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

After months of earthquakes, including the largest felt in 35 years, the state of Arkansas has ordered a temporary moratorium on the drilling of new injection wells related to natural gas-related drilling, which some locals believe are causing t...   read more

What started out as a way to simplify the GI Bill has turned into a nightmare for some veterans seeking higher education.   Last December, Congress adopted legislation that established a flat rate of $17,500 per year for tuition and fees at al...   read more

It’s one thing for Democrats to offer phony budget cuts, given their excessive ways, but for the new Republican majority in the U.S. House to play the same game is unacceptable, according to conservative James Valvo, director of government affairs...   read more

While the public debate focuses on whether, because of growing government debt, teachers and other government employees should give up part of their pensions, many corporations have been getting away with paying far less than their share of inco...   read more

The Alabama Education Association is suing Governor Robert Bentley over legislation that his predecessor pushed through the legislature in an effort to cripple the union’s political activity.   In December, lame-duck GOP Governor Richard Riley...   read more

Deep-pocketed special interests may be in a position to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the 2012 election without disclosing the sources of their funding, thanks to a divided Federal Election Commission (FEC) that can’t get past partisa...   read more

More than seven years after the United States invaded Iraq, the concept of freedom of speech does not seem to have taken hold there. In separate incidents last week, Iraqi government security forces attacked journalists.   During Friday’s “Day...   read more

If world leaders want to slow global warming, all they have to do is pick a section of the earth and explode several hundred nuclear weapons, according to scientific modeling performed by NASA that determined what the effects of a nuclear war wo...   read more

In the wake of the murder of four Americans, the U.S. may be considering tougher actions against pirates from Somalia.   Until now, Western powers have tolerated acts of piracy off the eastern coast of Africa. The biggest show of force to date...   read more

Iran has been forced to delay the startup of its first nuclear power plant over problems that may stem from the cyber attack that was first launched nearly two years ago against the country to thwart its attempt to develop nuclear weapons.   I...   read more

Most Americans would be proud to be portrayed as working to counter environmental problems…but not the billionaire Koch brothers. Angry over a joke press release pretending to come from them, Charles and David Koch are suing those responsible fo...   read more

While President Barack Obama has hammered on the power of lobbying in Washington and sought to limit the role of lobbyists in his administration, his aides have been meeting with members of the Third House outside the White House, in an apparent...   read more

The U.S. Air Force may be trying to manipulate social media websites by creating large numbers of phony people to push across desired viewpoints.   Uncovered by Happy Rockefeller of Daily Kos and others, the Air Force has reached out to private ...   read more

Wisconsin is not the only place in the United States seeing clashes between government and public employee unions. Facing a 12% budget shortfall, the school board of Providence, Rhode Island, voted 4-3 this week to send out termination notices t...   read more

If more effort is put into reducing the release of short-lived pollution, the rate of global warming could be slowed dramatically, say scientists in a new United Nations report.   The study produced by the UN Environment Programme found that t...   read more

Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House have joined together to kill all funding for the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), a Cold War-era government think tank that’s performed work in Iraq and won praise for resolving conflicts in Afghanistan...   read more