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

Not since the Great Depression has so small a percentage of the United States’ income been generated by wages as now.   Last year, only 51% of personal income was derived from working salaries, the lowest since 1929, according to an analysis b...   read more

Wanting a better education for her child, a homeless single mother enrolled her son in a neighboring district’s school—and now faces a 20-year prison sentence and a $15,000 fine.   Tanya McDowell avoided putting her son into a Bridgeport, Connec...   read more

The search for extraterrestrial intelligent life in outer space has shut down in the mountains of Northern California. There, a field of radio dishes operated by the SETI Institute has ceased operating because of state and federal government fun...   read more

Strained relations between the United States and Pakistan probably won’t get any better in light of the latest WikiLeaks revelation that the Bush administration considered the Pakistani intelligence agency as dangerous as al-Qaeda and other terr...   read more

Calling it “nuclear stimulation technology,” the Nixon administration exploded nearly half a dozen atomic weapons in the American West in the hopes of solving what was then feared a coming natural-gas shortage.   Until now little has been writte...   read more

The Obama administration may be considering criminal charges against the operator of the Upper Big Branch Mine, where 29 workers were killed in April 2010.   In a letter to victims’ families, the FBI has mentioned its “investigation into vario...   read more

There are some in Washington who feel the U.S. Air Force has too many generals.   From Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the number of Air Force top brass has been challenged. And the numbers would seem t...   read more

Election officials in the District of Columbia have been criticized for scheduling a special election on Passover, a Jewish holiday that requires observers to avoid writing or using electronic devices, such as voting machines.   The problem be...   read more

Here is another installment in AllGov’s series of ways in which the federal government spends money on dubious projects.   A Tough Sell Project: Studying Goat Meat Location: Ft. Valley State University in Georgia Cost: $200,000   What is It...   read more

If they weren’t imprisoning children and old men for years on specious grounds, they were letting go terrorists still considered a threat. That’s the story of the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo, based on the most recent revelations produced...   read more

Unrest in the Middle East, a major market for arms sales, has not stopped the United States from enjoying a banner year selling military hardware abroad.   The Department of Defense is expecting 2011 arms exports to surpass $46 billion, which ...   read more

Should the government be allowed to shield the records of doctors who write prescriptions for patients? This is the matter before the U.S. Supreme Court today, regarding the constitutionality of a Vermont law designed to keep physician-prescript...   read more

Resentment stemming from the effects of last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill was unleashed at a public hearing in New Orleans, prompting officials to shut down the meeting early.   Presiding over the discussion were U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu ...   read more

Any corporation or organization seeking government contracts would have to disclose its campaign contributions under a new regulation proposed by the Federal Election Commission. The change is an attempt by the Obama administration to mitigate a...   read more

In the latest assessment of last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill accident, the U.S. Coast Guard soundly criticized the rig’s owner, Transocean, on numerous grounds, saying the company’s mistakes exacerbated the disaster.   The Coast Guard repo...   read more

Unlike certain corporate powers that make billions of dollars and pay no taxes, illegal immigrants generate billions of tax dollars for state governments.   The Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy has concluded that unauthorized immigra...   read more