President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed outrage to aides because there have been no violent mass street demonstrations against his statements and policies. He believes he needs violent demonstrations against him in order to declare a national state of emergency that would allow him to do anything he wants.   read more

It is unclear whether the Department of Defense is really saving money by freezing the size of its civilian workforce.   Pentagon leaders insist their Defense Efficiencies Initiative will reduce the amount of tax dollars consumed by the departme...   read more

The Obama administration has reached a settlement with more than 40 Indian tribes to resolve claims of mismanaged funds by the Department of the Interior.   After 22 months of negotiation, the U.S. Department of Justice agreed with tribal repres...   read more

The leaders of Iraq, on a rocky road to stability since the final departure of U.S. combat troops last year, will soon be welcoming a familiar face as the next ambassador from the United States. On March 26, 2012, President Obama announced his i...   read more

An experienced diplomat who has served there before and speaks the Portuguese language was nominated by President Obama on March 29, 2012, to be the next ambassador to the southern African nation of Mozambique. Born circa 1964, Douglas M. Griffith...   read more

Today Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a bill that will radically redefine when life begins for an unborn child.   A State Senate amendment to the bill, H.B. 2036, states that a fetus’ life starts not at conception, but up to two week...   read more

Lawmakers in Arizona have passed legislation that would radically redefine when life begins for an unborn child.   A State Senate amendment to the bill, H.B. 2036, states that a fetus’ life starts not at conception, but up to two weeks before th...   read more

Johnson & Johnson must pay a $1.1 billion judgment after an Arkansas jury found the company guilty of misleading doctors and patients about the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.   The company was accused of defrauding Medicaid by not properly disclo...   read more

There was plenty of blame to go around for the pepper-spraying incident last November 18 at the University of California Davis.   According to a task force that reviewed the demonstration, the spraying of protesters “should and could have been p...   read more

More than two years after launching its special unit targeting very wealthy Americans, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has completed less than 40 audits.   The IRS’s Global High Wealth Industry Group, created to review the tax filings of indi...   read more

A sampling of raw chicken sold in grocery stores across the United States revealed nearly half of the meat contained the bacteria E. coli.   According to the group that conducted the study, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the ...   read more

Legislation intended to “jumpstart” job creation may instead do more to allow fraud on Wall Street.   Developed by the White House, and signed by President Barack Obama on April 5, the “Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act” (or JOBS Act) swept th...   read more

Price spikes of crude oil during the middle of the last decade prompted the United States to reduce its reliance on petroleum imports. Since 2005, gross oil imports have declined 17%, according to the Congressional Research Service, while gross oi...   read more

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrated how much the roles of women in the U.S. military have expanded.   During a decade’s worth of conflict, more than 283,000 women were deployed to the two countries. Hundreds of them served in harm’s wa...   read more

If four of the losing Republican presidential candidates are telling the truth, then spiritual endorsement is not a sign of primary success.   This week, Mitt Romney said goodbye to his last serious challenger to the GOP nomination. Rick Santoru...   read more

Jay Bauer, an intelligence analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Chicago, is suing the FBI over a single pushup. Bauer was an assistant professor in communications sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, when he left to ...   read more

The federal government wants to obtain the capability to hack into video game consoles, all in the name of thwarting terrorism and pedophiles.   Obscure Technologies, a small San Francisco-based company that performs computer forensics, has rece...   read more