Walker Surging in Iowa Poll as Bush Struggles  —  Hillary Clinton is running away from the potential Democratic field.  —  Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is surging, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is an also-ran and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is dominating in a new poll …

Disneyland, Measles and Madness  —  A FEW years back, an acerbic friend of mine who was a recent transplant to Los Angeles told me that she itched to write a satirical novel with the following narrative:  —  A group of wealthy, educated people in Santa Monica who deliberately didn't vaccinate …

Retroactively Authorizing War  —  They went largely unnoticed, four words President Obama ad-libbed during the State of the Union address last month as he asked lawmakers to provide legal cover for America's military intervention in Iraq and Syria.  —  “We need that authority,” the president said …

Stephen Fry explains what he would say if he was ‘confronted by God’  —  Staunch atheist Stephen Fry left a television host stunned when he explained what he would say if he was “confronted by God”.  —  The actor and author, who recently married his partner Elliot Spencer …

Rand Paul slams Bush ‘hypocrisy’ on pot  —  DALLAS — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) accused Jeb Bush of hypocrisy after The Boston Globe reported the former Florida governor was a heavy marijuana smoker while at an elite prep school.  —  Bush opposed a Florida medical marijuana ballot initiative …

Ratings Now Cut Both Ways, So Don't Sass Your Uber Driver  —  People routinely use the Internet to review services from plumbers to hairdressers.  Now the tables are turned.  Companies are rating their customers, shunning those who do not make the grade.  —  Hussein Kanji insists he is not a bad Uber passenger.

Woman says she was pushed to the floor by a GHOST after security cameras filmed her being thrown to the floor when nobody was near her in Chile  —  A woman claims to have been pushed to the floor by a ghost after cameras caught her being thrown to the floor despite there being no-one around.

New York birth certificates now ask the mother if she is a male or a female  — The change in form is aimed at transgender women who may identify as male but still are able to give birth because of their female anatomy  — In 2008 Governor David Patterson changed the form everywhere …

Michael Moore's Long Tradition of Defaming Heroes  —  The “military hero as coward” motif has a long tradition with Michael Moore.  But his earlier oinkings in this regard—well before the release of American Sniper— were aimed at much safer targets.  —  “Wimps,” writes Moore in Downsize This.

Man Claims To Have Spotted Bigfoot At Prospect Park In New York City (Video)  —  A man in New York City claimed that he spotted Bigfoot, the mythical ape, walking through Brooklyn's Prospect Park.  —  Russell Strark captured the moment in a YouTube video filmed Tuesday.