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

GOProud is just that. The group, consisting of conservative homosexuals who broke away from the Log Cabin Republicans a few years ago because it was deemed too liberal, decided to co-sponsor The American Conservative Union’s annual Conservative Po...   read more

American banks are sitting on nearly $1 trillion in reserves, holding onto money instead of loaning it out to homeowners and businesses which the federal government has wanted for the past year. Beginning in September 2008, when the financial cris...   read more

American farmers will have no shortage of challenges in the coming decades, thanks to global warming. A new federal study, sponsored in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, details how changes in weather and climate will affect crop and liv...   read more

Does lack of income drive people to church? Data compiled by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the U.S. Census Bureau would indicate a correlation between high levels of poverty and large concentrations of religious Americans. For inst...   read more

Once little more than a Buck Rogers-like dream of the military’s when President Ronald Reagan unveiled his “Star Wars” plan, lasers may become an actual weapon employed on the battlefield to destroy the enemy within a couple of years. While lasers...   read more

Whether it’s because of the economy or pressure from environmentalists, bottled water sales are declining after years of growth. Sales dropped 3.2% in 2008 and are expected to fall another 2% this year. Industry leaders are insisting the decline i...   read more

Six months since its creation and 16 months after the beginning of the current economic meltdown, a special commission charged with investigating the causes of the Wall Street collapse finally will begin holding public hearings next month. The Fin...   read more

For those in search of rosy economic predictions, don’t bother reading the Association of Financial Professionals (AFP) report for 2010. The organization surveyed more than a thousand CFOs, vice presidents of finance, treasurers and other financia...   read more

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) does not spread the wealth when it comes to farm subsidies. In fact, from the mid-1990s to the middle of this decade, just over half of all subsidies were distributed to a mere 4% of all recipients, accord...   read more

Wall Street’s bad behavior hasn’t changed all that much from last year, writes Nomi Prins, senior fellow at the public policy center Demos and a former managing director at Goldman Sachs. Despite what the Obama administration says about changing ...   read more

Most of the leading buyers of American military hardware in 2008 had two characteristics in common: they speak Arabic and their governments are opposed to democracy and basic freedoms. Information compiled by the Congressional Research Service rev...   read more

High death rates among newborn children have historically been a problem associated with the developing world. But the United States finds itself experiencing a higher infant mortality rate (defined as deaths in the first year of life, per 1,000 l...   read more

In exchange for helping American soldiers communicate in a foreign-speaking land, Iraqi translators were supposed to receive from the U.S. government a modest salary ($12,000 a year) and insurance benefits in case of injury or death. But for many ...   read more

If appointing U.S. ambassadors was like song dedications, then the selection of David H. Thorne as envoy to Italy and San Marino would be akin to President Barak Obama proclaiming, “This one goes out to you, John Kerry.” Thorne, a Boston businessm...   read more

Build a better mouse trap, and inevitably someone will build a better mouse. That’s the conundrum facing campaign finance advocates who, despite getting numerous laws in place at the state and federal level to limit big money contributions, have w...   read more

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the chief federal agency charged with bringing order to the confused and crisis-ridden field of patent law, has a new director. President Barack Obama turned to David Kappos, an engineer and attorney with more...   read more