“John Morales, an actor who has portrayed McGruff the Crime Dog, was sentenced last week to sixteen years in prison for multiple drug and weapons charges…”.* The Young turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. *Read more here from Evan McMurry / Mediaite: http://www.mediaite.com/online/mcgruff-the-crime-dog-actor-sentenced-to-16-years-for-pot-grenade-launcher/ ********** The Largest Online News Show in the World. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. …

  “Conservatives like to say that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” In other words, if an executive makes $20 million a year, his income will eventually trickle down into the rest of the economy and ultimately benefit poor people. But that theory hasn’t exactly proven true. The highest-earning 20 percent of Americans have been making more and more over …

  “The U.S. abortion rate began to decline again from 2008 to 2011, a new study says. But the researchers say there’s no evidence that the new crop of state laws intended to restrict access to abortions is the source of the drop. An estimated 1.1 million abortions were performed in 2011, a rate of 16.9 per 1,000 women ages …

  “School officials violated state anti-discrimination law when they would not allow a transgender fifth-grader to use the girls’ bathroom, according to a ruling by the highest court in Maine that’s believed to be the first of its kind. The family of student Nicole Maines and the Maine Human Rights Commission sued in 2009 after school officials required her to …

  “Apparently, the bar for racial insensitivity has now been lowered so much that one can be branded with the scarlet “R” for insisting that racial and gender identity issues should be irrelevant in certain circumstances. Merely asserting that merit, and not demographic identifiers which result from accidents of birth, should carry more weight is enough to offend those for …

  “A CBC News investigation has unearthed a critical report that the federal regulator effectively buried for several years about a rupture on a trouble-prone TransCanada natural gas pipeline. On July 20, 2009, the Peace River Mainline in northern Alberta exploded, sending 50-metre-tall flames into the air and razing a two-hectare wooded area. Few people ever learned of the rupture …

  With income inequality rising, the middle class increasingly squeezed and more of us than ever feeling the pinch, why hasn’t the American public risen up to demand reform? It’s happened before, as in the Progressive Era, during the New Deal and the Great Society, so why not now? In his latest “Regulators” vlog, University of California Economics professor and …