Tom Cruise: My Work as an Actor is as Hard as Fighting in Afghanistan
Tom Cruise not only thinks he trains harder than Olympic athletes, he believes his job as a professional actor is as grueling as fighting the war in Afghanistan.
Entries by Joe Miller
The Death of Writing, and Its Impact on Our Politics
For four months before the battle of Gettysburg, Pvt. Myron A. Clark, a 21-year-old clerk in Company I of the 14th Vermont Infantry, wrote every day in a leather-bound diary he’d bought in Washington, D.C.
Everything You Know about Matthew Shepard is Wrong
Stephen Jimenez concludes that Matthew Shepard’s death had nothing to do with homophobia. It was instead the horrific result of a drug deal gone wrong. Indeed, in The Book of Matt, Jimenez offers lots of circumstantial evidence that Shepard and one of his murderers, a violent and drug-addled bit of tumbleweed called Aaron McKinney, were rival dealers in crystal meth. Several named witnesses told Jimenez that the two even had a sexual relationship.
Right Wing’s Surge in Europe Has the Establishment Rattled
As right-wing populists surge across Europe, rattling established political parties with their hostility toward immigration, austerity and the European Union, Mikkel Dencker of the Danish People’s Party has found yet another cause to stir public anger: pork meatballs missing from kindergartens.
Iran Nuclear Talks End with No Agreement after France Balks at Deal
Negotiations among world powers to temporarily curb Iran’s nuclear program ended with no deal Saturday after France objected that proposals did not go far enough.
Berkeley Bans Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’
The UC Berkeley student government has banned the term “illegal immigrant” from its discourse, deeming the phrase racist, offensive, unfair and derogatory.
Executions Stall as States Seek Different Drugs
Florida ran out of its primary lethal-injection drug last month and relied on a new drug that no state had ever used for an execution.
DMV Employee Pleads Guilty to Giving At Least 300 Illegals State ID’s or Licenses
Three people in Virginia, including a DMV employee, pleaded guilty this week to conspiring to get state IDs or driver’s licenses for at least 300 illegal immigrants.
Analysis: Over 40 Million May Lose Their Employer Based Health Plans
Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that tens of millions of people actually could lose those their policies.
CNN Blames Christians for Obamacare Problems
CNN has blamed Christians for the problem of Americans without health insurance, calling it “The Obamacare ‘scandal’ you haven’t heard about.”