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  • Trump Announces He Will Switch Support from Russia to Ukraine

    Friday, November 08, 2024
    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
  • Can U.S. Send More Troops to Afghanistan? Not Unless They Leave Iraq Fast

    Saturday, October 03, 2009
    When the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, called for more troops, the response should have been: Okay, from where?   To put it simply, the U.S. Army is maxed out. An assessment performed by the RAND Arroyo Center, a...   read more
  • Judge Orders Justice Department to Release Cheney Statements on Plame Case

    Saturday, October 03, 2009
    The Obama administration’s efforts to conceal all of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s testimony in the Valerie Plame investigation failed on Thursday, as a federal judge ordered the release of some records. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan fo...   read more
  • Too Old for Foreign Service?

    Saturday, October 03, 2009
    Elizabeth Colton got a late start on her diplomatic career, joining the Foreign Service when she was 54. Now, the former journalist is facing an arbitrary restriction that’s threatening to end her brief Foreign Service career.   Next August, Col...   read more
  • First Ever Wildfire Damage Award; Builders to Pay $36 Million

    Saturday, October 03, 2009
    It took the jury only one day in a precedent-setting case to find two construction companies liable for starting a forest fire in 2002 that burned 18,000 acres of the Angeles National Forest in Southern California. The verdict, which calls for CB&...   read more
  • Berkeley Becomes First City to Join UN Anti-Torture Agreement

    Saturday, October 03, 2009
    John Yoo, welcome to the United Nations’ human rights report, compliments of Berkeley, California. The leftist city’s leadership decided this week to become the first non-country to join the UN’s human rights convention, requiring it to file bienn...   read more
  • U.S. Still Moving Forward with Nuclear Weapons Program

    Friday, October 02, 2009
    Regardless of President Barack Obama’s declarations in favor of reducing, or even eliminating, the United States’ stockpile of nuclear weapons, the federal government is still moving forward with a modernization plan to make sure its warheads are ...   read more
  • 5 Democratic Senators Side with Health Industry Lobbyists over Voters

    Friday, October 02, 2009
    In the defeat of the public-option solution for health care reform, contributions from industry sources seemed to trump polling data. A New York Times/CBS News poll published on September 25 showed 65% of Americans favored a government administere...   read more
  • VA Halts Public Release of Nursing Home Inspection Reports

    Friday, October 02, 2009
    No news isn’t necessarily good news when it comes to the much-criticized Department of Veterans Affairs, especially when the agency keeps the news from being known. Late last week VA officials in Washington ordered regional managers to withhold re...   read more
  • New Zealand Ranked World’s Most Peaceful Nation; U.S. 83rd

    Friday, October 02, 2009
    Not starting wars with other countries and maintaining a solid human rights record has landed New Zealand at the top of the list of the world’s most peaceful nations. Based on the Global Peace Index created by the group Vision of Humanity, New Zea...   read more
  • Tango Gains UNESCO Recognition

    Friday, October 02, 2009
    Preserving the world’s treasures includes not just natural and man-made creations, such as the Great Wall of China or the Great Barrier Reef. It also includes cultural traditions, and since 2001, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cult...   read more
  • Study Reveals Widespread Violations of Minimum Wage and Overtime Laws

    Thursday, October 01, 2009
    Low-wage workers in the nation’s three largest labor markets are subject to being paid less than minimum wage, and denied overtime pay and other legally-protected rights, according to a new survey conducted by a group of researchers and academics....   read more
  • Pentagon Auditor Allowed Boeing to Keep $271 Million Owed the Government

    Thursday, October 01, 2009
    Despite its name, and primary mission, the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) is not very good at auditing defense contracts. An investigation by the Pentagon’s inspector general concluded that the working environment at the DCAA is “not conduci...   read more
  • NFL Players at Greater Risk for Dementia

    Thursday, October 01, 2009
    Playing football can be bad for the brain, and the National Football League is starting to own up to this fact. After years of disregarding independent medical studies on the long-term effects that the game has on players, the NFL commissioned its...   read more
  • Millions of Dollars Wasted at Arlington Cemetery

    Thursday, October 01, 2009
    Accusations of contractor fraud and mismanagement of grave sites have been leveled on the “nation’s most sacred shrine”—Arlington National Cemetery. Investigations by Salon.com have found the cemetery’s deputy superintendent, Thurman Higginbotham,...   read more
  • One Reason Republicans are Losing the Hispanic Vote

    Thursday, October 01, 2009
    As if things weren’t bad enough for the GOP with respect to its poor relations with Latinos, the Republican National Committee demonstrated this week that it can’t even put out a press release in Spanish without appearing insensitive. The statemen...   read more
  • Chamber of Commerce Loses Members over Climate Change Denial

    Wednesday, September 30, 2009
    The nation’s most powerful business lobby recently called for a “Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century” on the science of climate change, presumably to prove that the outcry over global warming has been exaggerated. This remark did not sit well ...   read more
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