By a party-line vote of 58-42, the U.S. Senate has confirmed Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Alito replaces retiring Justice Sandra Day ... Read More

Suspecting an ongoing cover-up, a private public interest group has sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the agency’s failure to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ... Read More

The Constitution directs the president to "from time to time," update Congress on the "State of the Union." Since George Washington in 1790, presidents have, from time to time, been ... Read More

Setting the theme for this year's observance as "Celebrating Community: A Tribute to Black Fraternal, Social, and Civic Institutions," President Bush proclaimed February 2006 as Black History Month. In praising ... Read More

Just days from delivering his State of the Union Address, President Bush is faced with a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times national public opinion poll showing that only 43 percent of Americans ... Read More

Senior officials of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) have expressed concern that passage of pending postal reform legislation, when coupled with the Bush Administration’s demands on military retirement costs, could ... Read More

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 12.5 percent of U.S. wage and salaried workers were members of unions during 2005. The highest rate of union membership was reported in ... Read More

President Bush’s Director of National Intelligence General Michael Hayden on January 23, issued a press statement intended to defend the White House-ordered NSA terrorist wiretap program against charges that it ... Read More

On a straight party line 10-8 vote the Senate Judiciary Committee today recommended to the full Senate the nomination of Samuel Alito to become the 110th Supreme Court Justice. As reported ... Read More

A new report from the Rand Corporation think tank finds that only about one-third of Los Angeles County, California residents have taken any steps to prepare for the aftermath of ... Read More

Permanent tax cuts and affordable, accessible health care are just two of the action items on President Bush's Small Business Agenda for the remainder of his presidency. [Learn more...] Also See: Top ... Read More

On January 19, USDA Secretary Mike Johanns marked the designation of the first tropical wilderness preserve in the Western Hemisphere, the El Toro Wilderness, a part of the Caribbean National ... Read More

A proposal by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change its definition of milk could seriously jeopardize the quality and nutritional value of cheese and other dairy products produced ... Read More

Let’s get this out of the way first: there are no federal government assistance programs, grants or loans to help people pay off credit card debt. However, there are federal ... Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6 – 3 today that a federal drug law cannot be used to override a 1997 Oregon law allowing physician-assisted suicides. In its majority opinion, ... Read More

Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have invoked a rule calling for a one-week delay in the Committee’s vote on the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. President Bush ... Read More

While the military says they can now supply active duty soldiers with all the protective gear they need, the Department of Defense (DoD) has decided that soldiers who bought their ... Read More

President Bush honored the civil rights movement and the memory of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King in his Martin Luther King Day 2006 proclamation. "Dr. King believed that ... Read More

When Supreme Court Justice nominee Samuel Alito testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, "the American people saw a man of character and intelligence," said President Bush in his ... Read More

From 1950 through 1963, thousands of ever-more powerful nuclear bombs exploded. You would think we would have noticed something like that, but the explosions were merely tests in "isolated" areas, ... Read More

For the first time in the Nation’s history, a circulating U.S. coin featuring the image of a past president facing forward, instead of in profile, has been issued by the ... Read More

Latest major consumer product recalls announced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC): Stihl Inc. -- 23,500 chain saws American Biophysics Corp. -- 335,000 cleaning tools for Mosquito Magnet Kawasaki Motors Corp. USA ... Read More

The Department of Defense (DoD) reports that all active duty branches of the U.S. Military exceeded their recruiting goals during the month of December 2005. In addition, DoD reports that ... Read More

U.S. taxpayers will spend over 6 billion hours and $256.1 billion dollars in 2005 attempting to comply with the federal income tax code, according to a new study from the ... Read More

Passengers on flights to the Moon or Mars will be subjected to the same anti-terror security checks as flyers to Muleshoe, Texas or Mud Lick, Kentucky, under the FAA's proposed ... Read More

U.S. home ownership has never been higher, unemployment has rarely been lower, productivity is high and consumers are happy with what's being produced. The result is an American economy rated ... Read More

The Mine Safety and Health Administration, the federal agency responsible for insuring safety throughout the U.S. mining industry, has posted an informative Question and Answer Web page on the January ... Read More

The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) claims the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is knowingly allowing its third-party data collection contractors to include taxpayer voting records, including political party affiliation, in ... Read More

Most Americans are familiar with programs like Social Security and Medicare, but you need to know that from loans, to job training, to health insurance for uninsured children and many ... Read More

The Internal Revenue Service has issued new temporary and proposed regulations the agency says will “significantly reduce” the annual tax filing burden for some 950,000 U.S. small business owners. Beginning January ... Read More

The U.S. Census Bureau has projected that the total U.S. population hit 297,821,175 on January 1, 2006, up 2,713,518 or 0.9 percent from New Year’s Day 2005. The United States now ... Read More

Shortly after Congress reconvenes on January 3, you will probably begin to hear some political voices calling for the impeachment of President Bush. These voices will contend that President Bush ... Read More

While the U.S. Congress has created laws addressing child abuse and crimes against women, not a single piece of legislation dealing directly with abuse of elderly persons has ever been ... Read More