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

Sixteen years have passed since the end of the Bosnian War, yet the nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to discriminate against ethnic minorities.   According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), Jews, Roma (a.k.a. Gypsies) and other national min...   read more

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 this week that anyone being held in jail can be subject to strip searches, no matter how minor the offense or who the arrestee is. That applies to even someone like Sister Bernie Galvin, a Catholic nun and resident...   read more

Unlike President Barack Obama, who has refused to prosecute American intelligence agents involved in the kidnapping and torture of terrorism suspects, leaders in Poland have charged their former top spymaster for helping the Central Intelligence A...   read more

While homicides overall are declining in the U.S., justifiable homicides are going up.   An analysis of murder statistics by The Wall Street Journal revealed killings done in the name of self-defense doubled last decade, reaching a total of 326....   read more

Borrowing for a college education can be a lifetime commitment.   According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, about $36.5 billion of the nation’s student loan debt is owed by Americans in their sixties or older. This includes more than $4...   read more

Federal agents on Monday continued the Obama administration’s crackdown on medical marijuana operations in California, raiding four Oaksterdam University sites in downtown Oakland, as well as the home of the institution's founder, Richard Lee.   ...   read more

Wealthy benefactors of special-interest political campaigns may have to reveal their identity in the wake of a federal judge’s ruling.   U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled late last week that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) went ...   read more

When President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Martha Johnson to be the next Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency that provides procurement services to federal agencies, manages contrac...   read more

Cholera has ravaged five percent of Haiti’s population, killing thousands. And the impoverished island country has the United Nations to blame.   Since the January 12, 2010, earthquake, more than 7,000 Haitians have died from the world’s worst r...   read more

A declining prison population should mean good news for taxpayers. But it can still result in heartache for local communities in need of jobs that had borrowed to build jails in anticipation of a law and order boom.   In Texas, many counties ope...   read more

For nearly a decade during the George W. Bush administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was routinely criticized for not carrying out its mandate to protect consumers. Since the election of President Barack Obama, the commissio...   read more

Oil drilling off Alaska’s north coast could begin in a matter of months now that the Obama administration has approved a clean-up plan in the event of a spill.   The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement app...   read more

Millions of medical implants have been sold in the U.S. without ever being tested, according to Consumer Reports.   The magazine says among the untested are artificial joints, heart defibrillators and surgical mesh that’s been surgically implant...   read more

Despite cuts to next year’s military budget, weapons merchant Lockheed Martin did very well for itself in the Obama administration’s proposed spending plans. Although Lockheed took a big hit to its main franchise, the $400 billion F-35 Joint Strik...   read more

When Philadelphia officials learned last year that the city’s water supply and the region’s waterways showed elevated levels of radioactive iodine-131, their initial instinct was to blame the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, as I-131 is found ...   read more

A new law passed by the Arizona Legislature and awaiting the signature of Republican Governor Jan Brewer could criminalize much of what gets posted on the Internet, thus raising serious First Amendment concerns. Arizona House Bill 2549 would make ...   read more