For every truly great artist like David Bowie, The Beatles or Bob Dylan, there are scores and scores of mediocre performers who exist solely to fill the seemingly unquenchable demand for music from the public.
Thanks to Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, the sex life of students, and women, has become the new hot topic. Called to testify for the defense of Democratic leaders and their contraception mandate, Fluke argued the health of women takes precedence over religious liberty.
When folks think about President Barack Obama, two specific adjectives flash across millions of American minds: foreign-born and duplicitous. He also reads teleprompters very well.
Will big companies like IBM or venture capital-backed companies ensure the technology future of the U.S?
With the U.S. economy showing signs of strengthening due to Keynesian economic policies, the Republican Party should do itself a favor: stop offering ineffective economic policies and quit while it's behind.
With time running out, should the Magic trade Dwight Howard, or keep him and hope for the best?
Why is everyone so afraid of big government? It has become a tautology that big government is bad in many circles, but nobody ever seems to really explain why. Granted, concentrating power over peoples’ lives in one place usually leads to abuse of that power, and that is the obvious answer.
Two of the biggest names in the technology world, Apple and Microsoft, are cluttering the Internet with hype surrounding their upcoming releases. Apple’s iPad 3 is said to be available on March 7th, and Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 8 just launched their consumer preview yesterday. Although the two manufacturers’ operating systems usually cater to a different crowd, their target audiences may be intertwining.
Democrats have made deceit and dishonesty in government a science. They are excellent practitioners of vile, wicked behavior. My biggest concern for America is that they very rarely pay any political prices for their misdeeds.
In order to appeal to the “common man” (and perhaps win as many Democratic votes as possible), he pretends to like sports to show how “down to earth” and “accessible” he is.
Here are the five biggest questions regarding the rest of the NBA Season.
Here’s something you’ll never hear in the mainstream media: conservatism is the most popular ideology in the country, beating liberalism by a score of 2-1. And the numbers are there to prove it.
Far too many people are giving Danica Patrick a free pass because of her good looks.
Mortgage interest rates continue to fall, amid concern about a sluggish U.S. economy and the European government debt crisis -- but U.S. home prices are declining in many markets, as well. What should Americans who are possibly thinking about buying a home do now?
Weapons-grade uranium. There’s an ominous ring to those words.
Five months into her tenure, is new Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman really up to the job? Chances are no and the indications she gave last week are that she may never measure up.
There was endless speculation about what he really meant to the Beatles and to the world at large.
His suspension was overturned, but many people still believe Ryan Braun is a cheater.
TORONTO, Feb. 23 -- Muslim countries are overthrowing fundamentalist rulers and the United States could have a Mormon presidential candidate as religion keeps a firm, inevitable foot in politics.
Jeremy Lin should've replaced Joe Johnson in the All-Star game, not Rajon Rondo.
There is an old adage: Even in the warmest of hearts, there’s a cold spot for the Jews.
If Teheran wants to improve its image on the global stage, they really need to get rid of this Ahmadinejad character
Why the Scouting Combine is the most overrated week of the football season.
On the renovated 13th floor of an imposing government building sits Clocktower Gallery, wedged on Leonard street somewhere between Tribeca, City Hall and Chinatown; on Tuesday, Feb. 21 Taraka Larson presented a lecture on the formation of Now Age aesthetics and their implications for Ghost Modernism-an examination of the Symbol's loss of power and it's occult move to kitsch, all within an architecture of Utopia.
When it comes to the debate on whether the United States is experiencing inflation, it is typically not a yes or no interchange. If you have read the first two parts (Part 1, Part 2) of my series on inflation, you are well aware that I am on the side that inflation is already upon us. My counterparts, typically, will not only disagree, but will also bring up the issue of deflation.
A year after Carmelo Anthony was traded from the Nuggets to the Knicks, who got the better of the deal?
It would be nice if Linsanity was accompanied by Knick victories, but it’s not really even necessary.
I hear it every day—President Barack Obama is going to win; Republicans don’t have a chance; none of the GOP candidates are electable. This is the chorus of the mainstream media.
The sudden rise of New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin has stunned many inside the National Basketball Association and those who watch the league on a regular basis.
It is part of our nature as humans, it seems, that we take for granted anything that has been a part of our lives for long enough. Provided we live through it, it becomes just another “fact of life.” It seems it is only with conscious effort—often a great deal of conscious effort—that we can keep appreciating something that we’re comfortable with. (It is interesting to note that we also get accustomed to the great evils in life. It is the small things we either appreciate over and over or come ...