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 nominating Earl F. Gohl, Jr. to serve as the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, President Barack Obama played up Gohl’s years of experience in Pennsylvania state and local government. Left out of the November 16, 2009, ann...   read more

Imagine this question on the game show Family Feud: Corporations Americans Hate Most. Answer: AIG.   This conclusion was reached by the website 24/7 Wall St.com, which examined hundreds of companies using data based on employee impressions, retu...   read more

What if American soldiers had flying cars with which to travel around countries like Afghanistan, so as to avoid running over roadside bombs planted by the enemy? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) thinks this idea might just be...   read more

In 1997, the city of Portland, Oregon, launched a program to award more construction contracts to minority-owned businesses. Twelve years later, an audit of the Sheltered Market Program found that the biggest recipients were white men, who receive...   read more

One clear indicator of why the economy did so poorly last year was found in the construction industry, whose status can greatly affect the health of the nation. In 2009, more than 95% of 337 cities examined by the Associated General Contractors of...   read more

For the third year in a row, the Internal Revenue Service is expected to answer fewer calls from taxpayers seeking answers about their taxes. In 2007, IRS customer service representatives managed to answer 83% of all incoming calls—in 2008, the ra...   read more

Despite two years of recession, cities throughout the United States are reporting progress in getting chronic homeless individuals off the streets. The United States Conference of Mayors, which conducts an annual survey on homelessness, has repo...   read more

December was not a month to remember for auto manufacturer Chrysler, and neither was the year it wrapped up. The bad news for Chrysler came in many forms: auto sales declined 4% last month compared to the same time in 2008; sales overall for 2009 ...   read more

Judge Durwood Moore of Dickson County, Tennessee, used to force spectators in his courtroom to submit to random drug tests—until the state’s judicial oversight body censured Moore for violating peoples’ constitutional rights. Moore finally went to...   read more

Amanda Simpson would like to be known for who she is and her professional qualities, rather than what she was in the past. But because she had a sex change operation, making her the first transgender person to serve in an administration by preside...   read more

A law in the United Kingdom once intended to pursue Nazi war criminals is today being used to go after Israeli military and civilian officials accused of wrongly killing Palestinians. Under British law, judges are allowed to issue secret arrest wa...   read more

Americans are not a happy lot when it comes to their jobs. Only 45% of those surveyed say they are satisfied with their work, the lowest level ever recorded in the 22 years of polling by The Conference Board. Last year, the figure was 49%, whereas...   read more

Leading scientists from academia, industry and government are now gaining access to information on climate change that’s collected by spy agencies. The data, which includes high resolution images taken from intelligence satellites, is helping rese...   read more

Five states currently allow homosexuals to marry, a right that’s been slow to spread because of complaints that such unions would pervert the institution of marriage. Meanwhile, more than 50% of the nation’s states do permit first cousins to marry...   read more

For those people who wish they could be in two places at the same time, and have a couple hundred thousand dollars to blow, Japan has the Actroid to offer. Manufactured by Kokoro, Actroids are doppelganger robots made to look and behave similarly ...   read more

Civilian fatalities in Afghanistan increased in 2009, but the United States and its allies were not responsible for the majority of the deaths. According to statistics compiled by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Afghan deaths went up nea...   read more