The U.S. Department of Defense, ever concerned that local police departments might lack needed equipment for their efforts combating crime, sent the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department an early Christmas present last March: 500 snowshoes and 132 snow trousers. That wasn’t
The number of immigrants deported from the U.S. fell 14 percent for the year ending Sept. 30, even as the number of people caught crossing the border grew, the Los Angeles Times reports. A draft ICE report shows immigration officials deported 315,943
Former NBA player Kenny Smith, now an analyst on TNT’s “Inside the NBA,” blasted fellow analyst Charles Barkley for his comments on events in Ferguson, Missouri, saying Barkley had no justification for offering his opinion. Barkley had stated: [Those expletives]
Ricky Williams slammed the man who gave up a draft’s worth of picks to acquire him as a “white guy” who doesn’t understand police brutality. Former Bears and Saints coach Mike Ditka had criticized the lawlessness in Ferguson and the
A study conducted by Unicef UK asserts that if mothers breastfeed their children longer, the National Health Service (NHS) could save millions of pounds: the prevention of infections by breastfeeding would save 11 million pounds, and the plunge in cases
Opposition to the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) on college campuses is growing; a petition signed by over 120 faculty and staff members at the University of California calls for UAW 2865, the union chapter representing 13,000 mainly
According to Gov. Jerry Brown’s top policy aide, Brown wants to let illegal immigrants protected by Barack Obama’s new executive amnesty become eligible for state-funded Medi-Cal coverage. Nancy McFadden, speaking Wednesday at an event run by the leftist Public
Torii Hunter, delighted to return to the Minnesota Twins, was anything but delighted near the end of the press conference welcoming him back. A beat reporter, Mike Berardino, badgered him about whether his opposition to same-sex marriage had reduced his
Cleveland Browns coach Mike Pettine has decided to stick with quarterback Brian Hoyer for Sunday’s game against the Indianapolis Colts instead of replacing him with rookie Johnny Manziel. Pettine said his decision derived from Hoyer leading the Browns to a
A 30-foot Frosty the Snowman’s chances of appearing in Pleasanton have melted away. Johnny Moore, who has planted the giant balloon for years on his Christmas tree lot near the Alameda County Fairgrounds, cannot erect the balloon on his new
Sen. Barbara Boxer, desperate to implement harsher standards for greenhouse gas emissions before she loses control of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, is attempting to pass the Super Pollutants Act, a bill that would force cuts in emissions
Politicians weighed in heavily after a grand jury decision was announced Wednesday not to indict a New York police officer over the death of Eric Garner in July. Barack Obama: [The incident] speaks to the larger issues that we’ve been
After a grand jury announced on Wednesday its decision not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner in New York City, protests mounted around the country. They included: Washington D.C.: Protesters marched around DuPont Circle, chanting, “I
Sacramento Kings rookie guard Ben McLemore decided to weigh in on the events in Ferguson, Missouri in the Kings’ game against the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday by inscribing “RIP Mike Brown” on his shoe. Brown was shot and killed by
Tuesday, December 2, is the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1964, on December 2, a simmering dispute between campus activists and the UC-Berkeley administration boiled over as over 1,000 took over the
Sacramento’s first Pet Expo, scheduled for December 6, has been cancelled because the St. Louis-based company that organized it said workers who had been frightened by the events in Ferguson, Missouri did not want to leave their homes, which were
Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli, condemned for a “racist” post on his Instgram page, apologized on Twitter Tuesday morning. He wrote: I apologize if I’ve offended anyone. The post was meant to be anti-racist with humor. I now understand that out
Sen. Ted Cruz, the son of an evangelical minister, used his knowledge of Jewish history and the Jewish calendar to wow Jews attending the annual Zionist Organization of America dinner in New York in late November. Referring to the miracle
Activists using the pretext of the grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri attacked police in San Francisco’s Union Square on Black Friday while frightening shoppers. New video of
Janay Rice, who was knocked unconscious by her then-fiance Ray Rice in February, appeared on the Today show to issue a public statement that Rice, now her husband, had never abused her before the February incident and has not abused
Even those battle-hardened UC Berkeley students who gallantly put their bodies at risk, occupying Wheeler Commons day and night for a whole week to protest tuition hikes, decided Thanksgiving weekend was too tempting to pass up: they abandoned their protest
A proposal before the North Dakota state legislature would require high school students to take the same test that immigrants take to become U.S. citizens in order to graduate from high school. The proposal, which has bipartisan support, was displayed
In the new movie, Exodus, director Ridley Scott decided to directly contravene possibly the most basic tenet of Judaism: that God is One and cannot be anthropomorphized. In the famous scene in which Moses stands near the burning bush and hears
The attorneys for Michael Brown’s family not only say they may sue Officer Darren Wilson, but are also asserting that he appears cold and without a conscience. One attorney, Daryl Parks, stated that the family would either file a lawsuit against Brown
