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

The creators of PleaseRobMe.com really aren’t out to steal from people, they insist. Rather, they want to educate people about the dangers of posting too much information on social networking sites before they become victims of unscrupulous types....   read more

Americans are becoming more comfortable with the idea of non-heterosexuals serving openly in the military—you just have to watch your language. A new poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News found that 58% of respondents favor a plan to p...   read more

Another census, another debate about illegal immigrants. Every 10 years the federal government counts how many people are living in the United States, including those who entered the country illegally. But advocates for a government crackdown on...   read more

Leaving Congress is not a risky proposition for senators and representatives looking for new work. The experience, knowledge and political connections that lawmakers acquire while serving in office can lead to high-paid lobbying jobs in Washington...   read more

Instead of advocating for religious tolerance throughout the world, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has been caught up in the personal agendas of its leaders and accused of discriminating against Muslim employees.   The Eq...   read more

Last year was truly deadly for reporters around the world, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which says 70 journalists were killed while doing their jobs. Almost half of all fatalities took place in the Philippines, where 29...   read more

Scottish brewery BrewDog will not be outdone when it comes to producing the world’s most alcoholic beer. Last year, the company put out “Tactical Nuclear Penguin,” a beer with 32% alcohol content. But then a German rival, Schorschbrau, started sel...   read more

Some of the nation’s most important technological developments have come out of the military, and the Department of Defense may have done it again with a revolutionary way to make jet fuel out of algae. While many biotechnology companies have been...   read more

Bringing out someone else’s dead, as long as they’re from another country, is fine on network television, writes Dave Lindroff at The Public Record. But forget about it if the deceased are Americans, especially those in uniform fighting terrorists...   read more

Follow through is often the most glaring shortcoming with governmental solutions. For instance, Congress adopted legislation more than two decades ago intended to keep dangerous medical workers from getting jobs in other parts of the country. The ...   read more

Driven either by community activism or the desire for tourist dollars, new bus tours have sprung up in Los Angeles and New York City to show people where gang, and gangster, life has existed.   In the City of Angels, L.A. Gang Tours has begun ...   read more

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No wonder so many Americans are fed up with Washington and losing faith in President Barack Obama’s domestic policies. Despite numerous reminders in President Obama’s speeches that he and his fellow Democrats did cut taxes during his first year in...   read more

Seven hundred billion dollars and more than 4,200 American lives later, the government of Iraq is on the verge of conducting an election already being labeled illegitimate. Sunnis who once belonged to Saddam Hussein’s political party have been ban...   read more

Requiring individuals to have medical implants placed under their skin isn’t just a potential violation of someone’s civil rights—it’s downright satanic. Republican Mark Cole, a member of Virginia’s House of Delegates, is sponsoring legislation th...   read more

The number of medical schools in the United States could increase by nearly 20% over the next several years to help meet the rising demand for new doctors. During the 1980s and 1990s, only one new med school opened in the U.S. (which currently ha...   read more