In a victory for a power-wielding lawmaker who conducts public business in private, a Colorado appellate court has upheld a ruling shielding the state’s governor from disclosing cellular phone records that include hundreds of calls made during the course of his official duties. Since taking office in 2007, Governor Bill Ritter has dodged Colorado’s Open

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Incompetent U.S. intelligence agencies actually helped the al Qaeda terrorist who came dangerously close to blowing up an airplane on Christmas, shifting the Obama Administration’s initial assessment of the incident from a delusional “the system worked” to a more realistic "potential catastrophic breach" of security. It turns out that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has

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A third Pennsylvania judge has pleaded guilty to corruption this week, making him one of nearly two dozen officials embroiled in a widespread federal investigation of government and court agencies in a county of former coal mining towns. Earlier this year two of his Luzerne County bench colleagues (Mark Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan) were

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A prominent middle-aged Arizona politician has been cleared of wrongdoing for paying his young “consultant” girlfriend hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars because an immediate family member didn’t personally benefit from the deals.  Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, a renowned open borders advocate who claims detaining illegal immigrants violates their civil rights, was under investigation for

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A thrice-convicted illegal immigrant drug dealer long protected by a sanctuary state is frantically trying to evade a life prison sentence by arguing that it’s “cruel and unusual punishment” in his native Mexico. In a classic only-in-America fable, the illegal alien (Vicente Corona) had previously been deported after one of the convictions but returned to

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After shamelessly touting the success of the aviation security system that let an al Qaeda terrorist smuggle explosives onto a U.S. airline, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has conceded that it actually failed miserably. Desperately attempting to scrape the egg off of her face, Napolitano did an about face within 24 hours by admitting what

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Violating its own guarantee of unprecedented transparency, the White House is blocking an investigation into the controversial firing of an inspector general who exposed one of President Obama’s political supporters—a California mayor—for misusing federal funds.  First Lady Michelle Obama was reportedly behind the contentious June dismissal of AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin and congressional investigators

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The Islamic extremist Army major who went on a murderous rampage—while chanting "Allahu Akbar!"—at the nation’s largest military base will file a legal motion alleging that his civil rights are being violated because he’s prohibited from praying the Koran in Arabic. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, charged with murdering 13 people and the attempted murder of

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The Secretary of Homeland Security has delayed implementation of a crucial law passed by Congress to prevent another terrorist attack because it may inconvenience holiday travelers.  This, in turn, will allow a handful of states that allow illegal immigrants to obtain official driver’s licenses to continue running afoul of the national identification measure (Real ID

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In a scandalous arrangement that’s sure to outrage Americans nationwide, a former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives gets tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars monthly to work as a lobbyist and foreign agent of a Middle Eastern country run by an Islamist regime.  The U.S. government gives former House Speaker Dennis Hastert more

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