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  • Trump Goes on Renaming Frenzy

    Monday, May 12, 2025
    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
  • Marine Recruiting Success Leads to Tighter Standards: No Drugs, No Tattoos

    Wednesday, July 01, 2009
    While the U.S. Army has struggled to meet recruiting goals, resulting in lower standards and the enlistment of Neo-Nazis, the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) is turning away people who don’t meet its tougher standards to become one of “the few, the proud...   read more
  • EPA Finally Releases List of Dangerous Coal Ash Sites

    Wednesday, July 01, 2009
    Almost two weeks after Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) publicly questioned its need for secrecy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released on Monday a list of 44 coal-fired power plant waste sites in 10 states that pose a “high hazard” risk t...   read more
  • $423,500 Government Grant to Study Why Men Don’t Like Condoms

    Wednesday, July 01, 2009
    Is the issue of why men don’t like to wear condoms worth almost half a million dollars in taxpayer money? That’s the question some government watchdogs are asking over the decision by the National Institutes of Health to pay Indiana University’s K...   read more
  • Toronto Fun Guide Cover Digitally Adds Black Father to Family

    Wednesday, July 01, 2009
    City officials in Toronto, Canada, are so big on pushing diversity that they doctored the cover photo for their summer events guide, digitally adding the image of an African American man to what appears to be a Latino family. None of the people in...   read more
  • Federal Housing Administration: Who is Dave Stevens?

    Wednesday, July 01, 2009
    President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Federal Housing Administration, David H. Stevens was born in New York City and raised in Connecticut. After graduating from University of Colorado at Boulder, Stevens joined California’s World Savings Bank i...   read more
  • Administrator of the Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration: Who Is Peter H. Appel?

    Wednesday, July 01, 2009
    On April 29, 2009, the Senate confirmed transportation industry insider Peter H. Appel to be the next administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration in the Department of Transportation. Born in 1964, Appel earned his bachel...   read more
  • Are Mortgage Companies Sabotaging Obama’s Anti-Foreclosure Plan?

    Tuesday, June 30, 2009
    A $75 billion plan to prevent millions of families from losing their homes has become bogged down as a result of mortgage lenders reacting too slowly to the crisis, leading some experts to wonder if banks are deliberately undermining President Bar...   read more
  • Saudi Government Armed Warlord Who Killed 18 U.S. Soldiers in Black Hawk Down Battle

    Tuesday, June 30, 2009
    Mohamed Farah Aideed, the Somali warlord who became Public Enemy No. 1 in the United States in the early 1990s, received arms and other aid from one of Saudi Arabia’s leading charities, according to a recently discovered Defense Department intelli...   read more
  • U.S. Government Formally Apologizes for 1957 Firing of Gay Astronomer

    Tuesday, June 30, 2009
    When the federal government fired Franklin Kameny in 1957 for being a homosexual, it unknowingly launched the young astronomer into a new career as a leading gay rights activist. After losing his civilian job for the U.S. Army’s mapping service, K...   read more
  • Racial Inequalities in Conviction and Sentencing

    Tuesday, June 30, 2009
    Even after decades of public discourse on the inequality of the criminal justice system, the United States continues to punish minorities, especially African Americans, who are arrested at rates far higher than Caucasians who are arrested. A new s...   read more
  • FTC Chairman Urges End to “Pay-For-Delay” Payments

    Tuesday, June 30, 2009
    It’s time to end the practice of pharmaceutical companies paying competitors to postpone the introduction of generic drugs into the market, says the new head of the Federal Trade Commission. For example, Bayer paid almost $400 million to Barr and ...   read more
  • Obama Budget Takes $71 Billion from Richest 1%

    Monday, June 29, 2009
    President Barack Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to spread the wealth, and so far he’s doing just that, according to the non-partisan Tax Foundation. In its latest of a series of special reports on Obama’s fiscal policies, the foundation c...   read more
  • Why Americans Pay More for Health Care and Get Less

    Monday, June 29, 2009
    Between steady cost increases in the private health care market and a lack of willpower on the part of Congress with Medicare, it’s no wonder the United States is facing skyrocketing costs for its medical care. According to the Department of Healt...   read more
  • Obama to Replace Only Female Native American U.S. Attorney

    Monday, June 29, 2009
    Some might call it politically ironic, while others just downright unfair, but Diane J. Humetewa is about to be out of a job. Humetewa became the first female Native American U.S. attorney in history during the Bush administration—the same adminis...   read more
  • Is the Electoral College Distorting Obama Policy?

    Monday, June 29, 2009
    In another demonstration of President Barack Obama’s preference for the tried-and-true ways of Washington, the new president has focused his domestic travel so far on those states that are likely to be battlegrounds in the 2012 election. Of the 16...   read more
  • Wildlife Advocates Object to Obama Fish and Wildlife Nominee

    Monday, June 29, 2009
    Whoever heads the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is expected not to be shy about using the Endangered Species Act (ESA) so that plants and animals aren’t threatened by development. But President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the environment...   read more
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