The Los Angeles Times, in its effort to support the unionizing of the fast-food industry, quotes a report by economists at UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that asserts more than half of families of fast food
According to a promoter for O.J. Simpson, the former gridiron great has had a religious rebirth behind bars and is now ready to host a TV show. The show, titled Holy Safari, would feature Simpson traveling the world and interviewing
In a watershed moment for the United States, it has now surpassed Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest supplier of oil. According to PIRA, an energy analysis firm, the skyrocketing oil output over the last four years is the most
If Oreos had existed at the turn of the twentieth century, Sherlock Holmes might have been addicted to them rather than cocaine. Joseph Schroeder, a neuroscientist from Connecticut College, has evidence that Oreos can be as addictive as the drug
It took over seven hours, but a Delaware woman finally became the first person from her state to sign up for Obamacare. Janice Baker, 59, who runs a boarding kennel with her husband Joseph, said, “I went online Oct. 1st,
Sen. Barbara Boxer vilified the GOP on Monday by comparing them to domestic abusers. She was speaking of the government shutdown and the debt limit deadline fast approaching when she said: I never questioned, never questioned the fact that Republicans,
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, is warning that a US default could cause the world to go into a recession, echoing President Obama’s warnings over the current fiscal fight. Lagarde said, “If there is that degree
On Monday, a Malaysian appeals court ruled that the government was correct in banning non-Muslims from using the word “Allah” to refer to their own gods. Christians had protested the original ruling, saying that the ban violated their religious rights.
The environmentalist group Greenpeace is waging war against the production of Golden Rice, a genetically modified rice that could save more than half a million children around the world from disease and 250,000 from dying each year. Dr. Patrick Moore, one of
If you live in California, and you make more than $62,040, look out; you are ineligible for a federal tax subsidy to offset your skyrocketing premiums due to Obamacare. If you can lower your modified adjusted gross income to less
Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley, Rand Paul called Barack Obama “irresponsible” for scaring the American people with his strident warning about the debt ceiling battle. Crowley asked: Senator Paul, I know you said that you
On Saturday, Barack Obama had the audacity to lambast the GOP and say on his weekly radio address: “Manufacturing crises to extract massive concessions isn’t how our democracy works, and we have to stop it. Politics is a battle of
A woman who was arrested in Skokie, Illinois, for drunk driving and resisting a police officer was shoved into a jail cell by a police officer so forcibly that she struck a concrete bench with her face and shattered the
On Saturday, at a little before 9:30 a.m., citizens determined to break through the “barrycades” around the Lincoln Memorial moved the government barricades aside and proceeded to enter the Memorial. According to Taylor Hemness from KLTV 7: [The protesters] went
On Friday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new law that will allow the state to recognize more than two legal parents for a child. Brown and his office would not reveal why Brown signed the bill after vetoing it
The terrorists of Gaza have been discovered by IDF soldiers to have built a tunnel from Gaza into an Israeli community that would enable them to infiltrate the town with a massive assault and bring back Israelis as hostages. There
Variety Editor in Chief Andrew Wallenstein speculates that the new MSNBC show, Up Late with Alec Baldwin, may be the actor’s way of establishing himself for a future political run. Baldwin has offered the idea before; his most recent gesture in that
Hollywood’s desperate attempt to bolster President Barack Obama has taken on new dimensions; now Obamacare will be featured or supported in upcoming Hollywood products. The USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood Health & Society program has been given $500,000 to
On Friday, “National Coming Out Day,” Los Angeles Unified School District teachers and staff members will be given rainbow “ally” badges to show that they support LGBT students as part of the “Out for Safe Schools” initiative. Supt. John Deasy
A new report issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) asserts that the Obama White House is the most insular in decades, and the worst since the Nixon Administration for its secrecy and lack of transparency. The report was
Sen. John McCain, posing as someone above the fray as Tea Party conservatives and establishment Republicans do battle with each other, had the brazen gall to say that he has learned to “never get personal” in political disputes. He claimed
According to WTSP in Tampa, terrorists are making practice runs on U.S. flights in preparation for an airline terrorist attack. WTSP said a memo it found was from a union that is comprised of pilots working for major airlines, and
A gender studies professor who invited porn actors to his class and was under investigation for bedding down with some of his students has resigned at Pasadena City College (PCC). Hugo Schwyzer, who had taught at PCC since 1993, admitted
The recent surge in Palestinian terror attacks on Israelis continued Thursday night when Palestinian Arab terrorists broke into a home in the Jordan Valley brandishing iron bars and axes. The Arabs savagely beat the husband, who died shortly thereafter, and
Jason Collins, who made news when he became the first openly gay man playing a major American team sport, implied that the reason he has not been signed by any NBA teams might have to do with the fact that he
