On July 1, 2004, 12 percent of all Americans were 65 and over. By 2050, people 65 and over will comprise an impressive 21 percent of the U.S. population, reports ... Read More

Since 1978, the federal flood insurance program has paid out over $11.6 billion in claims. Up to 25 percent of that went to owners of flood damaged property located outside ... Read More

On top of a 30-foot-high rock outcropping in the Mojave National Preserve in California, stands an old rugged eight-foot-tall Latin cross that has become the latest target for groups opposed ... Read More

Declaring small businesses to be "the heart" of America's renewed economic growth, President Bush has proclaimed April 24 through April 30, 2005, as Small Business Week. "Our economy is strong ... Read More

Love it or hate it, America's annual observance of daylight savings time would be extended an additional two months under a provision of the massive Energy Policy Act of 2005. ... Read More

The 1970s brought us many things, including the idea that Earth was going to pot. Gloom and doom predictions by those supposedly in the know have kept “Earth Day” a ... Read More

Small businesses would find it easier to comply with complex and confusing federal regulations, if a bill recently introduced by Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) becomes law. Sen. Snowe says her ... Read More

C.A. Tripp's book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln makes the case that Lincoln had several homosexual relationships throughout his life. But the controversy surrounding the book has overshadowed an ... Read More

If you’ve received an e-mail telling you that your cell phone is about to be assaulted by telemarketing calls as a result of a new cell phone number database, rest ... Read More

If you sent the IRS a check this year, you may agree with a recent Harris Interactive® poll showing that 59 percent of Americans believe they pay more federal income ... Read More

President and Mrs. George W. Bush reported taxable income of $672,788 for the tax year 2004. This resulted in a total of $207,307 in federal income taxes paid by President ... Read More

With what they consider gun-friendly Republicans now firmly entrenched in Washington, leaders of the National Rifle Association have declared victory in its battle to protect the rights of individual Americans ... Read More

From shortened attention span, to thoughts of suicide and even cancer, a new media blitz produced by the Office of National Drug Control Policy's (ONDCP) National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign ... Read More

An SBA loan? "You'll be filling out forms forever." "It'll take them years to approve your loan." Those are just two of the widely spread, but totally untrue myths about ... Read More

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has announced the award of $1.2 million in grants to improve efforts to reduce obesity among African Americans through a new partnership with ... Read More

Many occupations once dominated by men have seen a great increase in numbers of women workers since 1983, according to figures released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). ... Read More

Apparently, the seemingly bogus citations being issued to Head Start programs are just the tip of a much more serious iceberg of ongoing mismanagement and financial irregularity within the federal ... Read More

Two years later... Iraqis take to the streets of Baghdad demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from their country. They lump President Bush, Tony Blair and, guess who, Saddam Hussein ... Read More

How can consumers avoid being scammed by a worthless health product? Though health fraud marketers have become more sophisticated about selling their products, the FDA warns that these charlatans often ... Read More

In 2000, Amazon.com, Inc. racked up $2.8 billion in net online sales. Not bad, but only good enough for second place. Who was number one? The United States Government, whose ... Read More

Nationwide efforts to increase organ donations have paid dividends, as a record 26,984 Americans received organ transplants during 2004. "I am heartened that the promise of organ donation continues to ... Read More

Swiss Muslim professor Traiq Ramadan applied for a five year visa to teach at Notre Dame. Based on evidence that Ramadan was a potentially dangerous Islamic militant, the U.S. government ... Read More

Just in case you still had some doubts, the U.S. Census Bureau has released data proving the substantial value of a college education in the United States. Workers 18 and ... Read More

Most of the nation converts to daylight savings time until next fall at 2 a.m., Sunday, April 3, 2005 when clocks should be set ahead one hour. Why do we ... Read More

We now spend more time just driving TO work every year than we spend vacationing FROM work. The Census Bureau reports that Americans spend an average of 100 hours a ... Read More