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

Judd Gregg’s withdrawal as nominee to be Secretary of Commerce does not come as a great surprise. The Republican Senator had blasted the president as “Obama spend-o-rama” when he unveiled his legislative agenda, and once voted to eliminate the Com...   read more

It made for great theater: the heads of eight banks that received $166 billion in bailout funds being grilled and tongue-lashed by members of Congress channeling the public’s anger. But if most of the members of the House Financial Services Commit...   read more

Merrill Lynch quietly paid out bonuses of at least $1 million each to 696 top executives while the investment house was suffering terminal losses last year, an investigation by the New York state Attorney General's office revealed.   This was pa...   read more

Sitting in front of computer screens in a trailer truck in the Nevada desert, American soldiers pilot Predator unmanned aircrafts over the rooftops of targets in Afghanistan. As they watch live images of their target from the aircraft on their scr...   read more

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was created in 1935 to strengthen the rights of employees to bargain collectively. Its mission shifted dramatically in favor of employers during the presidency of Ronald Reagan and again during the preside...   read more

Many advocates of open government have urged the Obama administration to release documents that the Bush administration refused to reveal. So far, President Obama has sent mixed messages about his intentions. On the one hand, he has signed executi...   read more

Now that the House of Representatives and the Senate have passed their own version of stimulus bills, their leaders will meet to iron out differences in the two bills. The Senate bill includes $117.6 billion more in tax cuts for individuals and fa...   read more

A recent Pew Research study shows that, unlike older generations, Americans aged 18-29 are just as likely to get their news from the Internet as from television. In general, 70% of Americans consider television a major news source and 40% cite the...   read more

As the governments of the United States and Iran inch closer to direct talks, an unusual bump in the road may have been hit. In the middle of the crisis surrounding the holding of American hostages, the Carter administration broke diplomatic relat...   read more

The Obama administration surprised federal appeals judges in San Francisco by arguing that a lawsuit by one current and four former detainees should be dismissed because it would reveal state secrets. The case involves Guantánamo prisoner Binyam M...   read more

According to recent Congressional filings, Pentagon contractors, their lobbyists and lobbying groups spent more than $340,000 in 2008 on parties and other events to honor Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. Among those paying for events honoring Ga...   read more

There has been so much discussion of what the Senate is cutting from the House version of the economic stimulus plan that it is easy to overlook the fact that the Senate version also adds new expenditures. Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughsh...   read more

Monday, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont proposed the creation of a “truth and reconciliation commission” to investigate Bush administration policies such as its use of waterboarding and warrantless wire-tapping and the improper firing ...   read more

Mark Nicholas of PoliticalBase.com compared the transcripts of President Obama’s first presidential press conference on Monday with the first one that former President George W. Bush conducted back on February 22, 2001.   Nicholas copied the tra...   read more

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $35 million contract to KBR for work at Camp Adder in south-central Iraq despite the fact that KBR is under criminal investigation in the death by electrocution of at least two American soldiers. The work ...   read more

As members of Congress continue to wrangle about what to cut from the soon-to-be-enacted stimulus bill, some details have emerged as to what has already been eliminated. Among the expenditures considered not stimulating enough to be funded: $16 b...   read more