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Whitney Houston`s Death: False Coroner`s Report

People do not snort coke and then get into a hot bath!

(MOLALLA, OR) - Like everyone else, I’ve been waiting nervously for the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office, for their report.

Now that it is here, I am embarrassed for whomever released the report and their amateurish lack of evaluations of the results.

Mike Wallace Passes Away at 93

Wallace was known to Americans for six decades of media involvement.

(SALEM) - Noted American newsman Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace died Saturday in New Canaan, Connecticut, at the age of 93. Also this week we said goodbye to our longtime Op-Ed Writer Henry Clay Ruark who was still working in media at 94.

During his career, Mike Wallace worked as a journalist, game show host and actor; his role in the media world was wide and varied.

Whitney Houston: What Killed Her?
Not Cocaine, Nor Heart Disease

Marijuana never killed anybody at any dose.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Like everyone else, I've been waiting nervously for the Los Angeles Coroner's Office, for their report. Now that it is here, I am embarrassed for whomever released the report and their amateurish lack of evaluations of the results.

Results, for example, cocaine and heart disease did not kill Whitney Houston.

Rocker Ronnie Montrose Got on His Bad Motor Scooter and Rode

World says goodbye to a high performance rocker who put the late 70's into perspective.

(LOS ANGELES) - He passed today. He'd battled cancer, and staved off old age for long enough. And true to form, he chose his own exit the way he chose his own life. We miss him already, but we're glad to have shared with him while we could.

The world says goodbye today to one of the hottest acts of the day, the legendary Ronnie Montrose...

Wake Up America... We Must... Wake up or the Future Will Not be Very Rosy this Century

Or else we will loose everything we built up after WWII....

(LOS ANGELES) - Are we really afraid of being protectionists....or should we STOP IMPORTS....or slow it down a lot so our decimated industries can get back in the game and compete against Asia and other foreign countries...

Safe Access: LA`s 2nd District Court of Appeals Affirms Legality of Storefront Dispensaries

"...imposing the Attorney General’s requirement would, it seems to us, contravene the intent of [state law] by limiting patients’ access to medical marijuana and leading to inconsistent applications of the law..." - court

(LOS ANGELES) - The California Court of Appeal issued a landmark published decision last week affirming the legality of storefront dispensaries.

The court rejects the argument that every member of a collective or cooperative must participate in the cultivation.

Smoking, Drinking & Drugs

What killed Whitney Houston?

(CLEVELAND) - This deadly combination, that's what. Doctors, lawyers, clergy, cops, elected officials, rich & poor. No one is immune. So, why does it still reign supreme? What will it take to put out the fire?

God didn't create mankind to smoke, get drunk and be high- these are mere tools or traits of the devil, here’s why...

Whitney Houston`s Toxicology Report...

What's going on (or not) Medical Automatism can kill.

(MOLALLA, OR) - Before I start out, I’d like everyone to know that I am a Forensic Toxicologist, that is, I have operated, myself, a poison detection laboratory and I have testified in court over 400 times on all sorts of poison cases, homicide, suicide, accidental overdose, and Medical misadventure (wrong drug or wrong dose).

In writing this, I think I know something about the toxicology procedures from start to finish.

Video Shows LA Deputy Belting Woman Bus Rider in The Face

Assault caught on a cell phone camera; some men are meant to be heroes, some are dirty creeps who punch girls...

(BELLFLOWER, Calif.) - The excessive nature of 'casual' police brutality is revealed in a cell phone video clip recorded this week in Bellflower, California.

A homeless woman named Julie Nelson, was punched in the face by a male deputy for refusing to exit a public bus while Jermaine Green, a U.S. Army Veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, recorded the police abuse from a clear angle.

Organizing for the Port Shutdown

Challenging the assertion that the Occupy movement is trying to impose a shutdown of West Coast docks without support from port workers.

(OAKLAND) - THE OCCUPY movement is trying to strong-arm longshore workers and truck drivers into shutting down West Coast ports December 12--or so say critics of the action.

They're wrong. Those organizing for action on the docks are neither the outside agitators described by employers nor the ultra-left adventurists snubbed by union leaders and their apologists.