Trump said, “We need people to be afraid. Right now many Americans are surprised when protestors are killed, but they’ll get used to it.” Trump did add one suggestion: “Try not to kill white people. That gets too much attention. Stick to protestors of other colors.”   read more

Three of the most important “high value” targets of the U.S. military in Pakistan are top Taliban leaders, including a former Western ally who today is behind the attacks on American and NATO forces in Afghanistan.   Jalaluddin Haqqani was onc...   read more

We’ve all heard stories of people having to fight tooth-and-nail to get insurance companies to pay for procedures they thought were covered by their policy, but the case of Jennifer Gentry appears to take insurer meanness to a new level.   Gentr...   read more

After spending decades and hundreds of billions of dollars to develop the most sophisticated jet fighters the world has ever seen, the Defense Department has decided to go “back to the future” to do a better job of attacking Taliban and al Qaeda...   read more

U.S.-India 3.0, the catchphrase being pushed by the Obama administration to laud the results of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent trip to India, might also be called “billions for big business.” Negotiations between Clinton and Indian le...   read more

Billions of dollars in grants are awarded each year by the government to fund research, but many of the findings are not readily available to the public. This situation would change under legislation introduced by Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) ...   read more

Executives representing just 6% of the workforce in America receive more than one-third of all wages, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Social Security Administration data. Out of the $6.4 trillion in pay distributed in 2007, $2.1 tri...   read more

A familiar, but deadly nemesis has reappeared for the American combat soldier, helping make July the worst month for U.S. military fatalities in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion. Thirty American soldiers have perished so far this month, partly ...   read more

A small town in Maine has used an unusual tactic to stop exploitation of its natural water source: residents voted to declare that nature has legal rights. Poland Spring, a bottled water subsidiary of Nestlé, has tried in recent years to gain acce...   read more

Is it possible the country is so wracked by the recession it just can’t afford violent crime these days? Experts are stumped over the latest figures showing murders down significantly across the country—from New York to Los Angeles, and from San F...   read more

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) buried a research study in 2003 showing the dangers of talking on cell phones while driving. After researchers compiled data indicating the growing threat to highway safety from mul...   read more

Alarmed by escalating rates of suicide among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) has introduced legislation requiring mental health screening for all soldiers and reservists. Therapists would examine combat personn...   read more

When the federal government created the bank bailout program last year, the objective was not only to stabilize institutions, but also to thaw the freeze on lending to individuals and businesses that occurred during the financial crisis. And while...   read more

American military commanders are finding their jobs a lot tougher these days since the U.S. pullout from all of Iraq’s cities and the sudden assertiveness by Iraqi security forces to protect urban areas. Immediately following the June 30 deadline ...   read more

In another sign of improving, if not incremental change in relations between the United States and Cuba, the U.S. military formally acknowledged a joint disaster-preparedness exercise last week between American and Cuban soldiers. Troops stationed...   read more

Local officials in Ohio say Cuyahoga County may be at the forefront of dealing with a growing national problem of banks walking away from foreclosed homes, leaving them to decay and become nightmares for former owners or local neighborhoods. The s...   read more

Former Pennsylvania Senator Vincent Fumo (D) had quite the laundry list of guilty counts against him. Obstruction of justice for destroying evidence. Stealing from a nonprofit. Using taxpayer funds to hire a private investigator to snoop on politi...   read more