Artist Savages Hollywood Elite With ‘We All Knew’ Posters, Just In Time For Golden Globes

Los Angeles Artist Sabo has taken credit for the “They Knew” campaign that highlights Hollywood’s hypocrisy and slams tinsel town’s elite for ignoring sexual assault and harassment. In an interview with VICE, Sabo showed a camera crew his studio and said, “This is awards season. There’s no reason for me not to hit the Oscars and the Grammys and all those other fu*king award shows. It’s basically them just patting themselves on the back.”

Read the full story

Talk Radio Host Says Newly Elected Democratic Senator from Alabama’s Snub of Richard Shelby Signals He May Not Be As ‘Moderate’ As He Claimed

Alabama’s Yellowhammer News reported a sharp piece of analysis  on Friday by Huntsville, Alabama talk radio host Dale Jackson that shows the loyalties of newly-elected Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) lie with the national policies of liberal Democrats, not with the more conservative policies of most Alabamians, and especially his colleague in the United States Senate, Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL). It was Shelby’s denunciation of Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore on CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper just two days before the December 12 special election in which Jones pulled of a surprising 1.5 percent victory over Moore that may have turned the tide in Jones’ favor. Jones’ first official act as a newly elected member of the United States Senate was a stunning break in protocol that was a direct personal insult of Shelby, Jackson writes: In the race for the U.S. Senate, Doug Jones cast himself as a moderate Democrat who would work across the aisle and get things done; now one wonders if this was all just a marketing ploy. On the day of his swearing in, Jones decided to choose former Vice President Joe Biden to escort him down the aisle for his swearing in.…

Read the full story

Medicaid Hack Compromised Patients’ Names, Medical Conditions: Florida Health Officials

Medicaid recipients may have had their diagnoses and medical conditions exposed as the result of a recent security breach, Florida health officials warned Friday. An employee with the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) recently opened a malicious phishing email that potentially compromised the personal information of tens of thousands of Medicaid patients, the agency said in a statement.

Read the full story

Disney-Fox Mega-Merger Faces Serious Questions over Anti-Competitive Behavior

By Rick Manning   Disney and 21st Century Fox have proposed another massive media merger that may rise or fall on Disney’s anti-competitive lawsuit against a small Utah company that allows parents to filter mature content such as violence, strong language, or sexually inappropriate images and sounds from movies and TV shows. VidAngel has become a hot topic amongst social conservative groups whose members want to be able to watch a movie or TV show at home without bringing mature elements into their homes, especially in light of Hollywood’s recent scandals over sexual harassment and parent’s subsequent concerns over how to protect their kids from messages encouraging sexual objectification. Since Disney and other movie producers continue to provide cleaned-up TV and airline versions of their products, there should be no problem with customers having the ability to self-police what shows in their homes. In fact, Congress has already acted once to ensure that parents can decide whether to filter a movie or not in their home. In 2005, they passed the Family Movie Act which specifically allowed the filtering of movies for private home viewing. Unfortunately, now that technology has moved to a streaming world, the federal courts, at Disney’s urging, have failed to extend this…

Read the full story

Commentary: Congress Needs to Put a Stop to Asset Forfeiture

Members of Congress brought renewed attention to a legislative effort to halt efforts by the Department of Justice to restart one of the most controversial civil forfeiture practices, so-called “adoptive” forfeitures. The practice, part of the equitable sharing program, allows state and local law enforcement to seize property in their jurisdictions and then hand it over to federal agencies to conduct the forfeiture. In return, the original seizing agency then receives up to 80 percent of the proceeds if the forfeiture is successful. In 2015, the Justice Department essentially halted this type of forfeiture amid growing concerns that it gave police and sheriffs a financial incentive to circumvent state laws when federal law made it easier to seize assets. Some state laws are more protective of property rights and more restrictive in how forfeiture funds can be raised and spent than federal law. The Justice Department’s decision was hailed by reform advocates, but in July, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a directive reinstating adoptions. What Congress Has Done That move prompted pushback from lawmakers. Led by Reps. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., and Justin Amash, R-Mich., a bipartisan group of House members sought to put a stop to Sessions’ actions by blocking funding for the program. In September…

Read the full story

Therapist Writes In Washington Post That Trump News Cycle Is Ruining Her Clients’ Lives

One Washington, D.C.-based therapist’s clients have 99 problems, and they all seem to be about President Donald Trump. Elisabeth Joy LaMotte, a psychotherapist and founder of the DC Counseling and Psychotherapy Center, writes in The Washington Post that a number of her patients have been complaining that the media’s fixation on Trump is taking a toll on their personal lives.

Read the full story

Beth Harwell: Maybe Medical Marijuana ‘Is a Gift from God’

Tennessee Speaker of the House and GOP gubernatorial candidate Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) made news Friday afternoon when, during a fairly routine interview with Memphis Local 24 about her aspirations to be the next governor, she posited if marijuana is “a gift from God.” Harwell’s position about on marijuana has taken a major turn after her sister, in an attempt to control pain from breaking her back, took an oral form of the drug was reportedly helped by it. As The Tennessee Star reported in August: According to an Associated Press report picked up by Connecticut-based The New Haven Register, Harwell relayed her personal story of how her sister broke her back and was prescribed opioids for the pain. The injury to her sister is the reason Harwell cited in a letter to the Rutherford County Republican Party explaining why she was unable to attend the Reagan Day dinner in May. Harwell recalled to the group that her sister, who had been prescribed opioids for her pain, “had no doubt” in her mind that if she were to “continue this opioid regimen, I will become addicted to opioids.” With Harwell’s sister living in Colorado where marijuana has been legalized, she used some for four or five days until…

Read the full story