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

Following the Boston Marathon bombing, critics complained about Obama’s initial public remarks, which left out any mention of “terrorism.” If anything, the president was taking a one-day break from using the word—which he’s said an average of once a day since taking over the Oval Office in 2009. Eric Ostermeier of Smart Politics, found that Obama had mentioned terrorism or one of its related usages 1,469 times.   read more

The bottom line according to Wadsworth: More sex makes people happy, but even better is knowing that you’re having more sex than those you know. In that sense, claims Wadsworth, sex is similar to income because of people’s habit of feeling better (or worse) about their situation depending on how much their friends or neighbors have.   read more

The 577-page report said that never before had there been “the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody.” Furthermore, the use of torture has “no justification” and “potentially increased the danger to U.S. military personnel taken captive.”   read more

On Wednesday the Senate rejected a proposed law that would have required background checks through federally licensed dealers on all Internet and gun show sales despite the fact that 56 senators voted for it and only 44 voted against. Such a restriction might have prevented Gerard Toolin, a wanted fugitive from Rhode Island, from trying to buy an AK-47 assault rifle online.   read more

More than 1,800 of these patients had one or more complications that could have been prevented, like blood clots, pneumonia or infected incisions. The findings of the research included the following: • Patients with private insurance who had a complication provided hospitals with a 330% higher profit margin than those without a complication. • Medicare patients with a complication produced a 190% higher margin.   read more

The oil company sponsored the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative in which Rex Tillerson, Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, participated in a plenary session, ’Invest in Girls and Women.’ In 2008, ExxonMobil gave $3.5 million to the Clinton Foundation’s malaria elimination efforts. Exxon gave $20,348 to Hillary’s campaign in 2008.   read more

38.5% of those incarcerated by the New Jersey County Jail System (NJCJS) remain locked away due to their inability to pay for bail. “This means that the inmates were not serving a sentence, had no holds or detainers, and could have been released if they were able to post bail in the form of cash, cash/bond, 10% option or support arrears,” VanNostrand wrote.   read more

A new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on children’s well-being in 29 countries revealed that, during the years 2009 and 2010, the U.S. ranked only 23rd in terms of life satisfaction for those age 11, 13 and 15. The U.S. finished just ahead of Canada, as well as Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Romania.   read more

The busing tactic coincided with the state’s decision to slash funding for mental health services. Between 2009 and 2012, Nevada cut mental health spending by 28%. Prior to those cuts, the state’s funding for those services was already well below the national average.   read more

Even Democrats, who have historically viewed the federal government favorably during Democratic administrations, are fed up. Only 41% said they have a positive outlook, while 51% have a negative one. Republicans continue to express displeasure towards Washington, with only 13% holding a favorable opinion. Twenty-seven percent of independents said the same.   read more

Based on the latest data published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the number of individuals cleared for access to classified information was more than 4.9 million last year. This total represents a sizeable increase from a similar report issued in 2010 by ODNI that said the number was 4.2 million.   read more

In recent decades the amount of ice that has melted has increased at an alarming rate. The melting is attributed to rising temperatures across the Antarctic Peninsula that have risen 2.8°C over the past 50 years, making it the most rapidly warming region in the Southern Hemisphere.   read more

The decision will enable newspapers, which had sued to have the settlement unsealed, as well as environmentalists and community rights advocates, to examine the court case’s health issues and causes. Seneca’s decision represented a major blow to fracking companies, which have relied on secrecy agreements with landowners to hide the environmental and health impacts of natural gas drilling.   read more

The decision to relocate some detainees came during a hunger strike that has now lasted more than two months. More than 40 prisoners of the 166 still being held at Guantánamo have refused to eat since guards conducted a search on February 6 that resulted in the confiscation of detainees’ letters, photographs and legal mail, and the rough handling of copies of the Koran. At least 13 hunger strikers are being tube fed by American authorities to keep them from dying.   read more

When Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), gave a speech to express the NRA’s official position on the tragedy, he received extensive national media coverage. However, little attention was given to the fact that the six teachers who were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School were members of the Newtown Federation of Teachers Local 1727. The NRA has about 4 million members, while 14.4 million Americans belong to labor unions.   read more

While the nation’s unemployment rate is still high, joblessness in the technology sector is much lower (less than 4%) due to the high demand for skilled labor. According to Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith, “The American economy creates 120,000 new computer-related jobs annually that require a bachelor’s degree, but we are currently producing about 51,000 graduates with a degree in computer science each year.”   read more