So what can we say about the shootings in that Aurora, Colorado, movie theater? I’m sure we’ll learn more about the details–already I’m hearing different accounts–in regards to the 24-year-old James Holmes who is in custody for killing some 12 people and wounding more than
Though, as we posted, the Democrats are making a big deal of the villain in the new Batman movie being named “Bane,” as in Romney’s Bain Capital, John Boot reports that the film is explicitly, unabashedly Reaganite, an overt attack on the Occupy Wall Street
So what will happen if religious and other pro-life institutions refuse to go along with the Obamacare contraceptive and abortifacient mandate? Under President Obama’s healthcare law, the HHS can levy $100 per employee, per day against institutions that won’t comply with the mandate. Therefore, religious
Reniqua Allen, in lamenting the passing of The Bill Cosby Show, complains about the way television today depicts black families. In doing so, she makes some observations that have wide applications: Instead of a real look at black culture, Hispanic culture or any specific culture,
A controversy roiling in the atheist community is the prevalence of sexual harassment and its leadership’s indifference to the problem: As skeptics, atheists and humanists prepare to gather for their largest meeting in Las Vegas this weekend, attendance by women is expected to be down
The music industry is struggling because so much of its product can be accessed for free, what with YouTube and “radio” sites such as Pandora (setting aside illegal downloads). But even when a person wants to buy music, it’s hard if you aren’t old enough
Kitty Wells, arguably the first big female star of country music (not counting the women in the Carter Family), died Monday at the age of 92. Here is her breakthrough song, a response to Hank Thompson’s “The Wild Side of Life,” in which the singer
The History News Network posts an earlier article by Edwin Black on the American eugenics movement and what it accomplished. Twenty-seven states adopted eugenics laws, with the biggest program to sterilize the “unfit” being established in California. Major funding for the eugenics movement came
What happens when pop culture addicts run your campaign: According to Paul Bedard at The Washington Examiner, the Obama campaign takes Batman’s new enemy Bane, a pumped up venom gas breathing maniac, in the movie “The Dark Knight Rises” and compares him to presumptive GOP
We blogged earlier about how online shopping sites have a big advantage over local businesses in not having to charge sales tax. So states and now Congress have been trying to pass laws to collect those taxes. Amazon used to fight those efforts, but no
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