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 next time American voters shake their heads in disgust over criminal allegations against a politician, they can take solace in the fact that the U.S. political system has a long way to go before it sinks to the problems India has. Following re...   read more

Chief Judge David B. Sentelle, and two other judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia have ruled that the government does not have to release records relating to the violence that a group of individuals or their loved one...   read more

Officials at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are feeling some serious heat from Congress after they admitted that a computer hard drive containing huge amounts of data from the Clinton White House has gone missing. The driv...   read more

The unemployment rate, the statistic most commonly used by government and media to tell how the economy is doing, does not indicate just how bad things really are in the United States. That’s because the unemployment rate, calculated each month by...   read more

No matter how egregious their medical care may be, even resulting in death, military personnel cannot sue the government. This reality, in existence now for almost 60 years, has left Tommy and Connie Wilson of Hartwell, GA, sickened, fearing the d...   read more

When Gallup released a poll last week showing a majority of Americans considered themselves pro-life (51%-42%), opponents of abortion used the data to show that President Barack Obama’s liberal policies had galvanized Americans into moving away fr...   read more

Bank executives apparently are big believers in the idea that no good deed should go unpunished, at least when it comes to their good credit card customers. As Congress and President Barack Obama prepare to adopt legislation curbing credit card ac...   read more

J. Randolph “Randy” Babbitt, an aviation consultant and former pilot-union boss, will take over the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as it tries to overhaul air-traffic control equipment through the NextGen project, a billion-dollar effort to...   read more

Lawmakers in California are considering whether to allow school districts to do away with printed textbooks in favor of e-books that would be read using school computers. Current law requires school districts to first buy plenty of textbooks befor...   read more

Earlier this month, gray wolves were taken off the Endangered Species List by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, exposing them up once again to being hunted. However, many argue that this move was premature and that the wolves have not yet reache...   read more

A commando unit created by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been behind the worst attacks in Afghanistan involving civilians, military and foreign news sources have discovered. U.S. Marines Corps’ Special Operations Command (MarSOC) wa...   read more

In a relatively new twist in the operation of the U.S. military, the Pentagon is leasing surveillance drones from Boeing, rather than buying them. Rear Admiral Bill Shannon, executive officer for the unmanned aviation program, says that leasing th...   read more

A new book by historian José Maria Zavala claims that former dictator Francisco Franco of Spain was a monorchid, meaning he had only one testicle. Zavala bases his assertion on an account by physician Ana Puigvert, whose grandfather Antonio Puigve...   read more

As technology for cell phones and electric vehicles develops rapidly, the world is looking to a new source of energy: the vast salt flats of Bolivia. The poorest nation in South America is home to the world’s largest reserves of lithium, a metal t...   read more

The U.S. Census Bureau last week announced some of the latest demographic changes among states and counties with respect to ethnic composition, age and gender. According to new statistics, more counties continued to become “majority-minority”—mean...   read more

Federal anti-drug officials announced last week that the latest scientific data shows marijuana has become an increasingly potent and dangerous drug—a claim that has been proven false or exaggerated after other government warnings, according to cr...   read more