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  • Trump Renames National Football League National Trump League

    Monday, February 02, 2026
    Trump announced that from now on the NFL will be known as the NTL: The National Trump League. The Super Bowl will be renamed the Trump Bowl, and professional players must be called Trumpball Players. Anyone, on any level, who refuses to comply with Trump’s orders will be arrested and charged with being a threat to national security.   read more
  • Holder Says 9/11 Accused to Remain in Prison Even if Acquitted

    Friday, November 20, 2009
    Critics who blasted the Obama administration’s decision to try Sept. 11 plotters in a New York City courtroom need not worry about terrorists going free. Regardless of how the trial turns out, alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four...   read more
  • Rising Credit Card Rates? Congress Says “Never Mind”

    Friday, November 20, 2009
    Consumer outrage over rising interest rates is not translating into action by congressional Democrats or Republicans against credit card companies. Since adopting legislation earlier this year that curbed some practices by lenders, lawmakers have ...   read more
  • Federal Judge Holds Army Corps Responsible for Katrina Flooding

    Friday, November 20, 2009
    Victims of Hurricane Katrina won their first battle against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday when a federal judge in New Orleans ruled the government was liable for faulty maintenance that allowed flooding in St. Bernard Parish and th...   read more
  • New Technology Takes Aim at Notorious Watergate Tape Gap

    Friday, November 20, 2009
    Specialists at the National Archives believe they may be able to finally fill the “gap” left on a key Watergate tape made by President Richard Nixon’s secret recording system. Three days after the infamous June 1972 break-in of the Democratic Nati...   read more
  • Boeing Shareholders Sue Over Hidden Flaws in 787

    Friday, November 20, 2009
    Boeing is facing a lawsuit for concealing structural defects in its new 787 Dreamliner, causing its stock price to plummet once the truth got out. Shareholders of the aircraft manufacturer are claiming the company misrepresented test results of th...   read more
  • Obama Administration Limits Congressional Briefings on Fort Hood Murders

    Thursday, November 19, 2009
    A White House dedicated to more openness and accountability has decided to share information on the Fort Hood murders with only a select group of lawmakers, angering both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill. Instead of debriefing the entire ...   read more
  • Here’s Your Tax Credit; Now Give It Back

    Thursday, November 19, 2009
    Millions of taxpayers may take a hit next spring when they file their income tax returns. Earlier this year, as part of the government’s effort to stimulate the economy, lawmakers created the Making Work Pay tax credit that gave workers some extra...   read more
  • Government Aid to Churches Now More Popular with Democrats than Republicans

    Thursday, November 19, 2009
    Government funding of churches operating social programs is more palatable to Democrats than Republicans, now that a Democrat is in the White House and supports the concept. Back in 2001 when George W. Bush launched his faith-based initiatives pro...   read more
  • Kuwaiti Company Indicted for Fraud in Supplying Food to U.S. Troops

    Thursday, November 19, 2009
    Agility, a Kuwaiti logistics company owned by the Sultan Al-Essa family, is in hot water with the federal government for allegedly defrauding the U.S. out of billions of dollars on contracts to provide food for troops stationed in the Middle East....   read more
  • Dramatic Increase in Weed-Killer Use in U.S.

    Thursday, November 19, 2009
    Since the introduction of biotech versions of corn, soybeans and cotton on American farms in the mid-1990s, farmers are spraying less pesticide on their fields. That’s the good news. But, with the planting of genetically-engineered crops resistant...   read more
  • Geithner Accused of Using AIG Bailout to Enrich Goldman, Merrill and Foreign Banks

    Wednesday, November 18, 2009
    When insurance giant AIG teetered last fall on the brink of collapse, threatening to take with it a lot of Wall Street heavyweights, the New York branch of the Federal Reserve, led by Timothy Geithner, chose to make whole the likes of Goldman Sach...   read more
  • Immigration Arrests Last Year Hit 33-Year Low

    Wednesday, November 18, 2009
    Declining numbers of immigration arrests are not a sign that the federal government is backing off on border patrol enforcement, but rather another indication of how bad the U.S. economy is doing these days. According to the Migration Information ...   read more
  • Majority of U.S. Export-Import Bank Subsidies Went To One Company: Boeing

    Wednesday, November 18, 2009
    If things continue as they have in recent years, the federal government might as well slap the words “of Boeing” at the end of the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s name. The American aircraft manufacturer has been far and away the largest beneficiary of ...   read more
  • Gaddafi Preaches Islam…to 200 Tall, Beautiful Italian Women

    Wednesday, November 18, 2009
    Some party. After getting dressed for what they thought would be a Sunday night festival of fun in a posh Rome neighborhood, 200 young Italian women found themselves being pitched to convert to Islam by none other than Libyan dictator Muammar Gadd...   read more
  • U.S. Judge Rebuked for Handling of Filipino Funds Due to Rights Abuse Victims

    Wednesday, November 18, 2009
    U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real has found himself being questioned again by his judicial colleagues, this time regarding his oversight of a $30 million fund slated to go to victims of Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship in the Philippines. Real has ...   read more
  • The Battle for Iraq’s Oil Contracts

    Tuesday, November 17, 2009
    The world’s largest oil companies are presently jockeying for the rights to Iraq’s petroleum reserves, coming closer to a huge payday made possible by the United States’ toppling of Saddam Hussein. Already, ExxonMobil is benefiting from the regime...   read more
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