Trump ordered that the term Homo sapiens be changed to Hetero sapiens. In history books and on websites, the airplane from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima will no longer be identified as the Enola Gay, but rather the Enola Straight. Trump also ordered billionaire Mark Cuban, who supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, to change his name to Mark American. If he does not do so, he will be charged with terrorism.   read more

Officials at Grand Canyon National Park were planning last year to ban all plastic bottles from the scenic treasure in order to reduce litter. But National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis scuttled the plan after Coca-Cola, a major donor to the Na...   read more

There’s something about Mitt Romney the networks can’t get enough of. Over the last five Republican presidential debates, Romney has scored far more speaking time than his rivals, according to statistics compiled by Smart Politics. He’s logged 73 ...   read more

Forced to reveal who’s been paying them and how much, virtually all of the retired military commanders in a Department of Defense mentoring program have quit.   The mentors worked as part-time government advisors who were paid as much as $330 an...   read more

Twenty years after its betrayal, the U.S. government has finally apologized to the Shiites of Iraq for abandoning them at the end of the Gulf War.   In 1991, President George H. W. Bush publicly urged Shiites, who constitute a majority of Iraq’s...   read more

On October 19, 2011, Carlo Maria Viganò took over as ambassador to the United States from the city-state of Vatican City (Holy See). A Vatican financial reformer who apparently did not want the job, Viganò, who is an archbishop in the Roman Cathol...   read more

Officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons have been informed that U.S. penitentiaries could be vulnerable to cyber attacks that would help prisoners escape.   Most American prisons are operated by industrial control systems (ICS) that also ar...   read more

After wasting $1 billion trying to build a virtual border fence and giving up, the Department of Homeland Security wants to spend another $1.5 billion on a replacement program that hasn’t been well thought out, according to critics.   Customs an...   read more

More than 25% of Medicare patients in 2008 were at risk of being subjected to an “adverse event” at a hospital, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general.   A 2008 survey of 81 hospitals found that ...   read more

Once again the U.S. military has failed to properly tend to its fallen soldiers, having first botched burials at the nation’s leading cemetery for service personnel and now mistreating remains upon their return to the U.S.   At Dover Air Force B...   read more

Nearly a dozen Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) employees working at the Lihu‘e Airport on the island of Kauai in Hawaii were overcome on November 3 by unidentified emissions coming from the security checkpoint they were manning.   Sus...   read more

Promises can be hard to keep. Just ask Citigroup and Bank of America.   The two behemoths of banking have repeatedly claimed that they would stop defrauding customers, after having been busted multiple times by the Securities and Exchange Commis...   read more

Nearly all 12 members of the congressional “Supercommittee” charged with cutting more than $1 trillion from the federal budget have accepted donations from foreign lobbyists this year.   The fact that 10 lawmakers have taken contributions recent...   read more

Faulty procurement by the Department of Defense has allowed counterfeit computer chips made in China to wind up in the parts inventory of advanced weapons systems.   The embarrassing revelation was exposed by the U.S. Navy and the Immigration an...   read more

Good news for the U.S. economy has surfaced in the nation’s bankruptcy courts, where filings are down for the first time since 2005.   Individuals and businesses collectively filed 1,467,221 bankruptcy cases in fiscal year 2011, down 8% from 201...   read more

In a surprising about-face, the Department of Defense has decided for the first time to broadcast the military trial of a Guantánamo detainee.   The decision comes after years of secrecy that has surrounded the holding of accused terrorists, inc...   read more

A majority of jobless Americans are no longer receiving unemployment benefits because they’ve been out of work too long to qualify.   The percentage of unemployed still getting checks from the government is now down to 48%—a significant drop fro...   read more