A bill just introduced in the Senate would amend the Endangered Species Act by requiring that the addition of a species to the endangered list be supported by scientific evidence ... Read More

The Electoral College system, always a hard sell in a land where "the majority rules," comes under even greater attack after election years like 2000, when election-loser Al Gore got ... Read More

In 1992, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said: "The federal budget is structurally unbalanced. This will do increasing damage to the economy and is unsustainable in the long term. Regardless ... Read More

Primary elections and caucuses for the 2008 presidential election could begin as early as next January, and people are already beginning to contribute to the campaigns of their favorite candidates ... Read More

More than five years after enactment of the education-reforming No Child Left Behind Act, America’s high school report card is not one you would want to show your parents. Results from ... Read More

Travelers mistakenly listed on the Department of Homeland Security's "no-fly" watch list can now attempt to be removed from that list and even seek redress via the new DHS TRIP ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Justice announces the launch of its "First Freedom Project," an initiative intended to "strengthen and preserve religious liberty throughout the nation." Spear headed by the Civil Rights ... Read More

In response to the growing trend among U.S. teens to abuse prescriptions drugs, rather than street drugs, the Department of Health and Human Services, along with the EPA, have issued ... Read More

One of the key contributors to the U.S. economy, the international tourism industry, has more than recovered from losses suffered after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, posting an all-time ... Read More

There seem to be three common threads to wars that are eventually ended by the U.S. Congress. First, a majority of the public wants the war ended. Second, the President ... Read More

Without as many Republican crossover votes as Democrats were hoping for, the House of Representatives earlier today passed 246-182 a non-binding, sense of the Congress resolution (H. CON. RES. 63) ... Read More

In a "good-news-bad-news" twist to the war on drugs, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) reports that U.S. teens are turning away from use of street drugs like ... Read More

It just makes sense that industrialized nations fair far better economically when they export (sell) more products than they import (buy). For the first time in a long time our ... Read More

The White House has released the Economic Report of the President, who on Feb. 12, 2007, declared, "Our economy is on the move and we can keep it that way ... Read More

The USDA's advice on what to do if you are attacked by a swarm of Africanized honey bees, popularly known as "killer bees," is frighteningly direct... "RUN away quickly! Do ... Read More

Last December, 1,282 residents of Cactus, Texas left town in a hurry and handcuffs, as targets of the U.S. government's largest work-place immigration raid in history. Located in the high-plains of ... Read More

At the old state Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois, Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday declared the start of dual campaigns, not only to become President of the United States, but ... Read More

U.S. airlines reported more late flights and lost luggage in 2006 than in 2005, but we must be getting used to it, because passengers filed fewer complaints with the government ... Read More

The bipartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released estimates showing that the monetary cost of President Bush's plan to increase the number of U.S. troops deployed in the Iraq war ... Read More

The White House has released a state-by-state breakdown of President Bush’s 2008 budget request. Following a section of rhetoric extolling the fiscal virtues of the president’s overall 2008 budget, comes ... Read More

According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Department of Energy has spent over $20 million so far in dealing with records apparently falsified by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) workers ... Read More

Today is the first Monday in February -- the day on or before which, federal law requires the president to deliver to Congress his or her annual Budget Request for ... Read More

The Bush administration has one-upped Congress as the Department of Education announced Friday that the President’s 2008 Budget will propose raising the annual Pell Grant maximum for students from the ... Read More

By an overwhelming 94-3 vote, the US Senate yesterday passed a bill increasing the federal minimum wage for the first time since 1997. But don't count that new money yet. The ... Read More

The White House has released an extensive Fact Sheet on the State of the Economy Address, delivered by President Bush on January 23, in New York City. "A future of hope ... Read More

Let’s say you are city government, and you paint the Ten Commandments on the front door of your City Hall. I take offense and sue you for violating my rights ... Read More