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

According to information appearing in the FBI’s annual crime report, during a typical day in 2008 there were 3,776 violent crimes in the United States, including 44murders, 243 forcible rapes and 2,228 aggravated assaults. Additionally, there were...   read more

According to Jeff Stein at CQ Politics, there are no indications from the Obama White House that the seats on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and Intelligence Oversight Board will be filled anytime soon. The board, which once served a ...   read more

After Sharron “Kay” Thornton’s eyes went dark, it was her mouth that provided an illuminative solution. Having lost her sight nine years ago from Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a rare skin disorder that severely damaged her corneas, Thornton regained v...   read more

Electronic voting in the United States could become reliant upon a single supplier of machines if a merger of the two leading companies is allowed to go through. Election Systems & Software (ES&S), which controls about 50% of the electronic voting...   read more

President Obama turned to a career prosecutor with many years of experience in fighting human trafficking when he nominated Luis C de Baca to be the next Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the Department of Stat...   read more

Efforts to increase oil and gas drilling in the United States during the Bush years resulted in the Bureau of Land Management abusing a special exemption in federal law to bypass environmental reviews. The result was expanded drilling, which in so...   read more

President Barack Obama’s decision to dump the Bush administration’s plan to deploy a missile defense system in Eastern Europe was great news for defense contractor Raytheon. Instead of deploying missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic at a cost ...   read more

Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski has proposed a new rule that will prevent Internet service providers from blocking certain applications flowing over their networks. Considered a new principle of net neutrality, the ru...   read more

Representing a complete overhaul of how the federal government helps students attend college, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 cleared the House this week and is now headed to the Senate. The bill would essentially cut banks o...   read more

President Barack Obama’s willingness to follow the tradition of allowing the Senate GOP leader to appoint members to two oversight boards has government watchdogs upset. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has chosen former aide and energy lobbyist Sco...   read more

Warren F. “Pete” Miller, Jr. has been selected by President Barack Obama to fill two posts that oversee each end of nuclear energy—supplying it and storing its waste. First, Miller was nominated to be Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy in the ...   read more

President Barack Obama nominated an experienced diplomat to be the US ambassador to Tunisia. Gordon Gray III, who was confirmed by the Senate on July 10, 2009, has almost 30 years experience in the Foreign Service, most of it in positions dealing ...   read more

Ambassador to the Marshall Islands: Who is Martha Campbell?   Martha L. Campbell was sworn in as the US Ambassador to the Republic of Marshall Islands on August 21, 2009. After the US signed the Compact of Free Association, Martha Campbell actua...   read more

Only two months ago, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano declared fusion centers—where local, state and federal law enforcement—and private companies—work to combat terrorism, would not be given access to military databases. But now Na...   read more

During the rush earlier this decade by banks to give out mortgages, a disproportionate amount of expensive loans were distributed to minorities, including to those whose income levels should have qualified them for better rates. A high-priced loan...   read more

Considered an unfair advantage in stock markets, “flash trading” appears to be on the way out, thanks both to new federal regulations and voluntary decisions by leading exchanges. The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new rules on Thursd...   read more