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

Many of the “bad neighbors” are concentrated in India, Vietnam and Brazil. In fact, one ISP, BSNL in India, accounted for 7.4% of all spamming addresses in the world. But then there’s Spectranet in Nigeria, labeled the Internet’s most crime-ridden network because 62.5% of its addresses were found to distribute spam.   read more

Another Budget Committee member, Roger Williams (R-Texas), said, “Everybody in America has to balance their family’s budget or their business’ budget, not every ten years, not even every single year, but every single day.” Williams may balance his own debt every day, but he and his car dealership still owe $2.5 million of business loans and lines of credit.   read more

Leaving government after the 2000 election, Burwell was immediately hired by the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation to work as its chief operating officer and executive director, posts she held from January 2001 until a reorganization in 2006, when she became president of Global Development. Passed over for the CEO position when it became available in 2008, Burwell left the Gates Foundation in late 2011 to become president of the Wal-Mart Foundation, which she led starting in January 2012.   read more

On Friday prison spokesman Navy Capt. Robert Durand denied that the hunger strike was widespread, but did acknowledge that 14 prisoners were “hunger strikers” and that at least five are being force fed through tubes. The hunger strike began on February 6 after guards confiscated detainees’ letters, photographs and legal mail, during which copies of the Koran were roughly handled during searches.   read more

Known as the “Democracy is for People Amendment,” the new law would bar all corporate entities from spending their general treasury funds in elections. It would do this by codifying in law that the right to vote belongs solely to people. Sanders and Deutch admit that getting the amendment adopted will not be easy. Such a change would require the House and Senate each to approve it by a two-thirds vote, and it would have to be ratified by three-fourths of the states.   read more

The IRS says 984,400 people did not file a federal tax return four years ago, leaving the agency with $917.4 million in unpaid refunds. Many of the cases involve people who made too little money to be required to file a tax return, but who had federal taxes withheld from their paychecks and are owed a refund. Lower-income individuals and families with children also may be owed funds as a result of the Earned Income Tax Credit.   read more

When WikiLeaks published State Department cables, Pyatt became embroiled in controversy because of a May 4, 2007, cable he sent recommending that K.V. Rajan, a secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs and a member of the Prime Minister's National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) visit Washington DC in order to help “feed” U.S. government views on Iran into the Indian system.   read more

Fifty-seven years ago, the minimum wage was officially $1/hour. But its “real value” based on 2013 dollars would have been $8.39. When the same thing conversion is made for the current wage of $7.25, its real value is only $7.80. “Because there have been some extended periods between these adjustments while inflation generally has increased, the real value (purchasing power) of the minimum wage has decreased substantially over time,” the report states.   read more

American combat units officially left Iraq at the end of 2011, but the U.S. war effort in the country is still going strong, only now it’s the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) taking the lead. When American military units were still fighting in Iraq, U.S. Special Forces worked closely with elite Iraqi antiterrorism units to thwart al-Qaeda affiliates, such al-Qaeda in Iraq. With these American commandos largely gone, CIA agents have stepped in to help Iraq’s Counterterrorism Service.   read more

“On the rare occasions when embarrassing study results are released, data are manipulated to make them unintelligible,” Coughlin said in his testimony to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs’ Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Coughlin’s research focused on the relationship between exposure to burn pits and cases of asthma and bronchitis among Afghanistan and Iraq veterans, including those who fought in the 1991 Gulf War.   read more

The study, coauthored by Cathy J. Cohen of the University of Chicago and Jon C. Rogowski of Washington University in St. Louis, found that 72.9% of black youth (aged 18-29) were asked for ID, compared with 60.8% of young Latinos and 50.8% of young whites. In the 2012 presidential elections, 93% of black voters voted for Barack Obama, as id 71% of Latino voters and 60% of voters aged 18-29.   read more

According to a new report from the Congressional Research Service, immigration to the U.S. has nearly matched the peak period of 1905-1915. As of 2010, foreign-born residents comprised 12.9% of the U.S. population, which is close to the key year of 1910 when it was 14.8%. Of the 1.1 million people who became legal permanent residents in FY2011, almost 65% did so on the basis of family ties. Another 16% were refugees or those seeking asylum.   read more

About 20,000 gun owners in the state are barred from possessing firearms, including the mentally ill, convicted felons, and those subject to a domestic violence restraining order. Last year, the state seized about 2,000 weapons, along with 117,000 rounds of ammunition and 11,000 high-capacity magazines. Thirty-three California Department of Justice agents are assigned to the task of tracking down and confiscating the disallowed guns.   read more

According to Clapper, al-Qaeda’s main operation, located in Pakistan, is in such bad shape that it is “probably unable to carry out complex, large-scale attacks in the West.” Furthermore, the terrorist organization’s regional spinoffs in the Middle East and Africa may pose trouble locally, but aren’t in a position to carry out attacks on American soil. And yet, the FBI keeps exposing and arresting anti-American elements in the U.S. that are allegedly a threat.   read more

For decades, the U.S. government used the existing 18.4 cents-per-gallon gas tax to finance the fund, which pays for roads and rail programs throughout the U.S. But over the last 20 years, inflation and fuel-efficient automobiles have caused more money to be spent than what the highway trust takes in through the gas tax. Consequently, the trust—which will have about $12 billion by the end of the current fiscal year—is projected to have zero dollars left by 2014.   read more

Over the last 15 years, 5,513 bodies have been recovered along the border. In 2012 alone, the total was 463. The border area near Tucson, Arizona, has proven the most deadly since 2001, with 177 bodies found in the last fiscal year. But fatalities have jumped significantly in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, where the death toll went from 66 in 2011 to 150 last year.   read more