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  • Musk and Trump Fire Members of Congress

    Wednesday, February 26, 2025
    Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sent messages to all members of Congress terminating their positions, stating “Your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment.” All Democratic and independent members of Congress, as well as two Republicans, found themselves locked out of their offices after everything inside had been confiscated.   read more
  • Conservative Florida Gov. Scott Signs Bill Lowering Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants

    Wednesday, June 11, 2014
    Three years ago, Scott said: “I believe the federal government ought to do their job. You know, secure our borders. Come up with an immigration policy that Americans understand and people who want to come to this country understand. But with regard to in-state tuition for illegal immigrants I completely oppose it.” That’s not all that Scott was opposed to. Last year he vetoed a bill that would have permitted young undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses.   read more
  • Supreme Court Decision on “Aged-Out” Immigrants Disrupts Normal Ideological Blocs

    Wednesday, June 11, 2014
    In Scialabba v. Cuellar de Osorio (pdf), a split court ruled 5-4 that children of immigrants cannot be given special priority by the immigration system just because they “age out” (meaning they turn 21 by the time bureaucrats get around to processing their parents’ visa application).   read more
  • Justice Dept. Moves to Require Polling Places in Tribal Areas

    Wednesday, June 11, 2014
    In one area of Montana the distance to get to a polling place is so far that three tribes have filed a lawsuit to have voting offices set up within closer proximity to voters. In another example, the Alaskan village of Kasigluk is separated by a river that has no bridge, and voters on one side have no more than a couple hours to vote before the ballot equipment is removed and packed onto a boat for shipment to the other side, where voting hours are also be curtailed.   read more
  • Federal Agencies with Guns: Weather Service, Social Security, Railroad Retirement Board

    Tuesday, June 10, 2014
    Thousands of federal government employees are armed with handguns and even semiautomatic and automatic weapons as part of their jobs for agencies that are not traditional law enforcement operations. These gun-toting civil servants include those performing missions that involve Social Security, delivering the mail, predicting the weather, and overseeing railroad pensions. Others authorized to carry firearms conduct audits for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.   read more
  • Facial Recognition Software Creeps Closer to Total Accuracy

    Tuesday, June 10, 2014
    The testing revealed that the technologies were better at recognizing photos of older individuals than younger ones, “suggesting that we become steadily easier to recognize using facial recognition software, and more distinguishable from our contemporaries, as we age.” Such software is used to root out duplicates in official documents such as driver’s licenses and passports, access control, social media tagging and criminal investigations.   read more
  • Chicago Sues Drug Companies over Painkiller Marketing

    Tuesday, June 10, 2014
    The webpage for Janssen’s Duragesic (fentanyl) drug says that the medication “is a strong prescription pain medication for moderate to severe chronic pain that can provide long-lasting relief from persistent pain.” It makes no mention on the page about use being recommended for or restricted to cancer patients.   read more
  • Violent Crime Down Since Colorado Legalized Marijuana

    Tuesday, June 10, 2014
    When Colorado legalized recreational marijuana, critics of the idea warned it would lead to more crime throughout the state. But the impact has been just the opposite so far in the state’s largest city, which has seen violent crime go down. Crime data for Denver, the hub of legal pot sales in the state, shows murders, assaults, rapes, burglaries and other violent crimes declined during the first three months of the year, compared with the same period for 2013.   read more
  • One-Third of Winners of Indian Election Charged with Crimes including 10 with Murder

    Tuesday, June 10, 2014
    Among this year’s new crop of legislators, 112 (or 21%) face “serious” criminal allegations, such as murder, attempted murder, rape, kidnapping and “communal disharmony,” which can include members of one religion attacking those of another. Ten face charges of homicide, and 17 with attempted homicide.   read more
  • Cliven Bundy Owes more Money in Unpaid Grazing Fees than all other Ranchers Combined

    Monday, June 09, 2014
    Bundy’s bill stands at more than $1 million, which includes fees for late payments and trespassing on federal property, since he has not made payments to the BLM since the early 1990s. In comparison, 458 ranchers (out of 16,000) who run cattle on BLM lands collectively owe late grazing bills that total $237,000, according to agency numbers collected by Greenwire. Furthermore, less than 1% of the 16,000 ranchers are more than two months behind on their payments.   read more
  • Federal Report on Gulf of Mexico Oil Drilling Explosion Warns of Future Disasters

    Monday, June 09, 2014
    Cheryl MacKenzie, who led the investigation, said another such blowout is not out of the question. “Although there have been regulatory improvements since the accident, the effective management of safety critical elements has yet to be established,” MacKenzie said. “This results in potential safety gaps in U.S. offshore operations and leaves open the possibility of another similar catastrophic accident.”   read more
  • Obama’s Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases by 30% in 15 Years…10 States just did it in 7

    Monday, June 09, 2014
    The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a plan last week that would cut carbon emissions from electricity production by 30% over the next 15 years. The proposal drew howls of protest from those who said it would raise electric rates and kill jobs. However, 10 states have already cut their plant emissions by that much and there have been few economic consequences.   read more
  • Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Who Is Julián Castro?

    Monday, June 09, 2014
    In 2009, Julián ran again for mayor, and this time he won. At 35, he was the youngest mayor of a Top-50 U.S. city. He focused on education during his tenure, establishing a program to give college guidance to San Antonio high school students and championing a sales-tax increase to fund a pre-kindergarten school program. Castro also helped push through an ordinance banning discrimination against members of the LGBT community. He was re-elected twice, in 2011 and 2013, by huge margins.   read more
  • VA Accused of Retaliating against Whistleblowers

    Monday, June 09, 2014
    Lawyers with OSC say they stopped the VA recently from taking disciplinary actions against three VA whistleblowers. One case involved an employee who hadn’t been disciplined during 20 years of service, but was now facing a 30-day suspension without pay for reporting on the use of patient restraints in violation of VA rules and procedures.   read more
  • Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States: Who Is Anne Anderson?

    Monday, June 09, 2014
    Anderson moved to New York as the Irish ambassador to the United Nations, serving until taking the Washington post. Anderson is a frequent lecturer at U.S. universities. Since becoming ambassador to the United States, Anderson has pushed for immigration reform. There are as many as 50,000 undocumented Irish in the U.S.   read more
  • Rep. Goodlatte, the Congressman from Chiquita, Fights Bill to Help Victims’ Families Sue Terrorists

    Sunday, June 08, 2014
    In November, a delegation from 9/11 Families United For Justice Against Terrorism met with Goodlatte aide Zachary Somers. Somers acted bored and dismissive, and then said his boss objected to the legislation. When members of the group later met with Goodlatte himself, the Congressman asked one survivor, who spoke of her father’s last words, “Weren’t you compensated for that?” The survivor, an adult child of a victim, had not been paid a settlement.   read more
  • U.S. Corporate Tax Dodgers Prefer to Stash Profits in Netherlands, Bermuda and Ireland

    Sunday, June 08, 2014
    In terms of total profits of U.S. subsidiaries held overseas, the leaders are Netherlands at $127 billion, Bermuda with $94 billion and Ireland at $87 billion. U.S. companies have hidden so much of their profits in foreign bank accounts that the sums in question are more than the entire gross domestic products of some of these tax-haven nations.   read more
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