According to Government Accountability Office (GAO) auditors, the IRS’ plan to hire even more private debt collection agencies to round up some $132 billion in unpaid taxes needs some work ... Read More

The Nov. 7, 2006 mid-term elections are now just days away. Hopefully, you have already registered to vote, studied the candidates and the issues, made up your mind and set ... Read More

Who's been bad? Who got caught and what's it going to cost them? Here are the latest enforcement reports from the Justice Department. GSA chief of staff David Safavian sentenced to ... Read More

Facing ongoing challenges from new electronic voting systems, Cook County, Illinois has recruited more than 2,900 computer-savvy local college students to work as election judges and administrators in the November ... Read More

How much is a college degree worth? A steadily growing bundle, according to new data from the Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau showing that Americans age 18 and older with ... Read More

Who's been bad? Who got caught and what's it going to cost them? Here are the latest enforcement reports from the Justice Department. Two convicted in massive fraud against HSBC ... Read More

The Department of Commerce’s U.S. Census Bureau has released the 2006 edition of its massive State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, a compilation of statistics for the U.S. and the ... Read More

Just when you thought the 2000 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, A.K.A. the McCain-Feingold-Shays-Meehan law would help reduce the impact of money on federal elections, the bipartisan Center for Responsive Politics ... Read More

Love it or loathe it, daylight saving time ends at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday Oct 29, and next year you can love it or loathe it even longer, as the ... Read More

Who's been bad? Who got caught and what's it going to cost them? Here are the latest enforcement reports from the Justice Department. Enron CEO Jeff Skilling sentenced to 24 years ... Read More

Perhaps the greatest debate undertaken by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 centered on how many representatives each state should have in the new government's lawmaking branch, the ... Read More

In a move that could catch the attention of his counterparts nationwide, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week signed an emergency proclamation authorizing the state's department of corrections to begin ... Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Arizona may enforce a law requiring voters in that state to provide proof of American citizenship in order to vote in the ... Read More

Limiting maritime security to screening cargo arriving at U.S. seaports is a dangerous mistake, according to a new RAND Corporation report, which suggests that cruise ships and ferry boats offer ... Read More

More than 53 million Americans will receive a 3.3 percent increase in their monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits in 2007, according to the Social Security Administration. The 3.3 ... Read More

Claims by a California company that their "treatment" consisting of three pills and a bar of "special soap" used to "reduce dress sizes," results in substantial, and permanent weight loss, ... Read More

Does a sharp increase in the number of college students volunteering for public service since the 9/11 terrorist attacks herald the "emergence of a new civic generation?" USA Freedom Corps ... Read More

All things nuclear in North Korea started going downhill On Oct. 16, 2002, when their top government officials admitted their country had secretly continued development of nuclear weapons in violation ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed suit against the City of Philadelphia for allegedly violating the rights of Spanish-speaking voters. In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for ... Read More

The mid-term elections are coming up, but if you haven't registered you may not be allowed to vote. In all states except North Dakota, you must register before you can ... Read More

Without saying why, as in dropping the Global Warming bomb, NOAA reports that worldwide temperatures remained "well above average," while the United States enjoyed a cooler than average September. While ... Read More

For the first time since the World War II era, charges of treason have officially been filed against a U.S. citizen. The Department of Justice reports that a federal grand ... Read More

Sometime on Oct. 17, 2006, the total population of the United States will reach 300 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The milestone of growth comes 39 years after ... Read More

A newly-focused Website from the Small Business Administration promises business owners a one-stop source of help in complying with the dizzying maze of federal regulations. The Business.gov Web site, claims ... Read More

After over nine months of denying they existed, records confirming that one in four veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are filing disability claims have been released by ... Read More

While a bit cooler than last year's extremely warm season, the coming winter will again be warmer than normal for most of the nation, according to forecasters at the National ... Read More

Did you know that until 1913, all of our U.S. Senators were chosen by the state legislatures, rather than elected by the people? That’s the way the Founding Fathers wanted ... Read More

When the Supreme Court voted 5-4 in June, 2005 to expand the power of city governments to condemn privately-owned property to make room for projects intended to spur economic development, ... Read More

Arizonans will not have to prove they are American citizens in order to vote in the November mid-term elections, as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has halted implementation ... Read More

Within the federal agencies are politically independent individuals called Inspectors General who are responsible for ensuring that the agencies operate efficiently, effectively and legally. When it was reported in Oct. ... Read More

As our nation's first Speaker of the House, elected in 1789, Pennsylvanian Frederick Muhlenberg, is remembered partly as the key player in a popular urban legend involving the failure of ... Read More

Employees of the U.S. Department of the Interior waste $2,027,887.68 worth of taxpayer time annually surfing sexually explicit, gambling, gaming, and auction websites while at work, according to an investigative ... Read More

Earlier this week, we reported here that the IRS is continuing to work on reducing, if not eliminating, the federal "tax gap," now running over $350 billion a year. That ... Read More

Since its inception, the United States Congress has been solely responsible for creating and enforcing its own code of ethics for the behavior of its members. In light of the ... Read More

U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (R-Florida) resigned his position on Sept. 29, amid allegations that he had exchanged sexually explicit emails with teenage congressional pages. Every year, thousands of U.S. high ... Read More

In the same press release, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), states that 80 percent of U.S. seniors are satisfied with their current drug benefit program, but that ... Read More