According to aides who were present when Trump discussed the issue, but who choose to remain anonymous for fear of retribution, Trump said he was sick of Vance and wanted to fire him. “I wanted him to be my attack dog,” said Trump, “but he appears foolish on television. He dropped the college football trophy. He met with Pope Francis and the next day the pope died. Vance is toxic, and I don’t want him to come near me. He just doesn’t look as good on television as I thought he would.”   read more

As the Obama administration promises to revamp its immigration policy to target criminals, a new report says that in recent years, a high-profile federal program created to catch illegal immigrants with criminal records shifted its focus towards s...   read more

In a startling judgment, two British High Court Justices ruled that they would not compel release of evidence relating to U.S. use of torture because the Bush administration had threatened to withhold intelligence sharing if it did so. They furthe...   read more

President Obama’s announcement of a $500,000-a-year pay cap for executives of firms receiving bailout funds seems an appropriate response to public outrage about Wall Street excesses. However, as so often happens when money meets politics, there a...   read more

In selecting Republican Senator Judd Gregg as his second choice for Secretary of Commerce, Barack Obama chose not only a fiscal conservative, but also someone who blasted the president as “Obama spend-o-rama” when he unveiled his legislative agend...   read more

Think back just a few months ago when President Bush, his Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, and Ben Bernanke, the head of the Federal Reserve, threw the nation into a panic because the entire economy was days away from collapse. Fortunatel...   read more

The United States accounts for just 4.5% of the world’s population, but 23% of the world prison population. The U.S. has the highest prison population rate in the world: one out of 132 Americans are in jail or prison. One state that has concentrat...   read more

On Wednesday, February 11, Rep. John Dingell Jr. (D-Michigan) will break the record for the longest time served in the House of Representatives: 53 years 61 days. Since it was created in 1789, 10,631 Americans have served in the House of Represent...   read more

On February 3, 2009, Tom Daschle, a 26-year veteran of Capitol Hill, withdrew as Barack Obama’s choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services due to revelations regarding unpaid taxes.   Born on December 9, 1947, in Aberdeen, South Dakota,...   read more

Remember George Bush and Dick Cheney? Most Americans would prefer not to. But there remains a hardcore group of Bush-Cheney fans who want to keep their legacy alive. The warm center of this group is the Bush-Cheney Alumni Association, which is ope...   read more

President Barack Obama’s choice for taking over the reconfigured Office of Faith-Based Initiatives (now known as the Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) is a 26-year-old Pentecostal associate pastor named Joshua DuBois.   Born...   read more

In a strange twist, the Weld County Sherriff’s Department in Colorado, in its campaign to crack down on illegal immigrants, has found itself in conflict with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). From the point-of-view of the IRS, many illegal immig...   read more

Every now and then a word that has gone out of fashion earns the right to be revived. A perfect example is the Depression-era word “bankster,” which combines the words “banker” and “gangster.” “Bankster” found its first public use in the September...   read more

During the first six years of the administration of President George W. Bush, the 400 richest Americans saw their average income double to $263.3 million, thanks, in part,  to the fact that their tax rate dropped by a third to 17.2%. The biggest g...   read more

Back in 1996, President Bill Clinton signed an historic welfare reform bill that was meant to limit the length of time a person could receive welfare payments and to encourage people to get jobs instead of relying on government handouts. The bill ...   read more

Most Americans appear to want to forget about the War in Iraq, as more immediate concerns, such as the failing economy, take precedent. Even in terms of national security, the situations in Afghanistan and Pakistan seem more relevant. So it was a ...   read more

Just days before President George W. Bush left office, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new guidelines that make it easier for drug manufacturers to market what are known as “off-label” prescription drugs. The FDA, after clinical tria...   read more