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

Contrary to the much-touted federal government report issued August 2 by the National Incident Command (NIC), the vast majority of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon accident is still in the ocean. An assessment conduct...   read more

Polls show that a majority of Americans would like to see the bulk of U.S. troops leave Afghanistan within the next two years, but military leaders are not as enthusiastic about ending the war. President Barack Obama has said that he wants to begi...   read more

Small businesses in states ravaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were cut out of most of the government contracts for clean up and rebuilding work that followed the storms in 2005.   An assessment by the Government Accountability Office found t...   read more

What once was St. Mary’s Cemetery in Ventura, California, is today a public park—but the original occupants of the cemetery are still around.   Most of the 3,000 people buried long ago in St. Mary’s were never relocated; just the headstones and ...   read more

Federal regulations keep piling up under President Barack Obama, who’s on pace to surpass the regulatory zeal of George W. Bush, writes Ryan Young, the Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.   The Federal Re...   read more

In less than two years, the United States has suffered more combat deaths in Afghanistan under President Barack Obama than it did during the two-term presidency of George W. Bush. The latest casualty figures show 577 American soldiers have died in...   read more

At least one piece of history survived the CIA’s attempt to erase evidence of its secret prison program during the Bush administration when suspected terrorists were confined throughout the world at hidden locations, interrogated and in some cases...   read more

In an effort to save one piece of landscape from the destruction of surface coal mining, environmentalists in West Virginia are fighting to establish a wind farm atop Coal River Mountain. Proponents claim the wind energy project would save the mou...   read more

Even the one of the world’s most reclusive, anti-Western governments can’t stay away from popular social networking websites. In recent weeks North Korea has established YouTube and Twitter accounts as part of its propaganda campaigns against Sout...   read more

Seeking notification that would warn customers of popular restaurant chains about the dangers of eating grilled chicken, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine won a partial victory in a California appellate court. The group filed a law...   read more

While much of the public attention continues to focus on Afghanistan, the U.S. has been quietly ramping up its attacks on al-Qaeda in Yemen, one of the many countries into which the war on terror has expanded under President Barack Obama.   Acco...   read more

Next time the White House appears to back down from a confrontation with China or Japan, keep in mind the following: these two Asian powerhouses control more than $1.6 trillion of the United States’ debt.   China possesses more Treasury securiti...   read more

U.S. Senator Christopher “Kit” Bond (R-Missouri) has launched his own inquiry to determine how many veterans have been discharged for “adjustment disorders,” which can have the same symptoms as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But unlike sol...   read more

For the first time in consumer history, Americans are buying more wheat bread than white bread. From July 2009 to July 2010, sales of wheat bread increased 0.6%, totaling $2.6 Billion, while white bread sales declined 7%, to $2.5 billion.   Amer...   read more

An environmental group has accused the National Park Service (NPS) of violating its own rules when it comes to the illegal removal of native plants from national parks. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) claims park managers,...   read more

When the White House and Congress decided last year to stimulate the economy, they relied on existing federal spending formulas for distributing the $862 billion. The problem with that strategy was that it resulted in too much money going to state...   read more