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

Dancing is not considered a form of free speech, at least not when it’s being done at the Jefferson Memorial. After being arrested for gyrating along with some friends at the monument in April 2008, Mary Brook Oberwetter, 28, filed a lawsuit again...   read more

With Year One of President Barack Obama’s first term complete, some government watchdogs are still waiting for the new era of openness to begin. Outside of the decision to release White House visitor logs and a few of the torture memos, the Obama ...   read more

Victims of toxic exposure at two U.S. military bases may receive health insurance from the federal government to help with their medical treatments. But even as Senate legislation granting the assistance moved forward on Thursday, one Republican s...   read more

One parent. That’s all it took for school officials in Culpeper County, Virginia, to pull an uncensored version of Annie Frank’s diary from classrooms, because the parent complained about a passage in which the 14-yeaar-old girl talks about her va...   read more

The great count of 2010 began this week in the remote Alaskan village of Noorvik, with 89-year-old World War II veteran Clifton Jackson serving as the first officially recorded person of the census.   U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves fl...   read more

Human sacrifice is on the increase in Uganda and children are the main victims. According to a BBC investigation, the problem may be more common than authorities have acknowledged. The head of the country's Anti-Human Sacrifice Taskforce believes ...   read more

R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr., founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator, has several conservative alternatives to the Democrats’ healthcare reform “monstrosity.” For starters, the expense of the American medical system, which has kept million...   read more

Update: On Friday, Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Indiana) announced that he would not seek reelection in November. He said that his wife, Joni, had a terminal illness. However, Buyer is clearly also in a legal hot seat because of the situation described bel...   read more

Setting up foreign subsidiaries allows American defense contractors not only to utilize cheaper labor and more favorable regulations, but also avoid paying taxes that fund key government safety net programs. This conclusion was reached by the Gove...   read more

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is due a belated Christmas card from Michael Leiter. As the man in charge of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Leiter and his team of analysts are responsible for sifting through thousands of intelligence tips ...   read more

Instead of conducting the more common subjective analysis of State of the Union speeches, Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight decided to perform a word-choice comparison. After tallying up the key buzzwords used by President Barack Obama and comparing...   read more

No electronic communication is safe from government censors in China, and that includes text messages containing sexual content. As part of its crackdown on “illegal” activity, the Chinese government has ordered the country’s top cell phone provid...   read more

The U.S. Army’s top training expert is recommending changes to his service’s program for preparing soldiers for combat. Gone are the days of America fighting a large-scale enemy, like the Russians. Now the United States is more likely to be involv...   read more

If you can’t beat them, pay them off. That’s essentially the reasoning behind a plan the United States and some of its allies are considering that would pay Taliban fighters to put down their weapons and rejoin Afghan society. The cost of such a s...   read more

Perhaps it didn’t come as a surprise to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that a company whose name spelled the acronym RACE would have racially discriminated while handing out dangerous jobs involving radioactive materials. Radi...   read more

Film directors aren’t the only ones who insist on final cut. From his prison cell, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal, is suing a French film company making a documentary about the terrorist who was the most famous of his kind back in...   read more