According to aides who were present when Trump discussed the issue, but who choose to remain anonymous for fear of retribution, Trump said he was sick of Vance and wanted to fire him. “I wanted him to be my attack dog,” said Trump, “but he appears foolish on television. He dropped the college football trophy. He met with Pope Francis and the next day the pope died. Vance is toxic, and I don’t want him to come near me. He just doesn’t look as good on television as I thought he would.”   read more

For all the talk about the need to prop up insurance giant AIG because of its place in the financial industry, it is important to note that many in Washington backing the company’s bailout have received generous contributions from the beleaguered ...   read more

The ever-expanding violence of the drug trade in Mexico is now impacting Hollywood. Production of the film Queen of the South was called off last week after numerous death threats were levied at the director, Jonathan Jakubowicz. Starring Eva Mend...   read more

When it comes to making the grade for having good roads, schools, mass transit and other key elements of infrastructure, the United States is headed for failure. This according to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), whose latest report...   read more

The Spanish judge who went after Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998 has now set his sights on former members of the Bush administration, arguing that they violated international law by justifying the use of torture against suspected terrori...   read more

A vast electronic spy network, which experts believe originated in China, has infiltrated computers in more than 100 countries and stolen documents, according to two studies just released. Canadian researchers at the Information Warfare Monitor (I...   read more

As much as conservatives insist President Barack Obama’s economic policies (dubbed “Obamanomics”) threaten a return to big government, Robert Reich argues that the new administration offers a plan that is “remarkably conservative.” The former Secr...   read more

Conservatives have already begun to lament so-called defense cuts for the U.S. military by the liberal Obama administration, says Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman, even though the facts prove otherwise. Chapman cites research by MIT defense...   read more

If the Obama administration wants the US mission in Afghanistan not to become the money pit Iraq has been, then it needs to start reading. The special inspector for Iraq reconstruction has released a nearly 400-page report on what the United State...   read more

So much for the Internal Revenue Service getting tough with the wealthy. Last year, the IRS proudly proclaimed that it had substantially increased the number of audits in 2007 for those Americans earning a million dollars or more a year. But when ...   read more

Environmentalists were taken aback this week when the Obama administration unveiled its proposed fuel economy standards for automobiles in 2011. The new regulations—known officially as the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for cars, ...   read more

President Barack Obama will soon get the opportunity to sign into law the largest expansion of protected national wilderness since Bill Clinton’s first term in office. The Omnibus Public Land Management Act, approved by the House of Representative...   read more

A year after the 9/11 attacks, Congress decided to require the nation’s food suppliers to keep copious records of who they buy from and sell to in order to maintain a safe and healthy food chain for Americans and to minimize the risk of terrorists...   read more

Vice Admiral Alan S. Thompson, a 30-year careerist who has quietly held numerous commands involving supplies for the US Navy, assumed the role of director of the Defense Logistics Agency on November 19, 2008. He is in charge of procuring and distr...   read more

President Barack Obama has vowed to spend more money on education, but the promised dollars have not yet trickled down to schools across the United States. In the meantime, one high school teacher in Pocatello, Idaho, has come up with a creative, ...   read more

A recent report by the Department of Treasury Inspector General determined that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been ineffectively controlling instances of waste, fraud, and abuse relating to the use of employee telephone calling cards. Thi...   read more

Responding to widespread reports that the agency in charge of investigating wage complaints by low-income workers was less than helpful and, indeed, tended to take the side of employers, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted underco...   read more