A group of social conservatives thinks it has a way to turn the gay rights debate around: Stop using the word “gay.” At the Awakening conference at Liberty University in Virginia last weekend, Ryan Sorba, chairman of the Young Conservatives of California, said that merely using that word was conceding…
Continue reading …It’s sad enough that three little girls running a lemonade stand in Georgia were robbed of $150—even sadder when you add in the fact that they were selling the lemonade to raise money for a hospitalized 2-year-old. Authorities say a man and woman approached the stand Saturday and grabbed…
Continue reading …What would the Bible look like without all that God stuff in it? That’s the question AC Grayling attempted to answer with his newly published The Goo d Book: A Humanist Bible . Instead of looking to prophets and apostles, Grayling compiled the wisdom of great philosophers and writers, reports CNN…
Continue reading …Donald Trump has made a whole lot of noise lately, and apparently it’s paid off: the Donald is tied with Mike Huckabee for first place atop the GOP presidential field, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, with both candidates getting 19% of the vote from Republicans and Republican-leading…
Continue reading …NASA’s space shuttle fleet has only two flights left, and the space agency announced today where the shuttles are going for retirement, reports CollectSpace : Atlantis: It stays with NASA and will be parked at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Discovery: It’s going to the Smithsonian’s Steven F….
Continue reading …Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak entered the hospital today for unspecified reasons, the same day he was supposed to head to Cairo for questioning about alleged corruption, reports Al Jazeera . Mubarak, hospitalized in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, had pledged earlier this week to cooperate with the new…
Continue reading …Economics professor Bryan Caplan has advice for all those stressed-out parents in the world: Lighten up, you don’t matter that much. As the father of twins, Caplan has immersed himself in twin research, which imparts this lesson: “With a few exceptions, the effect of parenting on adult outcomes ranges from…
Continue reading …The West Coast has Oaksterdam University , which bills itself as the nation’s first “cannabis college,” and now the East Coast has … Marijuana State University. It’s actually a roving one-man workshop in Maine with the goal of teaching people how to grow high-quality medical marijuana, reports the Portland Press Herald . “There’s…
Continue reading …Maybe Glenn Beck has been right about gold all this time—a new report says the precious metal could top $2,100 an ounce by 2014, and could come close to hitting the staggering $5,000 mark by the end of the decade in “a possible ‘super-bull’ scenario,” reports the…
Continue reading …Live, from your computer, it’s … YouTube? The online video giant announced yesterday that it is moving into live streaming, with the official launch of YouTube Live. Its first major event will be a live broadcast of the Coachella music festival starting Friday. YouTube has broadcast one-off events in the past,…
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