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

The good news for supporters of President Barack Obama is that he may not be nearly as responsible for the ballooning state of the national debt as Republicans like to claim. The bad news is that even if President Obama isn’t contributing signific...   read more

Fed up with the recruitment of teenagers by the military, residents of two Northern California cities overwhelmingly adopted a measure last November that prohibits such activity within their city limits. The federal government objected to the pass...   read more

The Harris County Jail in Houston, TX, is not a place to serve time, based on alarming findings uncovered by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ report, obtained by the Houston Chronicle, revealed accounts of inmates dying unnecessaril...   read more

The U.S. government has not put its money where its mouth is when it comes to fighting terrorism, at least not when compared to what’s been spent on the war in Iraq. According to an analysis by the Congressional Research Service, the United States...   read more

Tobacco may be frowned upon by insurance companies when it comes to insuring smokers, but it is a-okay as an investment. The New England Journal of Medicine is reporting that many of the biggest insurers in the world have billions of dollars inves...   read more

Following the revelations of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, the U.S. government decided it could “PR” its way out of trouble with the Iraqi people and proceeded to launch a multi-million-dollar propaganda campaign to convince people that everythin...   read more

If computer manufacturers want to continue doing business in one of the fastest growing PC markets in the world, they will have to oblige demands from China’s government to install censorship software that could also allow officials to spy on user...   read more

A federal judge in New Haven, CT, threw out deportation orders on Monday for four men arrested by immigration agents who demonstrated unacceptable behavior during a 2007 raid. Judge Michael W. Straus ruled that officers with the Immigration and Cu...   read more

Times may be bad for car and home sales, as well as numerous other industries, but the economic troubles plaguing so much of the business world has had no effect on either war or “peace” operations. According to the Stockholm International Peace R...   read more

The loss of immigrant labor would cripple the U.S. dairy industry, causing the economy to lose billions of dollars, according to a new study sponsored by the National Milk Producers Federation. After surveying more than 5,000 dairy farms, research...   read more

About the only thing Laura Ling and Euna Lee are guilty of is bad timing. The two television reporters were captured in March after allegedly entering North Korea via its border with China, just before a series of events that has resulted in tense...   read more

Despite allegations of bribery, despite accounts of over-charging the government, despite reports of faulty work endangering the lives of American soldiers, the companies of Halliburton and its one-time subsidiary KBR are doing better than ever. W...   read more

The State Department has decided to replace its top historian, responsible for overseeing the publication of the U.S. government’s official history of American foreign policy, after an investigation turned up allegations that included a “lack of i...   read more

A Democrat who hails from South Dakota, Jonathan S. Adelstein has spent the past seven years serving as a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), advocating for greater Internet services for rural America. As the head of the Rural U...   read more

Joe Szabo, the first union official ever to lead the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), was confirmed on April 29, 2009. Until his appointment, he worked since the mid-1990s as the top lobbyist in Illinois for the nation’s largest railroad wor...   read more

Continuing a strategy focused on the supply side of the drug problem, the Obama administration on Friday unveiled its counternarcotics policy for the Southwest, calling for greater investment in technology to intercept drug shipments over the U.S....   read more