Emerson said it best: “All mankind love a lover.” We cherish romantic love as a transcendent force that truly conquers all. So it’s only natural that we adore love stories and revel in the thought of a “happily ever after” for ourselves and others. But sometimes, when couples seem destined to ride off into a […]
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Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is a staple of holiday entertainment, so much so that we don’t think it odd anymore that a Christmas story has all sorts of ghosts and supernatural elements in it. But in the Victorian era, telling ghost stories was the thing to do to pass the hours on Christmas Eve, […]
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Remember Bryan Pagliano? He’s the State Department IT staffer who helped Hillary Clinton set up her private emails and later invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked to testify about it at a Congressional hearing. Now it turns out the State Department can’t find any of his emails that cover the time in question:
State Department can’t find emails of top @HillaryClinton IT staffer https://t…
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It was just a “hobby,” he said:
Officials: Enrique Marquez says he built pipe bombs as a hobby with San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. https://t.co/m15rPt8XyX
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) December 12, 2015From CNN (emphasis ours):
Enrique Marquez, a former neighbor of Farook, told investigators he and his friend previously built pipe bombs, law enforcement officials said…
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We are surrounded by devices that work according to well-understood scientific principles. However, there are lost avenues of scientific inquiry, products of muddled or magical thinking, with an engineering bent that have created a number of wondrous machines that don’t necessarily have to conform to the boring old laws of physics. Featured image via YouTube […]
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BizPac Review has a write-up of the testimony of Department of Homeland Security official Kelli Burriesci in front of the House Oversight committee yesterday, and it’s brutal. Here’s an excerpt of what Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) had to say to Burriesci who basically had no answers to any of his questions:
Ms. Burriesci, I’ve asked you the number of Americans who’ve traveled to Syria, you don’t know…
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Audiences worldwide know all about how the “girl on fire” leads a revolution against tyranny. However, there are secrets scattered across the 12 districts of books and films. There are even behind-the-scenes secrets that few are aware of. 10The Nation’s Name Is The Theme Of The Books Photo credit: AMC Theatres via YouTube The world […]
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Watch out, America. According to editors at the New York Times, the expiration of the assault weapons ban has led to 18-year-olds running around with .50-caliber sniper rifles that can “pierce concrete bunkers and armored personnel carriers”:
The gun industry recklessly markets military weapons tailored for the civilian homefront. https://t.co/Foh5blCrRF pic.twitter.com/Yc4RAPw9Ap
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) December 11, 2015From their editorial:
Assault weapons were banned for 10 years until Congress, in bipartisan obeisance to the gun lobby, let the law lapse in 2004…
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