It was "Bring Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day" at an Environmental Protection Agency office -- not the best time for an employee to be slacking off on his job. It so happened that one of the kids did taxpayers a favor. He caught the slacker red-handed watching porn on a government computer. An investigation revealed the guy had been viewing and downloading pornographic materials up to four hours a day.

Computer users are frequently urged to change their password to avoid being the target of hackers. Hillary Clinton avoided being hassled that way when she was secretary of state. She never used a password to protect her emails, according to a deposition by a veteran foreign service officer.

Donald Trump observed clinching the Republican nomination for president with an uncharacteristic calm. He commented on reaching the magic number of 1237 delegates in an appearance in North Dakota, where two unbound delegates from that state announced their support. He later posted a photo on the Internet of himself "celebrating" with a meal from McDonald's and a Diet Coke.

"To hell with the men." - Donald Trump, pandering to women in Albuquerque. He has that incredible ability  to make enemies in groups.

Moody's, a financial institution which has correctly called every presidential election since 1980, is predicting a win for Hillary Clinton this fall. The forecast is based on President Obama's strong approval ratings. Another factor might have been her talent for barking like a dog.

Your Government At Work
A new facility for detaining illegal immigrants being built near the Mexican border in south Texas will include a separate unit for transgenders. Federal immigration authorities routinely ask detainees about their gender identity. Of the approximately 30,000 illegals detained on a given day, about 65 are transgender women, according to a  Human Rights Watch report.

"When you go to Disney, do they measure the number of hours you wait in line?" - Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald, responding to questions about how long veterans must wait to receive care at VA facilities. An angry House Speaker Paul Ryan shot back: "Veterans have died waiting in those lines."

What would Groucho Marx say? Cigar lovers will take a big hit under new Food and Drug Administration regulations that will put heavy demands on the cigar industry to get their products in line with the 2009 Tobacco Control Act. This will be ruinously expensive and will put a large number of producers out of business.

How Your Tax Money Is Spent
The federal agency that collects income taxes is one of the worst at wasting your money. The Internal Revenue Service erroneously paid out an estimated $15.6 billion in Earned Income Tax Credit payments in fiscal year 2015, according to a U.S. Treasury Inspector General's investigation.

"This is the Obama administration's new term for criminals ... 'justice-involved individuals.' That alone is a crime against the English language." - Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the Obama administration suffered an embarrassing development when a federal judge ordered the Justice Department to send its lawyers back to remedial ethics classes. The action was taken after finding that the administration repeatedly misled the court in the high-profile challenge to the president's deportation amnesty, The Washington Times reported.

 How Your Taxes Are Spent
The Department of Agriculture is awarding $44 million in grant money to help farmers "enter into value-added activities related to the processing and marketing of products" -- such as $247,677 to a Georgia producer "to help develop a pecan snack."

Some federal agencies offer free yoga classes for their employees, costing taxpayers more than $168,000 over the past five years. But it might be a thing of the past. Rep. Matt Salmon, R--Ariz., has introduced a bill to prohibit the practice.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has declared that President Obama's executive order on transgender bathroom access in public schools should be extended all over the country, including Capitol Hill. Conservatives in Congress might accept sharing lawmakers' restrooms and changing rooms at the members' gym with transgenders ... so long as there are none in the House or Senate.

The Environmental Protection Agency is being sued by a free market legal group for allegedly stacking a scientific advisory panel on air pollution with researchers who had received more than $190 million in grants from the agency. "This clearly violates the law and makes a mockery of the notion of 'independent' scientific reviews," attorney Steve Milloy said. He's right.

"I did not have a negative experience with Donald Trump. They spun it to where it appeared negative. He never offended me in any way. He was a gentleman." - Rowanne Brewer Lane, a former girl friend of Donald Trump, putting the lie to a New York Times hit piece on his relationships with women.

"Never Trump" Republicans are finding it tough to get someone to launch a third-party bid for the presidency. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who dropped out of the Republican race after the Indiana primary, is the latest to reject the notion. He said such a candidacy would not be "constructive" and "would be viewed as kind of a silly thing."

Hillary Clinton has spent twice as much as Bernie Sanders on broadcast advertising in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, and seven times the amount presumptive Republican nominee has spent. The totals: Clinton $153,207,935; Sanders $74,675,942; Trump $21,164,436.

"I want you to drag some of your friends kicking and screaming to vote for her." - Bill Clinton, campaigning for his wife, Hillary, in Kentucky. If that's not an admission of her unpopularity, what is?

"Everything is a suggestion, no matter what you say, it's a suggestion." - Donald Trump, effectively nullifying all he said he would do (build a wall on the Mexican border, ban Muslims from entering the U.S., etc.) if elected president.

Only in Washington
The U.S. Congress conspired to be designated a "small business" with only 90 employees in both the House and Senate to qualify for special Obamacare special health subsidies.

President Obama veered from White House strategy when he broke into a critique of Donald Trump's campaign style with reporters. A policy in effect since last December is to not discuss the presumptive Republican nominee --not even say his name. But a president can pretty well do what he wants.

"I think I would have been the best president." - Vice President Joe Biden. It's not the way it sounds. He wasn't comparing himself to President Obama. He was saying he had planned to run this year until his son Beau died, and if he had he thought he would have been "the best president."

"There was a glitch." That cavalier statement came from a State Department spokesperson after it was revealed that a video of a 2013 press briefing had apparently been edited to remove a damaging admission of lying to keep the Iran negotiations secrt.

Barack Obama is on the way to beating Bill Clinton's record as the "most traveled president." With his recent visits to Saudi Arabia, Britain and Germany (which cost $5.6 million just for transportation) Obama has taken 45 trips abroad. Clinton made 55 trips during his eight years in office.

Ted Cruz was spotted at the Kentucky Derby, arousing speculation whether the loser in presidential politics was seeking to be a winner in another race.

Good news, bad news. Federal tax receipts hit a record high of $1.9 trillion for the first seven months of the fiscal year. But the Congressional Budget Office reports that at $2.27 trillion, federal outlays are up by four percent for the fiscal year. And the federal deficit stands at $352 billion.

"We are going to win bigly." - Donald Trump. Is he going to do it with George W. Bush's "strategery"?


"We are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." - Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential candidate.

"For me, it was easy ... easy for me, for everybody." - A Romanian computer hacker who claims he hacked into former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's private email server.

Your Government at Work
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an anti-smoking campaign focused on young adults who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. It will cost $35.7 million.

Ted Cruz suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination after frontrunner Donald Trump tromped him in the Indiana primary. His choice for a running mate, Carly Fiorina, preceded his fall from grace with one of her own. After introducing Cruz at a rally she stumbled and fell off the stage. She was not hurt but was subjected to a joke about dropping out of the race for the second time.

"If these walls could talk." - From an invitation to a reopening gala of the Watergate Hotel in Washington, marking a $125 million renovation and ending a seven-year hibernation. (Reported by the Washington Times' "Inside the Beltway.")

No doubt President Obama had help from some professional comedy writers, but with his delivery and timing he was a hit at his last White House Correspondents Dinner. He kidded himself as well as both Republican and Democratic president candidates. Here are some of his quips:

"Hillary (Clinton) once questioned whether I'd be ready for a 3 a.m. phone call. Now I am awake anyways, because I gotta go to the bathroom."

Re Ted Cruz: "He went to Indiana, Hoosier country, stood on a basketball court and called the hoop a 'basketball ring'".

Re Donald Trump: "There's one area where Donald's experience could be invaluable. That's closing Guantanamo. Because Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground."