Total Destruction of the U.S.: An Interview with Larry Grathwohl If your church’s new pastor had a long and well-known history of atheism, contradicting church doctrine, or fire-bombing churches, would you trust him to serve the church community in good faith, and to do everything in his power to uphold the church’s principles and practices?
Does Brown Really Think California’s Economy is ‘Successful’? Jerry Brown is telling the world California is in a recovery, the budget is balanced and we will even have a surplus. Conveniently, he forgets the $90 billion in debt/deficit that is owed, money stolen from Trust Funds, borrowed from Wall Street and the Feds.
Obama: “Problem Is That I’m the President of the United States” Most news organizations are focusing on the end of a quote President Obama recently unleashed in a Google hangout…
U.S. Security Company Tracks Hacking To Chinese Army Unit Cyberattacks on dozens of American companies have been traced to an area on the outskirts of Shanghai that houses a Chinese military unit, according to a report out Tuesday by Mandiant, a U.S. cybersecurity company.
Has Dark Matter Finally Been Found? Big news in the search for dark matter may be coming in about two weeks, the leader of a space-based particle physics experiment said Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Beer Map: Two Giant Brewers, 210 Brands In the past decade, a few big beer companies went on a buying spree, spending some $195 billion to buy up brewers around the world, according to Bloomberg.
More Than 100,000 Rally to Protect Marriage in Puerto Rico Between 120,000 and 200,000 people blanketed the Capitol Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, today to encourage the island’s lawmakers to defend marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
DHS Supplier Provides Shooting Targets of American Gun Owners Company produces cardboard cut-outs of “non-traditional threats”: Pregnant women, elderly & children.
Church in Mexico Has ‘Traffic Signal’ to Tell Worshippers If It’s Safe to Leave Red means, STOP. A church in Mexico has installed a ‘traffic signal’ inside the place of worship in an attempt to keep parishioners safe from the constant violence outside its walls.
The United States, from 1970 to 2005, Increased its Prison Population by about 700 Percent Obey, 40, a Guatemalan and the single mother of a 12-year-old and a 6-year-old, was picked up in an immigration raid as she and nine other undocumented workers walked out of an office building they cleaned in Newark, N.J. Her two children instantly lost their only parent.
Elected Officials Flunk Constitution Quiz When the Republican House leadership decided to start the 112th Congress with a reading of the U.S. Constitution, the decision raised complaints in some quarters that it was little more than a political stunt.
Coal Plants Are Victims of Their Own Economics During the presidential campaign last fall, a single message was repeated endlessly in Appalachian coal country: President Barack Obama and his Environmental Protection Agency, critics said, had declared a “war on coal” that was shuttering U.S. coal-fired power plants and putting coal miners out of work.
Pelosi: Congressional Pay Cut Undermines Dignity of the Job House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she opposes a cut in congressional pay because it would diminish the dignity of lawmakers’ jobs.
Facebook Says Employee Laptops Compromised in ‘Sophisticated’ Attack Laptops belonging to several Facebook employees were compromised recently and infected with malware that the company said was installed through the use of a Java zero-day exploit that bypassed the software’s sandbox.
Human Skull, Bones Found on Altar in Backyard of LA Woman’s Home Los Angeles County Coroner’s officials on Sunday were examining a human skull and bones found at a burned makeshift backyard altar at the home of a woman who police said practices Santería.
Facebook Paid No Income Tax Last Year While most of the country is getting hit with higher taxes, the social media giant got a pass-and even got $429 million in refunds.
New Whale Species Unearthed in California Highway Dig Chalk yet another fossil find up to roadcut science. Thanks to a highway-widening project in California’s Laguna Canyon, scientists have identified several new species of early toothed baleen whales.
Congressional Staffers Often Travel on Tabs of Foreign Governments About a dozen congressional staffers flew business class on a trip to China last summer and stayed at luxury hotels while touring the Great Wall and the Forbidden City and receiving a “briefing on ancient artifacts and dynasties” at the Shanghai Museum.
Time Warner Continues to Shrink, May Sell Off Most of Its Magazines With the February 14 announcement that Time Warner (TW) is selling most of its print magazines to little-known Midwest publisher Meredith Corporation, the media giant continues its great shrinking act which dates back to 2001.
Washington State Senators Seek to Criminalize Gun Ownership Not content to wait on their federal counterparts to all but outlaw personal gun ownership, state senators in Washington state have proposed a bill that would make even Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) proud.
NH House Voting on Free Ski Passes for Lawmakers New Hampshire’s House is voting this week whether lawmakers should get free ski passes for Cannon Mountain.
DHS Advances Plan For “Public Safety” Drones The Department of Homeland Security is advancing its plan to use surveillance drones for “public safety” applications, announcing last week that it had received a deluge of “excellent” responses from potential vendors and was set to carry out more tests of the technology.
32 Days of Higher Gas Prices Comes at Tough Time Gas prices have risen for 32 days straight, according to AAA.
Obama Signs Cybersecurity Executive Order President Obama bypassed the Congress on Tuesday and signed the much maligned but anticipated cybersecurity executive order.
