2013-2023

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The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are…

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Spike Lee doesn't need my help to defend him, but he does deserve our gratitude and…

Confidence in television news has hit a new low, a new Gallup poll reported Tuesday.

The polling firm does an annual survey of the confidence that Americans have in their biggest institutions. Gallup noted that its survey took place before CNN and Fox News…

Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History

A little more than a year after the conservative-led state board of education in Texas approved massive changes to its school textbooks to put slavery in a more positive light, a group of Tea Party activists in Tennessee has renewed its push to whitewash…

The "No More West Indian Day Parade Detail" Facebook group for NYPD officers has vanished, but over 70 pages worth of racist, violent comments directed at paradegoers (including "Let them kill each other") were uncovered by a pair of Brooklyn lawyers and have been…

UnLearn Comment: This article is very subtle in how it tries to delegitimize people's concerns about Fluoride being added to the public water supply and how it may be responsible in part to the progressive dumbing down of American citizens. This along with the aspartame in diet softdrinks, as well as the indoctrination centers we call public schools. This story tries to make the…

Last June, 28-year-old Ikenna Njoku of Auburn, Washington was reportedly imprisoned for four days after trying to cash a Chase check the bank itself had issued to him.

Mr. Njoku, who at the time claims he had become a new homeowner, qualified for the first-time home buyer rebate on his tax return, for a total of $8,463.21 after overdraft fees, reports…

By Amy Ellis Nutt and Barry Carter

Religion News Service

NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) For 46 years, the chief assassin of slain civil rights icon Malcolm X has been hiding in plain sight in Newark, according to a major new biography of the African-American leader released Monday (April 4).



Al-Mustafa Shabazz is a 72-year-old Muslim who is married to a community…

The Huffington Post  Dean Praetorius First Posted: 01/20/11

Earth could be getting a second sun, at least temporarily.

Dr. Brad Carter, Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of…

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith First Posted: 12- 3-10 08:03 AM

At the UC San Diego Deptartment of Computer Science and Engineering, a group of computer science researchers recently conducted a study that found popular Websites exploiting a "browser bug" to obtain histories of visitors' online activities.

The study shows that sites hosting porn, news, finance, games, movies and…

Robert Naiman

The Huffington Post

November 10, 2010

Remember what Vice-President Biden told Jonathan Alter in The Promise?

At the conclusion of an interview in his West Wing office, Biden was adamant. “In July of 2011 you’re going to see a whole lot of people moving out. Bet on…

Yesterday afternoon, the leader of a microscopic cult of idiots who announced plans to stage an "international" day of Quran burning in Gainesville, Florida held a press conference, for a rapt media which decided that his moronic plans were the single most important thing going on in America. At that press conference, in front of "9/11 Truther" signs, this cult leader lied to everyone who was watching, telling them that he was going to call off his 9/11 book burning festival…

Huffington Post

Many Americans are likely to have to work until they are dead, not as a result of Social Security shortfalls but because of their inadequate 401(k) savings or the fact that they have no retirement plan at all. This disaster has not dawned on the mutual fund companies that manage retirement assets, much less debated on Capitol Hill. Given that the first wave of Boomers is scheduled to turn 65 in 2011, Attention Must be…

Huffington Post | Catharine Smith First Posted: 08-12-10 01:12 PM

Readers of the Harry Potter series will recall a shimmering cloak that granted its wearer the power of invisibility. Outside the world of wand-toting wizards and witches, that fantastical notion has become closer to reality.

Scientists at Tufts and…

Huffington Post

Still waiting for a response to the 300 resumés you sent out last month? Bad news: Some companies are ignoring all unemployed applicants.

In a current job posting on The People Place, a job recruiting website for the telecommunications, aerospace/defense and…

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser

Despite widespread hints that the recession has ended and a generally rosy outlook for tomorrow's job numbers, economic activity fell in half of U.S. states over the past three months, according to this great map that Calculated Risk pulled from the…