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

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wants it to be clear that it is not the “Airport Security Administration.”   These days, special teams of TSA officials can be seen appearing randomly at the country’s train stations, bus depots a...   read more

It took three decades and a historic deficit to motivate them, but Congress finally killed a lucrative farm subsidy that promoted the sale of ethanol.   Technically, lawmakers took no action to end the corn-based subsidy, as it was set to expire...   read more

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is fast making itself an enemy of Judge Jed Rakoff.   The SEC previously filed a settlement with Rakoff to resolve a billion-dollar securities fraud case involving Citigroup—which the judge rejected b...   read more

America’s expanding waist lines have prompted the U.S. Coast Guard to adopt new rules for the first time in half a century because they now assume that the average passenger aboard vessels is a good 25 pounds heavier.   The new regulation states...   read more

He waited until New Year’s Eve to do it…but he did it. While expressing “serious reservations” about the bill, President Barack Obama on New Year’s Eve signed legislation that cements into law two highly controversial tenets of the war on terror: ...   read more

Montana’s century-old ban on corporate spending in elections has been restored by a 5-2 vote of the state Supreme Court, bucking the Citizens United ruling from two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court.   Since 1912, Montana had prohibited corpor...   read more

When the United States on February 21, 2010, accidentally killed at least 15 civilians in southern Afghanistan, the missile attack responsible was prompted by ambiguous intelligence provided by a defense contractor that was aggressively misinterpr...   read more

Road construction in Afghanistan under the auspices of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is so terrible that “one could argue that USAID officials are providing aid and comfort to the enemy,” according to Matthew J. Nasuti of K...   read more

Ex-Sheriff Booked into Jail Named after Him The Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility in Colorado this week took in an unexpected prisoner: Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. himself. The former sheriff of Arapahoe County (1983-2002), for whom the jail...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided to withdraw rules limiting the use of human antibiotics in animal feed, much to the dismay of environmental and consumer groups.   The FDA used the holiday season to quietly make the policy chan...   read more

The royal family of Saudi Arabia will receive more than 80 jet fighters from the United States as part of a $29.4 billion arms deal approved by the Obama administration.   Eighty-four new F-15SA Strike Eagle fighters will be delivered to the Sau...   read more

The civil case against the George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program by the National Security Agency (NSA) has been resurrected by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle because the federal government may have conducte...   read more

SEC Censors Document on How It Censors Documents The government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in September 2010 seeking the new guidelines handed out t...   read more

U.S. Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte is returning home from El Salvador after Senate Republicans refused to confirm her appointment.   President Barack Obama nominated Puerto Rican-born Aponte on December 9, 2009, and she was approved by the Senat...   read more

Chinese TV Passes Off Footage from “Top Gun” as Chinese Military Drill China Central Television, a government-sponsored broadcaster, recently aired footage purportedly of a Chinese J-10 fighter demonstrating its air-to-air combat prowess. In the ...   read more

14 Notable Nicknames of Mobsters Arrested in FBI Sweep Although we are well into the 21st century, it is reassuring to know that many gangsters have not lost their taste for traditional mob nicknames. 1. Anthony “Tony Bagels” Cavezza 2. Jack “J...   read more