Month: July 2013

Dozens succumb to heat in western US

Dozens succumb to heat in western US Dozens of people across western US states have been treated for exhaustion and dehydration, as the region is continuing to bake in a heat wave. A man in Las Vegas is believed to have died from a heat-related illness. Air-conditioned “cooling centres” have been set up in California,

‘Founding Fathers Would Be Ashamed’ of Supreme Court Ruling

Chick-fil-A CEO: ‘Founding Fathers Would Be Ashamed’ of Supreme Court RulingChick-fil-A president Dan Cathy has spoken out against gay marriage once again. Following the Supreme Court rulings Wednesday striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and opening the door for same-sex marriages in California, Cathy took to Twitter to criticize the rulings, CBS reports. “Sad

Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don’t Trust Him.

Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don’t Trust Him. In May 2010, I received a brown envelope. In it was a CD with an encrypted file containing six months of my life. Six months of metadata, stored by my cellphone provider, T-Mobile. This list of metadata contained 35,830 records. That’s 35,830 times my phone company knew

UVA student jailed for possession of bottled water, ice cream

UVA student jailed for possession of bottled water, ice cream A University of Virginia student spent a night and good part of the next day in jail after seven plain-clothes agents from the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control division ambushed her. The student, 20-year-old Elizabeth Daly, made the mistake of walking to her car with bottled