Give Irvine Families Patience to Heal
Editor’s Note: I met Michael Ghaemi about 18 months ago while helping an Irvine Persian-American Community with community outreach for several public service efforts to […]
Month: May 2013
Memorial Day Tragedy in Irvine; Will IUSD Step Up for the Kids & Teachers?
Five Irvine kids were killed following a horrific car crash in Newport Beach over Labor Day weekend. If you want more details on the accident […]
Michele Bachmann will quit in 2014
After a failed run for the Presidency in 2012, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann continued to push her extremist agenda on the American public with reckless abandon. From my perspective she was the last TEA-Party extremist I would have expected to leave congress. I was wrong.
Environmentalist Author Bill McKibben Comes to Orange County June 19th
Bill McKibben, the author of more than a dozen books on the environment and the first journalist to publish a book about climate change for […]
Boys Scouts change policy to allow Gay scouts; Ban on Gay scout leaders still in place
The Boy Scouts of America will now permit openly gay scouts into their organization due to a new change on policy passed today by BSA, […]
Do disgraced politicians really deserve a second chance?
Anthony Weiner, the former Congressman from New York, announced yesterday that he is planning on running for Mayor of New York City. Does the former Congressman deserve a second chance?
The IRS Should Investigate Tea Party Groups on Non-Profit Applications
As Republicans continue to gin up the IRS “scandal” of targeting Tea Party groups for claiming non-profit status on their taxes, some interesting omissions from […]
Time to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage
In his 2013 State of the Union address President Obama’s called on Congress to raise the minimum wage. Subsequently Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Representative George Miller (D-CA) introduced the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013. It would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.
They did it again?! House votes to repeal Obamacare
The economy still needs work, and unemployment rates are still too high, but the Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives prefer to dig up their tired desire to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) for the 37th time.