A group of Florida college professors has joined forces with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to sue the state for passing a new law that bans the use of public money for “acadmeic” travel to any country labeled as a terrorist nation by the U.S. State Department. The bill was recently approved by the

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The so-called victims of hurricane Katrina portrayed by the media as poor folks wrongly neglected by the U.S. Government, spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer assistance dollars on outrageous things such as divorces, luxury vacations and even a sex change. After the storm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) distributed debit cards, worth thousands each,

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Wisconsin’s governor categorically denies pressuring a purchasing official–convicted this week of fraud–to award a lucrative state contract to a company owned by his longtime buddy who also happens to be a big time campaign contributor. Georgia Thompson, a state Department of Administration purchasing supervisor, was convicted in a Milwaukee federal court of fraud and misapplication

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Colorado’s Supreme Court contradicted itself this week by ruling against a measure it had favored a few years ago prohibiting illegal immigrants from receiving taxpayer-funded public services. The 4-2 ruling seemed quite strange considering a virtually identical measure – restricting non-emergency services provided by state and local governments to citizens and legal immigrants – was

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New and incriminating stories are surfacing daily in the federal investigation of one of the most powerful members of the United States House of Representatives, California Republican Jerry Lewis, who happens to be the chairman of the Appropriations Committee. The committee oversees about $900 billion in federal funding, which means that well-connected lobbyists put a

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Tests conducted months ago by a Florida supervisor of elections exposed serious security problems with electronic voting machines and now embarrassed state officials want to pass a new law that prohibits such testing in the future. You would think Florida officials would praise Ion Sancho, the supervisor of elections in Tallahassee’s Leon County, for exposing

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While the United States government is charged with protecting and securing our border, the federal agency in charge of this job has high-ranking inspectors waving in drug and alien smugglers for bribes. For the second time in a week, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector, supposedly guarding the U.S.-Mexican border against drug smugglers and

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A cozy little city in Illinois that claims to take pride in everything it does isn’t too proud of its longtime mayor who was arrested this week – on his 78th birthday – for taking bribes. Federal authorities had for years investigated the mayor of Niles, a city North of Chicago with a population of

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Las Vegas is known as “Sin City” for its wild nightlife, nonstop gambling establishments and strip clubs but it turns out that its judicial system operates in similar impropriety, with judges who routinely rule in cases involving friends and business associates and in favor of lawyers who donate big bucks to their campaigns. A three-part

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Missouri’s Attorney General has accepted thousands of dollars for his gubernatorial campaign from a utility company he is supposedly investigating over a disastrous reservoir collapse. In fact, utility company Ameren Corp cut its first check to the Attorney General, Missouri Democrat Jay Nixon, shortly after he launched the investigation into the company. If contributing $20,000

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