Automated cars are going to be the future; if we expect our failing transportation system to stay competitive, the sooner the better.

We never think it could happen ‘here.’ But it does; someone picks up a gun and it happens ‘here,’ where we live, work, study. Today it was Santa Monica.

While Walmart workers struggle to eat, pay their bills and be treated like human beings, the richest family in America tries to bully them into silence.

Retail giant Walmart has pleaded guilty to criminally dumping toxic waste across California, and we don’t mean opening new stores.

Jerry Brown used balanced approach to bring California to a budget surplus. Clinton did it. Obama is attempting it as Republicans willfully ignore reality.

Video footage, once again, captures a moment of seemingly senseless violence – the police beating to death an intoxicated father of four.

There is no reason for this to ever have happened.

Grieg is just the latest Republican to suffer the consequences of making inflammatory rape comments. It’s disappointing, however, that the vote to oust Grieg was so close.

The hate group, WBC (Westboro Baptist ‘Church’) showed up, earlier this year, to picket after a high school publicly embraced a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) friendly environment. When WBC arrived, they got a big surprise.

Like a scene out of a horror film, the clearly crazed driver climbed out of his battered Oldsmobile, grabbed a ‘metal bar’ and began assaulting people within his reach.

‘It’s that shift in public opinion that really gives gay rights advocates hope,’ a reporter observes amongst the crowds shivering outside the U.S. Supreme Court Building.

Did House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) really say that President Barack Obama cares more about the March Madness college basketball spreads than about balancing the federal budget?

Greig contradicted her own condemnation of Akin’s comments by clearly claiming that rape pregnancies are rare because of the violence of the act, even though studies, surveys, and statistics prove that rape causes pregnancy just as much as or more than consensual sex.

The basic argument contained in the brief is that acknowledging the validity of same-sex marriage promotes the conservative values of limited government and individual freedom.

Today’s spree shooting comes to us from Orange County, California…four dead including the shooter who killed himself after a series of murders, carjackings and a chase with police.

This week’s ‘Addicting Info’ news in review, divvied up into your favorite categories, including Those Danged Republicans, Guns, Gays, and The Jabbering Classes.

The father of the modern conservative movement looks downright sane and reasonable compared with today’s right-wing nut jobs.

A 22-month-old baby girl may be too young to appreciate the blessings in her life, but thanks to a Miami-Dade, Florida Circuit judge, she has three parents who are responsible for her love and well being.

Bad news for cheap bosses and the GOP, good news for workers – Obama’s U.S. Department of Labor actually enforces the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Savvy businesspeople know California’s where the action is, and that sometimes it takes money to make money.