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

An unusual controversy popped up on Wednesday when the Washington Post reported that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was asking federal employees to stop using the Bush administration term “Global War on Terrorism.” OMB director Peter Or...   read more

As previously reported in AllGov, there are loopholes in President Obama’s Iraq withdrawal plan that allow the United States to keep combat troops in Iraq long after the president promised he would. Now, Pentagon spokesmen have revealed some of th...   read more

Writing for The Washington Note, Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who was Colin Powell’s chief of staff while Powell was Secretary of State, has laid out seven  aspects of the Guantánamo debate that have been largely kept out of the media and thus out of th...   read more

President Barack Obama’s choice to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development is Dallas P. Tonsager, a South Dakota farmer who was part of the Obama campaign, and has been a generous supporter of the Democratic Party. However, he also...   read more

The United States appears to be losing yet another war (on drugs), this time in Afghanistan, as Richard Holbrooke recently announced that the $800 million a year spent by the US on counter-narcotics would be better allocated helping Afghan farmers...   read more

In an unusual case, five Fort Bragg soldiers are facing courts-martial after the death of a drinking buddy. On July 20, 2008, Pfc. Luke Brown, despite having recently completed an Army substance-abuse program, became drunk and unruly while visitin...   read more

Raymond E. Mabus is a former governor of Mississippi and one-time ambassador to Saudi Arabia who signed onto the Obama campaign in 2007.   Born October 11, 1948, in Starkville, Mississippi, Ray Mabus grew up in Ackerman, the only child of Raymon...   read more

In the ongoing controversy about the CIA’s destruction of 92 videotapes of potentially illegal interrogations, including 12 that depicted use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” (torture), the CIA disclosed that it has 3,000 documents relating ...   read more

On Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted 3-1 to classify depleted uranium a low-level Class A waste, meaning that it is only hazardous for up to 100 years. Depleted uranium is a byproduct of uranium enrichment for nuclear power ...   read more

Campaigning in 2007, Barack Obama declared that “when I am president, [lobbyists] won’t find a job in my White House. Easier said than done. National Journal Magazine checked the names of 267 Obama senior appointees and nominees against the list o...   read more

Americans might like to take a cue from their British cousins in urging their government to replace technically correct government phraseology with words that normal people can understand. The Local Government Association (LGA) is a group that lob...   read more

Writing for Wired, David Kravets takes note of a little-noticed surveillance-related case with wide implications for cell phone users. Following the lead of the Bush administration, the Obama administration is claiming that the Fourth Amendment pr...   read more

The Obama administration reversed the policy of the Bush administration by endorsing a French-sponsored non-binding United Nations declaration calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality. Homosexuality is currently outlawed in more than 85 ...   read more

Annoyed by the useless junk mail that arrives at your home? You’re not alone. About 44% of junk mail ends up in landfills without even being opened. It is hard to convince the senders of junk mail to stop because, although it may be bad for the en...   read more

StimulusWatch.org presents “shovel-ready” projects around the United States and allows web visitors to vote on which ones are worth funding. The list was compiled by The United States Conference of Mayors, but anyone can vote. According to site us...   read more

One winner in the economic downturn is the military, which has finally seen a five-year recruiting crisis come to an end. In February, all branches of the military met their recruiting goals, and the Army, which has been under the most stress,...   read more