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Amendment 64 Passes: Colorado Legalizes Marijuana For Recreational Use
By Matt Ferner The Rocky Mountain High just got a whole lot higher. On Tuesday night, Amendment 64 — the measure seeking the legalization of marijuana for recreational use by adults — was passed by Colorado voters, making Colorado the first… Read More ›
How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement
By Libby Anne The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the pro-life movement. Five years later… Read More ›
Romney Refuses To Comment On Plans To Eliminate FEMA, 14 Times
Hurricane Sandy is not turning into a political windfall for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Not only did Romney’s buddy New Jersey Governor Chris Christie go and call President Obama a “great leader” for his storm response but now some… Read More ›
Is Housing About to Tank?
You Call It Recovery, I Call It Bollocks by MIKE WHITNEY Well, what do you know; mortgage applications have fallen off a cliff. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) loan applications decreased by 12 percent on a seasonally adjusted… Read More ›
US Homelessness: 1.6 Million Children Are Homeless, Up by 38 Percent Since 2007
By Gilbert Mercier NEWS JUNKIE POST According to a report released today by the National Center on Homelessness, more than 1.6 million children are currently homeless in America. This amounts to one child in 45. It represents a dramatic increase… Read More ›
One million more Americans sign up for food stamps in only a year
The number of Americans going to the government for assistance has once again hit a new high. More than 46 million Americans are now enrolled in the federal welfare food stamps system, more than double the amount from only a… Read More ›
Walmart Black Friday Strike: Workers Threaten To ‘Take Action’ On Retailer’s Busiest Day
By Harry Bradford Employees at 28 Walmarts in 12 different cities walked out of work Tuesday, but things may get a whole lot worse for the biggest retailer in the U.S. come Black Friday. United Food and Commercial Workers’ Making… Read More ›
Why Does the Left Want Prostitution to be ‘a Job Like Any Other’?
The go-to perspective on prostitution from many progressives in Canada these days seems to be a fairly hard and fast vote for decriminalization or legalization. Even many of our beloved East Vancouver lefties seem convinced that the most progressive position… Read More ›
Phoenix Mayor Attempts To Live On A Food Stamp Budget: ‘I’m Tired, And It’s Hard To Focus’
By Travis Waldron When local activist groups challenged Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to live on a food stamp budget for a week to mark Hunger Awareness Month, he took them up on the offer and found out just how hard… Read More ›
Google Is Now Offering Loans to Small Businesses; Yup. They Want to Be A Bank Too
Google is going to take over the world. They are now offering loans up to $10k to businesses that want to invest in their Adwords program; they’re going to launch in the UK first and then branch out in a… Read More ›
Study: 41% Of Americans Have Been Arrested By The Time They’re 23
“Those are alarmingly high numbers. There are social, economic, educational and family risks associated with arrests. And we all have to be worried about that.” ~Dr. Eugene Beresin, a child psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor at Harvard Medical… Read More ›
Walmart’s First-Ever Retail Worker Strike Spreads To 12 Cities [UPDATE]
by Alice Hines The first retail worker strike against Walmart has spread from Los Angeles, where it began last week, to stores in a dozen cities, a union official said Tuesday. Walmart workers walked off the job in Dallas, Seattle,… Read More ›
Wal-Mart Strike: Dozens Of LA Workers Walk Off The Job In First-Ever Strike Against Retailer (PHOTOS)
by Kathleen Miles For the first time in Walmart’s 50-year history, workers at multiple stores have gone on strike, even though their jobs are not protected by a labor union. More than 70 Los Angeles Walmart workers from nine stores… Read More ›
Land sold off and used for biofuels could have fed 1 billion people – report
2 million kilometers of foreign purchased land in developing countries is either idle or used for Western biofuel production, according to a British charity. Oxfam’s report estimates an area the size of London is sold every six days. The report… Read More ›
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