California Senate Bill 131, which is ostensibly about protecting victims of child sex abuse, forces private schools to defend claims of sexual abuse as far back as 40 years ago, but exempts public schools from such claims. Because of the
Barack Obama stopped by the second annual Kids’ State Dinner on Tuesday, an event his wife Michelle hosted in the East Room of the White House. Obama had a few choice words for the kids: “Food can be fun, it
On Monday, the Californian State Senate passed legislation AB817 that would allow non-citizens to help voters when they cast their ballots. Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Alameda sponsored the bill, which would permit as many as five permanent residents who entered the
Ready for Hillary, the super PAC for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is working with 270 Strategies, which ran Barack Obama’s 2012 grassroots campaigns. Jeremy Bird, Obama’s 2012 national field director, and Mitch Stewart, who ran the efforts in battleground
The Labour Party in England is plagued by a civil war. The leader of their biggest financial backer, Len McCluskey of the trade union Unite, is battling the Party’s leader, Ed Milliband. Former Home Secretary Lord Reid, a member of
China’s new government isn’t going to stop attacking the Dalai Lama. Yu Zhengsheng, who runs ethnic affairs for the Chinese Communist Party and is the fourth highest official in the government, said that the Dalai Lama’s support for splitting Tibet
An abortion supporter, Katie Heim, wrote a poem likening her vagina to a gun which was read into the Texas Senate record as the Senate debated the bill outlawing abortion after twenty weeks. The poem, titled, “If My Vagina Was
California inmates in prisons may soon be able to have safe sex, even if it’s illegal. Oakland Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta has proposed giving inmates condoms, even though sex between inmates is a felony. The bill, AB999, which passed the
Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan has decided that it isn’t just Jews he despises; it’s blacks, too, apparently. Ripping his rival Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, who leads the center-left and secular Republican Peoples Party (CHP), Erdogan blustered, “Kiliçdaroglu is striving every bit he
Orson Scott Card, whose novel Ender’s Game will soon be released as a feature film, has issued a statement to mollify critics of his long-standing position against gay marriage and head off a planned boycott of the film by gays
A study published in the Journal of Personality asserts that those people who resist acting impulsively and practice self-control are happier than those who give in to temptation. Study co-author Kathleen Vohs, a professor of marketing at the University of
At least 148 female inmates in the California prison system between 2006 and 2010 were sterilized by tubal ligation without approval from the state. There may be 100 others who had the same procedure before that period starting in the
In the latest round of violence in Egypt, at least 51 people were killed in clashes between Muslim Brotherhood members and the Egyptian Army near a military building in Cairo. A leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mahmoud Badia, used the
Judge Debra Nelson has ruled in the George Zimmerman trial that evidence of marijuana that was found in Trayvon Martin’s system can be admitted. The prosecution had attempted to stifle the introduction of such evidence gained from the toxicology report,
Remember when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker had to win a recall election because he was trying to reduce the power of Wisconsin’s public employee unions? A new revelation shows Walker’s sentiments were exactly on the money: one of the main
Andrew Sullivan, who led “Trig Trutherism,” may now have found a new cause to champion: obesity. In a new post on his blog entitled “Now We Should Add FA To LGBT?” he cites others who contend that people who are
The founder of IKEA, 87 year-old Ingvar Kamprad, is returning to his native Sweden after having fled for Switzerland 40 years ago to escape Sweden’s prohibitive taxes. Kamprad said he would move back home to Almhult by the end of 2013.
Mohamed Tawfik, Egypt’s ambassador to the U.S., who had been appointed by former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, insisted that the ouster of Morsi in Egypt did not constitute a coup. Tawfik, interviewed in Sunday by Jonathan Karl on ABC’s This
For those who have compared Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler, there is one salient difference: Hitler didn’t deny the Holocaust, while Ahmadinejad regards his denial of the Holocaust as one of the hallmarks of his tenure. In a
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is focused on the present before he’ll speak of his intentions for the future. Asked on “Fox News Sunday” about his intentions regarding a fourth gubernatorial run, Perry replied: I’m going to have an announcement tomorrow. But
California is losing businesses at a faster rate than the rest of the nation. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has the hard evidence: by the end of 2012, there were 1.3 million businesses left in California, 73,000 less than the year before,
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is not only determined to bring the abortion legislation that was torpedoed last month by the filibuster of Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis back to the legislature, he is utterly confident that the legislation will pass.
How typical of the French: As they lambast America for its behavior, a report emerges that the French practice the very behavior they condemn in others. At the U.S. ambassador’s July 4 garden party, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls ripped
President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nightmare might come true if the GOP can recapture the Senate in 2014. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she has no interest in retiring now so that Obama can pick a younger successor and
Turkey’s Islamist government, frightened by protests that began in Istanbul in May, has decided to use a time-honored technique in order to deflect attention away from the real motivations of the protesters: blame the Jews. Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay
