Four times now, the US government has offered Cuba over $6.3 million worth of humanitarian aid in response to Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, and four times now, Cuba has failed ... Read More

By the end of this week, Congress may have backed an unprecedented mortgage industry bailout plan that will cost taxpayers at least $700 billion -- seven-tenths of a trillion dollars ... Read More

Ten years ago, 229,000 Salvadorans entered the United States illegally, after Hurricane Mitch hit El Salvador. Being the benevolent outfit it so often is, the U.S. government immediately extended Temporary ... Read More

Thousands of residents of public housing will gain access to computers and the Internet, thanks to $10.6 million in grants awarded last week by the Department of Housing and Urban ... Read More

Blaming it on the faltering... okay, the staggering economy, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced that the nation's daily mail volume has continued to decrease. Not by a little, but ... Read More

Forget about trillion dollar bailouts, the biggest news from the U.S. Mint is also the smallest unit of U.S. money. For the first time in over 50 years, a redesigned ... Read More

The Transportation Security Agency's blog, "Evolution of Security," declares that the agency's new Millimeter Wave Whole Body Imaging scanning machines protect the privacy of individuals and emit less radiation than ... Read More

Last week, the Department of Energy announced that it had sent 250,000 barrels of emergency exchange oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the CITGO refinery at Lake Charles, ... Read More

Sharia law, and its advocates, would be banished from the United States under "The Jihad Prevention Act" just introduced by U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado, 6th). Sharia law is a form ... Read More

The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed a bill restoring the Second Amendment right of gun ownership to citizens of the District of Columbia. Approved by a vote of 266 ... Read More

For forest plants, hard-times like drought, pollution and extremely cold temperatures can be a real headache. But don't worry about forest plants, because they have the ability to cope with ... Read More

Some six million Americans who are members of the military or live overseas will have a way to make sure their vote for president this November is counted, thanks to ... Read More

The United States has admitted and resettled 12,118 "most vulnerable" Iraqi refugees during fiscal year 2008, according to the State Department. Besides surpassing its 2008 goal of 12,000 Iraqi refugees, the ... Read More

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Jim Nussle has decided that the "business operations and assets and liabilities" of the now government-controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will not ... Read More

The U.S.-Mexico border fence that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was to have finished last February, won't be completed until 2011 at the earliest, according to a new report ... Read More

Whether it's Obama or McCain, the next president had better bring a lot of that pig lipstick to the Oval Office, because a nation of "Fearful Families," formerly known as ... Read More

A bill just introduced in the Senate would "take back" about $12 billion in unspent money from the $43.5 billion designated by Congress for the reconstruction of Iraq. Sen. Byron Dorgan ... Read More

What has the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) already shipped to Texas to help the evacuees and victims of Hurricane Ike? Here's the "short list." 750,000 Meals 120,000 Comfort/Hygiene Kits 290,000 Blankets 160,000 Cots 3,000 ... Read More

The House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a bill killing a NAFTA compliance proposal that would have allowed Mexican trucks to operate on U.S. Highways. Passed by a vote of 395 ... Read More

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has officially "docketed," or begun final consideration of the Department of Energy's (DOE) application to build the nation's high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, ... Read More

The number of civil rights cases coming before U.S. district courts fell to 32,865 in 2006 from 40,516 in 2003, according to a new report from the Bureau of Justice ... Read More

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has identified some 1.9 million acres of public lands in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming to be set aside for commercial production of oil from ... Read More

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced it will pay the hotel and motel bills of Hurricane Gustav evacuees who cannot return to their homes until it is safe ... Read More

Hoping to prevent further damage to the failing U.S. housing market, the federal government has taken control of troubled mortgage lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In the largest ... Read More

When Missouri members of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) looked closely at their state's online database of government expenditures, they found that from 2000 to 2008, the State of Missouri ... Read More

Some 2.4 million Americans were diagnosed with tobacco-related cancer from 1999 to 2004, according to a massive new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Almost half of those ... Read More

The entire U.S. population of red fire ants, which is... well, the only number bigger than the national debt, came from just nine to 20 very prolific queens in Mobile, ... Read More

You know the breathtaking, unspoiled Andes Mountains of South America? Well take them in while you can folks, because the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) says the Andes may contain vast ... Read More

Still trying to sell Americans on the idea of toting around a pocket full of $1 coins, the U.S. Mint will try even harder in four cities over the coming ... Read More

Looks like the stimulation of the tax rebates has ended, as the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that personal income in the U.S. fell by $89.9 billion, or 0.7 percent, ... Read More

On Aug. 28, the Department of Transportation (DOT) cited its anti-drunk driving TV ads and tougher law enforcement for a big reduction in the number of DUI-related traffic deaths during ... Read More

In 2005, the government enacted a law intended to make it more difficult for individuals to wipe out their debts by filing for bankruptcy. It worked, at least for a ... Read More