Trump announced that from now on the NFL will be known as the NTL: The National Trump League. The Super Bowl will be renamed the Trump Bowl, and professional players must be called Trumpball Players. Anyone, on any level, who refuses to comply with Trump’s orders will be arrested and charged with being a threat to national security.   read more

First there was “astroturfing”—the creation of phony grass roots movements that give politicians the impression of popular feelings on an issue. Now, there’s “virtual-turfing,” in which the health insurance industry is using online games to get Fa...   read more

Following up on President Barack Obama’s pledge to focus illegal immigration crackdowns on violent criminals, 400 agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service last week conducted its largest sweep ever of dangerous undocumente...   read more

Since NBC doesn’t bother to point out the conflicts of interest held by oft-used military analyst Barry McCaffrey, Huffington Post and others have. McCaffrey has appeared on the network’s cable subsidiary, MSNBC, no less than 10 times in the past ...   read more

It took a federal employee contest for the Department of Veterans Affairs to realize that throwing out medicine constitutes a waste of money. Last spring, President Barack Obama asked government employees to submit their cost-savings ideas to make...   read more

Even though growth in the U.S. prison population has been declining this decade, the total number of people behind bars still is greater than the number of Americans living in almost one quarter of the states. From 2007 to 2008 the prison populati...   read more

Acknowledging a wrong committed at the outbreak of World War II that cost hundreds of Americans their college education, the University of California system has awarded honorary degrees this month to Japanese-Americans who were forcefully relocate...   read more

States have not been allowed to ban politicians from public office on religious grounds for almost 50 years, but that’s not stopping residents in Asheville, North Carolina, a town of 75,000, from trying to unseat a newly-elected atheist from the c...   read more

Friending a Florida judge on Facebook is okay as long as you’re not an attorney. So says the state’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee, which ruled last month it’s better that justices and lawyers not give the wrong impression of being virtual fr...   read more

“Stupid and complex” is how author and attorney William Cox characterizes the current system of taxation in the United States. Over time, the burden of taxes has increasingly fallen upon the middle-class, and that needs to change, Cox argues. Ther...   read more

If a group of Indiana National Guardsmen win their legal battle against defense contractor KBR Inc., Jim Gentry will not be one to enjoy the victory. Gentry, a former commanding officer and plaintiff in the case, died last week from a rare form of...   read more

Nurses from one end of the United States to another have formed the largest nurses union to date to give them a greater voice in the health care debate and expand their ranks. The new National Nurses United will represent about 150,000 nurses foll...   read more

More than three dozen mortgage companies with shady histories of lending were given the stamp of approval by Ginnie Mae (aka the Government National Mortgage Association), which played a significant role in the housing crisis by helping banks pack...   read more

Zero tolerance means just that in Serbia, where drinking at soccer stadiums is strictly forbidden. The country’s president, Boris Tadić, found this out after he was slapped with a fine of 400 euros ($584) for popping open a champagne bottle in a V...   read more

Supporting Barack Obama for president is proving to be an occupational hazard. Following a Kansas salesman’s claim of being fired for voting for Obama, Julia James of New York is suing her former employer for allegedly terminating her for attendin...   read more

American children stand a better chance of getting a safe meal at Jack in the Box than they do from their school lunch program. An investigation by USA Today found the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which provides meat and poultry to schoo...   read more

The Obama administration has decided to maintain former President George W. Bush’s policy on biological weapons, which rejected the idea of international verification to ensure countries are not developing such agents. The Biological Weapons Conve...   read more