Trump said he would send the National Guard to Toronto and impose 50% tariffs on all Los Angeles products. AllGov reporter Sidney Finster suggested that perhaps Trump had confused the two cities. Because Toronto is in Canada, not the United States, Trump can’t send the National Guard there. And because Los Angeles is in the United States, Trump can’t impose tariffs on a U.S. city. Trump defended his position by saying, “I’m always right.”   read more

Last Wednesday President Barack Obama declared that the $787 billion economic stimulus bill has already created or saved more than 150,000 jobs. The truth is, however, the White House has no definitive numbers showing this declaration to be accura...   read more

Government cost-cutting has taken a startling form in the Federal Bureau of Prison’s “unescorted transfer” program. Through this program, which began in 1996, inmates moving between minimum security detention facilities, halfway houses, and prison...   read more

To hear the speeches of Hugo Chávez and ex-President George W. Bush, you’d think that the United States and Venezuela were mortal enemies. In fact, while Bush was president, trade between the two nations increased for six straight years.   Since...   read more

The headline was shocking: “1,500 Farmers Commit Mass Suicide in India.” The story began in Northern Ireland’s Belfast Telegraph, was picked up by The Independent in England, and spread to the United States as a home-page story on the Huffington P...   read more

Aspirin is great for people with heart problems, doctors will attest, but not so good for soldiers heading into combat zones. That’s why the Defense Department’s Army and Air Force Exchange Service is pulling all products containing aspirin from s...   read more

The choice of Steven E. Koonin, a longtime physics professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and, since 2004, senior scientist for British Petroleum, to lead the Office of Science in the Department of Energy is viewed by those ...   read more

Having completed his first 100 days in office, President Barack Obama was subjected to the media reviews all presidents have experienced since Franklin D. Roosevelt. And while many have tried to draw comparison between the Depression and the curre...   read more

The idea of national service, whereby young Americans give back to their community and country through voluntary work, is so noble that it seems difficult to believe that anyone could be apprehensive about it, according to Carl Horowitz, director ...   read more

The Obama Administration has revoked a Bush-era rule that allowed government agencies to decide on their own whether a project would harm an endangered plant or animal without consulting the Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Oceanic and At...   read more

If her six-minute confrontation with students in a Stanford University dorm is any indication, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is ill-prepared for life outside the bubble of the Bush administration.   As recorded on video by student R...   read more

Don’t shed tears for the poor banking industry, which Americans taxpayers have had to bail out in recent months. From 1997 to 2008 the financial sector did very well for itself, accounting for up to 40% of all corporate profits. With their account...   read more

Hog farmers want everyone to know that the fear over the swine—sorry, H1N1—flu epidemic goes both ways. While people may be scared of catching the illness from eating pork, which experts say can’t happen, farmers have their own worries humans carr...   read more

The foreclosure of thousands of homes during the economic crisis has left bank headquarters across the country confronted by the long arm of the law from the West Coast. In Indio, CA, local law enforcement has threatened Citigroup officials in St....   read more

Millions of textbooks donated and paid for by the United States and foreign donors meant for schools in Afghanistan never make it to their destinations. In fact, about one third of the school books meant for the 2008 school schedule were never del...   read more

Doctors Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were paid $1,000 a day by the CIA to serve as the architects of the agency’s secret interrogation program, during which they assured their bosses that waterboarding was not only safe, but also effective in ext...   read more

Nur Munir, a graduate student at Harvard Divinity School, and U.S. resident for more than ten years, is likely to be deported to Indonesia, where he faces the possibility of political retaliation from the former military supporters of President Su...   read more