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

Another example (33 to be precise) of why earmarks are a bad idea has come by way of a Washington Post investigation.   After going through congressional records on spending, the newspaper found 33 representatives and senators had directed more ...   read more

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), considered by some as the most efficient federal agency in Washington, has been forced to reduce its staffing levels to a 75-year low, due to budget cuts.   The agency saved the government $45.7 billio...   read more

Critics on both the left and the right are bashing Chrysler’s Clint Eastwood-starring “Halftime in America” advertisement that appeared during last Sunday’s Super Bowl telecast.   Liberals were upset by the commercial because it used doctored fo...   read more

Whole Foods Market and other organic retailers are being accused of caving in to manufacturers of genetically modified (GM) crops and helping them legitimize their products with consumers. The products are also known as GMOs or genetically-modifie...   read more

As Argentina grows more vocal in its criticism of British plans to drill for oil in the waters around the disputed Falklands Islands (called by Argentines the Islas Malvinas), the South American nation has sent a new ambassador to the U.S. who is ...   read more

Once the standard by which new governments modeled their own public contract with citizens, the U.S. Constitution is losing its appeals with other countries, particularly regarding human rights.   Three decades ago, it was estimated that 160 nat...   read more

Maligned by American citizens and politicians, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is still the best of its kind in the Western world.   A review of postal service providers by Oxford Strategy Consulting resulted in the USPS getting the top ranking a...   read more

About 40% of the campaign ads related to the 2012 election so far have been funded by secret donors whose identity may never be known.   By declaring themselves to be “social welfare” groups concerned with policies rather than politics, these gr...   read more

The city of Fayetteville, North Carolina, home to the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg, has suffered through a series of violent incidents perpetrated by soldiers who have returned home from war.   Many of the 14,000 soldiers stationed at the base suffer ...   read more

Former Liberian warlord George E.S. Boley is being kicked out of the United States after an immigration judge ruled the Clarkson, New York, resident should be deported for violating a federal law banning the use of child soldiers.   The decision...   read more

An effort by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to create more transparency for political advertisements is being opposed by television and radio networks.   Under current law, broadcasters must maintain a “public inspection file” that ...   read more

After his second deployment to Afghanistan, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis came to the conclusion that things were not going well for the U.S. and that the Obama administration had misled the public on the war’s progress.   Instead of...   read more

Organizations representing commercial pilots have expressed serious concerns about the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) decision allowing drones to operate in the same airspace as airliners.   The FAA is preparing regulations to permit bu...   read more

Egypt’s military-controlled government is quickly losing support in Washington after it announced that 19 Americans working for pro-democracy groups would stand trial on licensing and financial charges.   The Americans are among 43 people, inclu...   read more

 It may not be long before human control, and accountability, of warfare and its destructive outcomes are entirely ambiguous.   Military planners are already testing the newest model in unmanned aircrafts, the X-47B. Unlike other drones that req...   read more

The business practices of America’s banks and other mortgage holders are under fresh legal attack, as New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a suit against Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase in New York State Supreme Co...   read more