The president of Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, asked Paul Ryan to speak at commencement. However, Ryan is a terrible choice because his proposed budget is immoral and in direct opposition to Catholic teachings. Ryan supports tax cuts for the wealthy and increased military spending while limiting or decreasing social programs that help families, the poor, and the middle class. He proposes capping Pell Grants at today's maximum and raising interest rates on student loans. Most Benedictine students rely on these government programs.. He says that his views are based on the philosophy of Ayn Rand who believed that helping others was immoral. He is not a positive role model for the graduates of Benedictine..

State budget cuts during the Great Recession have been devastating. Tuition is up more than 50% at the University of California and California State University systems. CalFire is doing its best to fight raging wild fires in Southern California, despite cuts of $27 and $34 million. Thanks to progressives, California passed Proposition 30 last fall, increasing income taxes on the wealthiest 2% of Californians. The results are better than anyone could have hoped. In one year, we've gone from a $16 billion deficit to a $4.5 billion surplus. But now, Gov. Brown refuses to use the extra funds to restore horrific cuts made during the Great Recession. Instead he wants to pay Wall Street banks. The real way to fix California's debt problem is to grow the economy through funding education and other vital programs.

In the early hours of May 4th, Air Force Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski -- head of the Air Force's sexual assault prevention program -- was “arrested and charged with sexual battery,” according to the Arlington, Virginia police department. Krusinski drunkenly “approached a female victim in a parking lot and grabbed her breasts and buttocks.” It's become clear that the military is not capable of solving its epidemic of sexual violence. Despite years of studies and initiatives, there were 26,000 sexual assaults in 2012 -- more than 71 per day -- up from 19,000 in 2011. Chuck Hagel, the new Secretary of Defense, must immediately endorse the STOP Act, which would take the prosecution, reporting, oversight, investigation, and victim care of sexual assaults out of the normal military chain of command and place jurisdiction in an autonomous Sexual Assault Oversight and Response Office made up of military and civilian experts.

The rims at our park are double rimmed and made super stiff so it's not forgiving... it doesn't catch the ball. A person can't get the ball in unless it's a swish or a lucky bank shot. This problem has affected me personally. I live across from this park and since the rims are terrible, I do not ever want to play. In fact, no one ever plays on the park court so it's simply a waste. They are nothing like our league rims that we are all used to that are plastic. These rims are metal.

The rims at our park are double rim and made super stiff so it's not forgiving it doesn't catch the ball. A person can't get the ball in unless it's a swish or a lucky bank shot. This problem has affected me personally. I live across from this park and I can't stand the rims. They are nothing like our league rim that are plastic. These rims are metal.

11 Reasons to Bring Kaiser to Bayview 1. Access to quality healthcare at a family friendly location close to home 2. Access to health & wellness education about diabetes, childhood obesity, asthma, and heart disease and other health disparities in the community 3. Opportunities for local contractors and residents to work on construction of facility 4. Improves infrastructure of nearby streets 5. Contributes to safety on streets near facility 6. More jobs areas like nursing, radiology, pharmacology AND in fields that support operations like office administration, security, food service, cleaning 7. Opportunities for local businesses to provide goods and services to the facility 8. Increased partnerships with neighborhood non-profits working in health care 9. Creates need for increased services like restaurants along commercial corridors 10. Creates a destination that brings others into the neighborhood 11. Act as generator for businesses that support patient, health and employee services Bring the new Kaiser facility to Bayview Hunters Point.

Petition for national recreational legalization of marijuana.

On May 1, Disney filed ten applications to trademark "Dia De Los Muertos" for products ranging from jewelry to jellies. "Dia De Los Muertos" is not a brand name owned by Disney, it's an ancient and sacred holiday observed by millions across the Americas for hundreds of years. Disney should immediately withdraw its trademark applications.

Today, as our country and the world experience the results of a global economy we are also experiencing the disastrous results of what an ethics free global economy means to the environment, and to the wonderful biodiversity that is now being threatened by the endless footprint that mankind is leaving upon the earth, and by the drastic loss of irreplaceable biodiversity on this planet. The world needs to come together, and compose a constitution for the planet, and create permanent limitations on how, and where man's footprint is or is not allowed to intrude into areas rich with plant and animal life.

The reason for this petition is because of the terrible behavior of congress, our elected representative that we have all witnessed in the past years.

The Hills Conservation Network has been fighting to prevent FEMA from allowing UC/Oakland to use federal disaster mitigation funds to clearcut ALL of the tall trees in the hills. They are targeting eucalyptus, pines, and acacia for complete eradication, not because of a fire risk, but because these species are despised by the native plant restoration community. They have dismissed proposed "species neutral" fire mitigation strategies that would be cheaper, would use far fewer herbicides, and would be far more effective in lessening fire risk because the native plant restoration agenda wouldn't be advanced.

My 16 year old nephew was killed in a car accident on April 18, 2013 on I94. He was heading west bound on I94. He merged into the left lane and hit a patch of ice causing his vehicle to go into the median. His car slid through the median into oncoming traffic heading east bound on I94 and was struck by a semi that was in the passing lane. That lane should only be used for passing and semi-trucks are always in the passing lane. It should be a law semi-trucks cannot be in the passing lane unless only to pass and only during normal conditions. Within that same week there were 3 accident’s all involving semi-trucks and all were in the passing lane. Out of the 4 people involved two died!