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

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

An unusual controversy popped up on Wednesday when the Washington Post reported that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was asking federal employees to stop using the Bush administration term “Global War on Terrorism.” OMB director Peter Or...   read more

As previously reported in AllGov, there are loopholes in President Obama’s Iraq withdrawal plan that allow the United States to keep combat troops in Iraq long after the president promised he would. Now, Pentagon spokesmen have revealed some of th...   read more

Writing for The Washington Note, Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who was Colin Powell’s chief of staff while Powell was Secretary of State, has laid out seven  aspects of the Guantánamo debate that have been largely kept out of the media and thus out of th...   read more

President Barack Obama’s choice to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development is Dallas P. Tonsager, a South Dakota farmer who was part of the Obama campaign, and has been a generous supporter of the Democratic Party. However, he also...   read more

The United States appears to be losing yet another war (on drugs), this time in Afghanistan, as Richard Holbrooke recently announced that the $800 million a year spent by the US on counter-narcotics would be better allocated helping Afghan farmers...   read more

In an unusual case, five Fort Bragg soldiers are facing courts-martial after the death of a drinking buddy. On July 20, 2008, Pfc. Luke Brown, despite having recently completed an Army substance-abuse program, became drunk and unruly while visitin...   read more

Raymond E. Mabus is a former governor of Mississippi and one-time ambassador to Saudi Arabia who signed onto the Obama campaign in 2007.   Born October 11, 1948, in Starkville, Mississippi, Ray Mabus grew up in Ackerman, the only child of Raymon...   read more

In the ongoing controversy about the CIA’s destruction of 92 videotapes of potentially illegal interrogations, including 12 that depicted use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” (torture), the CIA disclosed that it has 3,000 documents relating ...   read more

On Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted 3-1 to classify depleted uranium a low-level Class A waste, meaning that it is only hazardous for up to 100 years. Depleted uranium is a byproduct of uranium enrichment for nuclear power ...   read more