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

President Barack Obama continues to refuse to notify the full House and Senate Intelligence Committees about covert operations, reaffirming his position in a signing statement attached to his approval of an intelligence authorization bill recent...   read more

By involving himself in the decision to throw out campaign contributions limits for corporations and unions, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas helped expand fundraising opportunities for his wife’s new political organization.   Virginia...   read more

There must be something wrong with them. If they’ve been out of work for months and months, they just can’t be good employees. This is the line of reasoning being taken by some employers and job agencies that are refusing to consider any applica...   read more

Interested more in pleasing Wall Street than helping Main Street, some of the biggest American corporations are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to buy back their own stocks, rather than invest in new products or services that would mean...   read more

Dr. Tara J. O’Toole was confirmed as the Under Secretary for Science and Technology at the Department of Homeland Security on November 4, 2009.   Raised in Norwood, Massachusetts, O‘Toole received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College ...   read more

Inmates at the Berkeley County Detention Center in South Carolina have one and only one reading option during their stay behind bars: The Bible. The jail’s policy bans all other literature, including magazines and newspapers. There is no library...   read more

Yasir Afifi made quite the discovery when he took his car in for an oil change in Santa Clara, California. Attached to the bottom of his vehicle was a special tracking device from the FBI which did not tell the Muslim-American he was under surveil...   read more

The American Postal Workers Union, which represents employees of the U.S. Postal Service and is the world’s largest postal union, is taking longer than usual this year to choose their national officers. The election is conducted by mail, natural...   read more

Todd M. Keil was appointed Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection at the Department of Homeland Security in December 2009. He oversees 18 sectors that are devoted to the safety of U.S. assets deemed critical to the nation’s way of lif...   read more

David A. Lebryk was selected as commissioner of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Management Service (FMS) on June 26, 2009.   Lebryk graduated from Harvard College with an AB in economics, and holds a master’s degree in public a...   read more

Don’t worry about Gen. James L. Jones, who was just dumped as President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor. If his previous employment is any guide, Jones will soon be raking in good money thanks to his close relationship with government c...   read more

This week’s lesson on how to win the Afghanistan War: Don’t hire friends of the enemy to guard your bases.   A lengthy review of Department of Defense security contracts by the Senate Armed Services Committee found that the U.S. had hired Afgh...   read more

The plight of young American workers today is not promising. A survey sponsored by the AFL-CIO found that a third of the labor force under 35 lives at home and is lacking health care benefits and job security. For those with annual incomes under...   read more

Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al-Janko has not had an easy life the past nine years.   First, al-Qaeda tortured him because they thought Janko was an American spy. They subjected him to electric shocks and near-drowning. Then he was held prisoner by t...   read more

James H. Shelton III has served as assistant deputy secretary for innovation and improvement since April 2009, putting him in charge of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement. In this position, he oversees the $650...   read more

America’s jails are increasingly becoming de facto debtors’ prisons as the legal system levies more fees than ever on individuals who wind up behind bars simply because they can’t pay their bills or the administrative penalties imposed by judges...   read more