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

Representing a complete overhaul of how the federal government helps students attend college, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 cleared the House this week and is now headed to the Senate. The bill would essentially cut banks o...   read more

President Barack Obama’s willingness to follow the tradition of allowing the Senate GOP leader to appoint members to two oversight boards has government watchdogs upset. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has chosen former aide and energy lobbyist Sco...   read more

Warren F. “Pete” Miller, Jr. has been selected by President Barack Obama to fill two posts that oversee each end of nuclear energy—supplying it and storing its waste. First, Miller was nominated to be Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy in the ...   read more

President Barack Obama nominated an experienced diplomat to be the US ambassador to Tunisia. Gordon Gray III, who was confirmed by the Senate on July 10, 2009, has almost 30 years experience in the Foreign Service, most of it in positions dealing ...   read more

Ambassador to the Marshall Islands: Who is Martha Campbell?   Martha L. Campbell was sworn in as the US Ambassador to the Republic of Marshall Islands on August 21, 2009. After the US signed the Compact of Free Association, Martha Campbell actua...   read more

Only two months ago, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano declared fusion centers—where local, state and federal law enforcement—and private companies—work to combat terrorism, would not be given access to military databases. But now Na...   read more

During the rush earlier this decade by banks to give out mortgages, a disproportionate amount of expensive loans were distributed to minorities, including to those whose income levels should have qualified them for better rates. A high-priced loan...   read more

Considered an unfair advantage in stock markets, “flash trading” appears to be on the way out, thanks both to new federal regulations and voluntary decisions by leading exchanges. The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new rules on Thursd...   read more

On the 65th anniversary of Belgium’s liberation from the Nazis by American GIs, Mathilde and Marcel Schmetz decided to unveil a memorial to the animals who “served” in World War II. A monument, sculpted by Frédéric Thomson, depicting a horse, a do...   read more

ATM muggings and murders have long been a problem that, for some reason, banks and lawmakers have been reluctant to address. But according to Robin Sax, a former deputy district attorney, the solution is too simple to not implement. The emergency ...   read more

Is corruption within the halls of Congress going down? A quick glance at the latest report by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) would indicate so, given that only 15 members of Congress made CREW’s corruption list, co...   read more

Victims of domestic violence can be denied health coverage in seven states and the District of Columbia because of unwillingness on the part of insurance companies to cover such individuals. Getting beaten up by a spouse is considered a pre-existi...   read more

For the first time ever, the nation’s top intelligence official has publicly admitted just how much America’s spy operation costs: $75 billion. This amount is considerably more than what Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said the nati...   read more

Five months into the Obama administration’s loan modification program, only 12% of eligible homeowners have actually seen their mortgages modified. That’s because the lenders will only modify if they think it will bring them greater profits than f...   read more

Taking into account repeated concerns expressed by combat troops, the U.S. Army is preparing to send a new camouflaged uniform for use by regular soldiers in Afghanistan. Ground forces have complained that the standard issue camo, known as the mul...   read more

It ain’t the man who knows how to bring home the bacon when it comes to pork barrel spending. According to Erika Lovley of Politico, researchers at Stanford University and the University of Chicago have concluded that women lawmakers, on average, ...   read more