It will never pass.  Or at least it should not.  But I am quickly losing faith in the courage of our conservative Representatives. Senator Dianne Feinstein is putting together legislation that could be called the Assault Weapons Ban 2.0 that would take two steps forward after the one step...

Growing supplies of crude extracted through new technology including hydraulic fracturing of underground rock formations will transform the U.S. into the largest producer for about five years starting about 2020. Read the story on...

Demand for user data from Google continued to increase this year, with law enforcement agencies nationwide submitting requests 7,969 times for the first six months of the year as compared to 6,321 demands for data during the previous six month period. This data came from 16,281 user accounts...

Eurozone employment hits all-time low in September The number has only been tracked since 1995, and September set a record for the number of Europeans without a job in the single currency area – and analysts expecting no improvement any time soon.  If the 11.6% number they reported is...

The gap in pay between federal employees and private-sector workers has jumped 8  percentage points since last year, according to new data presented at a Federal  Salary Council meeting Friday. On average, federal employees earn 34 percent less than their private-sector  counterparts,...

The number of American workers collecting federal disability insurance  benefits hit yet another record high in October, according to the Social  Security Administration. This month 8,803,335 disabled workers are collecting benefits, up from the  previous record of 8,786,049 set in...