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

What started out as an attempt to save money on energy bills has turned into a productivity bonanza for Utah’s state government. In the summer of 2008, as gas prices soared, state officials decided to mandate a four-day workweek for all state civi...   read more

VS Acharya, a minister in the Indian state of Karnataka and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was driving through his district last Sunday when he noticed a political rally being held. Like any good politician, Acharya saw an opportunity...   read more

President Barack Obama has said repeatedly that his administration is committed to shrinking the digital divide and getting rural America on the Internet through broadband services in order to help small businesses and improve access to health car...   read more

Unlike other cabinet members, the Secretary of Commerce has always been expected to be on the side of business; a friend to corporate America. President Obama’s Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke, is in familiar territory. Large corporations spent ...   read more

Fifth Avenue's iconic Empire State Building is about to undergo an environmental retrofit project to reduce its energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Constructed in 1931, the 102-floor, 2.6 million-square-foot skyscraper has 6,500 wind...   read more

The Cybersecurity Act of 2009, currently working its way through Congress, would give the President and a key member of his cabinet unprecedented authority over the Internet, according to the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF). Introduced by Sena...   read more

Americans might think that the sexual indiscretions involving their politicians are juicy stuff. But the scandals involving Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, Mark Foley, Larry Craig and others don’t compare to the fresh revelation that th...   read more

Surprise inspections aren’t much good if the surprise gets blown. That’s what happened in April 2006 when the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) tried to pull off a series of security tests at 12 airports around the country. The test was...   read more

More than ever, the U.S. Census Bureau is facing a daunting prospect as it prepares to account for the estimated 306 million residents of the United States in the 2010 census. Because the current economic downturn has caused so many Americans to l...   read more

After twenty years of debate over whether it should be demolished, the Savage Rapids Dam, built in 1921 on the Rogue River in Oregon, is finally being removed. The dam was initially built to irrigate the Grants Pass Irrigation District during the ...   read more

In light of last week’s media maelstrom over Somali pirates capturing a American sea captain, GOP operative Rich Galen decided it was time to review some key rules for the modern-day privateer to follow:   Rule #1: If you’re going to take hostag...   read more

A little more than a century ago, when the United States was just beginning to take its first steps toward becoming a world power, Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” became all the rage in political circles. The poem captured the mi...   read more

Lost in all the celebratory coverage of an American merchant captain’s rescue by Navy SEALS is the fact that 17 ships and approximately 260 hostages are still being held by pirates from Somalia. While the United States took umbrage over the captur...   read more

There is no bigger gas guzzler in the federal government than the Defense Department, which spent $18 billion last year alone on fuel, thanks in large part to the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. But it might not be long before the American mili...   read more

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a man cannot drive a car with “USA” on his license plate—but he can marry pre-pubescent girls, according to separate media reports coming out of the Middle East country. The restriction on automobile license plates ...   read more

The stimulus fund will give $100 million to the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program (EFSP), a public-private organization that was created in 1983 to help provide for the needs of hungry and homeless Americans. The program, which is ...   read more