Californians have rejected a measure to impose a state tax on cigarettes. Proposition 29, which would add an extra dollar a pack tax to cigarettes, was trailing on Wednesday by 50.8 percent to 49.2 percent. The proposition, which would ostensibly raise
The latest Gallup Poll shows Mitt Romney leading Barack Obama among middle-income voters. The poll, taken between May 14 and June 3, divided the electorate into three groups: low-income earners, who earned less than $36,000; middle-income earners, who earned between $36,000 and $89,999;
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has accused the Obama administration of leaking classified information regarding intelligence operations in order to benefit Barack Obama’s reelection by strengthening Obama’s foreign policy credentials. On CBS “This Morning,” McCain charged, “This is the most highly classified information
Wednesday afternoon, the president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, contemptuously fired back at Paul Krugman, the New York Times leftist columnist who hilariously fancies himself an expert on financial matters. Krugman’s column, which came out earlier in the day, started the
The Pakistani version of “Sesame Street” has lost its U.S. funding. The U.S. was funding the show to the tune of $20 million through the U.S. Agency for International Development, but has ceased offering the funding after the first $10 million was provided.
As the Obama administration continues whining about the non-existent conservative “War on Women,” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) warned Republicans not to reject the Paycheck Fairness Act, which is scheduled for a vote today. “If these Republicans today … can’t even stand for
Even if you’re a princess, you can’t duck out on a $7.5 million dollar bill. Saudi Princess Maha al-Sudani (ex to Crown Prince Nayef ben Abdel Aziz) stayed at the Shangri-La luxury Hotel in Paris last December, where she rented an entire
Barack Obama can’t help himself. Without a teleprompter, he consistently reveals his secret obsessions. One of them is George W. Bush. Obama spoke at the New Amsterdam Theater in Times Square, and referring to his opponent in the upcoming election, he referred to
The CIA is planning to cut the number of personnel in Iraq to 40% of what it had at the height of the Iraq war, when Baghdad was the headquarters of the largest CIA station in the world. At that time, there
The Palestinians are blackmailing Washington, claiming that a new amendment to a bill before Congress would prevent them from making a peace deal with Israel. The amendment calls for a true accounting of how many Palestinians fled Israel during the Israel’s War
In a new book titled “Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency,” author Daniel Klaidman asserts that David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s top campaign adviser, and Attorney General Eric Holder got into a shoving
DC Comics, which saw its “New 52” line premiere in 2011 as a relaunch of its series of superhero comic books fail to live up to expectations, is trying to increase its sales by making Green Lantern, one of the longest-running of
Barack Obama has again betrayed another traditional ally of the United States. The State Department has renewed its call for the Falkland Islands, whose population is more than 95 percent British, to have their sovereignty negotiated between Great Britain and Argentina. Forget the
On Wednesday, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani threatened war against Israel if there is any interference from the West in Syria. Larijani’s threat followed Kofi Annan’s deputy, Jean-Marie Guehenno, relating to the 15-nation council the dim chances of Annan’s efforts at peacemaking
Josh Mandel, who is challenging incumbent Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown, is mounting a charge. Polls taken by Quinnipiac and Rasmussen have consistently shown Brown with 45% to 48% of the vote since last fall. Mandel’s support, which was registered at
Judicial Watch has been joined by major media outlets and organizations to have the White House visitor logs released. Some of the groups joining Judicial Watch are Bloomberg, L.P.; CBS Broadcast Inc.; Dow Jones & Company Inc.; Gannett, Co. Inc.; The McClatchy Company;
Planned Parenthood, panicked that their funnel of money from the federal government will close under a Romney Administration, has filmed a new ad attacking Romney that will run in three pivotal states. The organization that performs over 200,000 abortions every year is
On Tuesday, President Obama awarded the highest civilian honor in the United States, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Dolores Huerta, the openly socialist leader who is an honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. Huerta, the partner with
This past weekend, Gas prices in Los Angeles County were the highest they’ve ever been on Memorial Day. The average price of self-serve regular gas crested at $4.299 a gallon. Even though prices had dipped for 12 consecutive days prior to
Los Angeles police are investigating an incident in which Justin Bieber scuffled with a photographer who snapped pictures of the teen idol while he was on a date with starlet Selena Gomez. Bieber and Gomez were just leaving a movie theater in
The “Best Gay Bar in the World” according to Time Magazine, has decided to ban bachelorette parties. Its owner and founder David Cooley, who is gay, was in pain from seeing young women celebrating their upcoming marriages. Cooley, who owns The Abbey in West
The Los Angeles City Council is considering two options for eliminating marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles. PLUM, the L.A. City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management, has a “gentle ban” approach before it as well as a more hard-line approach. The “gentle
Elizabeth Warren, faux Native American, is a master manipulator of her biography. Now news comes that just prior to announcing her candidacy for the Senate, she jettisoned her BMW for a Ford hybrid in order to improve her image as a plebeian,
The Obama Administration admitted that Iran is still not cooperating with international calls to reduce its nuclear program. After the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany gave Tehran their demands, which called for Iran to halt enrichment of uranium
The Obama Administration, which harps on its “War on Women” meme, has a war on women of its own: the EEOC is now investigating the coffee chain Marylou’s because the chain hires pretty young women dressed in pink to hawk its product.
