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

After cutting corners and relying on poor accounting, JPMorgan Chase shut down its legal operation against credit card debtors, some of whom may have been wrongly sued by the bank. It would appear to be another example of greed overcoming honesty....   read more

What was once a rare occurrence has become a common violation of the law: Parents lying about their residency in order to send their kids to better schools.   This unlawful act, punishable with time in jail, has increased in recent years, especi...   read more

Despite numerous arrests and killings of cartel leaders, Mexico’s “decapitation” strategy for stopping the drug trade is not working, says a top American general.   General Charles H. Jacoby Jr., commander of U.S. Northern Command, told a Senate...   read more

A supporter of President Barack Obama who serves as a trade adviser has been accused by the United Nations of buying millions of dollars in gold from a wanted African warlord.   Kase Lawal, a Nigerian-born oil tycoon who serves as chairman and c...   read more

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has implemented a new policy for dealing with officer-related traffic accidents, which have been occurring at an average of one a day.   In January, The Los Angeles Times reported that the LAPD had caused...   read more

Supporters of President Barack Obama have hailed the news of new job opportunities and the decline of the unemployment rate. When the national unemployment rate reached 10% for one month—in October 2009—it caused widespread despair and worry. The ...   read more

Federal criminal courts broke a record last year for the number of defendants that filed through the system. The number of defendants increased 3% over the previous year, with the total recorded at 102,931. Drug offenses were the most commonly pro...   read more

Ten years after being established and almost $1 billion in costs, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has made its first conviction, much to the delight of human rights advocates.   But critics contend the ICC is too costly and delivers too l...   read more

Bernard Calloway of New Orleans is suing the police department claiming he was harassed after witnessing the post-Katrina murder of Henry Glover.   Glover’s killing became one of the more sensational cases after the disaster due to the involveme...   read more

For the past six years, the state of Texas has been relying on a private security company to help guard the border with Mexico, while Governor Rick Perry has boasted having a “model border security” operation.   The Texas Department of Public Sa...   read more

Reinforcing the commonly held assumption that mobile homes are not safe in tornado country, a disproportionate number of tornado victims in both recent and previous disasters were occupants of the lightweight housing.   During the recent storms ...   read more

The good news about the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is that most of the remaining money owed by banks will soon be paid back. The bad news is that some of the loans are being paid with other taxpayer dollars.   Of the $414 billion in TA...   read more

While operating its $34 billion loan guarantee program, the Department of Energy has sometimes ignored its own rules for properly approving green energy financing. The program is supposed to support projects that deal with solar power, wind energy...   read more

The first woman to lead the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is headed to the private sector, leaving behind accusations that she enriched her company while running the agency. DARPA funds projects that explore the cutting edge of...   read more

The Trenton toilet paper shortage has been solved…at least temporarily.   They scoured three floors at police headquarters in Trenton, New Jersey, but no toilet paper was found. The situation was the same at City Hall, the source of the TP short...   read more

The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit trying to overturn President Barack Obama’s mandate that every American have health insurance went bankrupt while owing $4,500 in unpaid medical bills.   Mary Brown, the former owner of a small auto repair shop ...   read more