California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill into law that redefines marriage and replaces the terms ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ with the generic term ‘spouse.’ SB 1306 will take effect on January 1, 2015 and removes limits on recognizing same-sex marriages performed out-of-state. “Under existing law, a reference to ‘husband’ and ‘wife,’ ‘spouses,’ or ‘married…

The push to split up California into six different states may have taken a step forward. Supporters of the “Fix it in Six” initiative say they turned in 1.3 million signatures to the California Secretary of State’s Office. They need a little more than 800,000 signatures to get this idea on the 2016 ballot. Getting…

Since Operation Protective Edge began a week ago, anti-Israel demonstrations and anti-Semitic incidents have taken place around the world as far apart as The Hague, Hong Kong and Mexico City, where some protesters were seen carrying signs with swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans. In Los Angeles, a federal officer fired his weapon Sunday during a pro-Israel…

Across the west, the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service oversee 13.3 million AUMs (Animal Unit Months) on 250 million acres of public land. A month of grazing one cow/calf combination or five sheep costs $1.35 – a fee well below the present-day cost of $16 to $20 per month to graze livestock…

Shane Miller is a former Humboldt County man wanted in the death of his wife and two young daughters in Shingletown, California. He is featured on the new CNN show ‘The Hunt,’ with John Walsh, airing Sunday at 9 p.m. Authorities say Miller shot his wife and daughters multiple times before grabbing the family dog and…

DiFranco glared at that yellow truck, crawling down the road like death on wheels, like the kind of bad omen you don’t shake off. It wasn’t even past five in the goddamn morning, and already he was on edge, sweating his balls off at Post Six. Beirut. Fucking Beirut. What kind of sick joke was…

After gaining nearly 30 pounds over the last dozen years, I’ve been working on losing weight. So far I’ve lost nearly five pounds in about a two-week period. A friend of mine, who knows how I’ve been struggling sent me a joke as a way of encouragement. Allow me to share it: A guy calls…

Vowing to “do something” about the Supreme Court’s recent Hobby Lobby ruling, Senator Harry Reid, who continues to work under a cloud of ethics charges, renewed Democrats’ plans to undermine the high court’s decision by attacking the “five white men” who voted in favor of the Christian, family owned business. “The one thing we are…

Nevada’s Democratic Congressional Representative’s Steven Horsford and Dina Titus are co-sponsoring a bill that claims to protect women’s health in response to last week’s Supreme Court “Hobby Lobby” decision. Obviously, they’re picking up their cue from Senator Harry Reid, also of Nevada. “This Hobby Lobby decision is outrageous and we are going to do something…

In an Associated Press-CNBC poll, released in April 2010, only 33 percent of those questioned favored legalization of marijuana while 55 percent opposed it. People under 30 were the only age group favoring legalization, with 54 percent and opposition increased with age, topping out at 73 percent of those 65 and older. Opposition was also…