Federal judges ruled on October 21 that the state of California could delay its thinning of the number of prison inmates for another month. The judges explained their decision by citing the time a court-appointed mediator would need to find
In a bombshell revelation, a consumer sales manager for North Dakota’s largest health insurer said Monday that the Obama Administration asked Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota to hide how many people registered for health insurance through an online
Tina Brown, who is leaving her position as editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast which she founded in 2008, had a few choice words regarding the rollout of ObamaCare, castigating Barack Obama’s defining accomplishment for issuing portentous announcements with an incompetent follow-through.
Alan Grayson, the Democratic representative from Florida’s 9th congressional district, sent out a fundraising email that showed a burning cross used to represent the “T” in Tea Party. Dave Levinthal, senior political reporter at Public Integrity, caught it and tweeted,
An associate professor of law at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit institution, resigned because he did not like the university’s decision to eliminate insurance coverage of elective abortion. Stephen F. Diamond, who taught at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics,
Buzzfeed reports that there is a silver lining to the government shutdown: while hardliners on both sides were fighting, moderates on both sides had a chance to sneak away and try to find common ground. Buzzfeed notes that the Future
A new discovery of an ancient skull from an ancestor of humans has scientists backtracking from their earlier claims that separate species in Africa were the progenitors of the human race. The skull, found in the Georgian villiage of Dmanisi,
Catherine Ashton, the EU’s head of foreign policy, has released a statement asserting that Iran is engaging in the “most detailed talks ever” with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (America, Russia, China, France, and Britain) plus
To kick off the Christmas season, Lady Gaga will co-host a 90 minute “Holiday Spectacular” on Thanksgiving night with the Muppets. Lady Gaga & the Muppets’ Holiday Spectacular will air on ABC, where the pop star will sing songs from
A 2010 case that featured three Northern California high school students forced to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out or go home because it was Cinco de Mayo has now reached a three-judge federal appeals court in San Francisco.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Thursday that Obama wants “accountability” from those who are trying to fix errors with the disaster-plagued Obamacare website. Carney wouldn’t say whether the White House would try to recover the money paid to
Arlington National Cemetery is changing its policy so that family members of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan can leave small mementos and photos at their graves, which are in Section 60. Formerly, the cemetery’s policy was that only veterans’ organizations
The Los Angeles Times, in its effort to support the unionizing of the fast-food industry, quotes a report by economists at UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that asserts more than half of families of fast food
According to a promoter for O.J. Simpson, the former gridiron great has had a religious rebirth behind bars and is now ready to host a TV show. The show, titled Holy Safari, would feature Simpson traveling the world and interviewing
In a watershed moment for the United States, it has now surpassed Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest supplier of oil. According to PIRA, an energy analysis firm, the skyrocketing oil output over the last four years is the most
If Oreos had existed at the turn of the twentieth century, Sherlock Holmes might have been addicted to them rather than cocaine. Joseph Schroeder, a neuroscientist from Connecticut College, has evidence that Oreos can be as addictive as the drug
It took over seven hours, but a Delaware woman finally became the first person from her state to sign up for Obamacare. Janice Baker, 59, who runs a boarding kennel with her husband Joseph, said, “I went online Oct. 1st,
Sen. Barbara Boxer vilified the GOP on Monday by comparing them to domestic abusers. She was speaking of the government shutdown and the debt limit deadline fast approaching when she said: I never questioned, never questioned the fact that Republicans,
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, is warning that a US default could cause the world to go into a recession, echoing President Obama’s warnings over the current fiscal fight. Lagarde said, “If there is that degree
On Monday, a Malaysian appeals court ruled that the government was correct in banning non-Muslims from using the word “Allah” to refer to their own gods. Christians had protested the original ruling, saying that the ban violated their religious rights.
The environmentalist group Greenpeace is waging war against the production of Golden Rice, a genetically modified rice that could save more than half a million children around the world from disease and 250,000 from dying each year. Dr. Patrick Moore, one of
If you live in California, and you make more than $62,040, look out; you are ineligible for a federal tax subsidy to offset your skyrocketing premiums due to Obamacare. If you can lower your modified adjusted gross income to less
Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley, Rand Paul called Barack Obama “irresponsible” for scaring the American people with his strident warning about the debt ceiling battle. Crowley asked: Senator Paul, I know you said that you
On Saturday, Barack Obama had the audacity to lambast the GOP and say on his weekly radio address: “Manufacturing crises to extract massive concessions isn’t how our democracy works, and we have to stop it. Politics is a battle of
A woman who was arrested in Skokie, Illinois, for drunk driving and resisting a police officer was shoved into a jail cell by a police officer so forcibly that she struck a concrete bench with her face and shattered the
On Saturday, at a little before 9:30 a.m., citizens determined to break through the “barrycades” around the Lincoln Memorial moved the government barricades aside and proceeded to enter the Memorial. According to Taylor Hemness from KLTV 7: [The protesters] went
On Friday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new law that will allow the state to recognize more than two legal parents for a child. Brown and his office would not reveal why Brown signed the bill after vetoing it
The terrorists of Gaza have been discovered by IDF soldiers to have built a tunnel from Gaza into an Israeli community that would enable them to infiltrate the town with a massive assault and bring back Israelis as hostages. There
Variety Editor in Chief Andrew Wallenstein speculates that the new MSNBC show, Up Late with Alec Baldwin, may be the actor’s way of establishing himself for a future political run. Baldwin has offered the idea before; his most recent gesture in that
Hollywood’s desperate attempt to bolster President Barack Obama has taken on new dimensions; now Obamacare will be featured or supported in upcoming Hollywood products. The USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood Health & Society program has been given $500,000 to
On Friday, “National Coming Out Day,” Los Angeles Unified School District teachers and staff members will be given rainbow “ally” badges to show that they support LGBT students as part of the “Out for Safe Schools” initiative. Supt. John Deasy
A new report issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) asserts that the Obama White House is the most insular in decades, and the worst since the Nixon Administration for its secrecy and lack of transparency. The report was
Sen. John McCain, posing as someone above the fray as Tea Party conservatives and establishment Republicans do battle with each other, had the brazen gall to say that he has learned to “never get personal” in political disputes. He claimed
According to WTSP in Tampa, terrorists are making practice runs on U.S. flights in preparation for an airline terrorist attack. WTSP said a memo it found was from a union that is comprised of pilots working for major airlines, and
A gender studies professor who invited porn actors to his class and was under investigation for bedding down with some of his students has resigned at Pasadena City College (PCC). Hugo Schwyzer, who had taught at PCC since 1993, admitted
The recent surge in Palestinian terror attacks on Israelis continued Thursday night when Palestinian Arab terrorists broke into a home in the Jordan Valley brandishing iron bars and axes. The Arabs savagely beat the husband, who died shortly thereafter, and
Jason Collins, who made news when he became the first openly gay man playing a major American team sport, implied that the reason he has not been signed by any NBA teams might have to do with the fact that he
A new California law signed by Governor Jerry Brown and set to go into effect in January 2014 gives homosexual and unmarried couples the right to have their fertility treatments covered by insurance. Heterosexual married couples were already covered. Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), who
Guess which two states have the worst business tax climate in the country, according to the Tax Foundation’s annual report? They are Andrew Cuomo’s New York and Chris Christie’s New Jersey. New Yorkers better get used to it, as New
California, led by Governor Jerry Brown, is proudly championing abortion with even more expanded access, unlike other states that are now placing restrictions on the procedure. On Wednesday, Brown signed a bill allowing nurse practitioners, midwives, and physician assistants to perform
