Imagine that China’s dictator, Xi Jinping, sends one million Chinese troops to invade the United States. Fighting breaks out all over the U.S. as U.S. troops and civilians battle against the Chinese invaders. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, are killed. Meanwhile, China has taken over Florida and declared it an overseas province of China, with Chinese nationals taking over control of the Florida government.   read more

For some politicians, the inclusion of inmates in local populations as part of the U.S. Census means everything. State Senator Elizabeth O’C. Little’s (R-NY) district in upstate New York is known as “Little Siberia” because of its vast physical si...   read more

Despite improving conditions in the stock market and President Barack Obama’s own pronouncements of signs of economic progress, banks are continuing to fail—at a rate much worse than last year. In 2008, 25 banks failed. So far in 2009, with only f...   read more

Reuters’ recent review of U.S. aid programs in the Palestinian territories uncovered two USAID contracts made with the sons of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that are involved with the agency’s attempts to promote a better public image of the...   read more

The longstanding debate over allowing cameras inside the U.S. Supreme Court was renewed recently at a House appropriations subcommittee hearing, where Justices Stephen Breyer and Clarence Thomas appeared before lawmakers to discuss the court’s nex...   read more

Mexican drug cartels have joined forces with the Italian mafia to transport narcotics through the United States and into European markets. Heightened efforts by U.S. and Mexican officials to crackdown on the drug trade and rising European cocaine ...   read more

The economic downturn has struck even some of the wealthiest counties in the United States. Marin County, which has the highest median household income in the state of California ($83,870), has experienced a tremendous increase in homelessness. Ac...   read more

Pigs hardly resemble the gallant heroes featured in movies and comic books. By 2017, however, “mini-pigs” may be saving more lives than Spiderman ever has, shining a new “bacon of hope” for those on the organ transplant waitlist by providing their...   read more

Last week, 400 representatives from 80 indigenous nations met in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss the problems of climate change and possible solutions to global warming. These nations are the most affected by but least culpable for environmental irr...   read more

When it comes to stopping global warming, world leaders are going about it the wrong way, says Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center at the Copenhagen Business School. Large multilateral treaties intended to cut emissions, suc...   read more

Some Americans who owe Uncle Sam will have to pay their taxes through a private contractor that previously allowed a hacker to access the personal financial data of 1.5 million people. The IRS hired RBS Worldpay to process credit card payments by ...   read more

Fans of “South Park” know that it’s good to have a scapegoat, and that Canada fits the bill. Unfortunately, in real life, some politicians are still blaming Canada. Culprits #1 and #2: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Senator ...   read more

Fallout from the Bernard Madoff scandal has spread to JPMorgan Chase, which is accused of being complicit in the scam, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by a Florida partnership that lost almost $13 million last December in the Ponzi scheme. T...   read more

The secrets of China’s nuclear weapons testing are being revealed now that many army veterans are speaking out about the dangerous work they were ordered to perform during the Cold War. Operating in the remote Gobi desert, a special military detac...   read more

Rather than worrying about the government nationalizing banks, the American people would do well to worry more about the banks controlling the government. Thanks to the missteps of the Obama administration in handling the financial industry crisis...   read more

Once again, the United States has delayed imposing a tariff hike on imported goods from the European Union (EU). The latest delay, which will suspend trade action until May 9, is due to ongoing negotiations regarding a trade dispute involving an E...   read more

To fathom just how destructive the U.S. invasion of Iraq has been for Iraqis, imagine if 1.2 million Americans had died violent deaths from 2003 until now. That would be the proportional equivalent to the number of Iraqis who have perished as a re...   read more