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

President Barack Obama’s stated goal to make government more open has not extended to requests by United Nations officials to visit the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay or learn more about secret prisons once operated by the CIA. Last month, S...   read more

Military families outpaced the rest of the country in using food stamps last year by a considerable margin, according to the Department of Defense. From 2007 to 2008, the use of food stamps by military personnel and their dependants increased 25%,...   read more

Officials at the Department of Energy might want to review their mission statement. One of their primary tasks is to be a leader in the efficient use of energy while operating offices and laboratories across the country. But much of the agency has...   read more

Scott Janke’s career as a city official has ranged from rubbing elbows with Sarah Palin in Alaska to getting fired recently in Florida for being married to a porn star. Janke’s last job was as city manager for the small, conservative town of Fort ...   read more

Proper storage of deadly nerve gas agents at military facilities requires the use of monitoring devices to ensure the protection of base personnel and local communities from possible leaks. But the operators of the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentuck...   read more

Despite President Barack Obama’s denunciations of last month’s coup in Honduras and promises to cut ties with its military, the U.S. government is still training Honduran officers at the controversial Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Coop...   read more

Not only were interrogators from China allowed to question Uighur prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, but U.S. military personnel helped out in the process, according to testimony provided at a congressional hearing last week.   Three Uighurs who ...   read more

The national obsession with “Three Strikes” laws and other mandatory sentencing rules that began decades ago has produced today a record number of prisoners serving life sentences. This comes at a time when government budgets are squeezed more tha...   read more

Life will be getting a little harder for corporate executives and boards if the Securities and Exchange Commission adopts new rules governing compensation and other corporate procedures. Although the changes are not considered “tide-changing” in t...   read more

A Georgia prosecutor and judge saw nothing wrong in 2008 with their decision to imprison a man for not supporting a child he did not father. Such is the case of Frank Hatley, 50, who thought he had fathered a son from a relationship in the 1980s, ...   read more

Three of the most important “high value” targets of the U.S. military in Pakistan are top Taliban leaders, including a former Western ally who today is behind the attacks on American and NATO forces in Afghanistan.   Jalaluddin Haqqani was onc...   read more

We’ve all heard stories of people having to fight tooth-and-nail to get insurance companies to pay for procedures they thought were covered by their policy, but the case of Jennifer Gentry appears to take insurer meanness to a new level.   Gentr...   read more

After spending decades and hundreds of billions of dollars to develop the most sophisticated jet fighters the world has ever seen, the Defense Department has decided to go “back to the future” to do a better job of attacking Taliban and al Qaeda...   read more

U.S.-India 3.0, the catchphrase being pushed by the Obama administration to laud the results of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent trip to India, might also be called “billions for big business.” Negotiations between Clinton and Indian le...   read more

Billions of dollars in grants are awarded each year by the government to fund research, but many of the findings are not readily available to the public. This situation would change under legislation introduced by Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) ...   read more

Executives representing just 6% of the workforce in America receive more than one-third of all wages, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Social Security Administration data. Out of the $6.4 trillion in pay distributed in 2007, $2.1 tri...   read more