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

Instead of conducting the more common subjective analysis of State of the Union speeches, Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight decided to perform a word-choice comparison. After tallying up the key buzzwords used by President Barack Obama and comparing...   read more

No electronic communication is safe from government censors in China, and that includes text messages containing sexual content. As part of its crackdown on “illegal” activity, the Chinese government has ordered the country’s top cell phone provid...   read more

The U.S. Army’s top training expert is recommending changes to his service’s program for preparing soldiers for combat. Gone are the days of America fighting a large-scale enemy, like the Russians. Now the United States is more likely to be involv...   read more

If you can’t beat them, pay them off. That’s essentially the reasoning behind a plan the United States and some of its allies are considering that would pay Taliban fighters to put down their weapons and rejoin Afghan society. The cost of such a s...   read more

Perhaps it didn’t come as a surprise to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that a company whose name spelled the acronym RACE would have racially discriminated while handing out dangerous jobs involving radioactive materials. Radi...   read more

Film directors aren’t the only ones who insist on final cut. From his prison cell, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal, is suing a French film company making a documentary about the terrorist who was the most famous of his kind back in...   read more

Congress often is loath to make tough fiscal decisions that may spur anger from constituents, which is why a plan was devised to create a special bipartisan commission that would craft a solution to reduce the nation’s ballooning deficit. But when...   read more

Some voices on the left are calling for President Barack Obama to borrow from FDR’s legacy and reestablish the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as a means to lower unemployment and help the environment. The CCC was revolutionary for its time when...   read more

Special prosecutor Neil Barofsky, charged by the Department of the Treasury with investigating the federal government’s bailout of Wall Street in 2008, is now turning his attention to the rescue of AIG by the New York branch of the Federal Reserve...   read more

Frontier Foundation, established seven years ago by Congressman Steve Buyer (R-Indiana) to award scholarships, has yet to help any students, but it has financed Buyer’s golf game. Buyer’s foundation has collected more than $800,000, while not givi...   read more

Seeking a way to help alleviate his state’s chronic budget shortfall and prison overcrowding, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested on Monday sending illegal immigrant prisoners to Mexico to save money. The Republican governor appare...   read more

American society has become more rigid than Canada’s when it comes to advancing economically. While Americans have long believed in the notion that they can rise up from poor to rich, a report by the Pew Economic Mobility Project says it’s gotten ...   read more

Being compared to Ellen DeGeneres doesn’t go over well with Heartland Inns of America. The hotel chain fired clerk Brenna Lewis because she was considered too masculine looking and lacked “the Midwestern girl look.” Lewis sued her former employer,...   read more

The death of British weapons expert Dr. David Kelly in July 2003 was sufficient to raise questions, coming only days after it was revealed he had challenged one of the major claims for invading Iraq four months earlier. Now, the fact that details ...   read more

If the various pieces of the healthcare reform legislation in Congress are taken apart and considered separately, Americans are in favor of most everything. But when they are asked about the complete package, reactions seem to range from disappoin...   read more

FBI agents relied on everything from requests written on post-it notes to chummy relationships with phone company workers to illegally access phone records from 2003-2006, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s inspector general. An investi...   read more