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We have started a sub-site of Blogcritics.org called “Blogcritics Bargains” and it is just that: an unabashedly retail page with great deals on cool stuff just in time for the Holiday Season presented in an entertaining and lively manner by Craig Lyndall. Craig has signed up with various affiliate programs …

In the broadest terms, the winter holiday season begins Thanksgiving week and extends through New Year’s Day or so, incorporating Winter Solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, New Year’s Eve and Day, and a gauntlet of festive gatherings in between. And since holidays require a lot of planning, we are well …

Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon who refused to move to the rear of the bus on December 1, 1955, has gone at 92. Blogcritics thoughts on the meaning of her life: Rosa Parks Never Came To Canada Growing up in Canada in the 1960’s left you sort of oblivious …

SITE CREDITS Publisher: Eric Olsen Technical Director: Phillip Winn Executive Editor: Lisa McKay Music Editors: Connie Phillips Glen Boyd Donald Gibson A.L. Harper Josh Hathaway Books Editors: Natalie Bennett Kevin Eagan Gordon Hauptfleisch Bill Sherman (Comics/Graphic Novels) TV/Film Editors: Josh Lasser Lisa McKay Gordon Miller Politics Editors: Dave Nalle John …

While answering a question from a caller to his “Morning in America” radio show last Wednesday (9/28), former Education Secretary William J. Bennett took issue with the hypothesis put forth in the book Freakonomics that one reason crime is down is that abortion was legalized, reducing the number of unwanted …

Halloween isn’t so much a holiday anymore as it is a season, a time to get in touch with the dark and spooky, to recognize that there is as much we don’t know about the creepy world around us as there is we do know, and to acknowledge that tingle …

Hey, any other year, Hurricane Rita would have been big news, forcing the evacuation of more than 3 million people from the border region of coastal Texas and Louisiana, dumping up to a foot of rain, unleashing 120 mile per hour winds, pushing a 15-foot storm surge that swamped Cajun …

In some ways the Emmy Awards for excellence within the television industry bring up the rear among the four major awards shows. The Oscars, Grammys, and Tonys all have a glitz and performance appeal beyond the Emmys, which is essentially a TV show about TV. Nonetheless, this year’s show has …

Is a natural disaster a political matter? Katrina struck on August 29 and for a couple of days the nation was jolted out of its political cubicles and its talking points were muted. It didn’t last long. As tension and tempers rose when the extent of the damage became clear …

When it rains it pours: William H. Rehnquist, the nation’s 16th chief justice’s casket was carried up the steps of the Supreme Court today by former clerks, poetically including John Roberts, the man President Bush nominated to succeed him. With the impending retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Bush will …