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

President Obama’s stimulus package includes more than $6 billion in stimulus money to clean up 18 nuclear sites from New York to California. This is double the previous annual funding for the program. However, the contractors who have been critici...   read more

President Barack Obama’s pledge to increase enforcement of anti-trust legislation should start with our agribusiness industry, argues Paula Crossfield, the managing editor of Civil Eats. She maintains that a handful of companies control every step...   read more

He once made it explicitly clear: “I am a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.” Those were Barack Obama’s words, back when he was an Illinois state senator six years ago. Then, he said it was a matter of the Democrats winning...   read more

If the matter of Nancy Pelosi vs. the CIA was a court case, and the Central Intelligence Agency has to testify on its own behalf, it would have a serious credibility issue, stemming from its history of lying to Congress. The current House Speaker ...   read more

More Americans died in World War I than in Korea or Vietnam, but unlike those conflicts, whose participants have been honored in the nation’s capital, the veterans of the “war to end all wars” have yet to get their memorial. On the National Mall i...   read more

Readjusting to civilian life often proves difficult for many veterans returning home from war, as they battle psychological problems, alcoholism or drug addiction. For those whose demons get them into trouble with the law, there is now an alternat...   read more

Highway-happy California has benefited mightily from the federal stimulus funds dedicated for road and infrastructure projects, according to congressional data that ProPublica sifted through. Five of the top 10 projects in the country that have re...   read more

With the advancement of wireless technology all across America has come an expanded authority by federal regulators to enter homes without a warrant, so says the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Based on the original law that created it (t...   read more

If President Barack Obama is really intent on closing down Guantanamo Bay and overcoming fierce congressional opposition to housing these detainees on U.S. soil, he should repeat three simple words at every opportunity: They’re already here. Someh...   read more

A legal battle against the tobacco industry that began a decade ago is almost over now that a federal appellate court has upheld the landmark ruling from 2006 that ruled cigarette makers had violated federal racketeering laws in an effort to decei...   read more

The United States is fast reaching a crisis point as federal, state and local law enforcement falls further and further behind in processing a backlog of now 350,000 DNA samples for cases involving murder or rape, according to an investigation by ...   read more

Despite the brutality of his crime and lack of remorse, former Army private Steven D. Green avoided receiving the death penalty for raping and murdering a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing members of her family in 2006. The first soldier to be co...   read more

“Democratized intelligence” is helping uncover the secretive world of North Korea, one of the world’s most hidden societies, thanks to economist Curtis Melvin. Through his blog, North Korean Economy Watch, Melvin has used the power of Google Earth...   read more

Following the fatal shooting of five U.S. service members at a counseling center in Baghdad earlier this month, the need to encourage more soldiers to seek mental care has taken on new urgency. However, a military culture that values strength and ...   read more

A recent study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that Americans in the lowest income bracket give the most to charity in proportion to their income, donating about 4.3%, compared to the 2% to 3% of all other income brackets. Several expla...   read more

No more pencils, no more books. And no more jobs. May and June are usually months of celebration and enthusiasm for college graduates as they complete their degrees and move into the job world. Only this year employment opportunities are way down ...   read more