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

The good news is that over the past seven months the private sector has added 630,000 jobs, demonstrating that there are some employment opportunities available to out-of-work Americans. The bad news is that that represents only 7.4% of the jobs l...   read more

The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) is happy to pass the baton to the Office of Postsecondary Education. Voted the worst agency to work for three times in a row, the FLRA finally has begun to turn things around internally, resulting in dr...   read more

Accused of committing genocide against your own people? Officially branded as a terrorist state? Have you harbored Islamist radicals, including Osama bin Laden?   No problem, the CIA is willing to work with you.   Such is the case with the gov...   read more

U.S. Army Sergeant Alejandro Villatoro took the unusual step of contacting two members of Congress from Illinois to prevent his unit from being deployed to Afghanistan in October before it was properly trained and equipped.   Villatoro belongs t...   read more

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Muslim cleric who wants to build a $100 million mosque and community center near Ground Zero in New York City, has received a lot of attention relating to his religious beliefs, but there is another aspect of his life t...   read more

The Department of Defense appears to be getting less bang for its buck, while spending more than $2 trillion over the last 12 years, according to assessments by military watchdogs.   From 1998 until this year, the Pentagon’s annual budget went f...   read more

The economy has produced yet another black milestone for unemployment. As of January 2010, 49% of the 6.9 million Americans who lost jobs they had held for at least three years had found new jobs—the lowest reemployment rate on record, according t...   read more

Financial struggles are causing millions of Americans to skip owning life insurance, despite the increasing risks to families if a primary income earner should die. A study by the insurance industry-funded research firm LIMRA found that only 44% o...   read more

Concerns over America’s lack of rare earth minerals production has prompted Congress’ research arm to raise the question: Is the United States’ national security and economic well-being vulnerable to supply disruptions, particularly from China?  ...   read more

Banks can no longer gamble with their own money in the stock market as a result of new rules imposed by Congress. But there’s nothing that says financial institutions can’t take the same risks with other peoples’ money.   Proprietary trading is ...   read more

The Department of Energy likes to play up the fact that it’s investing in new technologies to power America, from wind to solar to even nuclear reactors. But most of the money the Energy Department spends is defense-oriented.   In the next feder...   read more

In an attempt to prey on anti-immigration sentiments, Libya’s dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, has offered to stop illegal immigration from Africa to Europe—for $6.3 billion a year. In an address made in Rome, Italy, Qaddafi warned of Europe becoming to...   read more

Illegal logging and deforestation have compounded the flooding disaster in Pakistan, where heavier than normal rains during the monsoon have wreaked havoc on large areas of the country. Experts blame Pakistan’s “timber mafia” for stripping hillsid...   read more

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is expected to spend an additional $40 billion in the next ten years to provide health services to Vietnam veterans who became ill as a result of exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides used during the...   read more

Homelessness has nearly doubled in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, even though only 80% of the city’s population has returned since the 2005 disaster. An investigation by the non-profit Unity of Greater New Orleans organization also discovere...   read more

OpenSecrets.org, the website of the Center for Responsive Politics, has made it possible to find out which members of Congress are cozy with the oil and gas industry, and which ones rake in the green from the environmental movement.   After comb...   read more