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

The United States suffered 33 deaths at the hands of terrorists in 2008, none of which occurred at home. Americans killed were in Iraq (21), India (6), Afghanistan (4), Sudan (1) and Yemen (1).   While the United States often assumes it is the N...   read more

What America needs is another “Pecora Commission,” argues Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect and a senior fellow at Demos. Ferdinand Pecora, the lead counsel for the Senate Banking Committee in the early 1930s, led the charge to un...   read more

The inside of the National Pork Producers Council office in Washington, DC, resembled a war room last week as pork lobbyists almost pulled their hair out trying to contain the political and, most importantly, culinary fallout from “swine flu” hyst...   read more

The Obama administration wants to get tough with hedge funds, but there appears to be a turf battle about who should be in charge and how far to go. The new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is positioning herself to be the sheriff of...   read more

Diane Schroer, after retiring as a colonel in the U.S. Army Special Forces, found herself on the frontline of a new kind of battle, right on American soil: the fight against transsexual discrimination in the workplace. The veteran sued the Library...   read more

Two United States senators are beside themselves since discovering that the Defense Department has not bothered to collect $100 million from a former subsidiary of Halliburton that excessively billed the US government—and has continued to reward t...   read more

On April 27, Stockwell Day, Canada’s International Trade Minister, announced that Canada gave notice to the Obama Administration of a complaint it has filed with the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding new”country-of-origin” labeling regulati...   read more

For at the least the past 25 years, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has used taxpayer money to inject drug-addicted veterans with cocaine and morphine for research purposes. One study recruited nearly 40 cocaine addicts and injected them w...   read more

As the only Democrat currently on the board of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Jon Leibowitz was not much of a surprise pick by President Barack Obama to head up the regulatory commission. But his role as chairman is expected to move the FTC i...   read more

Floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is a man-made island of plastic, invisible to the naked eye, that’s twice the size of Texas. The refuse was born of decades of dumping plastic containers, bottles and other material that gradually collec...   read more

Last Wednesday President Barack Obama declared that the $787 billion economic stimulus bill has already created or saved more than 150,000 jobs. The truth is, however, the White House has no definitive numbers showing this declaration to be accura...   read more

Government cost-cutting has taken a startling form in the Federal Bureau of Prison’s “unescorted transfer” program. Through this program, which began in 1996, inmates moving between minimum security detention facilities, halfway houses, and prison...   read more

To hear the speeches of Hugo Chávez and ex-President George W. Bush, you’d think that the United States and Venezuela were mortal enemies. In fact, while Bush was president, trade between the two nations increased for six straight years.   Since...   read more

The headline was shocking: “1,500 Farmers Commit Mass Suicide in India.” The story began in Northern Ireland’s Belfast Telegraph, was picked up by The Independent in England, and spread to the United States as a home-page story on the Huffington P...   read more

Aspirin is great for people with heart problems, doctors will attest, but not so good for soldiers heading into combat zones. That’s why the Defense Department’s Army and Air Force Exchange Service is pulling all products containing aspirin from s...   read more

The choice of Steven E. Koonin, a longtime physics professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and, since 2004, senior scientist for British Petroleum, to lead the Office of Science in the Department of Energy is viewed by those ...   read more