In California, which is one of the epicenters of the foreclosure epidemic with Nevada, Arizona and Florida, an activist group is organizing struggling homeowners in their desperate fight to keep a roof above their heads. The Alliance of Californians For Community Empowerment has just launched two days ago the Home Defenders League. The goal of [...]
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans,” John Lennon once famously said. Sadly for the music icon’s family and legions of fans, his prolific, celebrated life was tragically cut short by the plans of a madman on the New York City streets he had so dearly loved. But as the world gets [...]
In the wake of what seems to be a bullying epidemic, with many of the most serious incidents involving gay teens, gay activist/columnist Dan Savage launched the “It Gets Better” campaign on You Tube, featuring candid experiences from well known gay personalities including Wanda Sykes, Ellen DeGeneres and Neil Patrick Harris. This courageous confession and [...]
According to a commission appointed by the Obama administration, the White House blocked efforts by independent scientists to give an accurate estimate on how bad the oil spill really was in terms of the amount of oil released in the Gulf of Mexico, and on how much of the oil is actually “gone”. In a [...]
So inflating experience, distorting education and padding resumes runs in Christine O’Donnell’s family. After spending a few days both bragging about–and later down- playing her dad’s gig as Philadelphia’s official Bozo the Clown–it turns out daddy only dabbled as Bozo. Yep, Daniel O’Donnell, Sr, it seems, was merely a fill-in Bozo, fulfilling all those coveted [...]
