The majority of voters did not vote for Donald Trump for president; the majority of voters did not vote for Republican candidates for the Senate; and fewer than 51% of voters cast their ballots for Republican candidates for the House of Representatives. The Republican Party now controls the White House, both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, no matter how that came to be. I believe it is worth bearing in mind that a majority of U.S. citizens did not support the Republican winners.   read more

The revised bailout proposal extends or creates tax breaks for rum in the Virgin Islands, corporations doing business in American Samoa, auto racetrack owners and employers whose employees bike to the work.   read more

If John McCain loses his bid for the presidency on November 4th, Sarah Palin will probably follow the path of Katharine Harris. Having sold her soul to the Republican Party leaders, she will be dumped and turned into a laughing stock, the butt of ...   read more

Sarah Plain has aggressively encouraged hunters to be allowed to use airplanes to kill wolves and bears and has offered hunters $150 for each foreleg of a freshly killed wolf they turn in.   Factcheck: Call of the Wild (by Viveka Novak, Northlan...   read more

Incredible as it seems, the taxpayer-funded Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is terminating the Voice of America’s Russian language programming.  Instead, the BBG is shifting its Russian language programming to Radio Liberty, which is also fu...   read more

While most Americans and others around the world will breathe a sigh of relief when U.S. troops finally pull out of Iraq, there are those who will be sorry to see them go.  A perfect example is the Sultan Al-Essa family of Kuwait.  The Sultans con...   read more

Museums Free September 27   read more

For 15 years, some of the most feared gangsters in Boston said ex- FBI agent John Connolly took care of them. In fact, they said, he was part of the gang.   Agent Seen as Mob Insider (by Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant)       read more

"This is a momentous occasion in the history of our Nation’s coinage because these designs represent the first change in the Lincoln cent in half a century," said Director Moy.   First Penny Redesign in 50 Years     read more

The cost of the Homeland Security Department's program to equip ports of entry with radiation detection equipment will be $3.1 billion. That's $1 billion more than the agency told the White House and Congress it would cost last spring.   $1 Bill...   read more

A Quebec businessman whose name is one of the many that have erroneously landed on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's flight passenger watch list has decided to change his name to avoid lengthy security hassles at the airport.   Quebec M...   read more

U.S. attorneys failed to prosecute 62 percent of crimes committed in Indian Country during a three-year period, and on Thursday, members of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee wanted to know why.   read more

Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts since March 2003, plans to announce today that in January he will leave the federal agency he is credited with helping revitalize. Gioia, a prize-winning poet and critic, said he will bec...   read more

Amid Growing Unrest, Bolivia Orders U.S. Ambassador to Leave   read more

The investigation also concluded that several of the officials “frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana, and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives.”   read more

McCaskill Takes On Military Industrial Complex   read more