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

The Department of Defense agency that provides global information and technology assistance through online services for the military has a leader who stepped into controversy almost from the very beginning of his tenure. Lieutenant General Ronni...   read more

President Barack Obama on Wednesday blocked the release of documents related to the “Fast and Furious” gun controversy, setting up a showdown with House Republicans who may vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt.   Republicans h...   read more

Seven newly released intelligence documents have revealed that the Bush administration ignored multiple warnings prior to September 11, 2001, about planned attacks by Osama bin Laden.   The declassified, but heavily censored, documents, obtain...   read more

Facing a potentially costly class-action lawsuit, the National Football League stands accused of hiding the dangers of head injuries and long-term health problems associated with them.   More than 2,000 former players are giving up their indiv...   read more

Many of the nation’s largest pizza chains are fighting Washington over a proposed requirement to disclose how many calories are in the food they sell.   Banding together as the recently formed American Pizza Community, companies including Domi...   read more

Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana is suing the Department of Defense to stop it from moving a wing of fighter jets—and the hundreds of jobs associated with it—to another state.   As part of a restructuring effort, the U.S. Air Force wants t...   read more

Facing political pressure from both left and right, President Barack Obama announced last week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will no longer deport persons simply because they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Speci...   read more

Despite economic and financial problems of their own, European nations have continued to expand renewable energy sources. The United States, meanwhile, has not progressed in terms of what it gets from solar, wind and other non-fossil fuel source...   read more

Drug dealers are successfully using Florida’s controversial stand-your-ground law to get away with murder.   The law, which has gained national attention since the Trayvon Martin shooting, was intended to help citizens avoid punishment when de...   read more

Six years after Congress authorized a new incentive program for tax whistleblowers, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has paid less than a handful of awards to those exposing tax cheats. The result has been demoralizing for whistleblowers, acco...   read more

A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that the University of Cincinnati’s anti-protest policy constitutes a violation of the First Amendment’s right to free speech and must be amended.   The university’s chapter of the Ron Paul-inspired Young Amer...   read more

Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, now the next in line to take over the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was one of several defendants sued last year for his alleged support of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.   After paying more than $21...   read more

Move over super PACs and make way for the “social welfare” organizations.   As hyped and deep-pocketed super PACs are, their spending power was eclipsed during the 2010 election, according to the Center for Public Integrity and the Center for ...   read more

Asian immigrants have surpassed Hispanics as the largest group entering the United States, bringing with them an unmatched degree of higher education backgrounds.   According to the Pew Research Center, 61% of adults emigrating from Asia have ...   read more

Brett McGurk has withdrawn from becoming the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq following the disclosure of racy emails he wrote in 2008, while he was married, to a reporter he later married.   Half a dozen Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relation...   read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of William Fairey, who was convicted by a South Carolina court without him being aware he was on trial.   In 1998 Fairey was charged with obtaining goods and moneys under false pretenses. H...   read more