1+ hour, 20+ min ago  (1753+ words) U. S. immigration judges have essentially been told that they cannot grant asylum to immigrants, The New York Times reported Thursday. In a previously unreported whistleblower letter to Congress, a military lawyer who served as a temporary immigration judge before being fired,…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago  (379+ words) As with all of Trump's presidential exploits, success is always constrained by two factors: The aforementioned sharp limitations of his intellectual capabilities and the fact that he is perpetually surrounded by an inner circle made up of clowns somewhere on…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago  (1765+ words) The bombs began raining down in Iran on February 28. Israel had successfully convinced Donald Trump to launch a joint attack on the Gulf nation. There was just one thing that the White House had forgotten about: half a dozen U. S. cadets…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1794+ words) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed the release of a report showing that the Covid-19 vaccine cut hospitalizations and emergency room visits for healthy adults by half last winter. The Washington Post reports that acting CDC director…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago  (1831+ words) When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described a deadly Iranian strike in Kuwait as a rare "squirter" that had broken through the defenses of a U. S. military base, it didn't quite sound right'especially to the service members who actually lived through it....

4+ hour, 51+ min ago  (1817+ words) While registration into Selective Service'the massive database that tells the United States how many men it can force into war in the event of a national emergency'has historically been required for every U. S. male upon turning 18, the sign-up process was manual....

2+ hour, 4+ min ago  (225+ words) Since early last year, Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have been methodically disassembling the ability of the Pentagon to say no to orders that are illegal or immoral. This is made worse by the fact that both Trump and…...

4+ hour, 34+ min ago  (1819+ words) Iran is not happy that Israel is continuing to bomb Lebanon and is warning Donald Trump to enforce what it says is "an inseparable part of the ceasefire." In a post on X Thursday morning, Iran's speaker of parliament Mohammad-Bagher…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1803+ words) So much for Donald Trump's "Golden Age." It looks like America's economic growth is officially in free fall. Between October and December, America's real gross domestic product fell from 4. 4 percent to just 0. 5 percent, the U. S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday....

3+ hour, 20+ min ago  (581+ words) The Supreme Court's recent decision in Chiles v. Salazar looks at first glance to be a lopsided triumph of First Amendment values'a ringing endorsement of the principle that the state can't prescribe what is orthodox in the marketplace of ideas. Eight…...