During his first trip to Israel, US Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) called for a reduction in foreign aid for Jerusalem, admitting that he was expressing a minority opinion but making a statement with high shock […]
At approximately 9:25 p.m. on Sunday night, December 16, just two days after the horrific shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Jesus Manuel Garcia, age 19, entered the China Garden restaurant across the mall from the Santikos Mayan […]
The senseless and horrific killings last week in Newtown, Connecticut reminded us that a determined individual or group of individuals can cause great harm no matter what laws are in place. Connecticut already has restrictive […]
Employers may be hiring, but there’s another big problem with the job market that isn’t being tracked as closely: the hopelessly unemployed. An often overlooked number calculated by the Labor Department shows millions of Americans […]
The media portrayal of the fiscal cliff standoff (and the debt-ceiling talks from which it sprang) generally portrayed President Barack Obama and the Democrats as pragmatists attempting to negotiate with intransigent Republican ideologues. But as […]
Two Los Angeles police officers are under investigation for allegedly using blackmail and intimidation to force women to have sex with them while on duty. Luis Valenzuela and James Nichols, veteran LAPD officers in the […]
Although the overall U.S. prison population declined slightly in 2011, the federal prison population continued to rise, with rates of drug and immigration offenders that eclipse those held for violent crimes. While only 8 percent of […]
Pushing back against the Republicans’ deficit-reduction strategy, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this weekend that more tax revenues – not just spending cuts – must be a part of Congress’s effort to rein […]
France’s Esther Duflo, a world renowned economist, has been nominated by US President Barack Obama to join a government body dedicated to advising the administration on global development policy. Called the Global Development Council, the […]
Disease-causing bacteria isn’t the only place where humans are fighting a losing battle against rapid evolution: Farmers across the country are increasingly finding it difficult to kill “super weeds” as they become resistant to the […]
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