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

While the national unemployment rate has gone down, the jobless rate among veterans has climbed higher.   The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that more than 15% of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans were unemployed in January, the highest l...   read more

In what would have been his first European trip since leaving office, former President George W. Bush has cancelled his visit to Switzerland after human rights groups threatened to picket a fundraiser he planned to attend and file a torture comp...   read more

Fed up with the lack of a national government to rule the country, a senator in Belgium has called upon the spouses of politicians to withhold sex until the political parties agree to work together.   Belgium has gone more than 240 days withou...   read more

In a speech to his nation, Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak announced that he would transfer power to his recently-appointed vice-president, Omar Suleiman. So who is Suleiman?   “Mubarak and Suleiman are the same person,” Emile Nakhleh, a forme...   read more

Pakistan’s populace is enraged over the killing of two citizens by an American whose real purpose for being in the country has come into question.   On January 27, Raymond Davis, 36, was arrested by Pakistani police after he shot two men who all...   read more

In the post-September 11 world of the CIA, numerous agents who made critical mistakes or violated the law have received little in the way of punishment. Indeed, some have been promoted despite their reckless decision-making.   An investigation...   read more

The price of sugar has reached its highest peak in 30 years, thanks to “parasitic” computer traders whose micro-fraction buying and selling has manipulated the cost of the commodity.   Fed up with the situation, the World Sugar Committee lashed ...   read more

Many residents of Fort Wayne, Indiana, would love to name the new government building after the city’s longest serving mayor. Unfortunately, his name was Harry Baals.   Baals served three consecutive terms from 1934-1947, and later a fourth te...   read more

Defense contractor KBR is trying to get out of a lawsuit stemming from the death of a U.S. soldier by claiming that Iraqi, not American, law should apply in determining a verdict.   The civil case was filed in a Pennsylvania court against KBR,...   read more

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is coming under criticism for not releasing a Canadian company’s plans for managing oil spills and estimating a worst-case scenario in the event its pipeline burst in the United St...   read more

Contrary to the established perception that they are of one mind, the Taliban and al-Qaeda are not in lockstep. In fact, the Taliban in Afghanistan could be persuaded to renounce the infamous terrorist group led by Osama bin Laden.   According...   read more

The U.S. Air Force tried last week to make the case that its military and civilian personnel, as well as their family members, cannot legally access the classified documents published by WikiLeaks on home computers. To do so, stated a policy dir...   read more

Accused of falsifying data on climate change, Canadian scientist Andrew Weaver is suing fellow expert Tim Ball, an outspoken skeptic of the issue, for defamation.   Weaver, a researcher at the University of Victoria and former editor of Journa...   read more

President Barack Obama’s choice of Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric, to chair the newly-created President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness has drawn criticism for many reasons.   GE is a model for what’s wrong with cor...   read more

Despite the inclusion of a special provision in the new federal health care law, nearly 30 million Americans could still experience temporary loss of coverage if their income fluctuates in the course of a year.   Those affected by this potenti...   read more

World food prices have continued to rise over the past five years, creating the potential for malnutrition and starvation in the developing world, and fomenting political unrest in nations like Egypt. While some economists have blamed the price ...   read more