By early this morning, the U.S. Congress had finished its work and headed home to do what Congress has come to do best lately, campaign. Well, let's say Congress finished ... Read More

It's not too hard to find out the salaries of elected members of the U.S. Congress, but finding out the salaries of their staff members was just about impossible until ... Read More

Nearly half (49 percent) of all business in the United States are run from home, and 6-in-10 owners used their own money to start their businesses, according to the U.S. ... Read More

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reports that they are furiously working to address an annual situation that effectively penalizes taxpayers who voluntarily pay on time, the "tax gap." According to the ... Read More

The Commerce Department reports that the Census Bureau has found no evidence of any citizen’s personal data stored on their 249 missing laptop computers being “improperly accessed or used.” ... Read More

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced a partial lifting of its recent ban against passengers carrying liquids and gels aboard commercial airliners. Under the revised policy, travelers will be ... Read More

The federal Real ID Act, a measure abstractly tied to controlling terrorism and immigration, will require Americans to produce a tamper-proof, photo ID card in order to do things like ... Read More

With temperatures soaring worldwide, do you believe global warming is real? Can the ozone layer be saved? Is climate change leading to the next ice age? Those are just a ... Read More

Now it looks like nobody is happy with the EPA's new tougher soot emissions standards. About Guide to the Environment Larry West reports that environmentalists think the new standards are ... Read More

When the EPA announced new national air quality standards reducing by nearly 50 percent the level of inhalable particulate matter (soot) allowed in the air, you might have expected environmental ... Read More

The first question on the next U.S. census form should be, "Do you have one of our laptops?" Seems that 672 laptops formerly under the control of the Census Bureau are ... Read More

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced new national air quality standards that reduce by nearly 50 percent the level of inhalable particulate matter (PM) allowed in the air. EPA defines ... Read More

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has released its second annual report on who they consider the most corrupt members of the 109th U.S. Congress entitled "Beyond ... Read More

The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) represents the interests of persons 50 and older. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the nation’s leading pharmaceutical makers. As ... Read More

Does anybody know of an Internet search engine willing to fight poverty, disease and global warming? Google to the rescue, according to About Environment Guide Larry West, who reports that ... Read More

While the FBI's latest U.S. crime statistics report shows a violent crime is committed every 22.7 seconds, a marijuana smoker is arrested every 40 second, according to the National Organization ... Read More

While violent crime increased by 2.3 percent in 2005, property crime fell by 1.5 percent, according to the FBI’s massive new report Crime in the United States 2005. Greatly expanded from ... Read More

Reports of three cases of foodborne botulism in Georgia prompted the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue a consumer warning urging that carrot juice -- including pasteurized carrot juice ... Read More

The bipartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that the fiscal policy of the U.S. Government remains today, as their analysts found it in 1992, "structurally unbalanced" and if unchanged, destined ... Read More

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has proposed a new regulation requiring auto manufacturers to install new anti-rollover accident technology known as "electronic stability control" (ESC) as a standard feature on ... Read More

On Sept. 17, 1787, George Washington witnessed the signing of the United States Constitution and declared the event "little short of a miracle." The miraculous document, unique among constitutions in ... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released details and expanded advice to consumers regarding the multi-state outbreak of deadly E. coli O157:H7-related illnesses linked to the consumption of ... Read More

CNN reports that E. coli bacteria-related illnesses linked to fresh bagged spinach have now been reported at least 20 states. In addition, the FDA announced that at least one source ... Read More

The number of illegal immigrants who die while attempting to cross the southwest border of the U.S. has more than doubled since 1995, according to a new report from the ... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a nationwide warning to consumers not to eat bagged fresh spinach at this time due to a multi-state outbreak of E. coli that ... Read More

Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne suggests that newly developed nonlethal weapons be used “on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield,” according to a CNN report. "If ... Read More

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a full report (.pdf) on its Cyber Storm exercise conducted Feb. 6 thru Feb. 10, 2006. Cyber Storm, the first government-led, full-scale ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Education reports that the annual rate of defaults on student loans is holding at 5.1 percent, a near record low compared to the all-time high of ... Read More

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected 40 communities (.pdf) from around the country as trend-setters in implementing so-called "smart growth" policies. Basically a practice of applying land use regulations designed ... Read More

Despite the expenditure of more than $435 billion and the commitment of some 138,000 military personnel, the overall security situation in Iraq has "deteriorated and grown more complex," during fiscal ... Read More

Speaking on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, President Bush appealed to the people of the United States to set their differences aside and work to ... Read More

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a "Fact Sheet" listing 40 achievements in seven key areas of national security DHS says represent "significant action to improve the nation’s ... Read More

On Monday, how many people will wonder, "Why are the flags at half staff?" Five years after 2,973 innocent people died in New York City, at the Pentagon and in ... Read More

According to the federal government's one-size-fits-all Body Mass Index, NFL quarterbacks Tom Brady and Brett Favre are "obese." Now that's just wrong, says the Center for Consumer Freedom. "These NFL ... Read More

The US Department of Labor has released it fifth annual report on the worst forms of child labor in 137 countries and territories that receive U.S. trade benefits. The report ... Read More

Both NOAA and the U.S. Air Force have announced the adoption of a new "advanced weather forecast model that predicts several types of extreme weather with substantially improved accuracy" for ... Read More

September is National Preparedness Month, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is encouraging all Americans to take personal action to prepare themselves and their families for emergencies, natural disasters ... Read More

President Bush acknowledged today that some suspects captured in the war on terrorism had been held in secret prisons located outside the United States. “In addition to terrorists held at Guantanamo, ... Read More

A loophole in the U.S. border security system called the Visa Waiver Program allowed 15 million people from 27 countries to enter the U.S. without a visa in 2004, according ... Read More

Invoking the name of the Sept. 11, 2001 mastermind, President Bush today vowed to prevent al Qaeda from establishing a violent "totalitarian Islamic empire" in Iraq, which he called the ... Read More

The White House today released an updated National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (NSCT), outlining strategic changes in the war on terror since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Calling ... Read More

Funded partly by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, a research firm has developed a system capable of capturing the continuous positioning signals transmitted by cell phones carried in vehicles ... Read More

Even in a year that saw California raise the minimum wage for workers in that state to $8.00 an hour, while the U.S. Congress voted to leave the federal minimum ... Read More

Liberal Politics Guide Deborah White writes that California Sen. Barbara Boxer plans to introduce a Senate resolution calling for the immediate replacement of Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for what ... Read More

Taxpayers will be allowed to claim refunds of up to $60 on their 2006 federal income tax returns as a result of court rulings that a 3 percent federal tax ... Read More

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has closed a deal administrators say will make it the first federal agency to purchase renewable energy, or "green power," equivalent to 100 percent of ... Read More

Researchers at the NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) have established a link between obesity and male infertility. Their research showed that men with increased body mass index ... Read More