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

If a new medical study is any indication, Wall Street may be headed for some serious mental trouble. Researchers from the University of Alabama have published new findings on early warnings for Alzheimer’s which show that a decline in financial sk...   read more

When Democratic Congressman Mike Ross of Arkansas and his wife sold their pharmacy business to a local chain two years ago, they received substantially more for the property than its assessed value, according to an investigation by ProPublica and ...   read more

Government has no place in helping religious organizations, according to radio host and former Methodist pastor Allen Hunt, who objects to the policies of both President Barack Obama  faith-based initiatives and those of his predecessor, President...   read more

A landmark treaty limiting the destructive firepower of cluster bombs is under threat from a lobbying campaign by a U.S. defense contractor that claims to have made a civilian-friendly version of the weapon. Textron Defense Systems wants the U...   read more

Where is the poster child of last year’s financial meltdown? Unlike previous economic crises, the 2008 Wall Street disaster has to yield any prosecutions of those responsible for playing fast-and-loose with the nation’s fiscal life-blood. The Grea...   read more

Humana, one of the nation’s leading health insurers for Medicare patients, is now under investigation by the federal government for allegedly trying to scare seniors into opposing the health care reform plan. After learning of a company mailer tha...   read more

According to information appearing in the FBI’s annual crime report, during a typical day in 2008 there were 3,776 violent crimes in the United States, including 44murders, 243 forcible rapes and 2,228 aggravated assaults. Additionally, there were...   read more

According to Jeff Stein at CQ Politics, there are no indications from the Obama White House that the seats on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and Intelligence Oversight Board will be filled anytime soon. The board, which once served a ...   read more

After Sharron “Kay” Thornton’s eyes went dark, it was her mouth that provided an illuminative solution. Having lost her sight nine years ago from Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a rare skin disorder that severely damaged her corneas, Thornton regained v...   read more

Electronic voting in the United States could become reliant upon a single supplier of machines if a merger of the two leading companies is allowed to go through. Election Systems & Software (ES&S), which controls about 50% of the electronic voting...   read more

President Obama turned to a career prosecutor with many years of experience in fighting human trafficking when he nominated Luis C de Baca to be the next Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the Department of Stat...   read more

Efforts to increase oil and gas drilling in the United States during the Bush years resulted in the Bureau of Land Management abusing a special exemption in federal law to bypass environmental reviews. The result was expanded drilling, which in so...   read more

President Barack Obama’s decision to dump the Bush administration’s plan to deploy a missile defense system in Eastern Europe was great news for defense contractor Raytheon. Instead of deploying missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic at a cost ...   read more

Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski has proposed a new rule that will prevent Internet service providers from blocking certain applications flowing over their networks. Considered a new principle of net neutrality, the ru...   read more

Representing a complete overhaul of how the federal government helps students attend college, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 cleared the House this week and is now headed to the Senate. The bill would essentially cut banks o...   read more

President Barack Obama’s willingness to follow the tradition of allowing the Senate GOP leader to appoint members to two oversight boards has government watchdogs upset. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has chosen former aide and energy lobbyist Sco...   read more