Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sent messages to all members of Congress terminating their positions, stating “Your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment.” All Democratic and independent members of Congress, as well as two Republicans, found themselves locked out of their offices after everything inside had been confiscated.   read more

Since July 16, 2007, the Department of Labor has paid Bob Whitmore $12,500 a month to not come to work. Whitmore is the director of the recordkeeping system of the Occupational Safety and health Administration (OSHA). More than a year and a half a...   read more

Drake University economics professor Ismael Hossein-zadeh argues that the Bush/Obama administrations’ response to the financial meltdown is exactly the same as the one the administration of Herbert Hoover tried at the beginning of the Great Depres...   read more

Each year, UNESCO issues an atlas of the world’s endangered languages. Surprising as it may seem, in the United States, there are 75 languages that are considered “critically endangered,” including 40 that are spoken by fewer than 11 people. Among...   read more

President Obama faces a tricky decision regarding the construction of a new fleet of 28 state-of-the-art Marine One presidential helicopters, priced at $400 million per chopper.   The project was passed on to Obama from the Bush administration. ...   read more

Earlier this week, President Obama signed into law the $787 billion economic stimulus package. Of this sum, more than $80 billion is being directed to start a new, national clean energy infrastructure. Many are acclaiming this clean energy investm...   read more

Seventeen Chinese Muslims are still being held at Guantánamo even though the U.S. government has already declared them innocent of any threat to Americans and a federal judge ordered their release into the continental United States last October. O...   read more

One of the great and most mysterious failures of the administration of President George W. Bush was its inability to capture Osama bin Laden, the alleged financial backer of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Considering that bin Laden is 6’4” and in nee...   read more

While they were at Yale, both Presidents Bush were members of the Skull and Bones secret society. (So was Sen. John Kerry, George W. Bush’s opponent in the 2004 presidential election.) According to legend, in 1918, Prescott Bush, father of George ...   read more

The stimulus bill allocates $98.3 billion for projects related to transportation and infrastructure. These expenditures are expected to generate large numbers of jobs. However, states with low unemployment are getting more money per capita unemplo...   read more

Writing in favor of the creation of a new industrial policy for the United States, Pat Buchanan cites some grim facts. “As a source of American jobs, manufacturing, for the first time in our history, fell below health care and education in 2001, b...   read more

Throughout its eight years in power, the Bush administration stubbornly opposed U.S. involvement in any international treaty that would control mercury pollution. Mercury, most of which is generated by coal-fueled power plants, settles in the ocea...   read more

According to estimates released by the White House, each of the 435 Congressional districts in the United States will gain between 6,000 and 11,000 jobs as a result of the just passed stimulus bill. However, strange as it may seem, Republican dist...   read more

The United States Army will begin offering American citizenship to skilled immigrants who are living in this country with temporary visas, in exchange for their military services.   Currently, only immigrants who are permanent residents with “gr...   read more

During the presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain, there was lots and lots of talk about helping the middle-class, but we didn’t hear much about the 38 million Americans who are living below the poverty line. That’s because lowe...   read more

One sentence in the new stimulus bill (aka the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”) reads, “For an additional amount for ‘Defense Environmental Cleanup,’ $5,127,000,000.” Five billion dollars is a lot of money to spend without explain...   read more

One of the biggest winners in the new stimulus package is the field of education. To begin with, in the bill’s section on aid to state and local government, at least $43.8 billion is allocated to reverse cutbacks and layoffs that have been caused ...   read more