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

U.S. Army Private Bowe Bergdahl has surfaced again in a new Taliban video, following his capture on June 30, 2009, or shortly thereafter. Bergdahl, the only known American POW in Afghanistan, appears in four seconds of the footage with a noticea...   read more

Having labored under interim directors since 2006, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in the Department of Justice may finally get a permanent director. Maybe.   President Barack Obama’s selection on November 17, 201...   read more

William R. Brownfield was nominated Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) on September 22, 2010. In this post, Brownfield advises top federal officials, including the President and the Secr...   read more

The Obama administration and some members of Congress have been making noise about prosecuting Julian Assange (assuming he could be extradited to the U.S.) for publishing classified government documents on his website, WikiLeaks. But no U.S. law c...   read more

The way to the hearts and minds of young people in Saudi Arabia is not through long interviews with George W. Bush, but through the personalities of David Letterman, Eva Longoria and Jennifer Aniston.   A classified communiqué from the U.S. em...   read more

Did the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency really break last year’s record for deportations? In claiming it did, by processing 392,862 deportations, ICE used some slick accounting procedures, and also persuaded some immigrants to l...   read more

Louisiana shrimp in Afghanistan? It could happen, if Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has his way.   Mabus, who’s leading the Obama administration’s recovery efforts for the Gulf Coast following the BP oil spill, wants all branches of the militar...   read more

With time running out on the lame-duck 111th Congress, lawmakers quietly adopted a provision that kills President Barack Obama’s plan to close down the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and transfer detainees to American soil. The maneuver was s...   read more

The U.S. Navy has ticked off a lot of Iranians. Quietly, the Navy changed its policy on the name of the body of water separating Saudi Arabia from Iran—what commonly has been referred to as the Persian Gulf. Now all naval personnel are supposed ...   read more

In exchange for paying informant Craig Monteilh $177,000 to infiltrate Muslim communities, the FBI got little to show, except for embarrassment.   Monteilh, a convicted forger of banks notes, was hired by federal law enforcement to spy on Musl...   read more

Medicare spends more than $20 billion a year to provide dialysis to patients with kidney disorders—about $77,000 per patient. This expenditure is higher than what any other country in the world spends on dialysis, and yet the United States owns ...   read more

This past November was the worst of any November for U.S. deaths since the war in Afghanistan began in 2001. In fact, the number of American soldiers killed in November 2010 equaled the U.S. death toll of all the Novembers from 2003 through 2009...   read more

A longtime employee of the District of Columbia’s Department of Corrections, Adrienne R. Poteat serves as the head of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA), where she has been deputy director since 2002. This federal agency ...   read more

Known as the so-called “brain of Congress,” the Congressional Research Service (CRS) is being denied access to the thousands of State Department cables illegally released by WikiLeaks. As an arm of the Library of Congress, CRS is unable to revie...   read more

If a member of the military goes into the hospital, the most likely problem is not physical, but mental, according to new data produced by the Department of Defense.   The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center found that mental health disord...   read more

Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad, now under the control of billionaire Warren Buffett, has been exposed for having a history of judicial misconduct in court cases involving collisions or workplace injuries.   An investigation by th...   read more