Legalization marijuana is gaining in favorability, with landmark House legislation Friday blocking the DEA from targeting medical marijuana. Screen capture via Gallup, via Vox.com "FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS WILL NO LONGER BE WASTED ARRESTING SERIOUSLY ILL MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENTS AND THOSE WHO PROVIDE TO THEM" [Vox.com] IN A landmark vote, the House moved to [...]
Steve Ballmer drops $2 million on Clippers bid, ending an NBA ordeal that will go down in sports history. Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has won a frenetic bidding war for ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, with a $2-billion offer that would set a record price for an NBA team. Ballmer [...]
Brian Williams talks to Edward Snowden. IN AN extraordinary exclusive interview with Brian Williams of NBC News, Edward Snowden made his case to the American public and the world watching, laying out his reasoning for what he did in a methodical manner. Whether minds are changed is unknown, but Edward Snowden clearly wanted [...]
President Petro Poroshenko's impressive victory proves Putin is wrong about Ukraine. WITH RIGHTWARD nationalistic voting patterns, Le Pen in France, and the EU elections aftermath, as AA Birch has written, the one bright spot remains Ukraine, which resisted such lurches. Petro Poroshenko's strong victory for president sends a message to Russia's Vladimir Putin [...]
At West Point, Pres. Obama announces engagement in Syria, "additional resources," to aid neighboring countries against Assad's war crimes against his own people. Here's my bottom line: America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, [...]
Elliot Rodger was a homicidal megalomaniac, a creature of the manosphere, whose mental illness was only one part of the problem. Game may not have led Rodger to find his dream girl and live happily ever after, but it would have given enough results to stop him from killing six innocent individuals and [...]