The majority of voters did not vote for Donald Trump for president; the majority of voters did not vote for Republican candidates for the Senate; and fewer than 51% of voters cast their ballots for Republican candidates for the House of Representatives. The Republican Party now controls the White House, both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, no matter how that came to be. I believe it is worth bearing in mind that a majority of U.S. citizens did not support the Republican winners.   read more

Voter impersonation, the reason why more than half of all U.S. states have adopted or considered voter identification laws, is virtually non-existent, according to an investigative news study.   After examining 2,068 cases of voter fraud since 2...   read more

Bad news for President Barack Obama’s healthcare law: Almost one-third of doctors say they won’t take new Medicaid patients.   As part of Obama’s reform plan, the government wants to significantly expand the number of Americans on Medicaid. Afte...   read more

In its legal fight to indefinitely jail Americans suspected of terrorist ties, the Obama administration has refused to give any ground in federal court, even dodging a judge’s questions about whether it has abided by a temporary order to not enf...   read more

An enormous sinkhole in Louisiana has forced the evacuation of 150 homes and prompted a lawsuit by local residents claiming the opening may contain radioactive material.   Located about 50 miles from Baton Rouge, the sinkhole occurred when an un...   read more

The attorney representing Private Bradley Manning has filed a motion calling for the military to dismiss all charges against his client, whose constitutional rights were violated during his pretrial confinement. Manning is accused of giving thousa...   read more

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan wants to create a “path to prosperity” for American workers.   But government employees are not invited to come along.   Ryan, the House Budget Committee’s chairman, has sponsored the Republican...   read more

Having lost a billion-dollar case over illegal marketing of its pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson is now being sued for misleading consumers about the artificial sweetener Splenda.   Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary, McNeil Nutritionals, has clai...   read more

Among the many Americans who collected unemployment checks during the Great Recession were thousands of millionaires who legally received jobless compensation.   People with incomes of $1 million or more are entitled to file and receive unemploy...   read more

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning of a new swine flu that so far has sickened more than 100 children, mostly in the Midwest.   To date, 145 cases of the influenza (H3N2) have been diagnosed in four states since mi...   read more

It turns out that the slogan “drill, baby, drill” ought to be “nil, baby, nil.” According to two recent reports by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office,(CBO) opening all federal land to oil and gas drilling — including the Arctic National ...   read more

An Ohio law prohibiting doctors from contributing to political campaigns has been ruled unconstitutional by the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. The law, on the books since 1978, barred physicians who participate in the Medica...   read more

New York State’s new banking regulator has made enemies in Washington after it went solo in going after a London-based bank caught laundering money for Iran.   Benjamin Lawsky, the head of the recently created New York State Department of Financ...   read more

Google has agreed to pay a record fine of $22.5 million for creating Internet programming that circumvented anti-tracking settings on computers and smart phones.   The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered the fine after Google’s cookie scheme,...   read more

From “too big to fail” to “too big to prosecute,” Wall Street investment banking firm Goldman Sachs— whose deceptive behavior to its own investors was found by a bipartisan Senate investigation to have contributed to the 2008 financial meltdown th...   read more

With the drought of 2012 — already the worst in the U.S. since the 1950s — expected to cause dramatically smaller corn and soybean crops, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has called on the U.S. to suspend the use of corn...   read more

The state of Utah is on the hook to pay more than $5 million to those running a multi-million dollar trust for polygamists.   Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lost control of their $110 million trust to t...   read more