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Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Easy Money The Los Angeles Unified School District is paying about 160 teachers to do nothing while they are under review. The Los Angeles Times reports, all told, the teachers collect about $10 million a year even as layoffs are considered because …

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Raw sewage contains disease pathogens and toxins, impairs the respiratory functions in water life, and causes algae blooms. And cruise ships are dumping it just off shore, possibly washing up on the beach near where your family is vacationing. Nightmare fiction? Hardly. Though most travelers don’t know about this practice, …

So on an ABC webcast, Charlie Gibson tossed to a U.S. intelligence report that suggests global warming is helping the Taliban. The logic: temperatures rise, droughts continue, and lo and behold, people become suicide bombers. This is nothing new, of course. Global warming is the Kevin Bacon of root causes: …

The body of Michael Jackson, who died Thursday, has been released by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. Coroner Investigator Jerry McKibben says Jackson’s body was returned to the singer’s family Friday night and was moved to an undisclosed mortuary. Jackson’s body had been kept in its own crypt at …

Now that we have a pay czar, let me be the first to expand his duties. While you’re policing pay for the folks the government rescued, feel free to extend it to the folks who did the rescuing: Congress. Go ahead, as far as I can see you have no …

Common sense solutions to stories where the mainstream media is not doing their job: Hot Dog Diplomacy In Iran, at least 17 people were killed after the government’s brutal crackdown on protesters. But the party must go on. What party, you ask? Why, the Fourth of July parties at U.S. …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Talk about one proud papa. Astronaut Randy Bresnik is beaming with joy at the arrival of his new baby daughter, who was born late Saturday while he circled the Earth. The astronaut announced the birth of his baby girl Abigail Sunday morning after two days of …

I want to show you something: It’s the beautiful Advent Calendar for America that our thoughtful members of Congress and the president are working on for us. Isn’t it great? They’re stitching this calendar together with the stimulus bill, health care and the climate change bills. Just sunshine and lollipops …

LOS ANGELES – Most people would be pretty pumped to be Jennifer Aniston’s neighbor, but for “The Hills” star Frankie Delgado, living on the same Hollywood Hills street as the “Marley & Me” starlet is more trouble than it is titillating. “To get to my house every day I literally …