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

A local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is helping an anti-abortion organization challenge the legality of Ohio’s state election law. The Susan B. Anthony List wants to run billboards against Democratic Congressman Steve Driehaus, cl...   read more

Legalizing marijuana in California, which is the intention of Proposition 19, would not only save the state millions of dollars in prison costs and boost revenues through new taxes, but also bring back a forgotten commodity: hemp.   During the...   read more

Native American farmers rejoiced this week as the Obama administration settled an 11-year legal battle involving allegations of discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In addition to USDA officials conceding the government u...   read more

Democratic Congressman Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania is no friend of small businesses, says the American Small Business League, which selected the two-term representative as the most anti-small business member of Congress.   What earned Altmir...   read more

Republican and Tea Party candidate Joe Miller of Alaska got some unwanted publicity when two off-duty soldiers working as bodyguards tried to arrest a journalist asking questions of the U.S. Senate candidate.   Providing security at the town-h...   read more

Taking advantage of its virtual monopoly of rare earth minerals, China recently has reduced exports of the vital materials to the West. Chinese experts say the moves may be an indication of Beijing flexing its economic muscle and demonstrating i...   read more

No sooner did the gavel drop in a federal courtroom where “don’t ask, don’t tell” was ruled unconstitutional than former soldiers kicked out for being homosexual reenlisted in the military. One of those was Army Lieutenant Dan Choi, a West Point-e...   read more

Launching a career after four years of college is extremely difficult to do these days. Andrew Sum, professor of economics at Northeastern University, estimates that less than 50% of recent college graduates held a job requiring a degree, based ...   read more

Keith Grinston is suing the Belleville News Democrat for misidentifying him—not once, not twice, but three times—as a man who stabbed his wife to death but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. The confusion involved the newspaper publishi...   read more

Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and other Wall Street powerhouses have moved into the tax-collecting business, setting up new entities that press struggling Americans for late property tax payments.   The Huffington Post Investigative Fund unc...   read more

To avoid paying taxes and health benefits, Wal-Mart knowingly hires illegal immigrants to perform janitorial duties at its stores, according to a lawsuit filed against the retailer. Forty-two plaintiffs say Wal-Mart hired them because they were ...   read more

The Fellowship Foundation, sponsor of the National Prayer Breakfast, should be investigated by the IRS, argues a group of Ohio ministers calling themselves the Clergy VOICE.   The activist group wrote to the IRS commissioner claiming the Fello...   read more

Last year wasn’t just bad for charitable organizations—it was dreadful. In the 20 years that The Chronicle of Philanthropy has tracked donations to the nation’s biggest charities, the editors had never seen anything like 2009.   From 2008 to 2...   read more

More than 1.3 million people in Haiti still find themselves with no permanent home more than nine months after the January 12 earthquake, relying instead on 1,354 refugee camps for shelter. But most of the camps provide little in the way of supp...   read more

Securities lending is a great deal for banks like JPMorgan Chase, but not so good for the pension funds that handled the future retirements of private and public employees.   Pension funds turned over millions of dollars to JPMorgan and other ...   read more

The rich are once again spending money on themselves, as demonstrated by the noticeable rise in luxury sales in 2010. Purchases of fine clothes, jewelry and other luxury items has surged 10% so far this year, for a total of $237 billion, after d...   read more