Bill Walton smoked it. So did Kareem Abdul Jabbar. So although Michigan Wolverines center Mitch McGary’s marijuana enthusiasm may put him in good company among all-time great college big men it doesn’t keep him in good standing with the NCAA.
President Obama wants to expand the executive pardon system, according to a new report from Liz Goodwin of Yahoo News. A senior administration official told Goodwin that the President could grant clemency to “hundreds, perhaps thousands” of non-violent drug criminals.
A prominent black member of Congress and a longtime civil rights leader accused the Clinton White House of racially profiling him when he tried to meet Vice President Al Gore in 1993. As documents the Clinton Library released on Friday
Anaheim has a 75% chance of winning each home against Dallas while Detroit has only a 38% chance at home vs. Boston during the playoffs. Detroit is the only playoff team to allow more goals than they scored (2.7-2.8 average
On Thursday, a committee in the Illinois Legislature approved a plan to spend $100 million in taxpayer funds to help build a presidential library for Barack Obama. While libraries for Bill Clinton and George W Bush were entirely funded by
Outgoing HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will be remembered by most for the insanely botched roll-out of ObamaCare, but her most shameful legacy to those of us who remember it, will always be her disgraceful tenure as Governor of Kansas because
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that the three-year civil war in Syria is “passing through a turning point” following a series of military victories by government forces. “This is a turning point in the crisis, both militarily in terms
President Barack Obama can’t stop the California drought, but he is making it rain–for the Democratic Party. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Obama will return to the Bay Area in early May for two fundraisers–one at the home of Yahoo!
The Ground Zero Zero Mosque, which caused such a stir in 2010 because of its close proximity to the very spot where America was attacked by Islamists on 9/11, is being demolished. And the person demolishing it is the same
Luke Donald’s poor start at the Masters on Thursday got worse after the round when he was told a patron at Augusta national called in a two-stroke penalty on the ninth hole, which he double bogeyed. That turned into a
In their continued silliness, the stealth Citizens for Health (i.e. Citizens for Sugar) is advising that “High Fructose Corn Syrup Named the #1 Ingredient to Avoid for National ‘Read Your Labels Day.’” From their press release: Consumer advocate group Citizens
Several news sources in the Middle East are reporting that the U.S. is set to release convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard in exchange for Israel releasing a final batch of convicted Palestinian terrorists, while freezing settlement construction. Pollard has been
Scientists in the UK are using stem cells to grow human body parts in a lab. The researchers are growing organs such as noses, ears, blood vessels and windpipes in the north London hospital where they work, in the hope
A Moroccan national was arrested on Monday for planning to bomb a U.S. university and federal building. On the basis of multiple conversations recorded by the FBI, it was learned that the man had sought to avoid deportation by means
The American public continues to sour on President Barack Obama’s signature health care overhaul, one littered with premium hikes, policy cancellations, delays and outright fabrications. Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad fame thinks ObamaCare is the highlight of the president’s legacy.
Yahoo/Microsoft Enter Streaming TV Biz Everybody knows television as we know it is as dead, and this includes evil bundled cable television. Time for smart players to get in on the ground floor of Streaming while there still is one.
Despite the fact that Chick-fil-A closes on Sundays, despite that the chain has fewer stores, and despite the major attack on its businesses by left-wing activists, Chick-fil-A has surpassed Kentucky Fried Chicken as the nation’s leader for fast food chicken.
As promised in his New York Times column, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has established a “Human Rights Council” responsible for assessing incidents of violent repression of unarmed protesters since the current wave of protests began in February. The committee will be
The stock price of UnitedHealth Group Inc., America’s largest health care company, is up +263% since Obamacare was signed into law just over four years ago on March 23, 2010. Over the ten year period prior to Obamacare, UnitedHealth stock
In part one of this series, we noted that Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is reaching epidemic proportions, and yet the political class seems to have little to say about it. In part two, we noted the past success of two Republican presidents, Theodore Roosevelt
Students at Whittier College don’t need Obamacare to obtain contraceptives. They can get them for free, now that the prestigious college has installed the highest number of condom dispensers (15) of any college campus. The liberal arts college of roughly 1,700
The wealthiest Congressional districts are almost completely monopolized by the Democratic Party, according to a report by the Associated Press. Eight of the ten districts with the highest average incomes are represented by a Democrat, raising questions about the Democratic
The Mets opened the season at Citi Field today against the Washington Nationals. Snow opened the day in New York City. Is freezing anyway to play America’s pastime? Thankfully, the only white sticking on the Queens field was the tarp
Green ideologues working for the British government helped “sex up” the latest Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) report in order to make its conclusions sound more scary than the evidence warrants, it emerged today. The draft version of the
During one week in March, Mexican authorities discovered over 370 children abandoned by individuals attempting to illegally enter the United States. According to a foreign wire report, 163 of the recovered minors were “dumped” because they were not traveling with an adult
