California looks poised to especially gain from President Obama rsquo s executive order on immigration to be announced in a speech tonight At 2 6 million California has the highest number of undocumented immigrants in the country According to a recent USC study over half of those immigrants hav
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott writes about pop culture at jimmcdermott.substack.
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Walmart: Always Low Salaries? Yep, Still Pretty Much Always.
When you think about Walmart and the deep dark cave of crazy that is Black Friday you can rsquo t help but recall mayhem and violence mdash mobs rushing the store in the middle of the night fighting one another for toys and video game consoles even pulling knives or guns nbsp Over the last ten
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Lost In a Dark Place: Public Radio’s Disturbing “Serial”
Podcast investigates case of Baltimore teen convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1999.
Posted inSigns Of the Times
Of Droughts and Dreams
If you have been paying any attention to California news lately, you’ve heard about the state’s devastating three-year drought: counties worth of farms decimated, whole towns without water and government officials proposing emergency legislation. This year has been thus far the driest ye
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Blowing The Dismount: Last Week Tonight Fudges Its Lottery Story
Lottos do give money to schools. That doesn’t mean they’re worth it.
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Election Los Angeles: A Tale of Two Catholics
Tomorrow the biggest and perhaps most difficult election in Los Angeles is between two Catholic Democrats as Sheila Kuehl 73 vies against Bobby Shriver 60 for the open seat on the L A County Board of Supervisors Both Kuehl and Shriver were raised Roman Catholic though Kuehl having had a Je
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GamerGate: A Story about Video Games that You Need to Know About
It probably would not surprise anyone to hear that one of the biggest stories in the video gaming industry right now involves men not knowing how to properly treat women But what exactly that entails will almost certainly stun you In 2013 a video game developer named Zoe Quinn released a choose-you
Posted inIn All Things
Who Needs Drones When You Have Super Secret Space Planes
Dispatch from Los Angeles
Posted inSigns Of the Times
Christian Groups ‘De-Recognized’
IntraVarsity student says groups should be led members “representative of that religion.”