According to aides who were present when Trump discussed the issue, but who choose to remain anonymous for fear of retribution, Trump said he was sick of Vance and wanted to fire him. “I wanted him to be my attack dog,” said Trump, “but he appears foolish on television. He dropped the college football trophy. He met with Pope Francis and the next day the pope died. Vance is toxic, and I don’t want him to come near me. He just doesn’t look as good on television as I thought he would.”   read more

When the new commander of the war in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, testified before Congress last week, he gave lawmakers the impression that he was not a supporter of the torture methods employed by the military against insurgents in ...   read more

Who would have thought with the arrival of President Barack Obama and his pledge to make government more open and honest, that the most precarious job in Washington would become that of inspectors general (IG)? Since the Obama administration took ...   read more

Medtronic, already under investigation by the Justice Department and Congress for allegedly using illegal marketing practices to promote their Infuse Bone Graft, has admitted to making $788,280 in direct payments and about $64,000 in expense payme...   read more

With things deadlocked 31-31 between Democrats and Republicans in the New York state Senate, newly imposed Senate President Pedro Espada, Jr. (D) announced on Tuesday that he should be given two votes to end the legislative gridlock. Even though E...   read more

With the nation’s prisons bulging with convicts, many of whom wind up back behind bars after being released, isn’t it time to try a different approach to operating correctional facilities, argues writer Pamela Gerloff. The current system just isn’...   read more

It turns out that the United States wasn’t the only government conducting interrogations of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. With the permission of the Bush administration, representatives of the People’s Republic of China were allowed in 2002 t...   read more

The health insurance industry managed to sink to a new low this week when a congressional committee revealed that it is common practice for insurers to pay their employees incentives for canceling the policies of sick patients. Documents obtained ...   read more

After the embarrassing episode last fall when executives of the “Big Three” automakers got blasted for flying private jets to meet with Congress, General Motors tried to use an obscure federal program to block the public from tracking the use of i...   read more

President Barack Obama and many members of Congress oppose the release of photos depicting abuse of detainees at U.S.-run facilities on the grounds that the images would spark a violent backlash by terrorists against American soldiers. “Every phot...   read more

More details have surfaced about last week’s disclosure of banking investments held by senators who played a key role in crafting the federal bailout of Wall Street. In additions to the likes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had considerable hol...   read more

Jane Oates, President Obama’s choice to head the Employment and Training Administration, was confirmed by the Senate on June 12, 2009. She began her career as a special education teacher, and once helped advise the company behind the controversial...   read more

President Barack Obama’s definition of “transparency” apparently doesn’t include revealing the names of business representatives and other individuals who visit the White House. Despite his pledge to make government more open to the public, the Ob...   read more

Contractors are complaining about a key provision of the Obama administration’s stimulus package requiring materials for new infrastructure projects to be made in the United States. Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) says the “Buy Ame...   read more

Having struggled to maintain enlistment levels in the wake of an unpopular war in Iraq, the U.S. Army has relaxed the enforcement of rules designed to keep neo-Nazis and white supremacists out of the ranks, according to an investigation by Salon.c...   read more

No matter how wrong that motorist was in cutting you off in traffic, or how annoying you think your neighbor is, honking your horn is not a form of free speech, says a federal appeals court in Washington state.   The question of whether the use ...   read more

President Barack Obama has gone too far with his numerous “czar” appointments, which represents a massive power grab, argues Ken Klukowski, a legal analyst in Washington, D.C. By some counts, Obama has created 16 czars, with even more on the way, ...   read more