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

Recording police officers while making arrests has resulted in numerous other arrests … of those daring to tape such actions.   In October 2007 attorney Simon Glik was arrested by Boston police after he used his cell phone to capture the arrest ...   read more

America Online users beware: If you access your AOL account from a computer at an Internet café, your name may wind up on a terrorist-watch list.   According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), AOL users at public computer venues are j...   read more

 It’s no contest between gas and oil on one end and renewable energy sources on the other when it comes to government subsidies.   According to a detailed report by the International Energy Agency, the world’s nations in 2010 spent $409 billion ...   read more

Federal Judge Jed Rakoff has taken the Office of the Solicitor General to task for misleading the U.S. Supreme Court about recourse for wrongly deported immigrants.   “When the Solicitor General of the United States makes a representation to the...   read more

Another example (33 to be precise) of why earmarks are a bad idea has come by way of a Washington Post investigation.   After going through congressional records on spending, the newspaper found 33 representatives and senators had directed more ...   read more

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), considered by some as the most efficient federal agency in Washington, has been forced to reduce its staffing levels to a 75-year low, due to budget cuts.   The agency saved the government $45.7 billio...   read more

Critics on both the left and the right are bashing Chrysler’s Clint Eastwood-starring “Halftime in America” advertisement that appeared during last Sunday’s Super Bowl telecast.   Liberals were upset by the commercial because it used doctored fo...   read more

Whole Foods Market and other organic retailers are being accused of caving in to manufacturers of genetically modified (GM) crops and helping them legitimize their products with consumers. The products are also known as GMOs or genetically-modifie...   read more

As Argentina grows more vocal in its criticism of British plans to drill for oil in the waters around the disputed Falklands Islands (called by Argentines the Islas Malvinas), the South American nation has sent a new ambassador to the U.S. who is ...   read more

Once the standard by which new governments modeled their own public contract with citizens, the U.S. Constitution is losing its appeals with other countries, particularly regarding human rights.   Three decades ago, it was estimated that 160 nat...   read more

Maligned by American citizens and politicians, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is still the best of its kind in the Western world.   A review of postal service providers by Oxford Strategy Consulting resulted in the USPS getting the top ranking a...   read more

About 40% of the campaign ads related to the 2012 election so far have been funded by secret donors whose identity may never be known.   By declaring themselves to be “social welfare” groups concerned with policies rather than politics, these gr...   read more

The city of Fayetteville, North Carolina, home to the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg, has suffered through a series of violent incidents perpetrated by soldiers who have returned home from war.   Many of the 14,000 soldiers stationed at the base suffer ...   read more

Former Liberian warlord George E.S. Boley is being kicked out of the United States after an immigration judge ruled the Clarkson, New York, resident should be deported for violating a federal law banning the use of child soldiers.   The decision...   read more

An effort by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to create more transparency for political advertisements is being opposed by television and radio networks.   Under current law, broadcasters must maintain a “public inspection file” that ...   read more

After his second deployment to Afghanistan, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis came to the conclusion that things were not going well for the U.S. and that the Obama administration had misled the public on the war’s progress.   Instead of...   read more