According to sources…. … oh, and rather than losing to Romney by 8 votes in Iowa, Rick Santorum actually won there by 34 votes … oh, and Marianne Gingritch, who once boasted that she could end her ex-husband's campaign with a single interview, has sat down for a two-hour interview with ABC… to be aired Monday (after South Carolina). I … Read More
Stupid Moviegoers Demand Money Back Upon Discoverin “The Artist” Is A Silent Movie
Philistines: The tribute to 1920s Hollywood, the black and white movie has already won three Golden Globe awards for its dazzling portrayal of the pre-talkie era. But audiences at some Odeon Cinemas are unimpressed by the homage to the "Golden Age" of silent films and a smaller-than-usual screen. Film-fan Nicola Shearer, 25, attended a screening at Odeon Liverpool One after … Read More
The Protest
It has already begun. Inc case you haven't heard, Wikipedia will not be available today, January 18th 2012, what is to be "Protest SOPA and PIPA Day" of sorts. Other major sites, such as Reddit, TwitPic, Mozilla or Boing Boing are following suit. And Google is still available, but they make the point, too: What's it about? Watch… PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for … Read More
All The Cool People Were Born Today
Michelle Obama. And Betty White. And James Earl Jones. And Muhammad Ali. And Benjamin Franklin.
When Can You Start Crediting (Blaming) Obama For Jobs?
Steve Benen makes a great point which everyone needs to keep in mind this election season: Consider a thought experiment. Imagine you could go back to March 1, 2009, when the global economy is on the brink of collapse. The White House's Recovery Act had just been signed into law, but the investments hadn't even begun, and President Obama, still … Read More
Perry Needs To Bow Out
I still maintain that this is Romney's nomination. The only chance that it is not is a slim one, and requires that two of the three conservatives bow out and unite behind the third (those three conservatives are Gingrich, Santorum and Perry). If this is going to be an at-all interesting race, Perry needs to get the ball rolling by … Read More
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Forsyth County Prayer Case
Good local First Amendment news: WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a North Carolina county commission over the mostly Christian prayers offered at the beginning of its public meetings. The justices on Tuesday left in place a federal appeals court ruling that held that the predominantly Christian prayers at the start of Forsyth County commission meetings violated … Read More
Romney Admits His Effective Tax Rate Is About 15%
That's a lot lower than most American families. And remember… when President Obama suggested the “Buffett rule,” aimed at ensuring that millionaires can’t pay lower taxes than middle class families, Romney derided it as “class warfare,” and “the wrong way to go.” Now we know why. You're going to be hearing about this 15% for the next few days.
Mars Is Throwing Rocks At Us
They found a rock from Mars in Africa. It's not the first time it has happened, but it's pretty rare. How did it happen? A meteor hit Mars millions of years ago, kicking up debris. Some of it — well, a few rocks of it — made it's way to Earth. Pretty cool. Full story.
Twelve Girls In The Same High School Suddenly Develop Tourette’s
Or, if it's not Tourette's, it's like Tourette's. Any way you look at it though, it's weird: Le Roy, N.Y.— ( By: Angela Hong courtesy: 13WHAM ) Wednesday night, James Dupont attended a meeting at Le Roy Junior-Senior High School hoping to find some answers about what may be wrong with his daughter. Since the first week of December, his 17-year-old … Read More
The Tebow Endorsement
Pathetic: Tim Tebow is already the hottest property in professional sports, and now Republican presidential candidates are lining up for the blessing of the Denver Broncos quarterback. The “Mile High Messiah” told The Associated Press on Sunday that more than one of the GOP hopefuls has asked for his public support. He declined their offers, and also wouldn’t tell the AP which … Read More
Russian Satellite To Kill Us All
There's a lot of space debris in space, orbitting the Earth. When those orbits decay, as they do over time, the debris burns up upon re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. No biggie. Unless the debris is really big to begin with — like an out-of-use satellite. Some of the debris survives re-entry and crashes to Earth. We've seen a few of … Read More
The New York Times Asks “Shall We Report The Truth?”
In a stunning editorial today, the New York Times ombudmen Arthur Brisbane asks TImes readers whether — hold on to your hats — whether or not Times reporters should state the facts. He gives us an example of how it might work: …Mitt Romney often says President Obama has made speeches “apologizing for America,” a phrase to which Paul Krugman objected in … Read More
Getting Interesting
The bash on Romney about the former governor's private-sector background at Bain Capital – primarily coming from Gingritch and Perry — is actually having an impact in the vital state of South Carolina: Despite a historic sweep of the first two nominating contests in the GOP field, Mitt Romney holds just a two percentage point lead in South Carolina, his smallest … Read More