Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul may have handily won this weekend's Values Voter Summit straw poll over businessman Herman Cain in Washington DC, but that didn'
Demonstrations inspired by the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest in lower Manhattan were reportedly held in well over a hundred cities and towns across the country over the weekend. Beginning
The feds have once again stumbled into our personal lives in a ham-handed manner that is unlikely to improve our health; instead, it is bound to damage the reputation
As numerous Occupy protests continue in major cities across the country, the Los Angeles City Council has formally indicated its support for the movement's demonstrators by introducing a
Ten years ago this week, the United States invaded Afghanistan with the mission to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda cohorts. We were a nation roused
Stirling Energy Systems (SES) recently filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which further complicates California's big push toward 33% renewable energy by 2020, as two massive solar thermal projects
It is well known that some green programs fail. Solyndra, the Fremont-based solar panel manufacturer forced into bankruptcy last month is one high profile example. Meanwhile, energy efficient transportation
The average age of farmers and ranchers in America is increasing, and rural populations are in decline. This is why the U.S. Department of Agriculture is acting to plant
Wall Street isn't the only place where popular unrest has been fomenting. Here on the West Coast, inmates of the California prison system are protesting their conditions in
Proposition 26 is facing a precedent-setting legal interpretation by the Los Angeles Superior Court as plastic manufacturer Hilex-Poly has filed suit against LA County this week over a
As protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street demonstration continue to spread from coast to coast, record high numbers of Americans say they are very dissatisfied with the way things