Patricia Marroquin/Shutterstock July 29, 2015 — In terms of home sale price, 14 of the country’s 20 most expensive zip codes are in California. These include zip codes in Atherton, Beverly […] More

Blackwater protest. Photo by rjosef. Under under Creative Commons license. When Blackwater offered Salva Kiir, the president of South Sudan, a package of military aid, they arranged a delivery of […] More

Rob Crandall/Shutterstock November 19, 2015 — On November 17, 2015, the Senate passed joint resolutions S.J.Res.23 and S.J.Res.24, each by an identical vote of 52-46. These resolutions block Environmental Protection […] More

Andrea Izzotti/Shutterstock July 17, 2015 — The reports are in. On July 15, the 2016 presidential candidates turned in their Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings disclosing how much their campaign committees […] More

Lost in all the shouting and hypocrisy over James Comey and the FBI’s renewed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s national security-compromising email scandal is a true jaw-dropper of a Wall Street Journal scoop regarding deep internal […] More

The NSA controversy has been mind boggling to me. Despite widespread bipartisan outrage over the extent of our government’s data collection, barely any action has been taken to regulate the […] More

David Merrett/Wikimedia Commons December 2, 2015 — On January 21, 2015, the Senate voted on a number of amendments to S. 1, the Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act. While construction […] More

Boeing X-45A combat drone. Photo by cliff1066™. Used under Creative Commons license. Boeing, the aircraft manufacturing giant from Seattle, helped defeat a Republican proposal in Washington state that would have […] More