Great comments and seeds... It's always great to find another person who has good intellectual responses for the some of nonsense being spouted... Keep up the good work!
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Your charm, curiosity, open-mindedness, knowledge and good nature make Newsvine a more pleasant place to learn. I wish my children could be your students!
Charm City is lucky to have ffeineandsugar guiding students' minds. Just offering one's thanks seems inadequate in light of the challenges and responsibilities accepted by those who strive to be outstanding educators. America needs more dedicated individuals like this person.
The nation's cutest cookie pushers are the subject of an "official inquiry" by the bishops' Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, according to National Public Radio. The bishops are suspicious of some of the scouts' program materials, and relationships with g …
KODAK LIVEPrint technology was developed in our Rochester, NY labs by a small group of dedicated imaging scientists after a very spirited lunchtime brainstorming session. Rapid commercialization of this new technology is underway in all areas of the company and new products …
One of the two big nationwide lotteries is over $476 million, with a cash payout option of $341 million. Those are new records. So I ask the community - if YOU won all that money, what would you do with it? Oh, and newsvine users have to buy gold inlay power chairs for Tyler and …
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan plans to unveil his spending plan Tuesday morning during a Capitol Hill news conference and follow it up later with a speech at the American Enterprise Institute. The proposal would replace the current tax structure’s six brackets with just …
Noel Biderman, the CEO of Ashley Madison, an affair-encouraging business that pairs up men and women who are already in relationships, was a guest on Starting Point Wednesday morning, discussing his plans to buy up abandoned advertising space on Rush Limbaugh's radio program. …
This one speaks for itself. Fourteen quotes. Which belong to the uber-rich troglodyte that would gladly buy Springfield (and the rest of the world), and which belong to the Simpsons character? Test YOUR skill today!
The bomb squad has been called to the Palm Beach home of Rush Limbaugh. According to Palm Beach police, Rush Limbaugh’s security found a package containing an electronic plaque.
Funny though, I watched the entire funeral and never once saw the protesters. And turns out my eyes aren't deceiving me. It now appears the famous anti-gay and hateful church may not have been at the funeral at all.
Baltimore police have issued new rules governing how officers deal with a public increasingly armed with cameras and video records, saying that in most instances, cops cannot stop people from filming crime scenes.
What else could explain her endorsement of Mitt Romney? Once immutable where her core convictions were concerned, she has executed a vertigo-inducing volte-face in order to promote a brazen opportunist whose positions on the big issues were the opposite of hers before he began ru …
Every day, Baltimore Sun employees cross a sturdy suspended walkway between the newspaper and its parking garage. Called the skywalk, it hovers 200 feet over Centre Street. It was built in 1978 of bulletproof glass, concrete and steel, and is one-quarter of a mile long.
The GMO Scientists and Lawyers are at it again over in St. Louis. Now they're going after the wheat crop, one of the last major crops that hasn't been targeted by their schemes. Fortunately, there's a good petition up at change.org against this one. You know what to do.
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In the words of that great Boston band, The Modern Lovers, Pablo Picasso was never called an @!$%#.
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we see that there really are “Two Americas,” as the saying goes — and that’s no accident. It’s the result of a permanent elite that is removing itself from the rest of the nation.
The author of this blog post demonstrates what TRUE socialism (as opposed to anything we have in the USA, for example) results in - and proves, for once and for all, why capitalism is better: the risk/reward ratio under the socialist system is unacceptable for anyone who wants to …
Rejoice, brothers! File sharing is now an official religion in Sweden. For real. It took two years, but it's done: it's called the Missionary Church of Kopimism and has Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V as its sacred symbols.
A man in the U.S. is suing Pepsi Co.
Part two of lovely little series guaranteed to educate and offend at the same time. NOT Politically Correct, but unlike #1, not so offensive that I can not seed it.
Crony capitalism is the most serious current danger to the American community, a threat not simply to government or the economy, but to our very way of life. It is the worst such threat since the trusts and monopolies of the early 20th century, and in much the same way.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Friday named four Senate Democrats to negotiate a full-year extension of the payroll tax holiday and said a surtax on millionaires is back on the table in the discussions.
The academy this year dedicated an $80,000 outdoor worship center — a small Stonehenge-like circle of boulders with propane fire pit — high on a hill for the handful of current or future cadets whose religions fall under the broad category of "Earth-based." Those …
Wesson oils, specifically the Canola Oil, Vegetable Oil, Corn Oil, and Best Blend, do in fact contain GMOs, prompting a class-action lawsuit over their misleading "100% natural" label claim.
The nation's cutest cookie pushers are the subject of an "official inquiry" by the bishops' Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, according to National Public Radio. The bishops are suspicious of some of the scouts' program materials, and relationships with g …
Last August, debt ceiling negotiations between House Republicans and Senate Democrats came to an end when President Obama signed into law the Budget Control Act, a not-so-grand bargain that created a legislative super committee tasked with finding spending cuts to offse …
Jackie Chan is landing his last punch as an action star, but says he is stepping into retirement having made one of the most important films of his career.
So many Science Fiction novels about a takeover by the robots portray the demise of Humanity by the Machines. We are not so far away from that scenario in the US in some very surprising areas of our lives. This is what I see happening from not only my personal life, but fr …
The House of Representatives is poised to pass a hobbled version of the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization (VAWA) later today. The House GOP version actually rolls back some current protections and excludes other key protections contained in the Sena …
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