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

The organic food movement is becoming a victim of its own success. On the one hand, demand for organic products continues to grow, according to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A new study produced by the USDA’s Economic Resear...   read more

Eating hamburger meat is not unlike playing Russian roulette. Despite a federal regulation adopted in 1994 banning slaughterhouses from selling meat containing a particularly virulent strain of E. coli (O157:H7), hamburger sold by Cargill in 2007 ...   read more

In some areas of the United States, driving down a country road comes with the increased risk of colliding with a deer. According to data collected by auto insurance provider State Farm, the number of auto-deer collisions from 2007-2009 increased ...   read more

Having already denied funds to close down the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, House lawmakers on Thursday adopted an amendment that bans the transfer of detainees to maximum-security prisons in the United States. Republicans managed to pull ...   read more

The Ig Nobel Prizes, awarded to those whose achievements make people laugh first, and think second, were given out recently for what is typically an odd assortment of accomplishments.   Katherine K. Whitcome, Daniel E. Lieberman and Liza J. Shap...   read more

Journalists became incensed this week after the White House changed course on legislation designed to protect reporters from going to jail for protecting confidential sources. Previously, President Barack Obama expressed support for a “media shiel...   read more

For the third year in a row, officials in the Treasury Department have extended an exemption that allows savings and loan employees convicted of financial crimes to hold onto their jobs. The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) filed a rule that wen...   read more

One third of all U.S. Attorneys currently in office were appointed by President George W. Bush, demonstrating that President Barack Obama is moving far slower than his predecessor in making over the composition of federal prosecutors. An analysis ...   read more

When the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, called for more troops, the response should have been: Okay, from where?   To put it simply, the U.S. Army is maxed out. An assessment performed by the RAND Arroyo Center, a...   read more

The Obama administration’s efforts to conceal all of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s testimony in the Valerie Plame investigation failed on Thursday, as a federal judge ordered the release of some records. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan fo...   read more

Elizabeth Colton got a late start on her diplomatic career, joining the Foreign Service when she was 54. Now, the former journalist is facing an arbitrary restriction that’s threatening to end her brief Foreign Service career.   Next August, Col...   read more

It took the jury only one day in a precedent-setting case to find two construction companies liable for starting a forest fire in 2002 that burned 18,000 acres of the Angeles National Forest in Southern California. The verdict, which calls for CB&...   read more

John Yoo, welcome to the United Nations’ human rights report, compliments of Berkeley, California. The leftist city’s leadership decided this week to become the first non-country to join the UN’s human rights convention, requiring it to file bienn...   read more

Regardless of President Barack Obama’s declarations in favor of reducing, or even eliminating, the United States’ stockpile of nuclear weapons, the federal government is still moving forward with a modernization plan to make sure its warheads are ...   read more

In the defeat of the public-option solution for health care reform, contributions from industry sources seemed to trump polling data. A New York Times/CBS News poll published on September 25 showed 65% of Americans favored a government administere...   read more

No news isn’t necessarily good news when it comes to the much-criticized Department of Veterans Affairs, especially when the agency keeps the news from being known. Late last week VA officials in Washington ordered regional managers to withhold re...   read more