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  • Musk and Trump Fire Members of Congress

    Wednesday, February 26, 2025
    Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sent messages to all members of Congress terminating their positions, stating “Your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment.” All Democratic and independent members of Congress, as well as two Republicans, found themselves locked out of their offices after everything inside had been confiscated.   read more
  • Clinton-Era Hard Drive Goes Missing from National Archives

    Thursday, May 21, 2009
    Officials at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are feeling some serious heat from Congress after they admitted that a computer hard drive containing huge amounts of data from the Clinton White House has gone missing. The driv...   read more
  • 9 Job Seekers for Every Available Job

    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
    The unemployment rate, the statistic most commonly used by government and media to tell how the economy is doing, does not indicate just how bad things really are in the United States. That’s because the unemployment rate, calculated each month by...   read more
  • Military Personnel Not Allowed to Sue for Medical Malpractice

    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
    No matter how egregious their medical care may be, even resulting in death, military personnel cannot sue the government. This reality, in existence now for almost 60 years, has left Tommy and Connie Wilson of Hartwell, GA, sickened, fearing the d...   read more
  • Misleading Story of the Month: Majority of Americans “Pro-Life”

    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
    When Gallup released a poll last week showing a majority of Americans considered themselves pro-life (51%-42%), opponents of abortion used the data to show that President Barack Obama’s liberal policies had galvanized Americans into moving away fr...   read more
  • Credit Cards: Punishing Those Who Pay On-Time

    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
    Bank executives apparently are big believers in the idea that no good deed should go unpunished, at least when it comes to their good credit card customers. As Congress and President Barack Obama prepare to adopt legislation curbing credit card ac...   read more
  • Federal Aviation Administrator: Who is J. Randolph Babbitt?

    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
    J. Randolph “Randy” Babbitt, an aviation consultant and former pilot-union boss, will take over the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as it tries to overhaul air-traffic control equipment through the NextGen project, a billion-dollar effort to...   read more
  • The End of Textbooks?

    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
    Lawmakers in California are considering whether to allow school districts to do away with printed textbooks in favor of e-books that would be read using school computers. Current law requires school districts to first buy plenty of textbooks befor...   read more
  • Gray Wolves Lose Protection, Still in Danger

    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
    Earlier this month, gray wolves were taken off the Endangered Species List by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, exposing them up once again to being hunted. However, many argue that this move was premature and that the wolves have not yet reache...   read more
  • Rumsfeld’s Special Unit Responsible for Worst Civilian Killings in Afghanistan

    Tuesday, May 19, 2009
    A commando unit created by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been behind the worst attacks in Afghanistan involving civilians, military and foreign news sources have discovered. U.S. Marines Corps’ Special Operations Command (MarSOC) wa...   read more
  • United States of Boeing

    Tuesday, May 19, 2009
    In a relatively new twist in the operation of the U.S. military, the Pentagon is leasing surveillance drones from Boeing, rather than buying them. Rear Admiral Bill Shannon, executive officer for the unmanned aviation program, says that leasing th...   read more
  • Dictators without Testicles

    Tuesday, May 19, 2009
    A new book by historian José Maria Zavala claims that former dictator Francisco Franco of Spain was a monorchid, meaning he had only one testicle. Zavala bases his assertion on an account by physician Ana Puigvert, whose grandfather Antonio Puigve...   read more
  • Next Time You Look at a Lithium Battery, Think about Bolivia

    Tuesday, May 19, 2009
    As technology for cell phones and electric vehicles develops rapidly, the world is looking to a new source of energy: the vast salt flats of Bolivia. The poorest nation in South America is home to the world’s largest reserves of lithium, a metal t...   read more
  • States and Counties with the Most…

    Tuesday, May 19, 2009
    The U.S. Census Bureau last week announced some of the latest demographic changes among states and counties with respect to ethnic composition, age and gender. According to new statistics, more counties continued to become “majority-minority”—mean...   read more
  • Marijuana is Getting Higher in Potency…Or is It?

    Tuesday, May 19, 2009
    Federal anti-drug officials announced last week that the latest scientific data shows marijuana has become an increasingly potent and dangerous drug—a claim that has been proven false or exaggerated after other government warnings, according to cr...   read more
  • Prosecutors Fight DNA Testing

    Tuesday, May 19, 2009
    While district attorneys have embraced DNA testing to convict thousands of criminals, many of them have vigorously fought the use of genetic testing to allow prisoners to challenge their convictions. Forty-six states have passed laws to enable inm...   read more
  • Auditing the Federal Reserve

    Tuesday, May 19, 2009
    Former presidential candidate and Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) is no fan of the Federal Reserve. In fact, he wants it abolished. The Federal Reserve, according to Paul, is the root of inflationary troubles and retarded economic growth, thanks to it...   read more
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