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

The White House insists the news is good for the government’s efforts to stem wasteful spending, even though the numbers would indicate otherwise.   During fiscal year 2010, the rate of improper payments—checks sent in error, disbursed to the ...   read more

Medicare beneficiaries who enter a hospital stand a 1-in-7 chance of receiving medical care that causes them harm, based on data collected by the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general.   After reviewing the cases of one mi...   read more

Thanks to this year’s Republican wave, the number of small-business owners in Congress will triple in size in January. Thirty-three new lawmakers, all Republican and including two women, make their living running small enterprises. The last Cong...   read more

The town of Hinkley, California, is reliving a nightmare it thought had ended a decade ago. Made famous by Erin Brockovich’s battle against Pacific Gas & Electric and the subsequent film starring Julia Roberts, Hinkley residents are again facing...   read more

Target, a female shepherd-mix dog, survived suicide bombings in Afghanistan, but couldn’t avoid death at an animal shelter in Arizona, where she was mistakenly euthanized.   Only last month Target was honored at the eighth annual Hero Awards b...   read more

Businesses do not create jobs, says Dave Johnson at Campaign for America’s Future who sees companies as an enemy of employment.   “Businesses have more incentives to eliminate jobs than to create them,” argues Johnson. “Businesses in our economy...   read more

Demonstrating do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do is still alive and well in Washington, two Republican lawmakers have publicly bashed programs that they regard differently when it comes to their own benefit.   In the Senate, John Ensign of Nevada voted ...   read more

Huh? That about sums up the reaction to the latest labor news out of Washington, where the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has reported that more people are quitting their jobs than are being laid off.   In September, there were two million q...   read more

Journalist Fahd al-Jukhaidib is facing a punishment of 50 lashes and two months in prison for writing about protests over electricity cuts in Saudi Arabia. Al-Jazira, a daily national newspaper, published a story by al-Jukhaidib in September 200...   read more

With the economy improving little from 2008 to 2009, it’s not surprising that the problem with hunger in America saw little progress as well. A new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service found that nearly 15% ...   read more

Immigration courts are taking longer these days to hear and process cases, including those that end with deportation orders. The specialized courts took an average of 280 days during FY 2010 to complete cases, which was 47 days longer (or 20%) t...   read more

Wanting to get in on the billion-dollar action, banks and hedge funds are backing lawsuits against corporations, hospitals, doctors and other deep-pocketed interests in order to create new streams of income. Investments in civil cases now total ...   read more

What used to take only days is now stretching into months and close to years for the issuance of the first pardon by a new president.   Like his immediate predecessors, President Barack Obama has continued a recent trend of putting pardons and...   read more

Stephen Bertone, former chief engineer of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, has refused to comply with a subpoena from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), arguing that the CSB does not have jurisdiction to prob...   read more

With wait times lasting longer than two years for a decision, judges who hear Social Security disability cases are experiencing a rise in violent threats from frustrated Americans. At least 80 threats to kill or harm administrative law judges or...   read more

Matthew S. Petersen has served on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) since his appointment by President George W. Bush in June 2008. In December 2009, he was selected by the commission members to be their chair for the year 2010. The role of ...   read more