North Carolina School Board Votes to Keep Controversial Book in High School Curriculum
A North Carolina school board will keep in its high school curriculum a book that tackles abortion, torture, rape and prostitution.
Entries by Joe Miller
Movement to End Solitary Confinement Gains Force
In the small, dark world of solitary confinement, an inmate’s basic needs can go neglected for months — and many are starting to wonder for what purpose.
Kunming Knife Attack: Xinjiang Separatists Blamed for ‘Chinese 9/11’
President Xi Jinping urges severe punishment for perpetrators of violence at crowded train station that left 29 people dead and 130 injured.
Dyslexia isn’t a Disease, it’s An Excuse for Bad Teachers
I doubt there has ever been a society so easily fooled by pseudo-science and quackery as ours is. Millions of healthy people take happy pills that do them obvious harm, and are increasingly correlated with inexplicable suicide and worse.
Meet the New Paleo Diet: The Benefits of Eating Bugs
The theory goes (and archaeological evidence corroborates) that early hunter-gatherers, while they may not have lived as long, still had some major health advantages on most of us modern humans.
Almost Half a Billion Worth of Bitcoins Vanish
Mt. Gox Says It Lost 750,000 of Customers’ Bitcoin to Fraud.
The Next Shoe To Drop: Obamacare Will Increase The Cost Of Employer-Sponsored Insurance
Yesterday, the Obama Administration’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a six-page report predicting that Obamacare could cause premiums to increase for nearly two-thirds of small- to medium-sized businesses.
Republicans Strike Back at Harry Reid for Calling ObamaCare Victims Liars (+video)
The media loves to give Reid a pass for these nasty little smear jobs, but this time he’s run afoul of the very same personalization Democrats are normally good at exploiting for their advantage.
Ukraine, China, Iran – America Isn’t Leading From Behind, It’s Being Left Behind
Ukraine’s acting president announced that he has put the country’s armed forces on high alert after the Russian parliament unanimously voted to grant President Vladimir Putin permission to mobilize the country’s military in Ukraine.
‘What the Heck Are You Talking About?’: See How Obama Responds to Heckler at DNC Event
President Barack Obama was heckled over his “plan for nuclear war with Russia” during a speech at the Democratic National Committee on Friday. He responded to the bizarre question in about the only way he could.