Judith Shulevitz, writing in the New York Times, reports that infantilized college students are indulging their need for insulation by demanding “safe spaces” where any speech that could hurt their feelings would be forbidden.
Los Angeles now owns the dubious distinction of being named the most-termite infested city in the nation, according to a report issued by Terminix, the leading provider of termite and pest control services in the United States.
U.S. District Judge William Conley in Wisconsin thrilled abortion advocates on Friday, ruling that the state’s law requiring doctors at abortion clinics to obtain admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles was unconstitutional.
On Friday, the Los Angeles Police Department released a report delineating the details of the appearance of a former shot caller for the Mexican mafia at a dinner for some members of the LAPD and business leaders. The LAPD admitted
A man who attacked Transportation Security Administration workers at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans with a machete on Friday night died Saturday from gunshots fired by Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Lt. Heather Slyve, who rescued at least one TSA agent who was wounded in the attack.
In the Chinese version of hope and change, circa 1968, a painting of Communist leader Mao Zedong was created, later becoming the most reproduced painting in history, as Mao’s government printed it 900 million times so every person in China would have a copy.
In an editorial published Friday, the Los Angeles Times has lambasted the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for upholding the decision of Seattle’s transit system to block ads that denounced the U.S. for supporting “Israeli war crimes”–and all ads relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The South Carolina chapter of the NAACP expresses outrage at the NCAA because the collegiate athletic governing body scheduled part of the women’s basketball tournament in the first Southern state to secede, where the capitol still flies the Confederate flag.
The Secret Service, already under fire because two of its agents bumped into a White House barricade on March 4 after they had been out drinking, revealed to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that it is customary for the agency to erase surveillance tapes of the White House 36 hours after they have been taken.
The Islamic State (ISIS), ever on the lookout for new recruits, especially those who feel marginalized in their societies, is targeting the deaf community. Last week, the terror group released a video showing two of its members communicating in sign language, saying, “The way is open before you for you to come to the land of the Kilafah.”
Sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning, three flags were stolen from the Karl Ross American Legion Hall Post 16 in Stockton.
The University of California Berkeley’s Black Student Union (BSU), pressuring the administration to make the campus more hospitable for blacks, has included an outrageous demand among the list of issues it wants addressed: renaming a building on campus after Assata Shakur, who killed New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster in 1973 and is wanted by the FBI as a terrorist.
The NFL’s competition committee, meeting next week in Phoenix, will consider from a plethora of suggestions for improving the league, including at least one triggered by New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s inventiveness in the 2014 playoffs.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris, an announced candidate for Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat in 2016, may have to prepare a title and 100-word summary of a ballot initiative titled the “Sodomite Suppression Act,” which calls for anyone participating in homosexual sexual acts to be shot to death by a bullet to the head.
The California Franchise Tax Board, following a state audit, has revoked the tax-exempt status of nonprofit Blue Shield of California.
In the kind of loving note that a man hopes to get from the woman he loves, Donald Sterling received an Instagram post from his former mistress, V. Stiviano, who posted a picture of herself dressed as an angel sitting on Sterling’s lap and informed the octogenarian: “I will forever be your ANGEL.”
On Tuesday, before the final results of the Israeli election were tabulated, the New York Times, in utter disbelief that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might survive the manifold efforts by the Obama Administration and the leftist media to destroy him, released a piece that savaged the Israeli prime minster, with numerous figures whining about the tactics Netanyahu used to retain his post.
San Bernardino, which owed almost $10 million on its pension bond debt ever since it declared bankruptcy in 2012, has defaulted, according to Reuters. Since September, the city has avoided dealing with the bondholders, who have been left out in the cold.
It is difficult to escape the supposition that those who slam Calipari are, to put it baldly, jealous of his success.
San Francisco supervisor John Avalos is offering a city charter amendment to allow 16-year-olds to vote. He argues that allowing the teenagers to vote will stimulate more civic involvement and inculcate a desire to vote that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.
Jose Espinoza, 23, found a unique–albeit unsuccessful–way to hide from police when they arrived at his house: he spray-painted his face black, paving the way for what may be the worst mugshot in the history of the Central Valley.
Despite claims made to Congress that the Los Angeles Veterans Affairs (VA) facility makes patients wait only four days for an appointment, internal documents from the facility show that 12,700 appointments wound up taking over 90 days before they actually occurred. Some new patients also had to wait months: data from January 15 showed over 1,600 new patients waited between 60 to 90 days.
Henry Solis, 27, a probationary LAPD officer, is being sought for his alleged involvement in the murder of Salome Rodriguez, Jr., 23, which occurred on Friday morning around 3:30 a.m.
Former 49ers defensive lineman Ray McDonald was expected to file a lawsuit on Monday suing the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her on December 13.
On Sunday, Nick Merrill, a spokesman for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, revised the explanation of how Clinton’s emails were handled, claiming, “Every email was reviewed.”
Even Politico, a reliably leftist media outlet that has done its best to support Barack Obama from pillar to post, is now tacitly acknowledging that hard-line Senator Tom Cotton has won his battle with the administration over the letter he authored to Iran that was signed by 46 other GOP senators.
The California state legislature, which has relatively free rein to conduct much of its business without being scrutinized by the public, may soon have to face rules demanding greater transparency. Unlike other agencies of the state government, the Associated Press notes, which fall under the narrow umbrella of the California Public Records Act, the legislature has been constrained by the more lenient Legislative Open Records Act, which permits many of its actions to be shrouded in secrecy.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan is giving new life to a Holocaust survivor’s attempt to retrieve a Camille Pissarro painting stolen from her father by the Nazis that now resides at the University of Oklahoma.
Omar Gonzalez, who jumped over the White House fence September 19 armed with a knife, agreed to a plea deal on Friday.
Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, a lesbian whose wife, Jennifer LeSar, heads LeSar Development Consultants, which specializes in affordable housing, has been accused of conflict of interest for her proposal that California hand out $500 million for apartments for low-income residents.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, over half the residents aged 18-34 in Los Angeles speak more than one language.
Syracuse University, as part of its self-imposed postseason prohibition, banned Otto the Orange from the Atlantic Coast Conference’s annual mascot basketball game on Thursday. Of the ACC’s 15 team mascots, Otto was the only one absent during halftime of the
In Tanzania, over 200 witchdoctors and soothsayers have been arrested for murdering albinos in order to sell their body parts.
A new Gallup poll reveals that Americans think the biggest problem facing the country is not terrorism, healthcare, race relations, or immigration – it’s the federal government.
NFL 2014 leading rusher DeMarco Murray has ditched the Dallas Cowboys to join the rival Philadelphia Eagles, according to ESPN. The reported contract calls for Murray to be paid $42 million over five years, with $21 million guaranteed.
Former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is trying to restore fiscal sanity to the state of California by taking on the Goliath CalPERS, America’s largest public pension fund, with a pension reform measure for the November 2016 ballot. Reed is
The Los Angeles Times, ignoring facts that would conflict with its anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian messaging, identified Muhammad Musallam, the 19-year-old boy shot and killed by a child from the group Islamic State, as a “Palestinian,” instead of what he actually was–an Israeli Arab who lived in East Jerusalem.
On Tuesday, Akron police finally got a solid lead on the man who has pooped on roughly 20 cars over the last three years.
On Wednesday, a firefight broke out over Twitter between Senator Tom Cotton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the letter to Iran authored by Cotton and signed by 46 other GOP senators.
Questions are being raised about the safety of the prospective high-speed rail train in California, after a fatal accident on Tuesday morning near Davis in Yolo County where an Amtrak train killed a female pedestrian on the tracks.
