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

Elizabeth Colton got a late start on her diplomatic career, joining the Foreign Service when she was 54. Now, the former journalist is facing an arbitrary restriction that’s threatening to end her brief Foreign Service career.   Next August, Col...   read more

It took the jury only one day in a precedent-setting case to find two construction companies liable for starting a forest fire in 2002 that burned 18,000 acres of the Angeles National Forest in Southern California. The verdict, which calls for CB&...   read more

John Yoo, welcome to the United Nations’ human rights report, compliments of Berkeley, California. The leftist city’s leadership decided this week to become the first non-country to join the UN’s human rights convention, requiring it to file bienn...   read more

Regardless of President Barack Obama’s declarations in favor of reducing, or even eliminating, the United States’ stockpile of nuclear weapons, the federal government is still moving forward with a modernization plan to make sure its warheads are ...   read more

In the defeat of the public-option solution for health care reform, contributions from industry sources seemed to trump polling data. A New York Times/CBS News poll published on September 25 showed 65% of Americans favored a government administere...   read more

No news isn’t necessarily good news when it comes to the much-criticized Department of Veterans Affairs, especially when the agency keeps the news from being known. Late last week VA officials in Washington ordered regional managers to withhold re...   read more

Not starting wars with other countries and maintaining a solid human rights record has landed New Zealand at the top of the list of the world’s most peaceful nations. Based on the Global Peace Index created by the group Vision of Humanity, New Zea...   read more

Preserving the world’s treasures includes not just natural and man-made creations, such as the Great Wall of China or the Great Barrier Reef. It also includes cultural traditions, and since 2001, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cult...   read more

Low-wage workers in the nation’s three largest labor markets are subject to being paid less than minimum wage, and denied overtime pay and other legally-protected rights, according to a new survey conducted by a group of researchers and academics....   read more

Despite its name, and primary mission, the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) is not very good at auditing defense contracts. An investigation by the Pentagon’s inspector general concluded that the working environment at the DCAA is “not conduci...   read more

Playing football can be bad for the brain, and the National Football League is starting to own up to this fact. After years of disregarding independent medical studies on the long-term effects that the game has on players, the NFL commissioned its...   read more

Accusations of contractor fraud and mismanagement of grave sites have been leveled on the “nation’s most sacred shrine”—Arlington National Cemetery. Investigations by Salon.com have found the cemetery’s deputy superintendent, Thurman Higginbotham,...   read more

As if things weren’t bad enough for the GOP with respect to its poor relations with Latinos, the Republican National Committee demonstrated this week that it can’t even put out a press release in Spanish without appearing insensitive. The statemen...   read more

The nation’s most powerful business lobby recently called for a “Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century” on the science of climate change, presumably to prove that the outcry over global warming has been exaggerated. This remark did not sit well ...   read more

From approximately 8,000 appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court hears about 80 cases a year. This is barely half of what the high court used to hear in the 1980s, when the average yearly workload was 150 cases. Yale’s law school recently conducted a conf...   read more

In the end, the federal government had virtually nothing substantial on Guantánamo detainee Fouad al Rabiah, prompting U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to call the evidence against him “surprisingly bare” while ordering his release. “If ...   read more