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

Each year for the past 10 years the Mercatus Center at George Mason University releases a report ranking how well federal agencies come clean in revealing their performances. For 2008 the worst score went to the Small Business Administration, whic...   read more

Running the state of Arizona’s transportation agency has become something of a stepping-stone for recent appointees to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). At the beginning of George W. Bush’s first term, Mary Peters, then-director of the Ar...   read more

“In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:12   The majority of evangelical Protestants in the United States have no problem with the use of torture on suspected terrorists, a...   read more

Move over America’s “Most Wanted.” Here comes the United Kingdom’s “Least Wanted”—a select group of individuals who are persona non grata on British soil. Since 2005, the British government has compiled a list of those banned from entering the U...   read more

Did the federal government play favorites when it came to distributing bailout money to banks? The editors at the FinCri Advisor believe so, and they have facts to back up their claim. Overall, a bank had an 8.3% chance of receiving federal suppor...   read more

At most busy airports around the country, an observer might see three planes taking off within just minutes of each other. But at John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport, a plane watcher would be hard pressed to see three flights depart for a...   read more

When Congress adopted the $787 billion stimulus bill in February, it specifically prohibited state and local officials from spending money on casinos, golf courses, swimming pools, aquariums, and zoos. And yet the National Zoo in Washington, DC, w...   read more

Nominated on St. Patrick’s Day by President Barack Obama to be the next United States ambassador to Ireland, Dan Rooney is considered to be the most high-profile figure ever to represent the U.S. in Ireland, thanks to his ownership of the famed Pi...   read more

Scientists in the United States are discounting the widely believed theory that 65 million years ago dinosaurs were brought to extinction when an asteroid collided with the Earth. Recently, experts discovered that a few creatures survived for anot...   read more

The United States suffered 33 deaths at the hands of terrorists in 2008, none of which occurred at home. Americans killed were in Iraq (21), India (6), Afghanistan (4), Sudan (1) and Yemen (1).   While the United States often assumes it is the N...   read more

What America needs is another “Pecora Commission,” argues Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect and a senior fellow at Demos. Ferdinand Pecora, the lead counsel for the Senate Banking Committee in the early 1930s, led the charge to un...   read more

The inside of the National Pork Producers Council office in Washington, DC, resembled a war room last week as pork lobbyists almost pulled their hair out trying to contain the political and, most importantly, culinary fallout from “swine flu” hyst...   read more

The Obama administration wants to get tough with hedge funds, but there appears to be a turf battle about who should be in charge and how far to go. The new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is positioning herself to be the sheriff of...   read more

Diane Schroer, after retiring as a colonel in the U.S. Army Special Forces, found herself on the frontline of a new kind of battle, right on American soil: the fight against transsexual discrimination in the workplace. The veteran sued the Library...   read more

Two United States senators are beside themselves since discovering that the Defense Department has not bothered to collect $100 million from a former subsidiary of Halliburton that excessively billed the US government—and has continued to reward t...   read more

On April 27, Stockwell Day, Canada’s International Trade Minister, announced that Canada gave notice to the Obama Administration of a complaint it has filed with the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding new”country-of-origin” labeling regulati...   read more