12Th Annual Native American Film Festival Begins
The Agua Caliente Cultural Museum presents its 12th Annual Native American Film Festival on February 27, 2013 and will screen the first of fifteen films to be screened at the Festival Host theatre, the Camelot Theatres of Palm Springs. All of the films have a direct connection to Native American or Indigenous people and their [...]
John Kerry: ‘In America you have a right to be stupid’
US Secretary of State John Kerry advocated First Amendment-protected freedoms during an address in Berlin on Tuesday, and said that thanks to the US Constitution, “you have a right to be stupid if you want to be” in America. Kerry, a long-time Democratic senator from Massachusetts and former presidential hopeful, was speaking to a group [...]
Dick Morris Out at Fox, Visits CNN
With news breaking Tuesday that long-time Fox News analyst Dick Morris has not had his contract renewed by the cable network, all eyes are turning to Morris’ upcoming appearance on CNN Wednesday night. Morris is slated to join CNN’s Piers Morgan for his 9 p.m. (EST) show to discuss his mysterious disappearance from Fox since [...]
Iranian Oops: US may have broken own sanctions by buying Tehran’s oil
There is a high probability that US sanctions against Iran have been violated by its own army. Part of the $1.55 billion in fuel the US bought from Turkmenistan for the Afghan army in the last five years may have originated in Iran. A report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) suggested [...]
Ed Koch, Symbol of New York, Passes
Edward I. Koch, the outspoken three-term New York mayor who led the biggest U.S. city from the brink of bankruptcy in the late 1970s and boosted the spirits of crime-weary residents, has died. He was 88. As mayor and after leaving office, Koch became one of the nation’s most influential Democrats, advocating for issues he [...]
Texas might encourage violating Obamacare with tax breaks
A Texas legislator introduced a state bill that would provide tax breaks to companies who intentionally violate Obama’s health care act by refusing to cover emergency contraception. The tax break would be the same amount as the federal fine that companies are required to pay for violating the Affordable Health Care Act, or the total [...]
Senators release blueprint for Obama’s immigration reform
A group of bipartisan senators is on Monday announcing an immigration reform plan that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants while also tightening border security. Eight lawmakers – four of which are Democrats and four of which are Republicans – worked together on this legislation, which addresses issues they have [...]
Thousands march for gun control in Washington
Amid growing national debate over gun violence, thousands of people marched in Washington on Saturday to press Congress and state legislators to back gun control measures. The marchers were joined by some 100 residents of Newtown, Connecticut, where a mass elementary school shooting left 20 first-graders and six teachers dead. People in the crowd were [...]
Homeland Security’s Napolitano invokes 9/11 to push for CISPA 2.0
In an attempt to scare the public with a looming cyber attack on US infrastructure, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is once again pushing Congress to pass legislation allowing the government to have greater control over the Internet. Napolitano issued the warnings Thursday, claiming that inaction could result in a “cyber 9/11” attack that could [...]
Senators give Big Pharma huge present at taxpayers’ expense
The bill that averted the fiscal cliff included a largely unnoticed section that granted world’s largest biotechnology firm a two-year delay in regulations of its drugs – even though the firm has just pleaded guilty in a federal fraud case. The bill, H.R. 8, was passed with a paragraph that lawmakers included to give the [...]