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

After running what one general called “a rental car company,” the U.S. Army has decided to go back to having soldiers perform maintenance on helicopters and trucks, instead of relying exclusively on contractors.   General Raymond Mason, deputy...   read more

Three African-Americans men are suing Kansas City’s entertainment district for allegedly discriminating against them because of their race and attire. Robert Jackson, Kirk Proctor and Jerome Porter claim they were denied entry into a local bar a...   read more

Deepwater drilling for oil off the coast of the United States is ready to begin again now that the federal agency that regulates the work has approved the first permit since a BP-owned well polluted the Gulf of Mexico region last year. In announ...   read more

JPMorgan Chase was not one of the many victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. On the contrary, the bank made a lot of money off Madoff, close to a billion dollars.   According to an analysis by Linus Wilson of the University of Louisiana at...   read more

The price of American security is not found in the Department of Defense budget alone. There is considerably more to the cost of keeping the U.S. secure from al-Qaeda and other threats, costs that are both direct and indirect, writes Chris Hellm...   read more

Perhaps the United Nations Human Rights Council has been living under a rock. How else to explain its preparing to adopt a report praising Libya for its human rights record while the rest of the UN considers whether to suspend the country from t...   read more

In supporting a United Nations resolution imposing sanctions against Libya for Muammar al-Gadaffi’s crackdown on his own citizens, the U.S. has endorsed the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the first time.   Until now, the U.S....   read more

Here’s a moral conundrum for you. Let’s say that the director of a federal agency awarded a contract to a company she founded and which is now headed by her father and employs her sister. Is this an unacceptable conflict of interest or just anothe...   read more

Sworn in on July 20, 2009, Regina Elvira Dugan is the first female director to lead the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the military’s secretive, high-tech operation responsible for inventing the forerunner to the Internet (AR...   read more

After months of earthquakes, including the largest felt in 35 years, the state of Arkansas has ordered a temporary moratorium on the drilling of new injection wells related to natural gas-related drilling, which some locals believe are causing t...   read more

What started out as a way to simplify the GI Bill has turned into a nightmare for some veterans seeking higher education.   Last December, Congress adopted legislation that established a flat rate of $17,500 per year for tuition and fees at al...   read more

It’s one thing for Democrats to offer phony budget cuts, given their excessive ways, but for the new Republican majority in the U.S. House to play the same game is unacceptable, according to conservative James Valvo, director of government affairs...   read more

While the public debate focuses on whether, because of growing government debt, teachers and other government employees should give up part of their pensions, many corporations have been getting away with paying far less than their share of inco...   read more

The Alabama Education Association is suing Governor Robert Bentley over legislation that his predecessor pushed through the legislature in an effort to cripple the union’s political activity.   In December, lame-duck GOP Governor Richard Riley...   read more

Deep-pocketed special interests may be in a position to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the 2012 election without disclosing the sources of their funding, thanks to a divided Federal Election Commission (FEC) that can’t get past partisa...   read more

More than seven years after the United States invaded Iraq, the concept of freedom of speech does not seem to have taken hold there. In separate incidents last week, Iraqi government security forces attacked journalists.   During Friday’s “Day...   read more