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 US Army Corps of Engineers, builder of the levees and canals in New Orleans, has managed to dodge lawsuits that sought to blame the federal government for the destruction wrought on the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish after Hurricane K...   read more

After allegedly declaring over the phone she would use her influence to help two Israeli lobbyists accused of spying, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) concluded by saying, “This conversation does not exist.” Guess again, congresswoman.   That conversatio...   read more

In the words of Jai-Rui Chong of the Los Angeles Times, Kerry Knudsen, a researcher at the University of California, Riverside Herbarium, ”took a lichen” to President Barack Obama. Knudsen named a newfound species of lichen, Caloplaca obamae, afte...   read more

General William Ward, commander of AFRICOM (United States Africa Command), testified on March 17 before the Senate Armed Services Committee that a US-backed plan to root out the infamous Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northeastern Congo was a suc...   read more

Officials of Crestwood, a village of 11,000 in Cook County, Illinois, used to proclaim that their water was “Good to taste but not to waste!” while cutting taxes as part of their fiscally-conservative municipal operation. Well, it turns out that c...   read more

Marketers obsessed with selling to young people may want to start looking at the other end of the age spectrum for big buying dollars. A new study commissioned by Grandparents.com reveals that grandma and grandpa are more likely to be flush with c...   read more

While some retired military leaders have served as United States ambassadors, Lt. General Karl W. Eikenberry is the first active-duty general (or admiral) ever to be appointed to a top diplomatic post. Having agreed to retire from the U.S. Army up...   read more

Philip H. Gordon, the next Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, is no stranger to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, having served on Bill Clinton’s National Security Council staff during the former president’s first term in off...   read more

On March 19, 2009, President Barack Obama named Jon Wellinghoff Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency that oversees wholesale electric transactions, interstate electric transmission and gas transportation in the U...   read more

The best way to save money and improve the caliber of officers in the U.S. military would be to shut down the training academies for the Army, Navy, and Air Force, argues Thomas E. Ricks, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, ...   read more

An investigation by the Associated Press (AP) has found that the American water supply has increasingly become a dumping ground for pharmaceutical ingredients by industry and consumers. The AP calculated that at least 271 million pounds of pharmac...   read more

Last year was a bad year for many giants of industry, according to Fortune magazine’s annual ranking of top companies, which reported the profits of the largest 500 companies fell collectively by 85% from 2007 to 2008. But 2008 wasn’t so bad for t...   read more

Researchers in Britain have determined that the more people weigh, the more they contribute to global warming. A study by Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Department of Epidemiology and Population ...   read more

Since 1996, local police have been enlisted to help enforce immigration violations. Now questions are being raised as to whether some jurisdictions are using the program to arrest illegal immigrants for traffic violations, and thus reducing the re...   read more

Cyber-bullying that led to the suicide of an actress and the fleeing of “dog poop girl” from her hometown provided impetus for a new Cyber Defamation Law in South Korea requiring that the real name of a user be published with any of the user’s upl...   read more

As the United States searches for sources of domestically produced energy, interest has developed in the possibility of using the oceans to create power. Although the field is in its infancy, the long-term prospects are intriguing.   Earlier thi...   read more