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

On Monday, the Obama administration announced that the president had selected Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to replace Jon Huntsman Jr. as U.S. ambassador to China. Barack Obama’s third choice for Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke was confirmed ...   read more

Saying it’s time to be realistic about foreign policy goals, U.S. officials are downgrading the importance of achieving certain benchmarks for women’s rights in Afghanistan, as President Hamid Karzai’s government courts peace with insurgents.  ...   read more

Gone are the days when psychiatrists led the way in talk therapy and helped patients uncover the problems troubling their lives. Because the money isn’t in it, more and more of the 48,000 doctors who practice psychiatry do little of that these d...   read more

Hookers for Jesus Rare Baby Seal Pup Rescued in Greece Secret Service Defeats FBI…in Ice Hockey 89-Year-Old Victim Regretted Reporting Rape Catholic Church in Mexico Deals with Gifts from Druglords With Obama, It’s Better to Commit a War Cr...   read more

It’s not just House Republicans and Democratic President Barack Obama who don’t see eye-to-eye on spending priorities for the federal government. The American public has ideas that diverge from both political camps about what’s most important to...   read more

Private Bradley Manning, accused of giving large volumes of classified documents to WikiLeaks, now faces the serious charge of “aiding the enemy” after the U.S. Army filed 22 additional charges against him.   A conviction for “aiding the enemy” ...   read more

The price of food is continuing to rise worldwide, which could mean unrest for some countries if the trend continues.   According to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Food Price Index has gone up eight straight m...   read more

At a time when lawmakers, especially House Republicans, are looking for any excuse to kill funding for federal programs, the Government Accountability Office has released a report detailing the myriad ways Washington is wasting billions of dolla...   read more

As airlines have jacked up baggage fees for consumers, the cost is increasingly being borne by the government, not passengers.   To avoid paying baggage fees, airline passengers are taking more carry-on luggage with them. That means the airpor...   read more

Dictators Unite! Chávez Friends Gaddafi Original 400-Year-Old King James Bible Found on Shelf Frantic Chinese Communists Harass Foreign Journalists Courtney Love Pays $430,000 in Twitter Defamation Case After Emancipation, Lincoln Encouraged B...   read more

The justification was that key people in drug cartels would be brought to justice. But the prosecutions were slow to happen, and in the meantime at least 797 firearms fell into the hands of dangerous criminals, causing unknown amounts of crimes ...   read more

While publicly bemoaning the passage of the federal healthcare reform law, the nation’s largest insurance companies enjoyed another profitable year in 2010.   Collectively, the five biggest health insurers—UnitedHealth Group, WellPoint, Aetna,...   read more

Placing a relative in a nursing home means putting them in the hands of businesses that often hire convicted criminals.   A report from the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that 92% of all nursing hom...   read more

Tim DeChristopher, who disrupted the sale of federal oil and gas leases in southern Utah three years ago, was convicted in a federal court this week of committing two felonies.   DeChristopher faces up to 10 years in prison, five for making a ...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is being accused of putting experts with a conflict of interest on a science advisory committee that reviews cigarettes. The matter arose in litigation filed by two tobacco companies, Lorillard and R.J. Rey...   read more

The state of Arizona would seem to be playing a political game of one-upmanship with itself. After adopting the most controversial anti-immigration law in recent memory, after selecting an official state firearm only two months following the Tuc...   read more