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

Democracy is having a difficult time taking root in Iraq. When elections are held, such as those in February, turnout has been poor, and citizens in some provinces have not been allowed to vote. But those problems pale in comparison to the governm...   read more

With previous government investigations revealing the awarding of small business contracts to large corporations, the American Small Business League (ASBL) figured it would be a good idea to check up on who is receiving contracts from federal agen...   read more

A different kind of work-related stress claim has been filed in the United Kingdom, where a government press secretary says his medical problem stems from having to lie about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. John Salisbury-Baker, a press officer ...   read more

The effects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are starting to wear off, at least as far as tourists and business travelers coming to the United States. Following the attacks on New York and Washington, DC, the number of visitors nationwide dropped...   read more

Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, offers a different perspective on the U.S. military as part of his argument for combating the constant haranguing by Republicans over how bad government is. To denigrate the government is also to denigrate the ...   read more

Despite creating a program specifically designed to protect them from heat exposure, farm workers are continuing to die in agricultural fields in California, prompting the ACLU and others to file a lawsuit against the state. In 2005, state officia...   read more

So much for Billy the bad guy. Last year during the presidential campaign Barack Obama singled out former Democratic congressman Billy Tauzin of Louisiana for helping the pharmaceutical industry keep its drug pricing regime with Medicare as part o...   read more

Many of the nation’s largest government contractors have received the biggest portion of stimulus funds to date, according to an analysis by Government Executive. The publication found 17 corporations were awarded $1.62 billion in contracts under ...   read more

Federal judges in Washington, DC, have ruled over the last year that 28 detainees at Guantanamo Bay were being unlawfully held, and ordered their release. But, according to an investigation by ProPublica, 19 of these men are still at the detention...   read more

Frosted Mini-Wheats are not quite so nutritious after all, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which recently ruled that Kellogg Company, the world’s largest producer of cereal, had lied in its advertisements claiming the breakfast fo...   read more

Self-thinking military robots, not unlike the killing machines featured in the Terminator movies, are by no means the stuff of science fiction, warns Professor Noel Sharkey, an expert in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics at the University ...   read more

Thanks to the lean economic times, the U.S. government is hungry for cash, as tax receipts across the board have dropped the most in one year since the Great Depression. Overall, tax revenues are expected to be down 18% from 2008’s total, a declin...   read more

Later this year when it releases the 2008 American Community Survey, the Department of Commerce will do something it never has done before: Provide data on the number of same-sex marriages in the United States. This decision represents a reversal ...   read more

Heath, Ohio, has a population of about 9,000 residents, but managed to wrack up more than 10,000 traffic violations in a single month. This disparity helps to explain the widespread anger felt across the small town after city officials approved th...   read more

A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Fox News to learn which banks were loaned money by the Federal Reserve during last year’s financial crisis was rejected last week by a federal judge in New York. But the effort to force the Fed to tur...   read more

A moderate Democrat and first-term governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland has served as the states’ co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission since January.   Born on August 4, 1941, in Lucasville, Ohio, Strickland was one of nine children. His ...   read more