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

Things got so bad at the Securities and Exchange Commission under the leadership of former chairman Christopher Cox that dedicated enforcement officials lost interest in doing their jobs to keep Wall Street from breaking the law. This situation ev...   read more

As a part of a $55.7 million project that is being started at Logan Airport in Boston Massachusetts, the airport will be adding a number of “solar trees” to the top deck of their five-story parking garage. The trees will be solar panels that are m...   read more

IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman claimed in testimony delivered to the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on May 19 that audit rates for the wealthy have been steadily increasing. However, th...   read more

Whether or not Judge Sonia Sotomayor gets confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, her nomination has hopefully taught Democrats a lesson about brandishing people on the right with the ugly tag of “racist.” So many times, writes columnist Mona Charen,...   read more

Education standards for K-12 students have historically been decided by each state, creating a disparate system of requirements for children across the country. This 50-state model could change if reformists manage to create a uniform set of math ...   read more

The Obama administration has made clear where it stands between victims of Sept. 11 and the Saudi royal family, as the president prepares to meet with King Abdullah this week. Last Friday, the Justice Department filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme...   read more

Military commandoes may be great at taking down terrorists in the dead of night, but they’re not so good when it comes to financial oversight. An investigation by the Defense Department’s inspector general found the U.S. Special Operations Command...   read more

Turns out the man advising President Barack Obama on rescuing the failing auto industry once had a significant financial stake in two of the “Big 3.” An investment banker, Steven Rattner was until recently an investor in Cerberus Capital Managemen...   read more

No matter how much some conservatives despise left-wing environmentalists, it is still possible for the two sides to find common ground where commerce and renewable energy meet. Such is the case in the Texas panhandle, a hardscrabble stretch of ea...   read more

The case in which 25 alleged CIA agents are being prosecuted in Italy for the 2005 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric was complicated to begin with. A recent lawsuit has added to the complexity. Sabrina De Sousa, one of the American officials accuse...   read more

Widespread public support for a young “heroine,” who killed a local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, has left the Party uneasy and flustered. On May 10, 2009, Deng Guida, Deng Zhongjia, and Huang Dezhi, three officials of Badong County in H...   read more

A Nicaraguan journalist and political opponent of President Daniel Ortega, Georgina Lupiac, has been granted political asylum in the United States. Lupiac was able demonstrate to the U.S. Immigration Court that she had in the past been a victim of...   read more

In the early days of World War II, thousands of American soldiers captured in the Philippines were force-marched 65 miles by the Japanese army, enduring starvation, exhaustion and brutal treatment that included beheadings and stabbings. Those who ...   read more

This week could reveal whether Judge Vaughn Walker of the Ninth Circuit court of appeals is through playing nice with the Obama administration. Twice since the beginning of this year Walker has told the Department of Justice to work out a way so t...   read more

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the crushing of the Chinese pro-democracy movement by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), culminating in what came to be known as the Tiananmen Massacre. In China the CCP, which controls all media and all tex...   read more

Banks rescued by the highly controversial $700 billion bailout plan continue to find loopholes for their retiring executives, like paying them to not do anything…literally. Associated Banc-Corp’s president and chief operating officer, Lisa Binder,...   read more