One 66-year-old Nebraska woman is determined to fight against LGBT equality any way she can, including filing a federal lawsuit against homosexuals. All of them. According to the Lincoln Journal Star, Sylvia Driskell filed her suit, Driskell v. Homosexuals, as an “Ambassador for Plaintiff’s God MORE

Class-action lawsuits continue to pile up for Manny Pacquiao and his promoters for failing to disclose his injury before consumers purchased tickets and pay-per-view telecasts for his fight against Floyd Mayweather.

The first lawsuit was filed in Nevada on Tuesday, but others were filed later in the day, including two in Calfornia, and one each in Texas and Illinois. MORE

“The bottling plant that Starbucks uses for its Ethos customers in the western United States is located in Merced, California, which is currently ranked in the ‘exceptional drought’ category by the US Drought Monitor,” writes Anna Lenzer at Mother Jones.

“Its residents face steep water cuts in their homes, and surface water for the region’s many farms is drying up.” MORE

Italy has slashed the time it takes to get a divorce to six months from three years in the latest sign of the Catholic Church’s waning influence over life and politics here.

The change is part of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s efforts to tame the country’s much-hated bureaucracy. “Another promise kept. Let’s move forward,” he tweeted after the law passed in parliament late Wednesday. MORE

But the main topic of conversation was Peres’s idea to create a UN-like organization he called “the United Religions.”

Peres said the Argentina-born pontiff was the only world figure respected enough to bring an end to the wars raging in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world. MORE

Dozens of police and protesters have been hurt after a protest by Ethiopian Israelis against alleged police brutality turned violent in Tel Aviv.

Thousands of Israeli Jews of Ethiopian origin had taken part in a rally before some demonstrators tried to storm the city’s municipality building.

Police fired tear gas and stun grenades as protesters threw bottles and bricks. MORE

44 cars were torched, some say 200 buildings. People lost their jobs and homes to the rioters.

Rioters looted stores and hurled rocks and bricks at Baltimore police Monday, injuring several officers just hours after thousands mourned the man who died after suffering a severe spinal injury in police custody. MORE

An Episcopal bishop in Maryland who is facing manslaughter charges in the drunk-driving death of a bicyclist has been defrocked and “will no longer function as an ordained person in the Episcopal Church.”

Heather Cook was a suffragan (assistant) bishop in the Diocese of Maryland when she was charged with manslaughter in the December 27 hit-and-run death of cyclist Tom Palermo, a 41-year-old husband and father of two, in Baltimore. Within a month of the accident, the diocese that she had helped lead for just three months asked her to resign. MORE

Carly Fiorina formally launched her 2016 presidential run Monday (May 4). But she’s long been working the Christian talk and radio circuit, appealing to a traditional Christian voter base.

Here are five faith facts about the former Hewlett-Packard CEO turned business consultant: MORE

I’m Jewish. I married a Jew. Both of my parents were Jewish. And so on. And yet, apparently, I am the cousin of a Pope – specifically, the still-living but now-retired Pope Benedict XVI. In fact, Pope Benedict XVI and I descend from at least two common ancestral lines.The first is via our mutual…MORE

During this historic drought in California, so-called “water wasters” are not only being hunted down via their smart meter data and fined up to $500 a day for “wasting water” outside their restricted use times, but now people who have been labeled “water wasters” are also being threatened with having their water completely shut off!

Think this book is satire? You’re Dead Wrong! In fact you can purchase it on Amazon for $3.99! Here is the link for proof: AMAZON – This is Amazon’s description: Every now and then there comes a book that awakens the spirit of childlike joy and laughter in young and old alike. Do You Want To Play With My Balls? is just that kind of book, full of innocence and irreverence, and sure to make every member of your family vomit with glee.

Please don’t allow children around when you watch it and warn everyone about it – Do You Want to Play With My Balls? By Cifaldi Brothers.

As California’s climate fades to desert, rats are coming out of their hiding places in search of water. They are coming out to parks to steal water from dog bowls and attacking horse troughs in desperate need of something to drink. MORE – Amazon essential oil