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

In an effort to recruit young Americans with graduate-level skills into the federal government, Rep. David Price (D-NC) has proposed the Roosevelt Scholars Act, which will give scholarships of up to $60,000 a year to graduate students in exchang...   read more

The Neighborhood Preservation Act will help stabilize falling property values, and it won’t cost taxpayers a dime, which is why real estate columnist Ken Harney is endorsing the measure. The legislation, which already has cleared the House with bi...   read more

Governors from both parties have expressed opposition to the Department of Defense becoming involved in responses to domestic disasters. The Pentagon wants the Secretary of Defense to have the authority to command National Guard and U.S. military ...   read more

While some Americans express deep misgivings about the creation of government-run health insurance, Sheldon Filger points to a little known example in Canada of how public involvement in the insurance industry can have a positive impact. Filger’s ...   read more

In a move described as “unprecedented,” the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) has decided to shift the leadership of its western regional office—which has been plagued by internal complaints—to Texas, sparking even more complaints by agency aud...   read more

Nearly 10% of people’s income in Mississippi was spent buying gasoline in 2008, according to an analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The NRDC found that the significant jump in gas prices combined with the recession impacted m...   read more

A study by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch on corporal punishment found the use of physical punishment is disproportionately used on students with disabilities in American schools. While disabled students make up 13.7% of the school population in ...   read more

Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute has determined that the United States wastes more than $1 trillion a year on health care expenses that could be eliminated. The biggest waste ($210 billion) comes from doctors orde...   read more

Basir “Steve” Ahmed’s story is similar to other Afghans who have helped the U.S. military as translators in Afghanistan. Ahmed worked with American soldiers for four years, helping them communicate with locals, and then was fired by his U.S. emplo...   read more

Do not misbehave in Judge Daniel Rozak’s courtroom. The Chicago Circuit Court justice has a quick trigger for jailing anyone who does anything to disrupt courtroom proceedings, from allowing cell phones to go off to simply yawning.   Rozak’s kna...   read more

Officials in the U.S. Department of Transportation have allocated millions of dollars in stimulus funds for small airports, even though the projects did not qualify for funding under the criteria established by the agency. The findings were uncove...   read more

Golf is not proletarian enough for socialist leader Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. In a televised rant last Sunday against the sport, Chavez said “golf is a bourgeois sport,” which prompted supporters of the president to close down two of the country’s...   read more

Having graduated its first class of “drone pilots” only this year, the U.S. Air Force is now saying that the growing demand for unmanned aircraft missions is so great that it will have to train more of these new breed of “aces” who never leave the...   read more

Lawyers for the Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of America were caught off guard on Monday when a federal judge refused to approve a $33 million settlement over BofA’s attempt to hide the payment of billion-dollar bonuses from bank sha...   read more

Public opinion surveys have consistently revealed that Americans like the idea of a government-funded health care option, like Medicare, to help solve the problem of the uninsured and underinsured in the United States. But news reporting by televi...   read more

Whether it’s by congressional act, high court ruling, or presidential order, President Barack Obama is determined to keep hidden a set of controversial photos depicting detainees being abused by the American military. President Obama reportedly se...   read more