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

Minority-owned small businesses have largely been shut out of the federal government’s economic recovery plan. Using information obtained from the Small Business Administration (SBA), New America Media (NAM) found that more than 90% of loans funde...   read more

U.S. Army Major General Anthony Cucolo III, commander of American forces in northern Iraq, is tired of losing valuable female troops to pregnancies. So he has decreed that any soldier under his command who gets pregnant, or impregnates another sol...   read more

For those consumers who want to know what it’s really like to be gouged by a credit card company, check out First Premier Bank. The subprime credit card issuer is experimenting with a new card that hits customers with a 79.9% interest rate.   Ye...   read more

Americans are working longer hours and making less money, according to the latest figures compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. From October to November, real average hourly earnings fell 0.5%, thanks to a modest rise in inflation that offse...   read more

Two Blackwater security guards involved in the fatal shootings that took place in Baghdad on September 16, 2007, are trying to prevent their nicknames from being discussed during their murder trial. Dustin “Extreme” Heard and Paul “Savage Viking” ...   read more

After receiving complaints for decades, the federal government is finally doing something about noisy commercials that are louder than the regular programming that they interrupt. On Tuesday, the House approved by voice vote legislation seeking to...   read more

Long Island’s Shinnecock tribe is close to receiving federal recognition from the Department of the Interior, and thus, the green light to open a lucrative gambling casino. But slot machines may not be coming to the affluent region known as the Ha...   read more

Sure, Wall Street is getting paid too much—but what about the bloated federal bureaucracy? Conservative columnist and radio host Michael Medved wonders where the outrage is over “the shocking salary increases” for government workers in charge of a...   read more

And Americans think their system of justice is slow. Earlier this week, a court in Turkey concluded a trial that first began in March 1982, when more than 1,200 leftists were tried for attempting to overthrow the country’s military government. Th...   read more

To help get Citigroup out from under government control, the IRS has decided the bank can keep $38 billion in tax breaks—an amount that is likely to turn the government’s bailout investment into a financial loss. When Washington made the decision ...   read more

Even with the expected surge of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, contractors will continue to outnumber military personnel in the war effort. According to a new report by the Congressional Research Service, the U.S. will expand its contractor force wit...   read more

For all the talk about how Hollywood is a progressive, liberal town, women continue to be underemployed in many key filmmaking jobs. After reviewing the top 250 U.S. movies of 2008, it was found that women comprised only 16% of all directors, exec...   read more

The IRS has filed suit against Refunds Now, a Rhode Island-based tax preparation firm, for allegedly filing returns on behalf of taxpayers that were riddled with inaccuracies or fraudulent claims. According to the IRS’s legal complaint, the agency...   read more

Prostitution has been legal in rural Nevada since 1971, but only for customers seeking female companionship. But now Shady Lady Ranch, a brothel located about two hours outside Las Vegas, is preparing to offer the first male prostitutes in state h...   read more

Dr. Frankenstein would be proud.   When it comes to bringing the dead back to life, Congress is dogged in reviving defense programs that the Pentagon wants to kill. The 2010 defense budget, like others before it, was submitted to lawmakers witho...   read more

Travis County, Texas, (population about 100,000) is struggling to find ways to keep Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans out of trouble. A local report found that 25-30% of veterans suffer from mental illness, and more than 450 ex-soldiers were in ja...   read more