And the “Porker of the Month” goes to…Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii).
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Senator DanielInouye (D-Hawaii) Porker of the Month for adding $40 million in porkto the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief (H.R. 1268).
Among the bacon the senator is sending home at […]

It would be hard to miss the media hype surrounding Apple’s release today of its latest version of the Macintosh operating system, OS X “Tiger” (aka 10.4). But online / catalog retailer TigerDirect was apparently surprised, waiting until yesterday to allege trademark infringement.
Shakedown? Or legitimate complaint? In a near-first for Independent Sources, we accidentally did […]

Hello, I was sitting down to do a posting on a new support group for liberal activists and couldn’t decide how I wanted to write it. There was so much humor and irony in the original story that I felt anything more than a straight reporting of it would be overkill. However it was so […]

The LA Times reports that “momentum is growing to provide alternatives to California’s controversial high school exit exam.”
This is a test that provides students six chances, starting in their sophomore year, to prove that they can meet standards expected of sixth to eighth graders in math and tenth graders in English.
To pass, a test assistance […]

Beautiful blogger Michelle Malkin has taken the time to put up Windows Media files and transcripts of loony professor Ward Churchill’s August 2003 Seattle speech before a crowd of moonbats and advised them on how to conduct acts of terrorism. Churchill’s voice is unmistakable on these tapes, obtained and released by a Denver radio station.
Check […]

The trial of Scott Peterson for the murders of his wife Laci and their unborn child Conner is a classic example of a prosecution based almost solely on circumstantial evidence, rather than direct evidence. Circumstantial evidence is evidence which may allow a judge or jury to deduce a certain fact from other facts which can […]

The LA Times supports Area Man’s post below with an article today on King/Drew Medical Magnet High School, which despite its Watts location, sends students to UCLA, Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Cornell, and other UC campuses:
“It demands that students take the rigorous courses meeting UC and Cal State system requirements. That means, among […]

As a liberal how do you respond to the following conundrum?
indigenous people’s ways of life are to be respected as these customs are beautiful and it is cultural imperialism to judge them through our Western eyes or mores.
I don’t think any living liberal would debate the above so what does one do when one reads […]

One of the silliest statements I have read in a long time regarding education (excluding anything involving Colorado nut case Ward Churchill) surfaced regarding a discussion of why certain school districts fail to offer sufficient college prepatory courses to high school students.
As reported in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times, a director of the National Research Center […]

While diligently plugging away at our day job, we came across this great 2004 article from SF Weekly about Al Gore’s new cable channel, INdTV. You may already be an investor!
“… a big chunk of the funding for INdTV is being supplied, at least indirectly, by ordinary Californians who probably have no idea that they […]

NYT Columnist John Tierney visits a college friend of his who’s now an economist in Chile, and compares national pension system (Social Security) payouts:
“Pablo called up his account on his computer (!) … After comparing our relative payments to our pension systems (since salaries are higher in America, I had contributed more), we extrapolated what […]

As reported in today’s Los Angeles Times, a controversial report has been published on smokers and sheds light on why so few are quiting after millions gave up the habit in the eighties.
The report’s findings show that smokers are 4.7 times as likely than the population at large to suffer from major depression (for those […]

The VA budget has shot up 47% over the past four years (assuming this year’s recommended budget holds otherwise it will go up even more), yet critics decry the “cuts“.
Given this environment it is not surprising that President Bush’s proposed reforms of the VA medical services process will be met with howls and alarms from […]

For crying out loud, just when you had heard ever possible legal abuse story another one pops up.
A mountain biker fell off his bike while riding down a hill in the Kolapore Uplands Wilderness Area in Canada. This in itself is not unusual and what mountain biker doesn’t regularly fall off their bike (for the […]

Boing Boing pointed us to this example of how wacky airport security is:

Yes, the air travellers of America are now safe from terrorist penguins.
(the full link is here)