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

Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers had no idea that modern elections would devolve into the multi-million dollar monstrosities they are today, requiring lawmakers to spend inordinate amounts of their time campaigning and raising cash....   read more

Critics who blasted the Obama administration’s decision to try Sept. 11 plotters in a New York City courtroom need not worry about terrorists going free. Regardless of how the trial turns out, alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four...   read more

Consumer outrage over rising interest rates is not translating into action by congressional Democrats or Republicans against credit card companies. Since adopting legislation earlier this year that curbed some practices by lenders, lawmakers have ...   read more

Victims of Hurricane Katrina won their first battle against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday when a federal judge in New Orleans ruled the government was liable for faulty maintenance that allowed flooding in St. Bernard Parish and th...   read more

Specialists at the National Archives believe they may be able to finally fill the “gap” left on a key Watergate tape made by President Richard Nixon’s secret recording system. Three days after the infamous June 1972 break-in of the Democratic Nati...   read more

Boeing is facing a lawsuit for concealing structural defects in its new 787 Dreamliner, causing its stock price to plummet once the truth got out. Shareholders of the aircraft manufacturer are claiming the company misrepresented test results of th...   read more

A White House dedicated to more openness and accountability has decided to share information on the Fort Hood murders with only a select group of lawmakers, angering both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill. Instead of debriefing the entire ...   read more

Millions of taxpayers may take a hit next spring when they file their income tax returns. Earlier this year, as part of the government’s effort to stimulate the economy, lawmakers created the Making Work Pay tax credit that gave workers some extra...   read more

Government funding of churches operating social programs is more palatable to Democrats than Republicans, now that a Democrat is in the White House and supports the concept. Back in 2001 when George W. Bush launched his faith-based initiatives pro...   read more

Agility, a Kuwaiti logistics company owned by the Sultan Al-Essa family, is in hot water with the federal government for allegedly defrauding the U.S. out of billions of dollars on contracts to provide food for troops stationed in the Middle East....   read more

Since the introduction of biotech versions of corn, soybeans and cotton on American farms in the mid-1990s, farmers are spraying less pesticide on their fields. That’s the good news. But, with the planting of genetically-engineered crops resistant...   read more

When insurance giant AIG teetered last fall on the brink of collapse, threatening to take with it a lot of Wall Street heavyweights, the New York branch of the Federal Reserve, led by Timothy Geithner, chose to make whole the likes of Goldman Sach...   read more

Declining numbers of immigration arrests are not a sign that the federal government is backing off on border patrol enforcement, but rather another indication of how bad the U.S. economy is doing these days. According to the Migration Information ...   read more

If things continue as they have in recent years, the federal government might as well slap the words “of Boeing” at the end of the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s name. The American aircraft manufacturer has been far and away the largest beneficiary of ...   read more

Some party. After getting dressed for what they thought would be a Sunday night festival of fun in a posh Rome neighborhood, 200 young Italian women found themselves being pitched to convert to Islam by none other than Libyan dictator Muammar Gadd...   read more

U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real has found himself being questioned again by his judicial colleagues, this time regarding his oversight of a $30 million fund slated to go to victims of Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship in the Philippines. Real has ...   read more