“President Barack Obama and the first family checked out an early-season basketball matchup Sunday between Oregon State University and the University of Maryland. The Obamas were greeted by applause and some boos as they took their seats behind the Oregon State bench at the Comcast Center, the Maryland Terrapins’ home arena in College Park, Md. A few students called …
Pope Francis Polls Catholics – Response Is Largely Liberal
“Pope Francis raised eyebrows among church officials and lay Catholics alike this past weekend after he sent a message to American bishops asking them to make the church “more welcoming” and instructing them to uncover what American Catholics really think about same-sex marriage, divorce, and contraception. The charge was part of an unusual effort by the Vatican to conduct …
Obamacare Compared To Watergate, Hurricane Katrina?
“Bob Woodward took to “Fox News Sunday” to continue his streak of comparing things to Watergate. This time, the subject was Obamacare. The disastrous rollout of the health care law has prompted a series of dubious comparisons to things like Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War, both of which differ from Obamacare primarily in their very high body count…”.* …
Gay Marriage Feud Splits Cheney Sisters
“A day after his daughters’ spat over their disagreements on gay marriage spilled out messily into the public, former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, released a statement urging that there not be a “distortion” of Liz Cheney’s views on the subject. The statement came a day after Mary Cheney and her wife, Heather Poe, blasted Liz …
What Makes People Happiest? Sex Or Caring For Children?
“Researchers used text messaging to build up a map of what activities people routinely rated as bringing the most and least happiness to their daily lives and found that sex ranked first in all three categories measured in the survey: Pleasure, meaning and engagement.*” Cenk Uygur, and Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks discuss the top ranked activities. Read …
Former Cop Charged With Manslaughter After Firing 41 Shots At Suspect
“A grand jury indicted a former Texas police officer Monday on a manslaughter charge in the fatal shooting of an unarmed suspect following a high-speed pursuit. A judge set bond Tuesday at $100,000 for 33-year-old Patrick Tuter, who’s accused of firing 41 shots at 25-year-old Michael Allen Vincent following a half-hour chase on Aug. 31, 2012. Investigators said Tuter, …
This Booze Substitute Gets You Drunk Pain Free
Join #FOWLERNATION!! http://bit.ly/14crV4D Neuroscientist David Nutt published a piece in the Guardian today detailing a line of research he hopes will lead to an alcohol substitute—one that produces many of the neurological effects of alcohol, with none of the chemical’s direct physical harm. The key to decoding alcohol is the gamma aminobutyric acid neurotransmitter system in the brain, which …