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

One more factor to take into account as President Barack Obama frames his Afghanistan war strategy is a United Nations report that shows that sacrifices on the battlefield pale in comparison to the human cost of the opium drug market. According to...   read more

Fed up with the health insurance industry’s opposition to health care reform, Democrats in Congress took action on Wednesday to strip anti-trust protections that insurers have enjoyed since the end of World War II. Bills in both the House and Sena...   read more

Once upon a time Americans knew exactly where they wanted to go to buy a new car—to the same dealer that sold them their last automobile. But the storied days of brand loyalty have disappeared, thanks to the implosion of the Big Three in Detroit a...   read more

The expansion of legalized medical marijuana has caused significant increases in local U.S. marijuana farms, which has resulted in intensified competition with large Mexican drug organizations. About half of the marijuana consumed in the United St...   read more

If Crocodile Dundee had decided to take up golf, he probably would have created something like Nullarbor Plain. Touted as the world’s longest golf course, Nullarbor is currently staging its first tournament in Australia’s outback, which requires p...   read more

Coal, oil and natural gas have proven themselves to be recession-proof. The worldwide economic downturn has not caused a reduction in fossil fuel production, according to the environmental group Worldwatch Institute. In fact, overall sales went up...   read more

If it wasn’t for the millions of jobs provided by foreign companies, the employment rate in the United States would leap from 9% to more than 13%. That’s how significant the 5.3 million jobs available to American workers from foreign businesses ar...   read more

The Obama White House insists it is still committed to awarding stimulus contracts on a fixed-price, competitive basis—even though much of the money spent so far has not been distributed in this manner.   According to a review by Government Exec...   read more

Prudential Insurance was so convinced Kevin Roth was faking his condition—liver failure,aggravated by scoliosis, osteoporosis and degenerative disc disease—that they hired a private investigator to film his activities. Convinced they had caught Ro...   read more

For his dedication as president of the Elvis Presley fan club, Sterling Gary Pepper Jr. was awarded with keepsakes from the King himself: a gold jumpsuit, a clump of hair, a 1957 Chevy, and more. Presley also paid for medical care for Pepper, wh...   read more

The Internal Revenue Service has a problem handling bounced checks from taxpayers. According to an audit report of the IRS’ “dishonored” check system, the agency gave out approximately $20 million in refunds during the first six months of 2008 to ...   read more

Acting more like a corporate shill than the nation’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent part of her recent visit to Moscow encouraging Russia’s new airline, Rosavia, to buy planes from Boeing. As part of her self-described “sha...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice’s announcement on Monday regarding medical marijuana reversed an almost decade-long federal policy of going after pot users and distributors in states that have legalized the drug for medicinal purposes. The directiv...   read more

Coal provides nearly half of the United States’ electricity — and nearly all of that industry’s “hidden costs,” according to a new study released by the National Academy of Sciences. As valuable as coal is to the nation’s energy supply, it also pr...   read more

In Arkansas and Oklahoma the belief seems to be when it comes to marriage, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again.” These two states lead the country in the highest number per capita of thrice-married men and women (10% for Arkansa...   read more

The Obama administration’s scrapping of a missile defense system based in Poland and the Czech Republic does not mean the United States has given up on its commitment to defend Eastern Europe. Rather, the Defense Department is moving ahead with p...   read more