the Equal Employment Oppo...   read more

Serge Mombouli has served as ambassador of the Republic of Congo to the United States since July 2001.   Born on July 22, 1959, in Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo, Mombouli grew up the son of a diplomat and Congolese statesman, in a family of ...   read more

Heroin, LSD, mescaline, peyote, psilocybin, methaqualone and, still … marijuana.   For the third time in 40 years, the federal government denied a petition to reclassify the Class I drug marijuana because it “has a high potential for abuse, has ...   read more

To demonstrate her conservative bona fides with Iowa voters, Republican Michele Bachmann became the first presidential candidate to sign a pledge by a religious right group, The Family Leader, that contains 14 points addressing everything from opp...   read more

Republican anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist famously once said he wanted to reduce government “to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” He made some headway in June.   While the private sector added a disa...   read more

Zhang Yesui was named China’s Ambassador to the United States in March 2010.   Zhang was born in Hubei Province in October 1953. He graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1975, and attended the London School of Economics from 1975 ...   read more

A career diplomat who previously served as ambassador to two other African nations, Wanda L. Nesbitt became U.S. ambassador to Namibia in November 2010.   A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with bachelor of arts degrees in internationa...   read more

In Wisconsin, home of the much-maligned Republican effort to weaken the collective bargaining power of public employees, a local county is considering the use of prison inmates for community upkeep in place of union workers.   Racine County Jail...   read more

Humberto Leal Garcia, a Mexican national convicted in Texas of murdering a teenage girl, was executed on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-ditch legal effort to postpone his death.   Leal’s case drew considerable attention from...   read more

A new environmental regulation from the Obama administration intended to cut pollution and save lives has been blasted by the coal industry as a job killer.   The Environmental Protection Agency finalized the “Cross-State Air Pollution Rule” tha...   read more

Overview: The newest nation in the world, officially born July 9, 2011, is the Republic of South Sudan, which seceded from the larger nation of Sudan after decades of civil war that took millions of lives and severely retarded the South’s developm...   read more

Robert A. Miller was appointed to the State Justice Institute (SJI) Board of Governors in February 1998. The SJI is a non-profit corporation run by the 11 members of its Board of Directors, each of whom is appointed by the President of the United ...   read more

The war in Afghanistan is over for the armed forces of Canada, which will pull out all of its remaining personnel before the end of the year.   After nine years of combat, the remaining 2,800 Canadian troops recently began turning over their dis...   read more

We’re only halfway through the year, but it looks like a lot of the companies Americans love to hate are continuing to frustrate and bedevil them.   The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) surveys thousands of people about 245 companie...   read more

President Barak Obama’s first crack at an online town hall held exclusively through Twitter proved to be an opportune move for House Republicans who flooded the event with bated questions and negative remarks about the economy.   Led by House Sp...   read more

Seventeen years after the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, the U.S. government has agreed to a controversial provision allowing trucks from Mexico to deliver goods deep into the country. The turnabout by the Obama administrati...   read more