CIA Flight Map. Courtesy Reprieve. Khaled al-Masri, a German citizen, was kidnapped January 2004 in Macedonia, then tortured and interrogated by U.S. authorities for alleged links to terrorism. When […] More

This article was first published in March 2016 under the title Ruling Elite Grows Desperate to Destroy Trump’s Presidential Bid In the wake of the November 8 elections, it is […] More

  A leaked presentation shows that incoming Democratic Congressmen spend about five hours a day fundraising. Courtesy: The Huffington Post A new report from the Huffington Post spells out […] More

At the dawn of the nuclear age, the United States hoped to maintain a monopoly on its new weapon, but the secrets and the technology for making #nuclear weapons […] More

In what could become an annual occurrence, Congress yet again faces a looming deadline to resolve the problem of student loan interest rates. Without Congressional action, the rate on federally […] 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 […] More

In my last post on congressional productivity I wrote that so far in the 113th Congress (2013-2014) the fewest number of bills have been enacted than in any corresponding time period in […] More

This year the U.S. House has continued on its path toward greater transparency, and this week in particular two developments are worth noting: The House’s committee on House Administration held […] More