It has been nearly 20 years since California passed Proposition 215, the landmark bill that created the nation’s first medical marijuana market. Since that time, 22 states and the District of Columbia have joined California in putting medical marijuana laws
Despite opposition by parents and teachers to the Pearson Education Corporation’s Common Core curriculum, conflicts of interest may explain why the Los Angeles School District administrators have been so adamant to implement the standards. Since release of a devastating conflicts
Rap mogul Suge Knight got shot several times last night while attending a pre-party for today’s MTV VMAs, according to TMZ. Knight was one of three people struck by bullets during a melee at the 10AK nightclub in West Hollywood.
President Barack Obama may be unpopular, but members of his inner circle of advisers are finding themselves in high demand for big money consulting gigs with crony capitalist companies like Uber and Apple, reports The Hill. This week, top Obama
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) is making a valiant effort to raise campaign dinero for her political party’s liberal causes, all at the expense of those mean and nasty Koch brothers. Wasserman Schultz and her colleague over on the Senate
A tech savvy accomplished entrepreneur with one foot in the Tea Party and the other in the so called GOP establishment, having run Newt Gingrich’s New Hampshire campaign in 2012, Andrew Hemingway is making noise in NH’s Republican gubernatorial primary –
A mother has claimed that a nursery banned her five-year-old daughter from eating a chicken sandwich because it was not halal. The Daily Mail reports that the allegation has caused a row, with the nursery now under investigation by school
Reports were swirling around the Internet today about a University of Florida student named Pedro Bravo – dubbed an “idiot killer” by website BGR – asking Siri, the voice-response program of the iPhone, for assistance with disposing of a corpse.
A mother was so humiliated by her son’s allegedly burglarizing a person’s car in Apple Valley, that she posted an apology for his actions on her Facebook page. Breaking down in tears when she was made aware of her son’s
According to the Associated Press, the GOP-controlled Florida Legislature has approved new congressional maps that were ordered to be redrawn by Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis, who ruled that the “current” congressional districts were “illegally drawn to benefit the GOP.” The not-so-bipartisan
The once hardcore “Conservative Republican” and staunch supporter of the National Rifle Association, Democrat Charlie Crist, has just received a “D” rating from the national gun rights organization that once gave him their full-throated endorsement. While Crist was a Republican, and being
The stunning August 8th rejection by federal court Judge Lucy Koh of a $400 million settlement of claims against Apple, Google, Adobe and Intel Corporations for conspiring to hold down employee wages sent shudders through corporations in Silicon Valley and across
The New York Times reports that Judge Lucy H. Koh of the United States District Court in San Jose rejected a proposed settlement in a class action suit against Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe, saying that it wasn’t enough to
BEIJING, Aug. 7 (UPI) — Apple Inc. products were removed from a list of Chinese government procurement lists, as accusations between China and the United States over cyber-espionage continue. Despite Apple’s sales growth throughout Asia, ten products of the California-based
What happens when we combine political correctness, an open-borders mentality, governmental incompetence, and the Ebola virus? We’re about to find out. On Wednesday’s broadcast of NBC Nightly News, anchorman Brian Williams said of Ebola, “The outbreak is now officially out
Apple will be holding a media event on Tuesday, September 9th to unveil its iPhone 6, according to reports today in the Wall Street Journal and tech news site Re/code. The company releases a new phone each year, and the company
MCALLEN, Texas – Federal agents have been looking into the connections that led to four grenades and high caliber weapons being found in a Rio Grande City home where three men were shot early Sunday morning. Starr County Sheriff’s investigators
Experts, insurers, and hospitals still don’t have enough data to say if Obamacare is going to be good for the country, but two things seem certain thus far: hospital chains and insurers are raking in the dough while patients are
SAN DIEGO, July 28 (UPI)–Freddie Prinze Jr. is not a fan of Kiefer Sutherland. The 38-year-old actor detailed his relationship with his 47-year-old former co-star to ABC News over the weekend. Prinze Jr. starred alongside Sutherland in 24 episodes of
A male nurse who fantasised about killing and eating a teenage girl has been convicted for sexual grooming. Dale Bolinger, 58, from south east England, bought an axe the day before he planned to meet his intended victim. The BBC
Charlie Crist Republican Richard DeNapoli has really stepped in it this time. The former Democrat and Broward County GOP boss lied to Broward Republican voters in 2010 when he stated in a letter that he had served in the United
Tel Aviv, Israel– Two IDF soldiers, Major Amotz Greenberg and Sgt. Adar Barsano, were killed after Hamas jihadis emerged from a tunnel in Israeli territory and fired on their patrol unit. Three IDF soldiers have been killed since the Israeli
Democrat Congressional candidate Gwen Graham is not saying much these days about her endorsement by the pro-abortion organization Emily’s List, nor is she saying anything much of anything about the controversial and divisive abortion issue. Graham calls herself a “moderate”
Although I panned “Tammy,” my review did open with the line, “Like Lou Costello, Groucho Marx, and Jack Benny, Melissa McCarthy can’t not be funny.” Some commenters took issue with that comparison, but it was sincere. Whether you like Melissa
There’s actually a smartphone app for tracking terrorist rocket attacks on Israel. Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) was meeting with the Israeli ambassador on Friday when the Ambassador’s phone started popping off with red alert messages, prompting the Congressman to install
