A senior official on the Australian team searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 believes most of the promising “pings” discovered in recent weeks may not be related to the missing plane’s black boxes. Australian naval Commander James Lybrand says
Economic inequality has emerged as the central political challenge of the 21st Century. Left wing academics and politicians are quick with quack remedies–higher taxes on the wealthy that will only send more investment abroad and smother growth. For most Americans,
According to the Los Angeles Times, State Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) has introduced a bill to make it easier for illegal immigrants in California to obtain professional licensing designations, including a license to practice medicine. The Times reports that
From Ayaan Hirsi Ali at The Wall Street Journal: Since the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria last month, the meaning of Boko Haram–the name used by the terrorist group that seized the girls–has become more widely known. The translation
Luke Skywalker to Narrate ‘Go Far: The Christopher Rush Story’ My brother, Zack Arnold, wrote, directed, and produced a documentary about his friend Christopher Rush, a young man who died of muscular dystrophy in 2007 at age 30. It is
On Sunday, Politico reported that Oregon, Nevada, Maryland, and Massachusetts have thus far spent $474,000,000 in taxpayer dollars on busted Obamacare exchanges. “Nearly half a billion dollars in federal money has been spent developing four state Obamacare exchanges that are
The Department of Veterans Affairs still issues a monthly pension payment to 84-year-old Irene Triplett, for her father’s service in the Union Army during the Civil War. Triplett is “the last child of any Civil War veteran still on the
An influential Chinese journalist has been locked up on charges of leaking state secrets. Gao Yu, who was also imprisoned for over six years following the 1989 Tiananmen square protests, has been thrown in jail again stemming from reports from
On Thursday, Governor Brown and legislative leaders of both parties announced that an agreement had been reached to place a “Rainy Day Fund” measure on this November’s ballot. As described by the Wall Street Journal, “The deal announced Thursday would increase
The California Senate Education Committee voted last week to put a proposition on the November 2016 ballot that would reinstate bilingual education to the state by repealing Prop. 227, which had largely eliminated bilingual education in California. Ron Unz, who
Total hedge fund assets surged to set a record of $2.7 trillion in the first quarter of 2014, as investors allocated $26.3 billion of new capital to the industry, the most since the second quarter of 2011. If the trend
A lot of people freaked out over my “Blazing Saddles” review because I dared to point to the cold naked fact that someday the Left will ban the film. If past is prologue, that is a perfectly safe assumption. If
The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, is consistently ranked among the richest men in the world. When he last visited Los Angeles in December 2011, police halted traffic on the 405 freeway–normally one of the busiest roads in the U.S.–during
The Philippines has triggered another territorial dispute with China after arresting eleven Chinese fishermen on charges of illegally catching endangered sea turtles and illegally crossing territorial waters into the Philippines. They continue being held over protest from the Chinese government.
Unless Congress acts soon, a federal moratorium on taxing internet access will expire before the end of the year, allowing states and localities to tax consumers online access. The ban, the Internet Tax Freedom Act, was passed in 1998, during
A man was arrested in Colombia for intercepting pivotal correspondence between the terror group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Colombian government in an alleged attempt to sabotage peace talks and sell information on the black market. According to
New York shelters are seeing more children sleeping in them than ever, a new report says. “More than 23,000 children sleep in homeless shelters every night, an all-time high, according to the Coalition for the Homeless,” said a new report
Russian President Vladimir Putin is continuing his war on freedom in Russia. First he shut down independent media outlets, passed a law banning “gay propaganda,” and now there is a ban on profanity in the arts. The law does not
A new law in Russia imposes fines as heavy as 100,000 rubles on individuals and corporations who attempt to distribute works of art that include profanity. The move, which includes all forms of art from theater to recorded music, is
On November 4, 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama said, “Change has come to America.” That change is most evident today in voters’ opinion of the benefits of United States world involvement. The newest Wall Street Journal/NBC surveys “portray a public weary of
The FBI is investigating the busted Oregon Obamacare exchange which received $305 million in taxpayer-funded federal grants yet failed to enroll a single Oregonian online. The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI investigation has already begun conducting interviews with
One of the critical policies of the highly successful school choice movement in America is the creation of charter schools, which are publicly financed but privately run. Dr. Robert H. Nelson, a senior fellow with The Independent Institute in Oakland,
AT&T Bids to Become as Big as Comcast/Time Warner Cable Should the government approve the merger between Comcast and Time-Warner (and after Comcast spent billions buying Democrats, that’s likely to happen), that would give Comcast close to 30 million pay
Americans no longer trust President Obama’s “lackadaisical” approach to foreign policy and would rather the United States diminish its presence in global affairs, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Forty-seven percent of Americans responded to the poll
Twitter shares dropped approximately $4–close to 10%–following the release of their first quarter earnings Tuesday, according to CNBC. The company’s reported revenue of $241.5 million did not seem to be enough, according to Techcrunch.com, as despite the company’s rapidly-expanding earnings, investors are concerned that
Amid consistently poor polling numbers and key policy positions often indistinguishable from her Republican counterpart, the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) withheld State Senator Wendy Davis from its targeted race list for 2014. Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin dashed hopes by reminding
The Obama Administration’s decision to relinquish American oversight of Internet domains looks worse and worse with every new development. At this point, the burden of argument is no longer on critics. Supporters of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
Kevin Roose of New York magazine says that an ongoing class-action lawsuit on behalf of highly compensated tech employees at Silicon Valley’s leading firms has exposed the “caste” system in the industry: “There are the executives, who talk (and defer) to
On Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry told the Trilateral Commission that Israel would turn into “an apartheid state” unless it made concessions to the Palestinians – the same Palestinians who just signed a peace deal between the Palestinian Authority
Gunmen believed to be affiliated with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) attempted to stop and kidnap two German diplomats in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday. The gunmen opened fire when the Germans’ car refused to stop, and one diplomat was
A tax break for property owned by companies working on space flight has been passed by the State Senate and Assembly and is now headed for the desk of Governor Jerry Brown. The new tax break, known as AB-777, was
California’s “jungle primary” system, in which all candidates compete in a common primary, continues to befuddle the two major political parties. Just as in the 33rd congressional district, where a crowded field and strong campaigns by Republican and independent candidates
Impact on Millennials: The Tragedy of My Generation POTUS 42 accurately diagnosed the inevitable eulogy of Obamacare: “This only works, for example, if young people show up… We’ve got to have them in the pools, because otherwise all these projected
My father called me from LAX on Wednesday, on his way back home to Chicago after the holidays. Had I seen the Los Angeles Times yet? “There’s a story there about a doctor at UCLA. A whistleblower. They had to pay him
San Diego voters may have the opportunity to vote this November on whether to raise the minimum wage to $13.09 per hour. City Council President Todd Gloria (right, above), the highest-ranking Democrat in San Diego, released a proposal this week
Breitbart News and others have chronicled the “Unmatched failure” that Cover Oregon has now officially become. As was pointed out on March 20 of this year, “The Oregon Obamacare exchange has received $305 million in taxpayer-funded federal grants, spent $160
There are many ideas and proposals packed under the rubric of “Net Neutrality,” but the core principle amounts to rent control on the Internet: all web traffic must be treated equally. In its undiluted, absolute form, this idea would work
It’s California’s latest spending rush–and this time it involves carbon. For years, the Wall Street Journal has been reporting that cap and trade’s real purpose was to create another revenue stream for politicians while dodging accountability for raising taxes. Now Senate President Darrel Steinberg is
As the 2014 gubernatorial races heat up, Republican candidates across the country are beginning to launch Spanish language ads touting their business experience and courting the Latino community with stories that emphasize the hard work that brought them to their
A leaked memo from the country’s top intelligence director informs the government’s intel employees that they are forbidden to talk to the media, a new report claims. Still stung by the intelligence leaks made public by Edward Snowden, the memo
