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

The implosion of Wall Street last year didn’t come about overnight. It took years of risky investments and questionable decision-making, during which the heads of leading firms and banks earned substantial fortunes. From 2000-2007 these leaders ma...   read more

NASA has a date and a budget for its next New Frontiers mission, but no destination just yet. The space agency does have three possible choices in mind and will decide sometime after 2010 whether to send an unmanned probe to the moon, Venus or an ...   read more

A California appellate court has ruled the state’s anti-toxic chemicals law, Proposition 65, cannot be used to require labeling of meat approved by the federal government. The ruling came about after the American Meat Institute and National Meat A...   read more

Advocates of solar power are arguing that if the federal government stopped subsidizing the oil and gas industry, energy derived from the sun could furnace 15% of America’s power needs within 10 years. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA...   read more

GOProud is just that. The group, consisting of conservative homosexuals who broke away from the Log Cabin Republicans a few years ago because it was deemed too liberal, decided to co-sponsor The American Conservative Union’s annual Conservative Po...   read more

American banks are sitting on nearly $1 trillion in reserves, holding onto money instead of loaning it out to homeowners and businesses which the federal government has wanted for the past year. Beginning in September 2008, when the financial cris...   read more

American farmers will have no shortage of challenges in the coming decades, thanks to global warming. A new federal study, sponsored in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, details how changes in weather and climate will affect crop and liv...   read more

Does lack of income drive people to church? Data compiled by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the U.S. Census Bureau would indicate a correlation between high levels of poverty and large concentrations of religious Americans. For inst...   read more

Once little more than a Buck Rogers-like dream of the military’s when President Ronald Reagan unveiled his “Star Wars” plan, lasers may become an actual weapon employed on the battlefield to destroy the enemy within a couple of years. While lasers...   read more

Whether it’s because of the economy or pressure from environmentalists, bottled water sales are declining after years of growth. Sales dropped 3.2% in 2008 and are expected to fall another 2% this year. Industry leaders are insisting the decline i...   read more

Six months since its creation and 16 months after the beginning of the current economic meltdown, a special commission charged with investigating the causes of the Wall Street collapse finally will begin holding public hearings next month. The Fin...   read more

For those in search of rosy economic predictions, don’t bother reading the Association of Financial Professionals (AFP) report for 2010. The organization surveyed more than a thousand CFOs, vice presidents of finance, treasurers and other financia...   read more

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) does not spread the wealth when it comes to farm subsidies. In fact, from the mid-1990s to the middle of this decade, just over half of all subsidies were distributed to a mere 4% of all recipients, accord...   read more

Wall Street’s bad behavior hasn’t changed all that much from last year, writes Nomi Prins, senior fellow at the public policy center Demos and a former managing director at Goldman Sachs. Despite what the Obama administration says about changing ...   read more

Most of the leading buyers of American military hardware in 2008 had two characteristics in common: they speak Arabic and their governments are opposed to democracy and basic freedoms. Information compiled by the Congressional Research Service rev...   read more

High death rates among newborn children have historically been a problem associated with the developing world. But the United States finds itself experiencing a higher infant mortality rate (defined as deaths in the first year of life, per 1,000 l...   read more