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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
  • Bring Back the Civilian Conservation Corps: Frank Ackerman

    Thursday, November 25, 2010
    With the nation desperate for new jobs, the Obama Administration would be wise to reestablish the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), says Frank Ackerman, senior economist and director of the Climate Economics Group of the Stockholm ...   read more
  • Assistant Secretary of the Employee Benefits Security Administration: Who is Phyllis Borzi?

    Thursday, November 25, 2010
    As head of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) in the U.S. Department of Labor, Phyllis C. Borzi not only oversees issues related to pensions and retirement plans, but also will help enforce part of the health care reform law as...   read more
  • Chair of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board: Who is Rafael Moure-Eraso?

    Thursday, November 25, 2010
    Rafael Moure-Eraso took his place as Chair of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) on June 23, 2010. The CSB is an independent agency dedicated to investigating industrial chemical accidents and making prevention recommendations to the industry an...   read more
  • Corporate Profits Hit Record High

    Wednesday, November 24, 2010
    Unemployment may be high, but business is booming…or at least corporate profits are. New data from the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis shows businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.66 trillion in the third quarter ...   read more
  • Texas Police and Sheriff Departments Earn Money by Seizing Property

    Wednesday, November 24, 2010
    Through the use of civil asset forfeiture, law enforcement agencies in Texas last decade collected property and cash valued at $280 million from individuals neither convicted nor even charged with a crime. Civil asset forfeiture allows police an...   read more
  • Mumbai Terror Victims’ Families Sue Pakistani Intelligence Agency

    Wednesday, November 24, 2010
    In what plaintiffs are calling the first of its kind, a lawsuit filed in U.S. court accuses Pakistan’s intelligence service of helping carry out the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. Five families of those injured or killed in th...   read more
  • Army Tests New Combat Uniforms for Women

    Wednesday, November 24, 2010
    Female soldiers in the U.S. Army may be getting a new uniform specifically designed to fit a woman’s body. The plan is to make the new uniform form-fitting while not showing off “any curves,” Major Sequana Robinson, assistant product manager for...   read more
  • Director of the Missile Defense Agency: Who is Patrick O’Reilly?

    Wednesday, November 24, 2010
    Lieutenant General Patrick J. O’Reilly is only the second U.S. Army commander to lead the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), which is charged with developing a viable system for protecting the United States and its interests from ballistic missile at...   read more
  • Who’s Hiring? Big Companies and U.S. Government

    Tuesday, November 23, 2010
    The best bets to find employment in the public and private sectors are with large corporations and the federal government, according to a new Gallup poll.   Forty-two percent of companies surveyed with at least 1,000 employees said they were h...   read more
  • U.S. Launches World’s Largest Spy Satellite

    Tuesday, November 23, 2010
    United Launch Alliance, a joint partnership involving Boeing and Lockheed Martin, sent a Delta 4-Heavy rocket into space over the weekend on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), keeper of the United States’ spy satellites. Little ...   read more
  • Body Scanners Create Profits for Chertoff and Others

    Tuesday, November 23, 2010
    Expanding the use of full-body scanners at airports will improve the nation’s security, says the Obama administration.   It also will benefit the manufacturers of the equipment, including those lobbying on their behalf, like former Homeland Se...   read more
  • Fish & Wildlife Service Accused of Using U.S. Funds to Help 3 Beachfront Property Owners

    Tuesday, November 23, 2010
    Environmental groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) over its plan to bulldoze a protected beach in Delaware so that three private homes will be better protected from the elements.   FWS wants to scrape sand from the Prime H...   read more
  • Iraq War Veteran Barred from College over Essay Admitting He is Addicted to Killing

    Tuesday, November 23, 2010
    A former U.S. Army infantryman has been kicked off a Maryland community college campus following the publication of an essay in which he wrote about how his service in Iraq left him addicted to killing.   Charles Whittington crafted the essay ...   read more
  • Supreme Court to Decide if AT&T Has Personal Privacy Rights

    Monday, November 22, 2010
    Corporations could win privacy rights reserved until now for individuals if the U.S. Supreme Court finds in favor of AT&T in a case that will be heard early next year.   At issue is whether AT&T can block the release of company documents, prev...   read more
  • Airports Consider Opting Out of TSA Screening, Creating Big Profits for Private Companies

    Monday, November 22, 2010
    Led by a congressman who’s received tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from private contractors, a movement is afoot to dump employees of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and replace them with private airport screeners...   read more
  • Arsenic Still Used in Chicken Feed

    Monday, November 22, 2010
    Americans are consuming three times the amount of chicken than 60 years ago, but the U.S. government hasn’t kept up with its regulations governing how much arsenic is allowable when eating poultry.   Despite the known dangers of arsenic to hum...   read more
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