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

Governors from both parties have expressed opposition to the Department of Defense becoming involved in responses to domestic disasters. The Pentagon wants the Secretary of Defense to have the authority to command National Guard and U.S. military ...   read more

While some Americans express deep misgivings about the creation of government-run health insurance, Sheldon Filger points to a little known example in Canada of how public involvement in the insurance industry can have a positive impact. Filger’s ...   read more

In a move described as “unprecedented,” the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) has decided to shift the leadership of its western regional office—which has been plagued by internal complaints—to Texas, sparking even more complaints by agency aud...   read more

Nearly 10% of people’s income in Mississippi was spent buying gasoline in 2008, according to an analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The NRDC found that the significant jump in gas prices combined with the recession impacted m...   read more

A study by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch on corporal punishment found the use of physical punishment is disproportionately used on students with disabilities in American schools. While disabled students make up 13.7% of the school population in ...   read more

Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute has determined that the United States wastes more than $1 trillion a year on health care expenses that could be eliminated. The biggest waste ($210 billion) comes from doctors orde...   read more

Basir “Steve” Ahmed’s story is similar to other Afghans who have helped the U.S. military as translators in Afghanistan. Ahmed worked with American soldiers for four years, helping them communicate with locals, and then was fired by his U.S. emplo...   read more

Do not misbehave in Judge Daniel Rozak’s courtroom. The Chicago Circuit Court justice has a quick trigger for jailing anyone who does anything to disrupt courtroom proceedings, from allowing cell phones to go off to simply yawning.   Rozak’s kna...   read more

Officials in the U.S. Department of Transportation have allocated millions of dollars in stimulus funds for small airports, even though the projects did not qualify for funding under the criteria established by the agency. The findings were uncove...   read more

Golf is not proletarian enough for socialist leader Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. In a televised rant last Sunday against the sport, Chavez said “golf is a bourgeois sport,” which prompted supporters of the president to close down two of the country’s...   read more

Having graduated its first class of “drone pilots” only this year, the U.S. Air Force is now saying that the growing demand for unmanned aircraft missions is so great that it will have to train more of these new breed of “aces” who never leave the...   read more

Lawyers for the Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of America were caught off guard on Monday when a federal judge refused to approve a $33 million settlement over BofA’s attempt to hide the payment of billion-dollar bonuses from bank sha...   read more

Public opinion surveys have consistently revealed that Americans like the idea of a government-funded health care option, like Medicare, to help solve the problem of the uninsured and underinsured in the United States. But news reporting by televi...   read more

Whether it’s by congressional act, high court ruling, or presidential order, President Barack Obama is determined to keep hidden a set of controversial photos depicting detainees being abused by the American military. President Obama reportedly se...   read more

Six years after the invasion of Iraq, which resulted in widespread looting of Baghdad’s antiquities, the country is still trying to reclaim thousands of historical pieces that are not only important to Iraqi cultural heritage, but world civilizati...   read more

If the United States follows through on the commitments required to meet President Barack Obama’s long-term plan for stabilizing Afghanistan, the government will end up spending even more money to tame it than has already been allocated to fight ...   read more