Thanks to the Supreme Court, we now know that it is acceptable to display the Ten Commandments on publicly owned property... sometimes. The High Court's most recent split decisions on ... Read More

On Daily Kos, Armando states an opinion that the all-volunteer U.S. Army, so successful during peacetime, may not be able to sustain troop levels necessitated by wars like the one ... Read More

The Supreme Court's decision in the case of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, "hung a 'shoot here' sign around the necks of battered women and their children all across the country," ... Read More

While Chief Justice William Rehnquist surprised lots of Supreme Court watchers by not resigning his post prior to the end the Court’s current term, speculation remains high that President Bush ... Read More

Ah, the 4th of July, firecrackers, sparklers, M80 sticks of dynamite... No wait, M80s and similar unstable little bombs are illegal and extremely dangerous, according to ATF agents. Have a ... Read More

Speaking to troops at Ft. Bragg, President Bush acknowledged doubts in his Iraq war strategy, but reaffirmed U.S. troops will stay in Iraq until the Iraqi military is capable of ... Read More

“Emerging domestic and international threats have generated a growing interest in the use of less-than-lethal weapons by government and law enforcement agencies and other entities such as commercial airlines. One ... Read More

Criticism of the federal Head Start program as providing children with little more than a breakfast before school seems to be supported by a new Health and Human Services (HHS) ... Read More

In two 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court ruled today that the display of the Ten Commandments is constitutionally acceptable in the Texas capitol building, but not in a Kentucky courthouse. ... Read More

Shortly after its 4th of July recess, the U.S. Senate will once again consider a constitutional amendment allowing Congress to ban flag burning. In the House -- where the amendment ... Read More

Instapundit.com's Greg Reynolds has this interesting post on how the U.S. Army has started making it easier for reservists to move over to active duty in an attempt to maintain ... Read More

In 2003, 25 percent of working wives whose husbands also worked earned more than their husbands, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This is up from 18 percent ... Read More

President Bush today declared democracy in Iraq to be worth "more tough fighting in the weeks and months ahead," in his weekly radio address to the nation. "A democratic Iraq ... Read More

Would the volume of unsolicited commercial email -- spam -- be reduced if senders were required to include "ADV" in the subject lines of their despicable, intrusive, never-ending emails? The ... Read More

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled as constitutional the eminent domain powers of city governments to seize privately owned land, homes and buildings when necessary to ... Read More

Even if there won’t be an Iraq war-driven draft, the DoD has hired a private marketing firm to build a database of information on U.S. college and high school students. ... Read More

From letters to the Boston Globe on gun control: "It's appalling that we'd make the effort to teach our kids about sex, drugs, and strangers, and yet do nothing to ... Read More

Using ultra-fast cameras and laser light, National Science Foundation researchers think they have figured out how hummingbirds pull off their unique ability to hover motionless for long periods of time. ... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday issued a statement on the Agency’s research into the safety and possible dangers of cloned animals and their offspring to the American ... Read More

It's hot and rocky, but NSF astronomers are calling a distant planet about seven-and-a-half times as massive as Earth the most "Earth-like" planet they have ever discovered. While the planet ... Read More

Conservators at the Naval Historical Center (NHC) have discovered that the Civil War submarine H. L. Hunely featured an early form of stealth technology. The previously unknown feature called a ... Read More

You could see clearly now, if the haze from air pollution were gone from America's National Parks. The EPA thinks it's on the right track to improving the view of ... Read More

President Bush's trillion-dollar “Vision for Space Exploration" plan to send humans back to the moon by 2020 and someday to Mars failed to blast off with either the taxpaying public ... Read More

Where are the boys? Right here in the U.S.A. where, for the 63rd year in a row, more boys than girls were born. Exactly 94,232 more boys than girls were ... Read More

The average employer cost for health benefits was $1.64 per hour worked in private industry in March 2005—6.8 percent of total compensation, according the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Five years ... Read More

Rest easier credit card holders, security gurus at MasterCard now say that 'only' about 68,000 of its credit card customers are at 'high risk' of identity theft or fraud as ... Read More

Approximately 105,000 married American fathers choose to be "stay-at-home" dads. The number of single fathers has now grown to about 2 million, up from just 393,000 in 1970. Just a ... Read More

Obesity, obesity, obesity. Seems like the government sees large people. Now joining the federal fat fighters, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has created an obesity Trailblazer Team to, get ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services encourages America's children to give their dads the gift of good health this Father's Day by reminding them of the importance of ... Read More

The nationwide rate of family violence fell by more than one-half between 1993 and 2002, according to a new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Reflecting a general ... Read More

The House of Representatives has voted 238-187 to remove some of the Patriot Act's powers most prized by President Bush. The vote came in passage of the House's version of ... Read More

At least 40 states are now challenging the exclusive teaching of evolution in public schools. Members of the National Academies are fervently opposed to the parallel teaching of "Intelligent Design" ... Read More

Declaring that the Stars and Stripes has, "inspired our citizens during times of conflict and comforted us during moments of sorrow and loss," President Bush has proclaimed Tuesday, June 14, ... Read More

Between 1882 and 1968, at least 4,742 people, predominantly African-Americans, were reported lynched in the United States. On June 14, 2005 the United States Senate passed Senate Resolution 39, officially apologizing ... Read More

As the U.S. Army reported falling short of its annual recruiting goal for the first time since 1999, suggestion have arisen that the military draft may be reinstated for the ... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration has just given its stamp of approval to a vaccine to protect against pertussis (whooping cough), in combination with tetanus and diphtheria, for adolescents and ... Read More

The USDA reported on Friday the second possible U.S. case of mad cow disease in a "downer" beef animal that could not walk when delivered at the slaughter house. As ... Read More

National Science Foundation scientists, who were amazed to find viable, soft tissue surviving in a 68 million-year-old T. rex dinosaur fossil, have determined that the tissue came from a young ... Read More

White House "Drug Czar" John Walters celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling on medical marijuana by declaring it no longer a "political issue" and urging chronic pain sufferers to look to ... Read More

Should the United States, the world's ethnic melting pot, have a single "official" language? Should immigrants seeking U.S. citizen be required to read and understand that language? And, if so, ... Read More

Praising their works as "...the voice of hope in the face of injustice," President Bush recounted the artistry of famed black musicians, like Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Nat ... Read More

In a 6-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court has rule that federal law can be used to prevent doctors from prescribing marijuana for treatment of pain caused by serious illnesses, ... Read More

The baby-boomers have been out boomed, mainly by their own kids. The Census Bureau reports that the 49.5 million U.S. elementary and high school students enrolled in 2003 has surpassed ... Read More

Every 8 hours and 20 minutes, the U.S. Government spends another billion dollars. (Thank us very much.) A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, let's put a billion into ... Read More

The Americans United for Separation of Church and State has urged Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) to cancel his well-publicized plans to sign two controversial bills into state law at ... Read More

Both median home values across the U.S., along with the proportion of homes valued at $1 million or more is continuing a meteoric rise, according to data just release by ... Read More

In a case brought by a witch and Satanist, the U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the constitutionality of a federal law requiring prisons to accommodate the religious practices and ... Read More

It's not that they don't like you, but the IRS has announced it will close 68 of its 400 nationwide walk-in Taxpayer Assistance Centers (TAC) in the fall of 2005. ... Read More