The competition to offer streamed movies and TV shows over the Internet got even more crowded today as Comcast announced its version, reports the Los Angeles Times . The cable provider’s Xfinity Streampix will be available only to Comcast customers for $5 month—it’s free for some, depending on their current…
Continue reading …A major new study of heart attack victims presents cautionary stats for women: They are less likely to experience the classic symptom of chest pain and, perhaps because of that, they are more likely to die at the hospital than men, report USA Today and WebMD . It may be that…
Continue reading …Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said today he has to have more surgery after doctors in Cuba found a new lesion in the same place where he had a tumor removed last year. The announcement thrust Venezuelan politics into new uncertainty because the 57-year-old socialist leader is seeking re-election this year,…
Continue reading …Rick Santorum’s two biggest problems today appear to be Satan and Matt Drudge. The latter is using his influential Drudge Report to highlight a 2008 speech Santorum gave in which he warned about Satan having his “sights on” the US, reports Politico . “Drudge is making Santorum look like the scary…
Continue reading …Competitive eaters aren’t just good at stuffing their faces: Their digestive systems actually function differently from everyone else’s. A researcher at the University of Pennsylvania compared the eating habits of a leading competitive eater and a man who weighed 45 pounds more than the champion did. He scanned the two…
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Click here to view this media It looks like Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has been proven wrong again. At a campaign event in Suwanee, Georgia last week, the former House Speaker promised supporters that he would bring back cheaper gas because “you can’t put a gun rack on a Volt.” One Crooks and Liars reader noticed our coverage and posted a YouTube video to prove the former Speaker of the House wrong. “He said you couldn’t put a gun rack in a Volt,” the car owner explained. “I take this to heart because I own a Volt… And as you can see, you can put a gun rack in the back of a Volt.”
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enlarge For this one, let’s start with a good definition of “theocracy.” the·oc·ra·cy a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God’s or deity’s laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities. Rick Santorum, who is a radically conservative, pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic, has said that birth control is ” not okay ,” has argued that states should have the right to ban contraception , that the federal government should require schools to teach creationism , that both homosexuals and adulterers should be imprisoned , and that doctors who perform a legal medical procedure are criminals. Now, I’m not sure who Lewis is referring to when he writes “people” in that tweet — but I do think it’s deeply ironic that someone like Santorum is expressing alarm about theocracy in Iran.
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Continue reading …Liz Trotta Doubles Down on Her Offensive Statements About Women in the Military
February 21, 2012 No Comment
Click here to view this media Liz Trotta apparently doesn’t have any remorse about her statements that John wrote about last week, where she said that women in the military should expect to be raped , and rather than apologize, she decided to double down and blame the liberals and feminists for her woes. Via Raw Story — In labored clarification, Fox contributor castigates military’s ‘fake heroism’ : Appearing on the Fox News show America’s News HQ , contributor Liz Trotta attempted to clarify remarks she made earlier this month that became fodder for The Daily Show , during which host Jon Stewart summarized that she did not want the military helping women who’ve been “raped too much. ” Unfortunately for the former Washington Times editor , what she actually said isn’t going to make the controversy go away — but then, that may have been the point. After suggesting that the issue of women in military roles has “never gotten a fair and open hearing,” Trotta went on to say: “The political correctness infecting the Pentagon has resulted in silly and dishonest fairy tales about female heroism,” she said. “Has anyone forgotten the Jessica Lynch story?” “There are countless other stories of fake heroism or exaggerated prowess in which women are the stars, many of them tailored for The New York Times and its agenda to promote militant feminism, no matter what the truth,” Trotta added. And here’s more via Mediaite — Fox’s Liz Trotta Clarifies Remarks About Women In The Military : Later in her appearance, Trotta noted that: The military is not a social services operation, or a testing ground for gender wars. It is a fighting machine. Women are not as strong as men. Their instincts and reactions in crises are markedly different. There’s a reality the left will not face: biology is not destiny. “I certainly did not say all military men are rapists,” she added. “I believe that the environment of combat, by definition, sets up the situation where basic instincts rule. Any scientist will tell you that testosterone rules.”
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