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

President George W. Bush nominated U.S. Army Lieutenant General Carroll F. Pollett in September 2008 to be director of the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) in the Department of Defense after the Senate refused to confirm Bush’s first choic...   read more

David A. Hinson was appointed National Director of the Minority Business Development Agency on July 15, 2009. He oversees the agency’s five regional branches and 48 business bureaus, which offer support services to minority businesses. In 2009, ...   read more

New York Neighbors for Community Values held a candlelight vigil on September 10, 2010.           read more

In a decision that pitted human rights versus national security, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday in favor of the Obama administration’s policy of keeping secret the details of the Bush-era torture of detainees by the CIA. ...   read more

Qualifications for awarding the Purple Heart, a medal recognizing personal sacrifice by those wounded in combat, do not include any requirement that the injury be visible to the naked eye. And yet high-ranking commanders in the U.S. Army have ro...   read more

A dozen American soldiers from the U.S Army’s 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division stationed in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, have been accused of randomly murdering civilians and/or covering up their actions.   Five soldiers face char...   read more

James Mee, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy who arrested actor Mel Gibson four years ago, setting off a drunken, anti-Semitic tirade, is now suing his agency, claiming superiors retaliated against him after he refused to clean up the Holl...   read more

Public universities in the United States are suffering from administrative bloat, according to the Goldwater Institute. From 1993 to 2007, four-year public institutions of higher learning expanded their ratio of administrative staff per 100 stud...   read more

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated the ability of the U.S. military to take control of a foreign nation, but not necessarily the ability to maintain order once large-scale fighting concludes. With soldiers unable to properly poli...   read more

A combination of payback and partisanship is causing judicial appointments by President Barack Obama to pile up in the U.S. Senate, where Republicans are either stalling or refusing to confirm nominees for the federal bench.   In fact, Preside...   read more

Richard Etchberger’s heroics during the Vietnam War are only now being acknowledged by the U.S. military due to the fact that the Air Force sergeant wasn’t supposed to be in the country where his death took place.   Etchberger was part of a se...   read more

Frustrated over leaks from within the Pentagon to the media, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has instructed all Department of Defense personnel to go through public affairs officials before speaking with reporters.   Both in July and again this...   read more

If another Sept. 11 type of attack should occur in a major American city, there’s a strong chance that local police and firefighters won’t be able to communicate with each other by radio, despite years and billions of dollars trying to correct t...   read more

Hospitals in St. Louis are expecting to finally go to trial against the tobacco industry next January in what is expected to be one of the longest civil trials in city history.   Due to the fact that the trial may last six to seven months, the...   read more

Can the American health care system, slated to add 32 million more customers once federal reforms kick in, do a better job of keeping patients with non-critical problems out of the emergency room? That’s the question posed following a research p...   read more

Seeking cash for its weak economy, North Korea has partnered with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to develop cell phone-based video games, including one based on the film The Big Lebowski.   The strange bedfellows partnership came about after News...   read more