Wildfire Rages On In Southern California

May 2, 2013 Subscribe · Forward SoCal Wildfire Prompts Evacuations In Jurupa Valley, CSU Channel Islands LOS ANGELES — A wildfire fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds raged along the fringes of Southern California communities on Thursday, forcing evacuation of homes and a university while setting recreational vehicles ablaze. The blaze erupted during morning rush hour along U.S. 101 in the Camarillo area about 50 miles west of Los Angeles. It was quickly spread by the winds, which also pushed other damaging blazes across the region. Continue reading... FRIGHTENING: Photos Of Spreading Southern California Wildfire Awkward Text Messages Leaked PHOTO: Is This Billboard Prostituting College Women? Rescued Teen Hiker Charged With Meth Possession EPIC PROM FAIL Son Calls Three-Way Murder Suicide 'A Mercy Killing' If Koch Brothers Buy Major Paper, Half of Staff May Quit Son Calls Three-Way Murder Suicide 'A Mercy Killing' Son Calls Three-Way Murder Suicide 'A Mercy Killing' PHOTOS: Wildfire Rages On In Southern CA 1,000 California Foster Homes Match Sex Offender Addresses PETER SCHEER New First Amendment Suit Poses Existential Threat to Government Unions Public employee unions face a new, and mortal, threat. It's not the unfunded liability of union pension plans or municipal governments' resort to bankruptcy to void union contracts. No, the new existential threat facing government unions comes from... the First Amendment. Continue reading... ANN BRENOFF On The Fly: Breaking Up With Your Phone Number We have a relationship with our phone numbers. We are engaged in an unrealistic romance with them where we boast of our fidelity to them and then abuse them with complete disrespect. Heck, we are so attached to them that we even use them to define ourselves. Continue reading... WILLIAM BRADLEY Schwarzenegger's New USC Policy Center Takes Up Immigration Reform: Where Is This Issue Heading? It's not all that hard to incite a Republican race to the hard right on immigration. Once undertaken, that race ends up in the same place: one of fences, exclusion and super-heated rhetoric that utterly turns off most people of color and younger voters. Continue reading... BEN AFFLECK $1.50 a Day As a nation we both claim a noble position in the world and assert a reputation for fostering freedom, human rights and fairness here and abroad. If indeed we are to live up to that, we cannot abide having some among us who starve. Continue reading... MICHAEL ROSE Midnight's Children -- A Film Written by Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children, based on the book by Salman Rushdie, follows the lives of two male babies who are switched at birth. Through their eyes we witness the vision of freedom in 1947, which turned into a blood-soaked separation of the Hindu and Muslim populations. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003