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

Don’t worry about Gen. James L. Jones, who was just dumped as President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor. If his previous employment is any guide, Jones will soon be raking in good money thanks to his close relationship with government c...   read more

This week’s lesson on how to win the Afghanistan War: Don’t hire friends of the enemy to guard your bases.   A lengthy review of Department of Defense security contracts by the Senate Armed Services Committee found that the U.S. had hired Afgh...   read more

The plight of young American workers today is not promising. A survey sponsored by the AFL-CIO found that a third of the labor force under 35 lives at home and is lacking health care benefits and job security. For those with annual incomes under...   read more

Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al-Janko has not had an easy life the past nine years.   First, al-Qaeda tortured him because they thought Janko was an American spy. They subjected him to electric shocks and near-drowning. Then he was held prisoner by t...   read more

James H. Shelton III has served as assistant deputy secretary for innovation and improvement since April 2009, putting him in charge of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement. In this position, he oversees the $650...   read more

America’s jails are increasingly becoming de facto debtors’ prisons as the legal system levies more fees than ever on individuals who wind up behind bars simply because they can’t pay their bills or the administrative penalties imposed by judges...   read more

During the early weeks of the Gulf oil disaster, the White House suppressed attempts within the Obama administration to inform the public about how bad the spill might be—a move that undermined the public’s confidence in the government’s handlin...   read more

After all the talk about helping homeowners weather the foreclosure crisis and the recent uproar in the media over banks improperly taking away people’s homes, the Democratic-controlled Congress quietly, and without any debate, passed legislation ...   read more

When fans of Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert descend on Washington, DC, for joint October 30 rallies on the National Mall, they will find plenty of portable toilets in the area but no way to access them. That’s because the U.S. ...   read more

Businesses know that green is good with consumers, which explains the dramatic rise in marketing and advertising in recent years for products that are environmentally-friendly. But the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) believes some companies aren’...   read more

There’s no way to know for sure if Pacific Gas & Electric had adequate emergency response plans in place to address accidents like the one that devastated part of San Bruno, California, on September 9, when a PG&E underground gas line led to an ...   read more

More details have surfaced regarding sensitive or classified information that the Department of Defense tried to keep from reaching the public as a result of Operation Dark Heart being published. The memoir by Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Sha...   read more

Suicide attempts among U.S. Army personnel continue to climb, reaching an average of nearly five a day in 2009. Statistics from the Army reveal that more than 1,700 active-duty soldiers tried to kill themselves last year, with 162 succeeding. If...   read more

Small businesses are responsible for creating the vast majority of jobs in the United States, but they incur a far greater burden than larger companies when it comes to federal regulations and laws.   Two researchers at Lafayette College examine...   read more

Fed up with the federal government’s co-opting of police and sheriffs, 578 non-profit organizations called upon President Barack Obama to stop the Department of Homeland Security’s continuing use of local and state law enforcement to go after il...   read more

While Congress dithers over legislation expanding the use of renewable energy, the U.S. military is moving ahead with solar-powered systems and other non-fossil fuel ways to win America’s wars.   The reasoning behind this dramatic change has t...   read more