When Pope John Paul II visited Damascus in May 2001, Bashar used his welcoming speech to denounce the Jews, saying, “They tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.”   read more

Americans might think that the sexual indiscretions involving their politicians are juicy stuff. But the scandals involving Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, Mark Foley, Larry Craig and others don’t compare to the fresh revelation that th...   read more

Surprise inspections aren’t much good if the surprise gets blown. That’s what happened in April 2006 when the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) tried to pull off a series of security tests at 12 airports around the country. The test was...   read more

More than ever, the U.S. Census Bureau is facing a daunting prospect as it prepares to account for the estimated 306 million residents of the United States in the 2010 census. Because the current economic downturn has caused so many Americans to l...   read more

After twenty years of debate over whether it should be demolished, the Savage Rapids Dam, built in 1921 on the Rogue River in Oregon, is finally being removed. The dam was initially built to irrigate the Grants Pass Irrigation District during the ...   read more

In light of last week’s media maelstrom over Somali pirates capturing a American sea captain, GOP operative Rich Galen decided it was time to review some key rules for the modern-day privateer to follow:   Rule #1: If you’re going to take hostag...   read more

A little more than a century ago, when the United States was just beginning to take its first steps toward becoming a world power, Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” became all the rage in political circles. The poem captured the mi...   read more

Lost in all the celebratory coverage of an American merchant captain’s rescue by Navy SEALS is the fact that 17 ships and approximately 260 hostages are still being held by pirates from Somalia. While the United States took umbrage over the captur...   read more

There is no bigger gas guzzler in the federal government than the Defense Department, which spent $18 billion last year alone on fuel, thanks in large part to the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. But it might not be long before the American mili...   read more

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a man cannot drive a car with “USA” on his license plate—but he can marry pre-pubescent girls, according to separate media reports coming out of the Middle East country. The restriction on automobile license plates ...   read more

The stimulus fund will give $100 million to the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program (EFSP), a public-private organization that was created in 1983 to help provide for the needs of hungry and homeless Americans. The program, which is ...   read more

As part of his education agenda, President Barack Obama wants to overhaul the way the federal government helps students attend college, by eliminating the current program that heavily subsidizes banks that provide student loans. Instead of banks d...   read more

A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital in Washington, DC, was the site last week of a row between a college reporter and government officials that quickly escalated into a calls-to-arm by media organizations and First Amendment advocates. ...   read more

As the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre approaches, the Chinese government has launched a public relations campaign claiming that the human rights situation China will soon improve. However, actions speak louder than words. Last w...   read more

Nearly a quarter million pages of records from the Reagan White House are finally going to be released to the public today, thanks to an executive order signed by President Barack Obama. Under the Presidential Records Act of 1978, the documents we...   read more

According to a study in the Seattle area, the number of seniors living in their vehicles is increasing, as the King County homeless population in general has risen 68% in the past year. This growing category of homeless includes people who have wo...   read more

Household problems ranging from corroded plumbing to serious skin rashes all are coming from the same source—China—according to experts in the United States and in other countries. For many Americans living in as many as 100,000 new homes built du...   read more