In a recent interview, Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said that he didn’t think that there was necessarily any “discordance” between science – particularly the theory of evolution – and religion. Collins was part of a discussion with
President Obama has already changed his vernacular concerning his second term focus of “income inequality.” He is now calling it “ladders of opportunity.” In an apparent effort to blunt criticism over his intent to engage in full-blown class warfare during
Over the last year or so, George Zimmerman has been trying his hand as an artist after he was acquitted of murder in the self-defense shooting of Trayvon Martin and went into hiding. However, his newest painting has drawn complaints
Once again we see publicly funded higher education in the USA fostering cutting-edge matriculation. This time it is the University of Missouri plumbing the importance of the relationship between rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West. This course debuted last fall and
Refusing to call it a bailout, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has announced he is looking to help Detroit out of its pension mess with $350 million in state aid. “This is not a bailout of paying the debts directly of
The Glass-sided Apple store on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue has become an iconic monument to all things cool, but the harsh winter has proven too much for the eye catching store. One of the giant glass panes of the transparent cube
Texas Democrat gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has been viewed as a rising star on the left, but with her claims about her personal biography falling apart, now that star is dimming well before Election Day. Much of the media is
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s girlfriend caused some Martin Luther King, Jr. Day outrage by having a photo taken as she sat in a chair fashioned as a lifelike, subservient, half-naked black woman. The offensive image appeared on Miroslava Duma’s fashion
The Dallas Morning News recently revealed that Texas Democrat Wendy Davis “blurred” the facts about her dramatic personal biography–but the truth came too late for NBC’s Today show, which fell for Davis’ embellishments hook, line, and sinker. The Texas Democrat
An OfficeMax stationary store in suburban Chicago, Illinois has courted controversy and raised questions of consumer privacy by sending a direct-mail flyer to the home of a man whose daughter was killed in a car accident. It addressed the mail to
Just when the UK may have thought that there could not be any worse news about the sex abuse scandal perpetrated by its once most famous TV and radio star, the Jimmy Savile case gets worse–not just for the late
An image touted as that of an orphaned Syrian boy sleeping between the graves of his murdered parents has been sweeping through social media and is being used to decry the deteriorating situation in Bashar al-Asaad’s country. But it turns
Lately, President Obama’s political action group, Organizing for Action (OFA), has claimed that six million Americans have successfully signed up for Obamacare. However, even The Washington Post Fact Checker finds this assertion to be suspect. For over a week, OFA has been
Ford was famously the one Detroit-based automaker that did not take any federal bailouts from Barack Obama and now, for some unexplainable reason, one of its executives has gotten the personal thanks of no less than Vice President Joe Biden.
The sub-zero temperatures that hit the country early in January and came to be called the “polar vortex” wass blamed for at least 21 deaths, but now meteorologists are warning that we may get a second polar vortex before January
Early this week, the Chicago Cubs debuted its new mascot bear, “Clark The Cub,” to great fanfare. The new pantsless team mascot, however, has received much ribbing from fans. In fact, on the blog community sponsored by the Chicago Tribune,
Powerful, multi-millionaire pop singer Beyoncé has a message for America: women are oppressed. The singer called the idea that we are anywhere near “gender equality” a “myth” that we all need to “stop buying into.” Beyoncé made the comments in a
According to a new YouGov.com poll of the most admired people in the world, Hillary Clinton unsurprisingly ranks under Pope Francis and Billy Graham. What is surprising is that Hillary is less popular even than George W. Bush and Rush
After only one short season, Senator John McCain’s daughter Meghan saw the cancellation of her reality show, Raising McCain. However, on the heels of that cancellation, the Pivot Network has now announced that McCain will host a midnight political talk
The White House announced that President Obama and First Lady Michelle are to host an event focused on the costs of college tuition on January 16. The event is apparently part of the President’s second-term economic agenda to be rolled out
Healthcare insurance companies are announcing that they are having trouble getting paid by the thousands of new policy holders who signed up through the new healthcare exchanges, resulting in far fewer enrollees than expected. Despite this news, Obama’s former campaign
Volunteer fire departments have now been informed by the U.S. Treasury Department that, despite fears, they will be exempt from provisions in Obamacare that might have forced them to slash volunteer firemen’s hours, benefits, or even their jobs. Fire departments
A Chicago man has come forward to accuse police of violently abusing him by sodomizing him with a gun and frightening him into becoming a narc. The incident happened in October 2012, and the man has been attempting to get
MSNBC’s Alex Wagner has proclaimed the unassuming Catholic nuns of the Little Sisters of the Poor to be a “threat” to Obama and his takeover of our nation’s healthcare system. It was during the January 6 broadcast of Now With
Cher is apparently not in the sort of mood to forgive someone just out of rehab if her all-caps tweet attacking returning Congressman Trey Radel is any indication. Radel recently returned to Congress after a stint in rehab for an
