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

To help cover the deep budget cuts in education funding, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has proposed that some universities open their campuses to natural gas drilling.   Corbett pointed out that six universities sit atop the Marcellus shal...   read more

When determining how wealthy a country is, there’s more to it than simply measuring the size of its economy. A nation can have an enormous gross domestic product (GDP), which is used to classify the top developed states in the world, but if much...   read more

The United Nations faces a serious embarrassment if the government of Syria, which has spent weeks violently cracking down on protesters, is elected to the world body’s top human rights organization.   Since January, Syria, along with India, I...   read more

Contrary to popular belief, the “wasteful spending” slice of the federal budget pie that is often blamed for America’s ballooning national debt is actually a slim one in comparison to decreased revenues. The debtor situation facing the U.S. is a p...   read more

American hospitals and healthcare practitioners are running short of important medications, depriving patients of potentially lifesaving therapies.   The shortage of drugs is considered “unprecedented,” and threatens the well-being of those de...   read more

The United States is on track to spend nearly $3 million a mile on a new highway in southern Afghanistan, making it a monument to corruption and ineptitude.   The Gardez-Khost Road was conceived to link the Afghan government to remote areas of...   read more

A California lawmaker wants to stem the rate of home foreclosures in his state by requiring banks to pay $20,000 every time they seize a property.   Democratic Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, author of the Foreclosure Mitigation Fee (AB 935), pro...   read more

Iraq’s parliament has agreed to a $400 million settlement for Americans who say they were abused by Saddam Hussein’s regime either before or during the Gulf War of 1991.   Some Iraqi lawmakers opposed the deal, pointing out that scores of Iraq...   read more

The news that Osama bin Laden was living in an upscale urban neighborhood in Pakistan rather than hiding out in a cave on the Afghanistan border gives credence to what many observers have been saying for years…that he was receiving support from ...   read more

The five-member pro-business block of the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of corporations that prefer to force consumers with complaints into arbitration hearings, rather than allowing them to band together in class-action lawsuits in civi...   read more

Rather than match demand for gasoline, oil companies are producing less for the U.S. market and exporting more to other countries, while taking increased profits. The result: higher prices at the pump.   The national average for one gallon of ...   read more

The United States is spending less these days on its overseas wars, compared to the peak period a few years ago. But that doesn’t mean the cost of continuing combat operations isn’t absorbing a tremendous amount of money.   Not including the n...   read more

Having collected only about $750 million for his 2008 election, President Barack Obama has decided he needs someone different this time to raise money for his 2012 reelection campaign. Thus, Matthew Barzun, current ambassador to Sweden, has been c...   read more

Local law enforcement has been left picking up the cost of cleaning up busted meth labs now that the federal government has axed all funding for such work.   Due to budget cuts by President Barack Obama, the Drug Enforcement Administration has...   read more

Not since the terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia in June 1996 has the U.S. Air Force lost so many personnel in a hostile attack as it did on April 27, when an Afghan pilot opened fire on American service members at Kabul Air Base.   Eight of th...   read more

Arguing the move would stigmatize poor people at the checkout stand, the soft drink industry is opposing a plan by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to ban the use of food stamps to buy “sugar-sweetened beverages.”   Bloomberg says the res...   read more