President Donald Trump invited the Dodgers to the White House. Many of their fans feared that the team, by accepting, would humiliate themselves and betray the team’s large Latino, Asian and African-American fan base. Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter, along with co-owner Magic Johnson, have proposed a solution. Trump has promised that if he can keep the championship trophy, the Commissioner’s Trophy, he will end all seizures and deportations of immigrants.   read more

After experiencing its highest teen pregnancy rates, the United States is now witnessing its lowest in at least nine decades.   In 1990 the rate of teenagers becoming pregnant (116.9 per 1,000 individuals) reached a modern high. Since then, the ...   read more

Demand for tubas and large brass bands that use them are behind a recent string of burglaries at high schools in Southern California.   Dozens of the bulky instruments have been stolen in recent months from areas schools, including Bell High Sch...   read more

Referring to President Obama’s birthplace of Hawai’i, the new ambassador from Micronesia recently greeted the President as a “fellow Pacific islander,” during a White House ceremony on January 18, 2012, welcoming new ambassadors to Washington, DC....   read more

Ignoring the wishes of their counterparts in the Senate, the House of Representatives on Thursday adopted an ethics bill that lets private industry consultants who take advantage of legislative intelligence off the hook.   The Stop Trading on Co...   read more

Recording police officers while making arrests has resulted in numerous other arrests … of those daring to tape such actions.   In October 2007 attorney Simon Glik was arrested by Boston police after he used his cell phone to capture the arrest ...   read more

America Online users beware: If you access your AOL account from a computer at an Internet café, your name may wind up on a terrorist-watch list.   According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), AOL users at public computer venues are j...   read more

 It’s no contest between gas and oil on one end and renewable energy sources on the other when it comes to government subsidies.   According to a detailed report by the International Energy Agency, the world’s nations in 2010 spent $409 billion ...   read more

Federal Judge Jed Rakoff has taken the Office of the Solicitor General to task for misleading the U.S. Supreme Court about recourse for wrongly deported immigrants.   “When the Solicitor General of the United States makes a representation to the...   read more

Another example (33 to be precise) of why earmarks are a bad idea has come by way of a Washington Post investigation.   After going through congressional records on spending, the newspaper found 33 representatives and senators had directed more ...   read more

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), considered by some as the most efficient federal agency in Washington, has been forced to reduce its staffing levels to a 75-year low, due to budget cuts.   The agency saved the government $45.7 billio...   read more

Critics on both the left and the right are bashing Chrysler’s Clint Eastwood-starring “Halftime in America” advertisement that appeared during last Sunday’s Super Bowl telecast.   Liberals were upset by the commercial because it used doctored fo...   read more

Whole Foods Market and other organic retailers are being accused of caving in to manufacturers of genetically modified (GM) crops and helping them legitimize their products with consumers. The products are also known as GMOs or genetically-modifie...   read more

As Argentina grows more vocal in its criticism of British plans to drill for oil in the waters around the disputed Falklands Islands (called by Argentines the Islas Malvinas), the South American nation has sent a new ambassador to the U.S. who is ...   read more

Once the standard by which new governments modeled their own public contract with citizens, the U.S. Constitution is losing its appeals with other countries, particularly regarding human rights.   Three decades ago, it was estimated that 160 nat...   read more

Maligned by American citizens and politicians, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is still the best of its kind in the Western world.   A review of postal service providers by Oxford Strategy Consulting resulted in the USPS getting the top ranking a...   read more

About 40% of the campaign ads related to the 2012 election so far have been funded by secret donors whose identity may never be known.   By declaring themselves to be “social welfare” groups concerned with policies rather than politics, these gr...   read more