Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sent messages to all members of Congress terminating their positions, stating “Your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment.” All Democratic and independent members of Congress, as well as two Republicans, found themselves locked out of their offices after everything inside had been confiscated.   read more

Don’t forget the hand sanitizer after filling up at the pump, because it could be coated with cold and flu germs.   So says Kimberly-Clark Corp., which tested gas stations, bank machines, mail boxes and other objects commonly touched every day i...   read more

  In an ominous sign for the economy, Bank of America, in an attempt to protect itself from its toxic assets, recently moved $75 trillion (with a “t”) in derivatives from its non-federally-protected Merrill Lynch securities unit to a subsidiary i...   read more

Saddam or Gaddafi, who cost the United States more? It’s not much of a comparison, in terms of dollars or casualties for Americans.   President George W. Bush’s decision to invade to Iraq in 2003—first to eliminate non-existent weapons of mass d...   read more

Established by Congress to investigate and expose government waste, the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan has decided to not reveal its volumes of materials to the public for another two decades.   After three years of wo...   read more

The redrawing of political boundaries after each census has become a windfall for the legal industry, with the process of redistricting now largely settled in courtrooms.   In more than half of the states, litigation has been filed to challenge ...   read more

Nearly 30 years after he committed his crime, Dieter Krombach of Germany has been convicted and sentenced in France to 15 years in prison for killing his 14-year-old stepdaughter.   Krombach’s crime drew international attention, not so much for ...   read more

Protestors around the world who have been saying that 1% of the population controls far too much power will be gratified to learn that social scientists in Switzerland have compiled data that supports this contention.   A group of complex system...   read more

Lawmakers in Washington think one way to help stimulate the depressed housing market is to make it more appealing for wealthy foreigners to buy American homes.   Senators Charles Schumer (D- New York) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have introduced legisl...   read more

When President Barack Obama announced on Friday that all U.S. military forces will be withdrawn from Iraq before the end of the year, it seemed like the end of an era. However, in reality, thousands of Americans will still be in harm’s way in the ...   read more

This month’s Dictator of the Month award to Islam Karimov is given in honor of Herman Cain’s complete lack of awareness of Uzbekistan and the important controversy regarding President Barack Obama’s decision to lift sanctions against Karimov despi...   read more

On September 9, 2011, Marina Kaljurand, the new Estonian Ambassador to the United States, presented her credentials to President Barack Obama at the White House. The first female Estonian ambassador to Washington, Kaljurand, ironically, is not eth...   read more

What Americans wanted to learn about and what they got from the media weren’t in sync during the middle of October, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.   The think tank’s News Interest Index for October 13-16 found t...   read more

A key part of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has finally been fulfilled, with the crossing of the first Mexican truck bound for the interior of the United States.   As part of NAFTA, Mexico’s trucking companies were suppose...   read more

Once a cornerstone of America’s nuclear weapons production, the former nuclear fuel factory at Hanford, Washington, is now a colossal clean-up project that has dragged on for decades, cost billions of dollars and sparked controversy between the fe...   read more

Since May 2010, the ambassador from Nicaragua to the United States has been Francisco Obadiah Campbell Hooker, an experienced diplomat and academic who previously served in Nicaragua’s embassy in the early 1980s. The Nicaraguan opposition objected...   read more

Since June 2010, the Ambassador to the United States from the Caribbean island nation of Dominica (population: 73,000) has been Hubert J. Charles, a longtime employee of UNESCO who is also a former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education ...   read more