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Stone, during an interview with Rich Zeoli on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, claimed he has done research to have found a second gunman at the scene on the grounds of the Washington Hilton Hotel. . .

I was in the post office today attending to some business and saw a notice posted on the wall in the passport office. Here's what it said: San Francisco passport agency Sept 1996 bulletin CALIFORNIA BIRTH ABSTRACTS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE FOR PASSPORT Effective immediately California birth abstracts such as the one shown below are not acceptable for proof of citizenship. Computer programming used in creating these birth abstracts shows the county of issue as the place of birth even if the person was born in a foreign country. Because of this California birth abstracts are not acceptable as proof of...

Things don’t look good for Romney, as of this writing. His path to victory is narrow, and the results are not breaking in his favor. All this news flies in the face of the obvious signs of the past two weeks, that Romney was clearly winning, that Obama knew it, as did all the insiders. The huge rallies for the challenger easily dwarfed Obama’s. Romney and Ryan were confident on the stump, Obama and Biden strident and error prone. Polling showed dissatisfaction with the country’s direction, and Obama’s alleged charm had even worn off women. The all important independent vote...

A friend sent this to me, and I think it's worth sharing. A Harley biker is riding by the zoo in Washington, DC, when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents. The biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and - Pow! - hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain, the lion lets go of the girl. The biker brings...

Found this on iChat and thought it was worth sharing. DEFINING SOCIETIES VIA THE OWNERSHIP OF 2 COWS FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need. BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take...

There are moments in a person’s life that shake you to your foundation, that cause you to rethink everything you think you know, moments that hit like a two by four upside your head. Just such moment arrived for me late on a Friday afternoon. A friend of mine, let’s call him Adam, since that’s his name, has self-published a book, Formerly Filthy Rich, My Scandalous Life with a Billionaire Cougar. . . . Now his book is at the very least R-rated, and it’s an account of his six year marriage to Nu Skin co-founder Sandie Tillotson. Nu Skin,...

I met Utah’s Governor Jon Huntsman and his wife Mary Kaye at an event in Las Vegas. My wife Sandie Tillotson had arranged for us to sit in the VIP section with them. Huntsman was a good friend of NuSkin, and helped open the lucrative Chinese market when he was a Trade Representative ... for the Bush Administration. MLM companies had tried to get into China for years, but NuSkin was the first, and Sandie said it was because of Hunstman. Of course it went both ways, and NuSkin was a good friend to Hunstman, and Sandie said she sent...

The Bay Area Council, a business group made up of 275 of the San Francisco area’s largest firms, today called on the state legislature to find a way to work with Governor Jerry Brown, and close the state’s $26.6 billion budget deficit. In a letter faxed to each member of the Senate and Assembly in Sacramento, the group urged members to “embrace the spirit of compromise.” The Council last week endorsed Brown’s plan after a meeting between Brown and the group’s executive committee (see story). Jim Wunderman, President and CEO of the Council, said at the time that not everything...

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) at a press conference today announced what he called an “American Energy Initiative,” legislation that would encourage more oil-and-gas exploration, streamlining of the permit process to allow the first new nuclear reactors in decades to be built, and legislation to block the EPA’s climate-change regulations. With prices at the pump up more than ten percent in just one month, Boehner criticized the Obama administration’s policies on energy, saying that the administration has “consistently blocked” domestic energy production. The GOP has criticized the Obama administration for preventing the resumption of deepwater drilling projects that the White...

In last November’s election California voters approved a ballot measure, Proposition 14, under which only the two candidates receiving the most votes -- regardless of party -- would advance to the general election. Proponents claimed the new system would force candidates to moderate their views, though there is no evidence of that in states where it’s been implemented. The likely result, as I pointed out in an earlier column, is the institution of one party rule in most of the state, and the elimination of third party candidates. The new primary system effectively creates Republican ghettoes, California’s minority party –its...

The five Republican state senators who have been negotiating with California’s Democratic Governor Jerry Brown have thrown in the towel, declaring that the talks have reached an impasse. In a letter from the five to the governor that was released today, the senators said that Brown had engaged them in talks in a serious manner, but that it was clear he was unable to get what they called “other stakeholders” to agree to reforms necessary to “create jobs, require responsible state spending, eliminate abusive pension practices, and implement meaningful governmental reforms.” The state faces a shortfall of over $25 billion,...

California Governor Jerry Brown met with the Executive Committee of the Bay Area Council and picked up the group’s endorsement of his budget proposal. Emerging from a meeting at the Bank of America building, Council CEO & President Jim Wunderman termed the talks tough, but refreshing and honest. “California’s budgets of the recent past have violated every principle of fiscal responsibility by conjuring up billions of dollars in fake revenues and pushing hard decisions off until ‘next year.’ The day of reckoning has finally arrived, and the only way through it is with a spirit of shared sacrifice and grownup...

I just returned from my mailbox, on this beautiful sunny day, with a stack of junk mail in my hand. In the pile is a four color mailer advertising home refinancing, with a photo of a couple on one side. The woman is dressed in a head scarf, which I took to be an interesting approach to a demographic group, and one I had not seen before. Refinance and Save! the card announced. I flipped the card over and learned that hundreds of customers had lowered their monthly payments with Sharia-Compliant relief. Recognized by CNN, PBS, and AlJazeera. The company,...

That pungent aroma wafting over the beautiful city by the bay isn’t merely the stench of its leftist political climate, but a tangible result of those wrong-headed policies. A spokesman for the city’s Public Utilities Commission, Tyrone Jue, has said that a rotten egg smell emanating from its sewers has cost taxpayers over $100 million in the past five years, as the city has upgraded its treatment plants and sewer system to eliminate the smell. And the cause of the problem? Sludge backing up in waste pipes left by low-flow environmentally friendly oh-so green toilets forced on the public by...

With oil surging to $120 a barrel in London as the Libyan revolt rocked markets, gasoline prices in the San Francisco Bay Area jumped to $3.99 for premium at several stations in the area. Unleaded soared to $3.79, an increase of $.29 in just one week. The prices marked a new high for the month of February, and are the highest February price since the federal government began keeping track of the numbers in 1990. The hostilities in Libya spurred the surge in prices, and the announcement that Saudi Arabia would make up any shortfall in Mideast production as result...

Political correctness and government regulation has done what scandals, strikes and a world war could not do: it has shut down baseball, the eternal game. When the California Golden Bears next take the field to begin their season, they start what may be the last of 120 historic years on the diamond. UC Berkeley’s baseball team, ranked among the top 20 in the nation by the magazine Baseball America, has fallen victim to political correctness, axed by the implementation of Title IX. That section of the U.S. Code, the Education Amendments of 1972, passed under the Nixon administration, says that:...

February 11, 2011 - The long awaited and oft delayed film version of Ayn Rand’s epic novel Atlas Shrugged may soon become a reality. A trailer for the film Atlas Shrugged (Part One), was scheduled to be shown at the CPAC conference, has just been released and can be seen at left.

In what should amount to a surprise only to those who live in a cave, the City of Berkeley, California, will once again offer its expertise on a foreign policy issue for the benefit of the great unwashed, especially those Bible and gun-clingers in flyover country. The City Council will consider a recommendation from its Commission for Peace and Justice to extend a formal invitation to two former Guantanamo detainees to live in its fair environs. That same commission previously offered a resolution seeking “Humane Treatment and Conditions of Pre-Trial Confinement and Human Rights for Political Prisoner PFC, Bradley Manning...

On a street corner in downtown Concord, California, Fred Douglas and Alexandra Phillips are asking people to sign a petition to invoke the 25th Amendment of the Constitution, and remove Barack Obama from office. Strategically positioned near a Bank of America ATM, their table is piled high with literature from the LaRouche Political Action Committee, and sports a poster of Obama in a Hitler moustache. Passerby gawk at the image, and one or two stop to talk. One man says he voted for Obama and doesn’t agree with them, but supports their right to be on the streets with the...

Gas prices are on a relentless march upward. Unemployment lingers, and the economy is stagnant. In the Middle East, the streets are filled with demonstrators demanding the overthrow of a long time American ally. Mixed signals from the Vice President and Secretary of State further confuse the issue, and embolden the protestors. Finally, the President speaks, and tosses aside 30 years of American foreign policy. Egypt, 2011? Or Iran, 1979? Hard to tell, but there is the ominous feeling of having been here before. And I feel like I've been here before Feel like I've been here before While the...