Recently mis-married country music superstar Kenny Chesney has a lot going on to take his mind off his recent split with Renee Zellweger after just four months of marriage. Songwriter’s association ASCAP just announced that it will present Chesney with the “ASCAP Voice of Music Award” during the 43rd Annual …
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Stop Getting Scooped!
Why must The New York Times be so flaky?
Read More »Freedom Of Speech Hits New Low
In a new low in the destruction of Americans’ right to free expression and free speech, a woman got in trouble this week over the wearing of a t-shirt. First, she was forced to cover up a t-shirt and then had to choose between removing it or getting off a …
Read More »Blogcritics on Bill Bennett’s Black Baby Abortion Brouhaha
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 …
Read More »It’s Miller Time…For Explanations
Miller Questions Answered With More Questions
Read More »Cinderella’s Booster Seat Campaign
Most American parents, and kids for that matter, have accepted the vital importance of auto child safety seats for babies and young children: it’s the law of the land and you can’t even take a newborn home from the hospital without producing an approved baby pod. But when kids outgrow …
Read More »China – Another Internet Clampdown
The Chinese government, feeling threatened by the flow and exchange of information among its 100 million Internet users, announced yesterday the imposition of new regulations intended to limit access to news and commentary not pre-approved by the government’s Propaganda Department. The new rules will allow only the posting of “healthy …
Read More »Book Review: Faster by James Gleick
Faster, faster, faster! That sometimes seems to be the mantra of friends, colleagues and advertisers. Get a faster computer. Get a faster car. And it’s also, appropriately, the title of a book by James Gleick, an author with the rare gift of making the complicated not only interesting and easy …
Read More »Newspapers: Adapt or Be Left Behind
This is a tale of two papers, one moving forward and one backward, one adapting and one retreating.
Read More »Our History Of Violence
The fact that I'm forced to even consider using a weapon is disturbing, that I have no choice in the matter is only slightly mitigating.
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