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

The war in Afghanistan is indeed a costly one, due not only to the expense of fighting the Taliban—but also paying them off so they don’t attack American supply convoys. This revelation was discovered by The Nation in its investigation of Afghan c...   read more

Members of India’s transgender community have won recognition from state election officials who agreed to add the category “other” to forms and web pages asking for gender identity. Until now, hijras (eunuchs), hermaphrodites, transvestites and tr...   read more

Social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace aren’t just for communicating. They’re also for catching bad guys and freeing the innocent. Recently, Facebook came to the rescue of 19-year-old Rodney Bradford, who was accused by local authori...   read more

Being a former member of the U.S. Air Force and a diplomat with dual citizenship wasn’t enough to keep Hans Joachim Keil from being thrown into jail by American immigration officials who thought he was an illegal alien and seized his U.S. and Samo...   read more

As if things weren’t bad enough for veterans, many of whom don’t have health insurance coverage, job prospects are also quite poor for soldiers returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq. Overall, the unemployment rate for veterans (from all conflic...   read more

The Obama administration wants to allow what business-friendly Republicans voted to end years ago—a free pass for American companies that avoid paying taxes by incorporating overseas, but still receive federal contracts. In 2002, Democratic lawmak...   read more

An internal review of former inspector general Gerald Walpin has found he did not exceed his authority while investigating the non-profit foundation St. HOPE established by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a political ally of President Barack Obama...   read more

Eating “Fiber One chewy bars” and “Fiber Plus Antioxidant chewy bars” supposedly provides 35% of the recommended daily amount of fiber, according to the products’ manufacturers, General Mills and Kellogg Company. But is it the right kind of fiber?...   read more

All Amir Meshal of Tinton Falls, New Jersey wanted to do was study Islam in Somalia, he says, but instead he wound up becoming the first American caught up in the U.S. government’s extraordinary rendition program for suspected terrorists. Meshal t...   read more

A group of Harvard researchers provided a sober reminder on Veterans Day that the current health care reform plan will do nothing to address the problem of veterans who lack medical coverage. According to a team from Harvard Medical School, 2,266 ...   read more

U-235, the radioactive material that once threatened to blow up the United States is today helping to generate more electricity for American homes than hydroelectric or alternative sources of power. Unbeknownst to most consumers, the Megatons to M...   read more

The survival of minority groups in northern Iraq is being threatened by extremists and the political actions of Kurdish leaders, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). Hundreds of Christians, Shabaks and Yazidis have been killed in the Kurdish reg...   read more

Two attorneys for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency out of San Francisco have upset leaders in Washington over a homemade video in which they express their opposition to legislation designed to slow global warming. Laurie Williams and Allan...   read more

“Gun-free zones” do more to harm than protect people, according to Reason magazine’s Jacob Sullum. The shooting at Fort Hood, where soldiers are prevented by law from having access to weapons except when training, demonstrated the “folly” of preve...   read more

Crime does pay in the billion-dollar world of pharmaceuticals. Drug companies this decade have paid $7 billion in fines as a result of criminal and civil cases brought against them for illegally marketing their products, but the penalties pale in ...   read more

With concerns rising over too many people with the H1N1 virus going to work anyway, Democrats in Congress have introduced legislation to guarantee employees a certain amount of paid sick leave. The Emergency Influenza Containment Act will guarante...   read more