As violent drug cartels take over Mexico and expand their criminal enterprises north, the United States has signed a “trusted traveler” agreement that allows pre-screened Mexican airline passengers to bypass lengthy airport security checkpoints. The foreigners will get “trusted traveler cards” with fingerprints and other biometric data and they must answer customs declarations questions

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  A Clinton-appointed federal judge who took bribes from lawyers to pay off gambling debts has become the first in more than two decades to be removed by Congress. That makes the corrupt former judge, Thomas Porteous, only the eighth in history to be stripped of his lifetime federal job. Earlier this year the House

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  Two years after the Pentagon revealed that many Guantanamo detainees rejoin terrorist missions after leaving the military prison, President Obama’s National Intelligence Director confirms that one in four resume terrorist activities against the United States after being released. As the president fulfills his promise of returning America to the “moral high ground” by closing

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Although President Obama vowed to crack down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants, the administration will ask the Supreme Court this week to kill an Arizona measure—signed into law by former Governor Janet Napolitano—that punishes employers who hire undocumented workers. Upheld by two federal courts, the Legal Arizona Workers Act requires companies to certify that

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A year after the nation’s Postmaster General received a six-figure bonus and huge salary increase, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is in a dire financial crisis attributed largely to the exorbitant cost of employee benefits and compensation. The independent federal agency is rapidly declining and had a record loss of $8.5 billion in fiscal year

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  As it pushes the lame-duck Congress to pass an amnesty bill, the White House claims that legalizing millions of illegal immigrants will help the U.S. economy, support military troops and make the nation smarter. In its desperate attempt to convince Americans that the soon-to-expire Congress should approve the contentious DREAM Act, the White House

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Keeping with President Obama’s big government ambitions, the Federal Communications Commission has announced a plan to control the internet and a proposal to sustain “traditional media” by requiring broadcasters to reflect ethnic diversity and a commitment to public affairs programming to keep their license. Both agendas were revealed this week by two separate FCC commissioners,

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Now that the U.S. government has dished out billions of dollars to settle discrimination lawsuits with black farmers and Indians, Hispanic and women farmers are pushing to get a piece of the generous reparation pie. A few weeks ago Congress approved a landmark $4.55 settlement to make amends to blacks and Indians, who say they

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  As part of the U.S. government’s campaign to reduce the stigma of AIDS, millions of taxpayer dollars have been allocated to groups that educate minorities about the deadly virus, including a nonprofit dedicated to helping illegal immigrant farm workers. In fact, the Obama Administration launched a special AIDS Hispanic/Latino Leadership Initiative to strengthen the

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  More than a decade after government investigators exposed an epidemic of prison inmates fraudulently receiving tens of millions of dollars in tax refunds, the problem is still rampant and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) keeps cutting checks to incarcerated criminals. The scandal of jailed convicts getting tax refunds was first revealed 15 years ago

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