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

Public universities in the United States are suffering from administrative bloat, according to the Goldwater Institute. From 1993 to 2007, four-year public institutions of higher learning expanded their ratio of administrative staff per 100 stud...   read more

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated the ability of the U.S. military to take control of a foreign nation, but not necessarily the ability to maintain order once large-scale fighting concludes. With soldiers unable to properly poli...   read more

A combination of payback and partisanship is causing judicial appointments by President Barack Obama to pile up in the U.S. Senate, where Republicans are either stalling or refusing to confirm nominees for the federal bench.   In fact, Preside...   read more

Richard Etchberger’s heroics during the Vietnam War are only now being acknowledged by the U.S. military due to the fact that the Air Force sergeant wasn’t supposed to be in the country where his death took place.   Etchberger was part of a se...   read more

Frustrated over leaks from within the Pentagon to the media, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has instructed all Department of Defense personnel to go through public affairs officials before speaking with reporters.   Both in July and again this...   read more

If another Sept. 11 type of attack should occur in a major American city, there’s a strong chance that local police and firefighters won’t be able to communicate with each other by radio, despite years and billions of dollars trying to correct t...   read more

Hospitals in St. Louis are expecting to finally go to trial against the tobacco industry next January in what is expected to be one of the longest civil trials in city history.   Due to the fact that the trial may last six to seven months, the...   read more

Can the American health care system, slated to add 32 million more customers once federal reforms kick in, do a better job of keeping patients with non-critical problems out of the emergency room? That’s the question posed following a research p...   read more

Seeking cash for its weak economy, North Korea has partnered with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to develop cell phone-based video games, including one based on the film The Big Lebowski.   The strange bedfellows partnership came about after News...   read more

Taser-related deaths by law enforcement appear to be on the rise, according to The Raw Story. Citing a 2008 report from Amnesty International, the news website found that Taser deaths averaged about four a month from 2001-2008. But more recent s...   read more

With the Department of Defense staring at enormous cost increases for its health care program, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is proposing raising premiums for the first time ever since the creation of the Tricare system in 1996.   Health care...   read more

Believe it or not, there are actually five states that contribute more in revenues to the U.S. government than they get back in federal spending. According to figures from Fiscal Year 2009, those states are:   ·       Connecticut ·       Delawa...   read more

As if there wasn’t reason enough already to avoid getting into an automobile accident, motorists now face the risk of being hit with a “crash tax” by local fire departments for responding to their aid—even if they don’t need it and even if the acc...   read more

Of the 35 states that allow the death penalty, nearly all of them use sodium thiopental to execute prisoners through lethal injection. But some of these states have had to delay executions because of a shortage of the drug.   Hospira, based outs...   read more

Setting up a personal foundation or charity allows members of Congress to indirectly campaign for themselves all the time, and rake in unlimited donations from corporations.   A review of tax records and disclosure forms by The New York Times re...   read more

Many residents throughout the U.S. who are struggling to cope with tough economic times may not even have their neighborhood church to turn to for comfort, given the rate of foreclosures affecting the houses of God.   Like millions of Americans,...   read more