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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
  • 10 Immigration Agents Sue Their Own Agency over Obama Deportation Policy

    Monday, August 27, 2012
    The lawsuit targets President Obama’s June 2012 decision to grant “deferred status” to some undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children, which would delay immigration enforcement action against them for at least two years, as well as a June 2011 memo by ICE Director John Morton ordering immigration officials to focus scarce resources on dangerous illegal immigrants, such as those with criminal records for violent crimes.   read more
  • Church Sues Fish and Wildlife Service for Diverting Stream it Used for Baptisms

    Monday, August 27, 2012
    In 2010, the FWS diverted the stream, causing water to no longer flow through the church’s property and interfering “with its exercise of baptisms and religious prayer and meditation,” according to the church’s lawsuit.   read more
  • 260 Homeland Security Employees Convicted of Crimes in 2011

    Sunday, August 26, 2012
    Three hundred and eighteen workers at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were arrested and 260 convicted of various crimes in 2011. The charges ranged from smuggling drugs to obtaining child pornography to committing bribery and threats with a deadly weapon. According to a report by the inspector general of DHS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had the largest percentage of DHS workers who broke the law.   read more
  • Rich Americans Give Smaller Percentage of Income to Charities

    Sunday, August 26, 2012
    Much of what organized religion does has little to do with charity and more to do with institutional self-preservation and even political activity. In 2008, for example, giving to the Mormon Church spiked while it was playing a crucial role in passing a California ballot measure banning gay marriage.   read more
  • SEC Narrowly Votes to Force Companies to Disclose Use of Conflict Minerals

    Sunday, August 26, 2012
    Section 1502 requires companies to examine their supply chains to determine and disclose if their products contain minerals from the DRC or surrounding countries. SEC officials estimate that section 1502 would cost companies $3 billion to $4 billion initially to comply and another $206 million to $609 million annually for compliance.   read more
  • U.S. Rejects Israeli Government Investigation into Killing of American Citizen in Israel

    Sunday, August 26, 2012
    Some witnesses stated that Corrie was crushed by a bulldozer, while the IDF concluded that she died after being struck by falling debris. In addition, while the IDF reported that the driver of the bulldozer could not see her, witnesses said there was nothing to obscure the driver’s view.   read more
  • Justice Dept. Opens Civil Rights Unit in Alabama for First Time

    Saturday, August 25, 2012
    The 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of a black Baptist church that killed four children in Birmingham wasn’t enough to motivate the U.S. Department of Justice to opening a civil rights unit in Alabama. Nor was the ugly police violence that accompanied the famed 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. But the strict anti-immigration law now haunting Hispanics was apparently the reason for the Justice Department establishing its first-ever civil rights unit in the Crimson Tide state.   read more
  • Burger King Sued by Government after Firing Teenager for Wearing a Skirt

    Saturday, August 25, 2012
    Pentecostals base their opposition to women wearing pants on Deuteronomy 22:5, which states, ”The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man.” The corporate motto of Burger King is “Have it your way.”   read more
  • U.S-Based Foundation Shames Memory of Late Civil Rights Leader by Hosting Human Rights Summit in One of World’s Worst Dictatorships

    Saturday, August 25, 2012
    The summit does not represent the first time that the Sullivan Foundation has assisted Obiang. Last December it honored the dictator with the “Beacon for Africa” award for “exemplary contributions to improving the lives of Africa's most vulnerable citizens.”   read more
  • Obama Afghanistan Deaths Top Those of Bush

    Friday, August 24, 2012
    Of the second 1,000 who have died, 75% were Caucasian, 90% were enlisted personnel, and half were killed in either Kandahar or Helmand provinces, where the U.S. focused much of the surge in an effort to cripple the Taliban and other forces. Their average age was 26, according to The New York Times.   read more
  • U.S. Loses More Than $7 Billion a Year due to Loophole in Executive Compensation Tax Law

    Friday, August 24, 2012
    In 1993, the IRS adopted a rule that limited the deduction for executive compensation at publicly-traded corporations to $1 million per executive. However, the rule exempted compensation that is based on an executive’s performance, which is fully deductible.   read more
  • Postal Service Wasted almost $2 Million Overproducing Simpsons Stamps and Flags of Our Nation Series

    Friday, August 24, 2012
    The five most popular commemoratives between 2009 and 2011 were: • Christmas Holiday Evergreens (1,811,577,438 sold) • Winter Holidays (1,078,703,956) • Flags of our Nation Series 3 (496,570,600) • Love King and Queen of Hearts (480,160,800) • Adopt a Shelter Pet (389,707,871)   read more
  • Commercial Fishing Deaths Grow, as Government Slow to Regulate

    Friday, August 24, 2012
    The Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked commercial fishing as the most dangerous job in the country from 2007 to 2010. According to records kept by the Centers for Disease Control, the greatest number of fatalities occurred among Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishers, followed by Atlantic scallop fishers and Alaska salmon fishers.   read more
  • Qantas Cancels Orders for $8.5 Billion Worth of Boeing Jets

    Friday, August 24, 2012
    The cancellation represented the biggest of its kind for the Dreamliner since Boeing began selling it. In March, China Eastern gave up on buying 24 787’s. The manufacturer currently has more than 800 Dreamliners in its inventory.   read more
  • FBI Agrees to Share Facial Recognition Searches with All Police Departments

    Thursday, August 23, 2012
    Police departments across the United States will soon have access to facial recognition software developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Under the expanding pilot project, the FBI will provide its Universal Face Workstation to police for free. The program will allow local law enforcement to compare photos of suspects against a repository of nearly 13 million criminal mug shots.   read more
  • Appeals Court Overturns EPA Rule Limiting Cross-State Coal Plant Pollution

    Thursday, August 23, 2012
    The regulation required 28 states in the East, Midwest and South to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides that cross state lines and pollute the air of downwind states. Reducing these emissions would have added costly changes for power plants that burn coal to generate electricity, so the coal power industry praised the two judges who voted in their favor.   read more
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