Daylight saving time officially begins Sunday morning at 2:00 am in most parts of the United States. Remember to set your clocks and watches ahead by one hour before going ... Read More

While continuing to defend the decision to depose Saddam Hussein, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stated today that the Bush Administration had learned lessons from “thousands of mistakes” it ... Read More

Actual fuel savings to be realized from the Department of Transportation’s new fuel economy standards for SUVs, minivans and pickup trucks are far less impressive than claimed by DOT, reports ... Read More

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has established an email address for taxpayers to report information about suspicious e-mails they receive which claim to come from the IRS. Taxpayers should send ... Read More

The Department of Transportation (DOT) today announced increased minimum mileage standards for sport utility vehicles (SUVs), light pickup trucks and minivans. Under the new rule, mileage targets for these vehicles will ... Read More

If the length of its title is any indication of its power, S. 1608, the "Undertaking Spam, Spyware, And Fraud Enforcement With Enforcers Beyond Borders Act of 2005" (U.S. SAFE ... Read More

Two teams of federal agents toting enough radioactive material to build two dirty bombs succeeded in smuggling the goods of evil into the U.S. at points along the northern and ... Read More

In a White House Fact Sheet, President Bush explained his support for a temporary alien worker program, without provisions for amnesty, as a key element to immigration reform legislation now ... Read More

The U.S. government supported a bloodthirsty Argentine military dictatorship responsible for the murder or disappearance of more than 22,000 people between 1975 and 1978, according to recently unclassified documents published ... Read More

While 500,000 people marched the streets of Los Angeles in protest to H.R. 4437, the House version of the immigration reform bill backed by the White House, Liberal Politics Guide ... Read More

On March 22, the Supreme Court ruled that police searches of private homes conducted over the visible protest of one or more of the residents violate the Fourth Amendment's guarantee ... Read More

As Congress prepares to debate and thousands continue to protest the controversial Securing America's Borders Act, President Bush addressed the nation in support of the sweeping immigration reform legislation. "To keep ... Read More

Current EPA standards for the maximum amount of fluoride allowed in drinking water do not protect against adverse health effects, says a new report from the National Academies' National Research ... Read More

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning consumers of a dangerous and growing swindle called the “check overpayment” scam, now the fifth most common telemarketing fraud and the fourth most ... Read More

U.S. Politics Guide Kathy Gill reports that during his 1,889 days in office, President Bush has yet to veto a single one of the 1,091 bills sent to him by ... Read More

A proposed regulatory change by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would allow tax preparers to sell copies of taxpayers’ returns or any information in them to private marketing and data-mining ... Read More

The 31 percent growth rate in the number of Hispanic-owned businesses between 1997 and 2002 was three times the national average for all U.S. businesses, according to a new report ... Read More

That’s no way to run a railroad, says the U.S. Congress’ Amtrak Working Group (AWG), in finding that mismanagement within Amtrak has led to a lack of confidence by the ... Read More

The NAACP has asked Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco to postpone New Orleans' primary election scheduled for April and the general election in May ''until clear and measurable procedures are put ... Read More

Transportation Security Administration screeners and security equipment at 21 U.S. airports failed to detect materials for making homemade bombs carried through checkpoints by federal investigators. "In all 21 airports tested, no ... Read More

Today, March 19 2006, marks the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war, the battlefield President Bush has deemed the "central front in the war on terror." How ... Read More

On March 14, Sec. of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff told the National League of Cities that the primary key to meeting the challenge of homeland security is prevention. "Prevention is ... Read More

Sec. of Homeland Defense Michael Chertoff yesterday brushed aside California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plea for federal money to repair and improve the flood-prone Sacramento area's protective levee system. On Feb. 24, ... Read More

As reported by Kathy Gill at US Politics and Current Events, Congress has once again raised the nation's debt limit to a cool $9 trillion -- that trillion with a ... Read More

Civil Liberties Guide Tom Head previews the Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006 and doesn’t much like what he sees. Tom reports that the bill, freshly introduced by Ohio’s Republican Senator ... Read More

President Bush has signed into law The Stop Counterfeiting In Manufactured Goods Act. The Act, which enjoyed bipartisan support in Congress, closes loopholes which allowed the shipment of fake labels ... Read More

President Bush today nominated Idaho's Republican Gov. Dirk Kempthorne to be the next Secretary or the Interior. If confirmed by the Senate, Kempthorne would replace departing Sec. Gale Norton, who ... Read More

Of interest to the entire world, the updated version of the National Security Policy for the United States was released by the White House today. Globalization Guide Keith Porter reports ... Read More

A new report from the RAND Corporation projects that the population of New Orleans could reach 272,000 by September 2008, a population just 56 percent of the city’s population of ... Read More

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) warns parents that first-time use of marijuana, cigarettes, and alcohol by U.S. teens increases sharply during Spring Break. According to an ... Read More

The National Security Archives has bestowed its second annual “Rosemary Award,” for the worst performance by a federal agency in complying with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), to the ... Read More

Democratic Senator Russ Feingold today introduced a resolution calling for the censure of President Bush over his non-court ordered domestic spying program. A censure resolution, if passed, has no substantive effect, ... Read More

The FBI and U.S. Courts are warning consumers to be alert for an increasingly common -- and effective -- telephone-based identity theft threat known as "the jury duty scam." Threatened ... Read More

A bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling (Texas, 5th) would exempt all political campaigning conducted over the Internet from federal campaign financing laws. H.R. 1606 -- the Online Freedom of ... Read More

While it certainly didn't have them joining in a rousing chorus of Kumbyah, the Dubai ports deal far from splintered Republicans, President Bush told reporters Saturday. "The Republican Party is united ... Read More

Environment Guide Larry West reports that U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton has resigned. Appointed by President Bush, Norton served in the cabinet-level position for five years, often drawing criticism from ... Read More

The quality of life for America’s aging population is changing dramatically, and rapidly, according to a new report from the U.S. Census and National Institutes of Health. According to the report, ... Read More

International travel and tourism spending in the United States recovered to a record level of $104.8 billion in 2005, surpassing the $103.1 billion mark set in 2000, the year before ... Read More

The House Appropriations Committee, though dominated by Republicans, voted 62-2 today to block the controversial deal that would allow shipping terminals at six U.S. seaports to be operated by a ... Read More

More taxpayers than ever are filing their 2005 federal income tax returns electronically and getting their refunds faster, according to the IRS. Through early March, more than 39.5 million taxpayers have ... Read More

In a move the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) claims is “like hiring Michael Brown to reform FEMA,” a firm led by a the former Chief of Engineers of ... Read More

President Bush on Monday asked Congress to pass a law that would allow him, and future presidents, to veto specific items in spending bills -- bills that authorize the expenditure ... Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously ruled that colleges whose law schools object to the Pentagon’s policy of barring openly gay and lesbian persons from joining the U.S. military must ... Read More

The more than 1.2 million U.S. kids who dropped out of high school in 2004 will cost the nation more than $325 billion in lost wages, taxes, and productivity over ... Read More

Winners of Sunday night's Oscars goodie-bags, typically valued at over $100,000, had better not try any stunts or costumes to avoid paying income tax on them, warns the IRS. The ... Read More

D’oh! A recent survey conducted by McCormick Tribune Foundation showed that while 52 percent of Americans can name at least two characters of the Simpsons TV cartoon family, only 28 ... Read More

The White House has issued “Setting the Record Straight: The August 28th Hurricane Katrina Videoconference,” a fact sheet defending President Bush’s actions following the August 28 videoconference during which he ... Read More

U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman has delivered his fiscal year 2006 trade report and future agenda to Congress. The annual report details the benefits of world trade for U.S. businesses, ... Read More

The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) reports that altered language in a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation will allow pesticide and chemical companies to conduct experiments on aborted ... Read More