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

In the early 1980s, the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, or Humvee, replaced the Jeep as the U.S. Army’s primary all-purpose transport vehicle for soldiers, and eventually spawned a gaudy status symbol for the SUV-mad civilian world. Bu...   read more

Reliance on food stamps in California has soared in recent years, prompting a state lawmaker from the state’s agriculture-rich Central Valley to get farmers markets to accept the federal food subsidy program.   Assemblyman Juan Arambula, an inde...   read more

Contrary to popular belief, bipartisanship is not dead in Congress—it’s just been relegated to the less prominent echelons of political commingling. In a political body where the number of lawmakers totals 535, Congress somehow has organized appro...   read more

America’s rich will not appreciate President Barack Obama budget proposal for fiscal year 2012. Obama’s fiscal policies will result in redistributing billions of dollars in wealth from the upper echelons of society to the lower rungs, according to...   read more

The long assumed relationship between Osama bin Laden and the Taliban is now being questioned because of declassified information from the State Department. As discussed in a journal published by the Combatting Terrorism Center at the U.S. Army’s ...   read more

For many Americans who lose their spouse, they at least have the consolation of receiving pensions and benefits from their husband’s or wife’s employer. That’s not the case for spouses of military personnel who have been denied survivors benefits ...   read more

A labor-backed healthcare reform group is accusing insurance companies of dumping millions of Americans from health plans in 2009 in order to raise their profits. Healthcare for America Now, an organization financed by unions, released a report st...   read more

Ivor van Heerden made no secret following Hurricane Katrina who he believed was at fault for the flooding of New Orleans. In numerous interviews he gave to the media, the university hurricane expert blamed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which b...   read more

A coalition of anti-smoking groups claims a majority of Americans want every state in the nation to raise their tax on cigarettes by $1 a pack. They cite polling data showing that 60% of respondents favor a cigarette tax boost that would bring in ...   read more

Avoiding what legal experts said could have been a first-of-its-kind case, the U.S. Army agreed this week not to court-martial a young female soldier who refused deployment because she had no one to care for her child. Instead of trying Specialist...   read more

In another move demonstrating a rightward title in its advertising choices, CBS has rejected a video billboard ad for Times Square that advocated for the legalization of marijuana.   The NORML Foundation, part of the National Organization for th...   read more

Even members of Congress are not above the navel gazing so many Americans express through their postings on Twitter. Amelia Hassani at OhMyGov! tracked over a period of several months all the U.S. senators and representatives who tweet and then co...   read more

He may not be the original discoverer of the flying disc, but Walter Frederick “Fred” Morrison will undoubtedly go down in history for his achievement. In the late 1950s, fledgling toy manufacturer Wham-O began selling the Frisbee, a simple plasti...   read more

President Obama’s selection to serve in the Department of Energy as Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Dr. James J. Markowsky, is an energy industry veteran with a strong technical background in research and development. While exciting and nov...   read more

Daryl J. Boness, nominated on January 19, 2010, by President Barack Obama to be the next chairman of the Marine Mammal Commission, is a retired scientist who spent most of his career working at the National Zoo and studying seals, sea lions and wa...   read more

Enormous Wall Street bonuses have been roundly criticized by President Barack Obama in the past, calling them “obscene,” “shameful,” an “outrage” and a violation “our fundamental values.” But now Obama doesn’t feel the need to “begrudge” the combi...   read more