A collection of interesting articles and discussion from around the Internet
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Liberal Media Bias: Sins of Omissions
When the media reports with Bias, it doesn't report things incorrectly, but it instead uses sins of omission. For example the majority of the money of the Bush Tax Cuts benefitted the rich, and this was widely reported in the media. However the Bush Tax Cuts actually make the tax code more progressive because it lowers the tax rates for poor and middle class and results in the rich paying a higher percentage of taxes. That second fact was left out of a lot of media reporting.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Niggardly: political correctness
An oldie but a goodie from Tony Snow: when people where clamoring for an apology from a DC staffer for correctly using the word 'niggardly' Tony Snow correctly points out that "they are actually calling on him to apologize for their ignorance.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Why isn't their more industry in America?: Obama rejects Keystone Pipeline.
If you are curious as to why there aren't more Jobs in America, it could be in part to the fact that government red tape and endless review causes companies to move overseas where they can make decisions quickly and adapt to an ever changing market place. The Obama Administration rejected the Keystone Pipeline stating that they didn't have enough time to review the project.
Title IX hurting middle school boys
In some areas, like Pittsburgh, there aren't enough girls to field a basketball team for 5th and 6th graders, the solution to the problem (so that the schools stay title IX compliant) is to not allow the boys to play if the girls don't want to, all in the name of fairness. I'm all for letting girls play sports, but should we deny boys the opportunity to play sports if their female counterparts don't want to?
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
NCAA Basketball Player taken advantage of
A Center from the St. Joseph's Basketball team has been denied a waiver from his coach to play at UAB, his coach is hiding from the media and refuses to explain why he won't let his former player play somewhere else it has led some sportswriters to wonder what is St. Joe's doing and why is it stonewalling everyone. I have wondered that myself and have emailed the coach cariano@sju.edu, and I recommend that you do as well.
Call for Civility
The Daily Show interviews the president of the National Conference for Editorial Writers whose organization is calling for civility in political debate called the Tea Party a group of "Terrorists", John Oliver of the Daily Show tries to point out the irony to her.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Trending: Phone Stacking
New Trend: When out to dinner, people stack their cell phones on the center of the table, the first person to check their phone pays the bill, it is a move to encourage people to talk to each other instead of checking their electronic devices
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
Putting Country First
Jon Huntsman: Putting Country First. Huntsman was criticized by Romney for serving as ambassador to China under a democrat, Huntsman said that he was proud to serve his country and that he would always put his country first.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
The Deceptive income of Doctors
The Deceptive Income of Doctors: when you take into account their time spent training and the massive amount of debt they take on, the income of doctors isn't what it seems.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Conceal and Carry: 15 years
A US marine asked a security guard at the Empire state building where he could check his gun: he is a registered gun owner is his home state and tried his best to read up on the laws of the state of New York that he was visiting, but he now faces a 3.5 to 15 years if convicted.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Santorum in Iowa?
Will Former Senator Rick Santorum overcome his google problem and win the Iowa Caucus today?
Monday, January 2, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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