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 American Action Network is not nearly the voice of the masses as it has claimed.   Although it bills itself as a “network,” tax filings by the so-called Republican grassroots organization for 2010 have revealed it accepted $2.75 million in...   read more

Spent nuclear fuel rods, which have garnered considerable attention since the nuclear plant crisis in Japan, represent an even larger threat in the United States, home of the world’s largest collection of radioactive refuse.   The Institute fo...   read more

Syria is on the hook to pay more than $400 million to the families of two American contractors killed by a terrorist organization aided by the government led by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.   The DC Court of Appeals upheld a lower court de...   read more

According to a Pakistani-American who helped pull off the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, Pakistan’s intelligence agency worked with the culprits who killed more than 166 people in India, including six Americans.   Coming on the heels of the di...   read more

Speaking at fundraiser in San Francisco on April 21, President Barack Obama declared that the U.S. Army private accused of giving classified information to WikiLeaks is guilty of breaking the law, before he has even gone to trial.   In respons...   read more

Whether there’s a correlation or it’s just a coincidence, the number of protestors arrested each year since President Barack Obama took office has gone up.   In 2009, Obama’s first year in the White House, 665 people were arrested. The followi...   read more

Officials in Oregon may want to post a marital warning for candidates seeking to run for the state’s 5th congressional district seat. It seems being the officeholder pretty much guarantees a failed marriage.   In the 28-year history of 5th dis...   read more

Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations that benefited from the federal stimulus plan owe the IRS more than $750 million in back taxes.   A Government Accountability Office report states that at least 3,700 recipients of $24 billi...   read more

It’s hard to believe that in the second decade of the 21st century there still exists a government so repressive that it does not allow women to drive. But such is the case in one of the United States’ closest allies: Saudi Arabia.   Manal al-...   read more

The Department of Justice is refusing to reimburse $750,000 to the owner of a rare Ferrari that was damaged by an FBI agent.   Stolen in 2003 from a dealership in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, the 1995 Ferrari F50 was recovered by the FBI five years...   read more

A longtime Kentucky politician whose career began in the mid-1970s, Steven Lynn Beshear serves as co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) for 2011, along with his duties as governor of his state. Created in 1965, the ARC is an econ...   read more

Martin Andjaba became ambassador of Namibia to the United States in September 2010.   Born on December 17, 1957, in Ontokolo, Northern Namibia, Andjaba obtained in 1981 a Diploma in Public Administration and Management at the United Nations In...   read more

When it comes to investigating corporations of bribery and other crimes, the federal government prefers to save money—and allow suspects to conduct their own probes—than perform their own snooping from start to finish.   Whether the concern is...   read more

A government watchdog group has sued the Department of Justice to force the release of a secret memo used by the FBI to access any American telephone records without court approval.   The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed its civil ca...   read more

Conservatives at the national level can debate about the merits of climate change, but local government officials are not waiting around for the possible impact on their communities.   Having been told by scientists that their city’s weather m...   read more

Summer may mean warmer weather ahead, but not necessarily sunny days for the economy.   Recent figures produced by the Department of Labor have shown an uptick in new jobs, which has heartened some economists and no doubt the White House. In M...   read more