I'm not quite sure what to make of this:
Republican Indiana Sen. Dan Coats says a GOP takeover of the U.S. Senate in next month's election could lead to greater cooperation with President Barack Obama.
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I'm not quite sure what to make of this:
Republican Indiana Sen. Dan Coats says a GOP takeover of the U.S. Senate in next month's election could lead to greater cooperation with President Barack Obama.
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Not a week goes by, where Mitt Romney’s name doesn’t show up in a headline. Pressure is mounting on him to run for president in 2016.
Mitt - Please don’t.
Here's another reason why you shouldn't let politics guide your entertainment choices. I have enjoyed "Start Trek" and all its iterations so much that I could surely be labeled a Trekkie. But it turns out to be the most anti-libertarian show in history:
You knew this was coming, right? Republicans are to blame for the Ebola outbreak You can see the ad at the ling):
Happy Columbus Day! Or are you one of those Indigenous People's Day weenies?
For the first time this year, Seattle and Minneapolis will recognize the second Monday in October as "Indigenous People's Day." The cities join a growing list of jurisdictions choosing to shift the holiday's focus from Christopher Columbus to the people he encountered in the New World and their modern-day descendants.
So, are you an irrational atheist or are you irrationally religious. This writer seems to thing it's an astonishing discover that not believing in God isn't always based on reasoned arguments:
A lot has been said (including here) about all we're gaining from the technological revolution in communications. But we're losing something, too, which is epitomized by Snapchat:
At the end of the 18th century, there were two great Western revolutions — the American and the French. Americans opted for the freedom of the individual, and divinely endowed absolute rights and values.
I was going to skip this, because it's such a "fish in a barrel" cheap shot, but what the hell:
Former President Jimmy Carter is criticizing President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy, saying he has shifting policies and waited too long to take action against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
It's finally here, the Ebola story we knew was coming:
A police-stop incident in Hammond is getting a lot of play everywhere, probably because there is a video of the whole ugly encounter (see here) shot by a teenager in the back seat. The cops stop the car which includes a woman driver, a male passenger and two kids in the back seat, because the two adults in the front seat aren't wearing seat belts.
Boy, I certainly do wish him well:
Jeff Bezos wants to turn the Washington Post into a national publication, and he’s going to use his other company—Amazon.com (AMZN)—to help achieve that goal.
Are we in danger of losing our common language?
Sorry, fad-a-day education "expeerts," it's still memorization and repetition we need.
Time after time, professors in mathematics and the sciences have told me that building well-ingrained chunks of expertise through practice and repetition was absolutely vital to their success. Understanding doesn’t build fluency; instead, fluency builds understanding. In fact, I believe that true understanding of a complex subject comes only from fluency.
Let's check in on the impact of technological change on the culture, shall we? The last time we checked, getting matched on the Internet was passe, but the debate about whether watching online porn was real cheating still raged on. Things have moved along nicely since those innocent days:
In case you blinked and missed it, gay marriage just became the law of the land in Indiana:
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to decide once and for all whether states can ban gay marriage, a surprise move that will allow gay men and women to marry in five states where same-sex weddings were previously forbidden.
For your "It takes all kinds" file:
HAMMOND, Ind. - A man whose animal cruelty conviction led Indiana lawmakers to pass a law making sexual relations with animals a crime faces another charge of sexually abusing an animal.
Forty-two-year-old Michael C. Bessigano was arrested Friday at his Lake County home on charges of bestiality and two other felony counts.
It's not just wacky, Tea Party conservatives who think Common Core might not be the magic solution for the education system:
President Obama tells "immigration activists" (i.e. those who want to erase our borders) that "no force on earth can stop us," then says, as a preface to a bunch of "this country is its people" gobbledygook,
People who love this country can change it. America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington.
