During the summer of 2013, the Department of Public Health in Massachusetts (DPH) found that the Body Mass Index (BMI) reports on schoolchildren have been used to bully fat children in the state. This has prompted state lawmakers to consider
On Monday, Univision’s anchor Jorge Ramos tweeted his unhappiness because Barack Obama did not go on his network to discuss administration’s policy vis-à-vis Syria. Ramos tweeted, “Pres. Obama gives 6 interviews today. None of those to Univision. Why? Hispanics also
At the University of Denver, a protest is being planned by students, faculty, and alumni at an event honoring former president George W. Bush. The Josef Korbel School of International Studies is scheduled to present an award honoring Bush for
Benjamin Jealous, the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is leaving his job at the end of 2013. Jealous said he wants to be a University professor and spend more time with
Human rights activists around the world are making plans to travel to Syria and act as “human shields” to forestall a U.S. strike against Syria, according to Britain’s The Telegraph. The “International Human Shields” movement is spearheading a movement to
Don’t tell John McCain, who equated jihadists shouting “Allahu Akhbar” (God is great) to saying “Thank God,” but the AP reports rebels shouting “Allahu Akhbar” have threatened Christians with beheading if they refuse to convert to Islam in the Syrian Christian village
The GOP 2016 presidential race has begun, with the first candidate announcing his intentions to seek the White House: Rep. Peter King (R-NY) King, visiting a New Hampshire radio station on Friday, said the reason he was in New Hampshire
Parents of fat children in California are receiving letters from their children’s schools informing them that little Johnny is not so little. Nine hundred students were reviewed by a nutritionist, and subsequently 200 of those students’ parents got the epistolary
A former Israeli national security adviser who is a retired Major General in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has claimed that Barack Obama forced Israel to abandon attacking Iranian nuclear sites last year. According to the Israeli paper Mida, Giora Eiland
The birth rate in the United States took another dip last year, falling from 63.2 births per 1,000 women 15 to 44 years old in 2011 to 63.0 births in 2012. The data was compiled by the Centers for Disease
According to researchers from the George Washington University (GWU) School of Public Health, in 2010, almost half of all births in the United States were paid for by Medicaid, and that rate is only going to go up. Medicaid was
Defying a Pentagon directive, the Texas National Guard, using the Texas constitution’s ban on gay marriage as a bulwark, refused to process requests on Tuesday from same-sex couples who were looking for benefits. Texas is apparently the only state that
Kentucky Democrat Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is getting a boost from the Hollywood elite. Grimes has refused to make clear her positions on many issues of the day, emulating Barack Obama in 2008. Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of Dreamworks
A new book, God Bless America: The Surprising History of an Iconic Song, details the history of Irving Berlin’s legendary hit song and delineates how the original lyrics that Berlin wrote in 1938 were anti-interventionist but were changed due to an
Advocates for immigration reform are claiming that their summer scheme of targeting individual House members in their districts was just a prelude to their autumn plans for major demonstrations in large cities on October 5, three days before their expected
An Oregon bakery that was threatened by the state’s Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) with an investigation for refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple closed its store on August 31, choosing instead to sell its
Trayvon Martin’s father, Tracy, is a friend of Florida A&M’s football coach, Earl Holmes, and thus was chosen to lead the University’s football team onto the field before its season-opening game against Mississippi Valley State on Sunday at the Citrus
A New York man who booby-trapped the area around marijuana plants on his property died Saturday after he nearly decapitated himself by driving into one of the traps–a nearly-invisible wire. Daniel R. Ricketts, 50, was driving his all-terrain vehicle around 2:30 PM
A psychiatric hospital in Pennsylvania is the first facility that will take Internet addiction so seriously that it will have a treatment program for those who cannot stop using the web. The inpatient program is a voluntary 10-day program that is
Anthony Weiner posed wistfully with his favorite friend for a picture at an Arthur Avenue Deli on Saturday–a giant sausage. The New York Daily News said Weiner pressed the meat at Mike’s Deli as he made a campaign stop. Owner
A leaked French intelligence report reveals that President Bashar Assad of Syria has more than 1,000 tons of poison gas stockpiled. Additionally, both U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and British Chancellor George Osborne confirmed the presence of sarin nerve gas in
On September 4, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts will hear a case in which the right of schools to recite the Pledge of Allegiance has been challenged. The suit was brought by an anonymous atheist couple, backed by the American
John Kerry, speaking on Face the Nation, defended Barack Obama’s delay in implementing action against Bashar Assad while he goes to Congress for authorization. Host Major Garrett asked, “I know you believe the president’s decision to seek congressional authorization is courageous,
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) tore into Barack Obama for his indecision in attacking Syria on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday. McCain accused the President has not presented a coherent strategy to respond to Bashar al-Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons against
As Kathleen Fox with The Paducah Sun reported, an art teacher at a Kentucky High School set up an exhibit where students were supposed to stand on an American flag while they wrote how they felt about it. Art teacher
