Often as capricious as it is coveted, the Oscar remains the most prized statue of Hollywood’s seemingly endless awards’ season. And while pitting one film or performance against another is like comparing Milk Duds to mushrooms, that hasn’t stopped cinematic pundits from making our annual best guesses on who will score Oscar gold, and who [...]
The United States national debt has passed $14 trillion. For each dollar spend by the federal government 40 cents is borrowed. So technically, the US is already bankrupt because it has a debt that is almost four times the size of its economy. Lawmakers in Congress are saying that their major priority is to tackle [...]
We all saw the headlines after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010: the deaths, the destruction…then the looting. Images from CNN and other news networks trickled in to show desperate Haitians looking for food, water, and other things in the rubble. Then, mobs began to break into buildings which provoked US Forces [...]
Since the 1980s the problem of homelessness in most American cities has been chronic. After 30 years of Reaganomics, countless cuts in: mental health care, drug rehabilitation programs, assistance for former convicts and a lack of funding for decent public education in inner-cities, the homelessness problem has exploded to become a true epidemic. It is [...]
A superior court judge issued a ruling Friday stopping Los Angeles from enforcing a moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries. Superior Court Judge Anthony Mohr ruled that the city’s deadline was “arbitrary and capricious” because the registration requirement expired in 2007.
