Democrats have been accusing Romney of not paying any income taxes or of hiding something in his finances. So the Republican presidential nominee has released his 2011 returns. It turns out, he paid 14.1% of his income to the government. And he paid 30% to
A growing number of companies are telling employees to stop using electronics to work even when you are home. From Cecilia Kang: Tonight, employees at the Advisory Board have an unusual task: Stay off e-mail. Stash away those smartphones and laptops, the District firm has
As you have probably heard, Mitt Romney was secretly recorded at a fundraiser saying this: “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon
Reports are circulating that Chick-fil-A has abandoned its practice of supporting groups that oppose gay-marriage. But the company is denying any change of policy. The first story: Chick-fil-A stopped funding traditional-marriage groups in an effort to open a new Chicago restaurant, but the company initially
I’ve talked to quite a few people who say they are planning to just sit out this election. They refuse to vote for Obama, but they don’t like Romney, whether because he’s a Mormon or no true conservative or a tone-deaf bumbler or the same
Alvin Plantinga is a highly-respected philosopher, respected even by those who disagree with him. An evangelical, Reformed Christian, Plantinga has written a new book, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism. It has received a glowing review from Thomas Nagel, an atheist–in the
I’m kind of behind, with my surgery and all, so this has already gone around, but we must post it. Scholars have found a small fragment in the Coptic language from ancient Egypt that has Jesus referring to “my wife.” Now first of all, as
Things have hard edges. The leaves on a tree are distinct from each other. Each pieces of gravel on a path is separate from the others. Faces in a crowd don’t blur together. Who knew? Those who think there are no boundaries between right and
Forget Google Earth, Google Street View, and those proposed Google goggles. Here is Google’s coolest feature: Google will now calculate how many degrees of separation a person is from Kevin Bacon. It is the party game beloved of cinephiles everywhere, one which rewards detailed knowledge
Historian Kenneth C. Davis looks at the origin of the office of the President, something our Founders went round and round about at the Constitutional Convention. In that steamy Philadelphia summer of 1787, as the Constitution was secretly being drafted and the plan for the
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