Zelenskyy explained, “I told him that if he gave us the weapons we need and stopped supporting Putin, we would let him build Trump-branded hotels and other Trump-branded buildings in Ukraine’s ten largest cities, as well as Trump golf courses in the countryside. He was quite excited.”   read more

On February 3, 2009, Tom Daschle, a 26-year veteran of Capitol Hill, withdrew as Barack Obama’s choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services due to revelations regarding unpaid taxes.   Born on December 9, 1947, in Aberdeen, South Dakota,...   read more

Remember George Bush and Dick Cheney? Most Americans would prefer not to. But there remains a hardcore group of Bush-Cheney fans who want to keep their legacy alive. The warm center of this group is the Bush-Cheney Alumni Association, which is ope...   read more

President Barack Obama’s choice for taking over the reconfigured Office of Faith-Based Initiatives (now known as the Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) is a 26-year-old Pentecostal associate pastor named Joshua DuBois.   Born...   read more

In a strange twist, the Weld County Sherriff’s Department in Colorado, in its campaign to crack down on illegal immigrants, has found itself in conflict with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). From the point-of-view of the IRS, many illegal immig...   read more

Every now and then a word that has gone out of fashion earns the right to be revived. A perfect example is the Depression-era word “bankster,” which combines the words “banker” and “gangster.” “Bankster” found its first public use in the September...   read more

During the first six years of the administration of President George W. Bush, the 400 richest Americans saw their average income double to $263.3 million, thanks, in part,  to the fact that their tax rate dropped by a third to 17.2%. The biggest g...   read more

Back in 1996, President Bill Clinton signed an historic welfare reform bill that was meant to limit the length of time a person could receive welfare payments and to encourage people to get jobs instead of relying on government handouts. The bill ...   read more

Most Americans appear to want to forget about the War in Iraq, as more immediate concerns, such as the failing economy, take precedent. Even in terms of national security, the situations in Afghanistan and Pakistan seem more relevant. So it was a ...   read more

Just days before President George W. Bush left office, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new guidelines that make it easier for drug manufacturers to market what are known as “off-label” prescription drugs. The FDA, after clinical tria...   read more

In 2005, Tommy Ray, a special agent in Polk County, Florida, made decks of playing cards with information about local unsolved crimes. He passed out the decks in the Polk County jail, hoping that prisoners would gossip and reveal clues to these co...   read more

On September 18, 1679, the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle sent a crew of six to sail his ship, Le Griffon, from Washington Island in Lake Michigan to Niagara with a load of furs and other goods. Although its fate is still ...   read more

The day after it was unveiled, the Iraqi sculpture in honor of the man who threw his shoes at President Bush, has been taken down on the order of the provincial government. The shoe had been erected at an orphanage in Tikrit. The artist, Laith al-...   read more

The year 2008 may have been a bad one for most Americans, with layoffs and foreclosures and bank failures rippling through the economy, but for Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, there was reason for joy. Exxon posted an...   read more

Norway’s state-owned investment fund, which is worth about $300 billion and invests the nation’s surplus oil and gas revenues, announced that it is selling all of its shares in the American company, Textron, for ethical reasons. Although Textron i...   read more

It seemed like a good idea at the time: install 200 live webcams along Texas’ border with Mexico in order to stop drug smuggling and illegal immigration. Citizens, watching at home, could report any suspicious activity. Texas Governor Rick Perry a...   read more

Linda Chavez presents a simple, but radical alternative to the $819 billion Democratic stimulus package: give every man, woman and child $3,000 in credit that has to be spent within 18 months. This would cost $900 billion, “But unlike the Democrat...   read more