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

On February 24, the United States Mint released the District of Columbia quarter, featuring jazz great Duke Ellington on the tails side. This is the first time that an African-American has been featured on a general circulation (non-commemorative)...   read more

President Obama’s apparent nominee to be the nation’s new “drug czar,” Robert Gil Kerlikowske, has spent nearly 30 years in law enforcement, including a stint as a narcotics officer and eight years as Seattle’s police chief, during which he downpl...   read more

The Department of Energy cannot account for significant quantities of nuclear materials at 15 of 40 licensed locations, according to a report released on Monday by the Department of Energy’s Inspector General, Gregory Friedman.   More than 100 a...   read more

Although China has recently surpassed the United States as the world’s biggest CO2 emitter in 2007, new research shows that about a third of all Chinese carbon emissions are caused by the manufacturing of goods for other countries, particularly de...   read more

The Army Emergency Relief (AER) program was founded in 1942 as a non-profit organization entwined with the U.S. Army to help soldiers and their families in need. Traditionally uncontroversial, AER hands out loans, grants and scholarships, and help...   read more

A solid majority of Americans want an investigation into some of the seemingly illegal excesses of the administration of George W. Bush, such as the use of torture, secret prisons and wiretapping without warrants. The question is: What kind of inv...   read more

Times may be looking bleak for Chinese workers, but for China’s leaders and the banks they control, the global economic crisis is an opportunity to make investments around the world at bargain prices. This month alone, China has signed oil agreeme...   read more

The United Nations World Heritage List honors 878 cultural and natural sites that have “outstanding universal value.” Examples include the Acropolis in Greece, the Taj Mahal in India, Stonehenge in England and the Grand Canyon in Arizona. So it ma...   read more

The current identification system used by the federal government, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, is ten years old and out of date. The FBI, with primary contractor Lockheed Martin, is developing, for $1 billion, its re...   read more

Since July 16, 2007, the Department of Labor has paid Bob Whitmore $12,500 a month to not come to work. Whitmore is the director of the recordkeeping system of the Occupational Safety and health Administration (OSHA). More than a year and a half a...   read more

Drake University economics professor Ismael Hossein-zadeh argues that the Bush/Obama administrations’ response to the financial meltdown is exactly the same as the one the administration of Herbert Hoover tried at the beginning of the Great Depres...   read more

Each year, UNESCO issues an atlas of the world’s endangered languages. Surprising as it may seem, in the United States, there are 75 languages that are considered “critically endangered,” including 40 that are spoken by fewer than 11 people. Among...   read more

President Obama faces a tricky decision regarding the construction of a new fleet of 28 state-of-the-art Marine One presidential helicopters, priced at $400 million per chopper.   The project was passed on to Obama from the Bush administration. ...   read more

Earlier this week, President Obama signed into law the $787 billion economic stimulus package. Of this sum, more than $80 billion is being directed to start a new, national clean energy infrastructure. Many are acclaiming this clean energy investm...   read more

Seventeen Chinese Muslims are still being held at Guantánamo even though the U.S. government has already declared them innocent of any threat to Americans and a federal judge ordered their release into the continental United States last October. O...   read more

One of the great and most mysterious failures of the administration of President George W. Bush was its inability to capture Osama bin Laden, the alleged financial backer of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Considering that bin Laden is 6’4” and in nee...   read more