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

The Obama administration is continuing its defense of the federal law banning gay marriage, claiming the controversial statute is consistent with the U.S. Constitution.   Last July, a district court in Massachusetts struck down the Defense of ...   read more

African-Americans have yet to serve in the U.S. House on behalf of 26 states, and the situation is even worse in the U.S. Senate. In the more than 220 years of Congress, only three states have ever elected a black senator.   Those three states...   read more

There are no atheists in foxholes, and only one in the 112th Congress.   A survey of those serving in the U.S. House and Senate reveals only one member considers himself an atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular”: Pete Stark (D-California) ...   read more

In a classic example of policy disconnect, the State Department, while denouncing the publication of classified cables on the Internet by WikiLeaks, is at the same time promoting a documentary about Daniel Ellsberg, the most infamous leaker of t...   read more

Nearly two billion people across the globe used the Internet last year, according to statistics compiled by Pingdom.   There were 107 trillion emails sent, at an average daily rate of 294 billion—of which 89% were believed to be spam (262 bill...   read more

Things are not getting any easier for cash-strapped state governments. On top of the $82 billion deficit that states collectively face, more than half of them will soon have to pay interest on billion-dollar loans from the federal government to ...   read more

How big is too big when it comes to banks? Maybe when a mere half dozen institutions are worth more than 60% of the American economy.   The latest financial data from the third quarter of last year shows the assets of the six largest banks—JPM...   read more

After spending more than $1 billion on an incomplete project, the Department of Homeland Security has decided to terminate SBInet, a plan to install a virtual border fence along the American Southwest. But the government is not giving up on the ...   read more

Republicans have altered the names of two House committees, upsetting Democrats, labor representatives and civil libertarians.   For the second time, the Education and Labor Committee, which was founded in 1867, is being changed to the Educati...   read more

Deborah K. Jones assumed the post of U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait on April 19, 2008. Raised in New Mexico, she earned a B.A. in History from Brigham Young University, and an M.S. in National Security Strategy from the National War College of the...   read more

For the first time in history, an Arab dictator has been overthrown by a popular revolution. On Saturday, January 15, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to flee to Saudi Arabia—another Arab dictatorship—after a widespread upri...   read more

Don’t expect anyone to be punished for the destruction of torture tapes by the CIA. Responding to a request from civil libertarians that the CIA should be held in contempt of court for destroying the tapes, U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerste...   read more

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its pursuit of illegal, and sometimes dangerous, imports of foreign honey into the United States.   After the government in 2002 imposed a tariff on honey imported from China, the world’s l...   read more

Since the death of Senator Robert W. Byrd (D-West Virginia) on June 28, 2010, a bona fide war hero, Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), has served as President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate. The President pro tempore (aka President pro tem, Latin...   read more

An early political supporter of President Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign, David I. Adelman became U.S. ambassador to Singapore on April 29, 2010.   Born in New York City, Adelman grew up in Atlanta. The son of a hardware salesman and a ...   read more

Contrary to its own policy of staying out of capital punishment matters, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has helped two states import from the United Kingdom a scarce type of anesthetic used in lethal injections.   The FDA is charged wi...   read more