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  • Can Biden Murder Trump and Get Away With it?

    Monday, March 11, 2024
    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
  • Taliban Rules 4 Million People in Pakistan

    Friday, June 11, 2010
    Amnesty International has accused the government of Pakistan of turning its back on four million of its citizens by leaving them under the rule of the Taliban. In its new report (As if Hell Fell on Me: The Human Rights Crisis in Northwest Pakistan...   read more
  • Hedge Fund Managers Fight Off Higher Taxes

    Friday, June 11, 2010
    Democrats in Congress are backing off from getting tough with hedge fund managers over taxes. Last month in the House, Democrats approved legislation that would tax 75% of earnings for managers of hedge funds, private-equity funds, venture capital...   read more
  • Border Patrol Agents Kill 27-Year Resident of U.S. and 15-Year-Old Boy

    Friday, June 11, 2010
    Agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection service are coming under scrutiny for killing two individuals near the border with Mexico in recent weeks.   In San Diego, CA, an illegal immigrant who lived in the United States for 27 years...   read more
  • Military Expands from Fighting to Spying

    Thursday, June 10, 2010
    From key appointments to proposed spending increases, the U.S. military is expanding its role and influence in American intelligence operations that once were the privy of civilian specialists. This mission creep on the part of generals and defens...   read more
  • Alabama Town Defends Itself against Oil Spill

    Thursday, June 10, 2010
    Unwilling to wait for the federal government or BP to come to their rescue, the tiny coastal town of Magnolia Springs, Alabama, took matters into their own hands shortly after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill began.   Led by their volunteer fire ch...   read more
  • Surprise: FBI Figures Show Border Cities Less Violent than Rest of U.S.

    Thursday, June 10, 2010
    Is the United States’ side of the border with Mexico a region of dwindling crime and violence, or an exploding threat to American national security? Statistics would say it’s the former, but political rhetoric the latter.   A report from the FBI...   read more
  • Obama Leaves CIA Watchdog Post Vacant

    Thursday, June 10, 2010
    If there’s one agency in the federal government whose secretive nature cries out for internal oversight, it’s the CIA. And yet it is this very same spy operation that has gone without an inspector general for more than a year.   Former CIA watch...   read more
  • Federal Government Loses Billions in Estate Tax after Just One Death

    Thursday, June 10, 2010
    Thanks to legislation pushed by President George W. Bush in 2001, Americans receiving wealthy inheritances this year won’t have to pay estate taxes. The one-year lapse in the tax has already cost the U.S. Treasury billions of dollars from just one...   read more
  • Obama Administration Could Use Clean Water Act to Collect Billions from BP

    Wednesday, June 09, 2010
    If President Barack Obama really does want to kick some ass over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, as he told NBC’s Today show, the Clean Water Act might be just the shoe to use.   Legal experts believe the Clean Water Act could be a powerful weapon...   read more
  • More Americans in Jail than in Alaska and More in State Prisons than in New Hampshire

    Wednesday, June 09, 2010
    Incarceration levels in U.S. jails and prisons are in decline, with state penitentiaries recording their first year-to-year reduction since 1972. But even with the shrinking numbers in jail and prison populations, the country still has more Americ...   read more
  • Ambassador to Iceland: Who is Luis Arreaga?

    Wednesday, June 09, 2010
    Luis E. Arreaga, a member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of minister-counselor, was nominated by President Barack Obama on April 21, 2010, to serve as U.S. ambassador to Iceland. Arreaga’s selection follows last year’s failed attempt ...   read more
  • Selective Service System Director: Who is Lawrence Romo?

    Wednesday, June 09, 2010
    President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Selective Service System was Lawrence G. (Larry) Romo, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. He was confirmed by the Senate December 3, 2009, and sworn in December 12. Since there ...   read more
  • Farm Service Agency Administrator: Who is Jonathan Coppess?

    Wednesday, June 09, 2010
    The current administrator of the Farm Service Agency, Jonathan Coppess has been around farming and the agriculture industry his entire life, having come from a long line of farmers and worked on ag issues in Congress until recently.   Coppess, h...   read more
  • Four-Day School Weeks Growing in Popularity

    Tuesday, June 08, 2010
    A measure to cut costs for school districts is proving to have unexpected benefits for students. More than 120 districts across the United States are currently experimenting with four-day school weeks, brought about by shrinking budgets that force...   read more
  • First Convictions in 1984 Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster

    Tuesday, June 08, 2010
    Described as “too little, too late” and a “joke” by survivors and advocates, convictions were finally handed down in India related to the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak that killed approximately 15,000 people.   Eight former executives of the compa...   read more
  • Can Oil Spill Victims Get a Fair Trial if Majority of Area Federal Judges Have Oil Ties?

    Tuesday, June 08, 2010
    If there’s one thing both sides of the more than 100 lawsuits filed as result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill agree upon, it’s consolidation. Attorneys for the companies being sued—BP, Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton—and the hundreds of plaintiffs...   read more
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