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

Whether it constitutes a brave political charge, or merely a legislative decoy, the Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act was introduced last week in the Senate to take away legal protections granted to telecommunications companies that participated in ...   read more

Health care workers in New York are protesting a mandate from the state government to get vaccinated for the H1NI flu virus. In August, state health officials announced that all medical workers who “could potentially expose patients” must receive ...   read more

What’s a bloke to do when he’s forced to limit his alcoholic consumption to a mere 24 cans of beer—per day—during “The Great Race” of Australia? That’s the situation facing fans of the Bathurst 1000, a three-day automobile race that attracts thous...   read more

Latinos make up more than 13% of the workforce in the United States, but only 8% of all federal civil servants, and only 3.6% of senior leadership. This makes the fastest-growing minority group in the country also the most underrepresented in th...   read more

Pre-paid debit cards are proving to be an expensive way for Americans who don’t have checking accounts to conduct their banking, making them an especially lucrative new business for banks. It is estimated that 80 million consumers, more than 25% o...   read more

Lobbyists in Washington, DC, are ticked off following the quiet announcement by the White House that members of the Third House can no longer serve on government advisory committees. President Barack Obama decided to ban lobbyists from the numerou...   read more

While the Supreme Court may soon decide a case affecting local gun control measures, a large coalition of city mayors is calling on Congress and the federal government to take action to curb illegal weapons sales. Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a bi...   read more

Although modest in size, the move by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to switch 3,200 jobs back into the hands of government employees marks a change in direction from the outsourcing to private contractors in recent years. At DHS more wo...   read more

Prison sentences of less than one year are a waste of government resources and should be abolished, says the Prison Governors’ Association in the United Kingdom. The problem with such short jail terms is that they don’t reform criminals, but they ...   read more

Secrecy watchdogs may soon have reason to celebrate if the Obama administration follows through on a national security plan to limit how long government records can be kept hidden from the public. According to a draft of a new executive order, Pre...   read more

America’s most powerful woman believes even the most powerful financial institutions should be allowed to collapse. Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, reiterated her earlier assertions at an international conference la...   read more

There’s more to good living than just money, according to the United Nations Development Programme. The authors of Human Development Reports seek each year to show which countries are better, or worse, at providing a state of well-being for their ...   read more

Are there really only two options to choose from with health care systems—government run vs. free market? No, says Aaron Carroll, associate professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. An examination of health care systems...   read more

A self-described unlikely civil rights activist, Mikey Weinstein is suing a Texas-based evangelical church with ties to the Department of Defense for praying for his demise. Weinstein, a Jewish Republican and former military lawyer who served unde...   read more

Many experts expected the disparity between rich and poor to have shrunk last year, as income levels for all Americans declined because of the Great Recession. But that didn’t happen, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Although ear...   read more

Photographic evidence has led some Western experts to wonder if Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been using his vitriolic hatred for Israel to cover up his own Jewish roots. A photograph of Ahmadinejad holding up his ID card during the p...   read more