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 residents of Fort Wayne, Indiana, would love to name the new government building after the city’s longest serving mayor. Unfortunately, his name was Harry Baals.   Baals served three consecutive terms from 1934-1947, and later a fourth te...   read more

Defense contractor KBR is trying to get out of a lawsuit stemming from the death of a U.S. soldier by claiming that Iraqi, not American, law should apply in determining a verdict.   The civil case was filed in a Pennsylvania court against KBR,...   read more

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is coming under criticism for not releasing a Canadian company’s plans for managing oil spills and estimating a worst-case scenario in the event its pipeline burst in the United St...   read more

Contrary to the established perception that they are of one mind, the Taliban and al-Qaeda are not in lockstep. In fact, the Taliban in Afghanistan could be persuaded to renounce the infamous terrorist group led by Osama bin Laden.   According...   read more

The U.S. Air Force tried last week to make the case that its military and civilian personnel, as well as their family members, cannot legally access the classified documents published by WikiLeaks on home computers. To do so, stated a policy dir...   read more

Accused of falsifying data on climate change, Canadian scientist Andrew Weaver is suing fellow expert Tim Ball, an outspoken skeptic of the issue, for defamation.   Weaver, a researcher at the University of Victoria and former editor of Journa...   read more

President Barack Obama’s choice of Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric, to chair the newly-created President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness has drawn criticism for many reasons.   GE is a model for what’s wrong with cor...   read more

Despite the inclusion of a special provision in the new federal health care law, nearly 30 million Americans could still experience temporary loss of coverage if their income fluctuates in the course of a year.   Those affected by this potenti...   read more

World food prices have continued to rise over the past five years, creating the potential for malnutrition and starvation in the developing world, and fomenting political unrest in nations like Egypt. While some economists have blamed the price ...   read more

The U.S. military is coming to the rescue of fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico, by buying up a bounty of seafood that others have been wary of since last year’s oil spill.   Operators of 72 base commissaries along the East Coast are now promotin...   read more

None of the favorites to run for President next year has officially filed as a candidate, but that doesn’t mean the nation doesn’t already have dozens of citizens who are ready to serve. They don’t have any money, but they do have catchy names. ...   read more

Death and mass injury were avoided last month in Spokane, Washington, when an unexploded backpack bomb was discovered near the route of parade celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 17. Although the bomb was well designed and a legiti...   read more

Officially, corporations are supposed to pay a tax rate of 35%. But thanks to myriad loopholes in the U.S. tax code, many large businesses pay less—sometimes only a fraction of what they are supposed to pay.   Carnival Corporation, owner of th...   read more

Freshman Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has demonstrated a willingness to go his own way, much like his maverick father, Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas).   For example, when the Senate took up an amendment to a Federal Aviation Administratio...   read more

Donald B. Verrilli Jr.’s selection to succeed Elena Kagan as solicitor general was considered a surprise by some Washington insiders who believed the job would go to Neal Katyal, the acting solicitor general. The White House announced Verrilli’s...   read more

Rather than taking heart from the latest employment news, that the economy produced 36,000 new jobs in January, the nation’s leadership should be alarmed, writes Robert Reich, former labor secretary under President Bill Clinton. Such a figure is p...   read more