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

Leaving Congress is not a risky proposition for senators and representatives looking for new work. The experience, knowledge and political connections that lawmakers acquire while serving in office can lead to high-paid lobbying jobs in Washington...   read more

Instead of advocating for religious tolerance throughout the world, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has been caught up in the personal agendas of its leaders and accused of discriminating against Muslim employees.   The Eq...   read more

Last year was truly deadly for reporters around the world, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which says 70 journalists were killed while doing their jobs. Almost half of all fatalities took place in the Philippines, where 29...   read more

Scottish brewery BrewDog will not be outdone when it comes to producing the world’s most alcoholic beer. Last year, the company put out “Tactical Nuclear Penguin,” a beer with 32% alcohol content. But then a German rival, Schorschbrau, started sel...   read more

Some of the nation’s most important technological developments have come out of the military, and the Department of Defense may have done it again with a revolutionary way to make jet fuel out of algae. While many biotechnology companies have been...   read more

Bringing out someone else’s dead, as long as they’re from another country, is fine on network television, writes Dave Lindroff at The Public Record. But forget about it if the deceased are Americans, especially those in uniform fighting terrorists...   read more

Follow through is often the most glaring shortcoming with governmental solutions. For instance, Congress adopted legislation more than two decades ago intended to keep dangerous medical workers from getting jobs in other parts of the country. The ...   read more

Driven either by community activism or the desire for tourist dollars, new bus tours have sprung up in Los Angeles and New York City to show people where gang, and gangster, life has existed.   In the City of Angels, L.A. Gang Tours has begun ...   read more

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No wonder so many Americans are fed up with Washington and losing faith in President Barack Obama’s domestic policies. Despite numerous reminders in President Obama’s speeches that he and his fellow Democrats did cut taxes during his first year in...   read more

Seven hundred billion dollars and more than 4,200 American lives later, the government of Iraq is on the verge of conducting an election already being labeled illegitimate. Sunnis who once belonged to Saddam Hussein’s political party have been ban...   read more

Requiring individuals to have medical implants placed under their skin isn’t just a potential violation of someone’s civil rights—it’s downright satanic. Republican Mark Cole, a member of Virginia’s House of Delegates, is sponsoring legislation th...   read more

The number of medical schools in the United States could increase by nearly 20% over the next several years to help meet the rising demand for new doctors. During the 1980s and 1990s, only one new med school opened in the U.S. (which currently ha...   read more

Seizing someone’s car just because the driver doesn’t possess a license was ruled illegal five years ago by a federal court, but that hasn’t stopped cities in California from continuing to impound vehicles at sobriety checkpoints. A story by the I...   read more

The government of Australia is got none other than an Elvis Presley-loving California lawyer and friend (and fundraiser) of President Barack Obama as the new American ambassador. Jeffrey Bleich was confirmed by the Senate November 11, 2009.   Bl...   read more

On April 1, 2009, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, with the approval of President barack Obama, appointed Dr. Janey Thornton the next Deputy Undersecretary of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services. Food, Nutrition and Consumer Se...   read more