Irony fans take note: May 1, 2006 may be "A Day Without An Immigrant," but by presidential proclamation, Monday is also Loyalty Day and Law Day. "Our Nation is blessed and ... Read More

Ready for all politics all the time? Better be, because the 2006 primary elections for the House, Senate and state governorships are about to start coming hot and heavy. Along ... Read More

President Bush, though a polished speaker of Spanish and lover of many styles of music, will not be singing the Spanish version of the national anthem, "Nuestro Himno" (Our Anthem) ... Read More

Fragments of the comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 will come no closer than 5.5 million miles to Earth next month, say NASA astronomers, hoping to end growing speculation of gloom and doom. Predictions ... Read More

The Senate Committee on Homeland Security has recommended that the beleaguered Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) be abolished and replaced by a new agency better able to respond to disasters ... Read More

Every U.S. taxpayer would get a check for $100 to help offset gasoline costs, under a Senate Republican-backed amendment that could be voted on today. The proposed amendment to an emergency ... Read More

From almost nobody last year, to practically everybody this year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has appointed 27 new federal officials on five teams to help state and local ... Read More

Speaking of medicinal marijuana, the 2003 conviction of so-called "ganja guru" Ed Rosenthal has been overturned by a San Francisco federal court. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found ... Read More

Rush Limbaugh didn’t want to take a pay cut, so conservative FOX Radio news anchor Tony Snow has taken the job as President Bush’s latest press secretary. Snow replaces Scott ... Read More

With the 2006 hurricane season predicted to hold the same destructive potential as the record 2005 season, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cites a RAND Corporation study finding millions ... Read More

NASA researchers have reported that black holes are the “greenest,” most fuel efficient engines in the universe. "Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes,” ... Read More

Okay, line up and get on the bus. All 37 million of you are off to Carlsbad Caverns. On April 25, the National Park Foundation, with the assistance of Ball ... Read More

Marijuana may make some people suffering the pain of chronic illness "feel better," but it is not and never will be "medicine," says Drug Czar John Walters, Director of National ... Read More

It gets harder and harder to believe that annually soaring summertime gas prices are due to global supply and demand, conversion to summer-blend gas and all that other stuff, and ... Read More

The Hammer of Truth uses a CNN report on Flight 93 to raise the question: If passengers on the hijacked 9-11 planes been allowed to carry concealed weapons, could they ... Read More

Federal Air Marshal Frank Terreri has filed a formal petition asking the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) to investigate the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS). In his petition, Terreri ... Read More

One out of every 15 residents of California and one out of every 25 workers in the entire United States is an illegal alien, according to a report from the ... Read More

As a growing number of U.S. teens realize the dangers of Ecstasy, the market for the illegal drug is falling apart, according to John Walters, Director of the Office of ... Read More

Genes that may lead to heavy drinking and alcoholism have been identified through research conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Researchers from the NIH’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse ... Read More

Too help dispel the myth held by many small business owners that their business is too small to win government contacts, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has created a Web-based ... Read More

The White House has released summaries of the 2005 federal income tax returns of President and Mrs. Bush and Vice President and Mrs. Cheney. The President and First Lady reported taxable ... Read More

For at least the umpteenth year, many U.S. Post Offices will remain open late on Tax Day, April 17, so that the ever shrinking number of people who didn't do ... Read More

President Bush has expressed his unqualified support for his Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. "Earlier today I spoke with Don Rumsfeld about ongoing military operations in the Global War on ... Read More

Citizens of Yelm, WA are prohibited from uttering the words, "Wal-Mart," or "big-box stores" when speaking -- apparently not so freely -- in City Council meetings. Yelm thus earns the distinction ... Read More

Texans can belly up freely again as the state's Alcoholic Beverage Commission announced it had suspended a controversial sting operation in which tipsy bar patrons were arrested while still sitting ... Read More

Bush administration policies designed to protect the environment without stifling the economy are paying off, according to the EPA, in announcing a four percent reduction in the amount of toxic ... Read More

The U.S. Sentencing Commission has announced plans to submit to Congress new guidelines providing tougher sentences for crimes involving illegal distribution and use of steroids. Increased penalties for crimes involving anabolic ... Read More

Never again will a Hurricane Katrina, Rita, Stan, Wilma or Dennis threaten our shores as all five storm names have been retired by the NOAA National Hurricane Center. Unless retired, ... Read More

"Everybody in our (pick one) office, town, universe, has the flu." Do they, really? We hear that painful pondering all the time, but according to the people who should know ... Read More

Your tax dollars at work? This year, your Congress approved spending $500,000 of your money for the Sparta Teapot Museum in Sparta, North Carolina; $550,000 of your money for the ... Read More

After playing a little Whack-a-Mole with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) for blocking what he called, "a promising bipartisan compromise on comprehensive immigration reform," President Bush listed the key ... Read More

Melting pot or witch's cauldron? Illegal immigrants and immigration reform involve many complex issues, each with its own set of human, legal and economic implications. To help us better understand, ... Read More

From a high of $12,981 in New Jersey, to a low of $5,008 in Utah, U.S. public school districts spent an average of $8,287 per student during 2004, according to ... Read More

A proposed compromise on the U.S. Senate’s immigration reform bill has run into trouble in the form of conservative Republican Senators who say provisions of the measure amount to amnesty ... Read More

Most U.S. adults believe the current federal income tax system is too complicated and would be willing to give up some tax deductions in return for a simpler tax system, ... Read More

Deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Brian J. Doyle, 55, has confessed to seven counts of use of a computer to seduce a child and 16 ... Read More

If Katrina failed to convince you that the federal government is not exactly the public’s personal guardian angel, now comes a warning from Health Sec. Mike Leavitt that victims of ... Read More

Joining the growing ranks of local government blogs (Web logs) comes "Live from the Coroner's Office," created by Dr. Richard Keller, Coroner of Lake County, Illinois. Visitors to his blog ... Read More

Companies that make automated voting machines have refused to sell any of their devices to Leon County, Florida after county election supervisor Ion Sancho dared to question the reliability of ... Read More

President Bush countered critics of his tax cutting programs with details of economic success in his radio address to the nation on Saturday. "Since 2001, the tax relief we delivered ... Read More

If you're sick of politicians spewing out campaign promises they have no intention of keeping, then Robert J. Healey, Jr., recently announced candidate for lieutenant governor of Rhode Island, is ... Read More