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

A federal appeals court has allowed a Tennessee highway patrolman to sue the state for being demoted on partisan grounds. Robert Eckerman claims he was busted down to sergeant from lieutenant because he is a Republican working in a Democratic ad...   read more

U.S. ambassador to Benin since September 30, 2009, James Knight is a Vietnam veteran and experienced diplomat who has spent almost his entire career serving in African countries.   Knight served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He late...   read more

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, was not released from prison in Scotland and returned home to Libya because he was near death, contend four U.S. senators. Rather, al-Megrahi was freed in large part because of a l...   read more

If at first you don’t succeed, spend, spend more money. That’s the Department of Defense’s solution for training Afghanistan’s still-not-ready-for-primetime police force, which has suffered from corruption, incompetence and illiteracy. But it’s ...   read more

Seeking to slow the sale of assault rifles to Mexico’s drug cartels, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) wants an emergency regulation adopted by January that would require certain gun dealers along the southwestern bor...   read more

Who needs simulated hell when the real one is available? That’s the attitude of many in the U.S. Army who are skipping the service’s elite Ranger School at Fort Benning, Georgia—where soldiers endure 60 days of simulated combat under grueling co...   read more

So much for culture trumping consumerism. At a shopping mall outside Sacramento, California, thousands of singers descended on the Westfield Galleria in Roseville to perform a rendition of Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus.” But before a single note c...   read more

Bank regulators in Washington may cringe as much as those running the financial institution targeted for the next WikiLeaks bombshell.   WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has promised to release “tens of thousands” of internal documents from a ...   read more

An unmanned aircraft from Mexico crashed last week into the backyard of an El Paso, Texas, home, presumably while looking for drug smugglers along the U.S. border.   American officials from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) were ...   read more

With too many lawyers taking advantage of struggling homeowners, the California legislature approved a new law preventing attorneys from getting paid until they have finished helping their clients with loan modifications. The problem with this s...   read more

It took three years and 57 pints of his own blood for Saddam Hussein to have a special copy of the Qur’an printed, and today, no one in Iraq knows exactly what to do with it.   Saddam commissioned the work on his 60th birthday in April 1997 an...   read more

Army Master Sergeant Mark Morgan knows how to mix it up on the battlefield and in the kitchen.   The 16-year veteran and Army Ranger served two tours in Iraq and four in Afghanistan, and received the Bronze Star along the way for his service. ...   read more

Both statistical and anecdotal evidence suggests that the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts is the most business-friendly of any Supreme Court in the last 50 years.   A study prepared for The New York Times by legal scholars ...   read more

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who make critical decisions affecting the U.S. military, are allowed to own stock in defense contractors. Their staff, however, cannot, nor can appointees to the Department of Defense who must be a...   read more

Legislation intended to end the practice of child marriage worldwide was defeated last week in the U.S. House by Republicans, much to the astonishment of the bill’s supporters.   The bipartisan International Protecting Girls by Preventing Chil...   read more

Frank Luntz, you are a winner. The Republican consultant who labeled President Barack Obama’s health care reform plan a “government takeover” was responsible for the tagline selected as the 2010 Lie of the Year by PolitiFact, the independent fac...   read more