More pain for gold bugs as gold futures take sickening dive
Video: Related Columns WASHINGTON, June 26, 2013 – Stock market futures are looking good this morning, promising to add a little more to yesterday’s low-volume relief rally on Wall Street. Only the...
View ArticleWhat every diabetic should know
Related Columns WASHINGTON, June 26, 2013 — The new study out of the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague, Czech Republic was presented to the American Diabetes Association...
View ArticleJim Crow is dead, and the Constitution lives on
In striking down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Supreme Court has restored a measure of constitutional order. Based on 40-year-old voting data that doesn’t reflect current political...
View ArticleHastings, Wilson decry Supreme Court decision
Broward isn’t affected, but the county’s two top black political leaders blasted Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidating a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. Only a handful of Florida...
View ArticleCheese prevents dental cavities and tooth decay
Related Columns WASHINGTON, June 26, 2013- A published in the May/June 2013 issue of the journal General Dentistry concluded that dairy products, especially cheese, may help prevent dental cavities....
View ArticleWhere, oh where is Edward Snowden?
WASHINGTON, June 24, 2013 — Just when everyone thought they knew where Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker of U.S. surveillance secrets was, he has vanished from under our noses....
View ArticleAnother Wimbledon upset: Serena Williams loses — why?
WASHINGTON, July 1, 2013 — Just when you thought things couldn’t get any wilder and weirder at Wimbledon than they did last week, defending champion and five-time Wimbledon winner, Serena Williams was...
View ArticleSupreme Court can tune up the Voting Rights Act
Not every law that’s constitutional is also wise. Keep that in mind as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It seems like an easy case. How could a federal statute...
View ArticleEdward Snowden lands in Moscow: Cuba or Venezuela next?
WASHINGTON, June 23, 2013 — Edward Snowden, who leaked information on the U.S. National Security Agency’s surveillance programs, setting off a national uproar and perhaps endangering national...
View ArticleSenate passes immigration reform: What’s next?
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2013 — It took some heavy lifting, but after weeks of negotiating, fighting back the likes of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions (R), arm-twisting, and lots of horse-trading, the Senate...
View ArticleWRIGHT: What Paula Deen and black civil rights groups have in common
Video: WASHINGTON, July 26, 2013 – Racism is alive in America. Cooking maven Paula Deen revealed that recently when it was exposed in lawsuit against her that she didn’t think using the word “nigger”...
View ArticleDOMA is dead: Why gay marriage is good for America
WASHINGTON, July 1, 2013 — DOMA is dead. Good riddance. The so-called Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 was a terrible idea in the first place when Congress, in its so-called wisdom, passed the law that...
View ArticleHow the Internet is driving an interactive revolution in gaming
Video: Related Columns WASHINGTON, June 26, 2013 – The fact that gaming and the Internet have ended up hand-in-hand shouldn’t be a surprise at all. As both a gamer and a net geek, I can personally...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Naïve Reasoning for Gutting the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court has a long history of declaring that the problem of racism in the United States has been solved. It did that in a series of decisions just after the Civil War, striking down...
View ArticleWimbledon gets weird: Is it the grass?
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2013 — Today was one for the record books as the wonderful world of Wimbledon took a turn into the weird zone. Tennis fans are scratching their heads and Wimbledon officials are...
View ArticleMinecraft: Epic Jump Map - Operation: Tropical Vacation Part 3
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2013 — This parkour/adventure map made by bodil40 is filled with fun and excitement, you must jump, punch, and climb to victory. Parkour is the definition on free running, which...
View ArticleMinecraft: Epic Jump Map - Operation: Tropical Vacation Part 2
Related Columns WASHINGTON, June 20, 2013 – This parkour/adventure map made by bodil40 is filled with fun and excitement as you must jump, punch, and climb to victory. Parkour is defined as free...
View ArticleVoting Rights basically killed by Supreme Court: Now what?
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2013 — With states still finding ways to restrict voting, particularly in the South, by making it difficult to vote, it was hard to believe that the United States Supreme Court by...
View ArticleHouse Democrats side with IRS, support whitewash
Related Columns SALT LAKE CITY, June 29, 2013 — Whether the IRS should be able to target groups based solely on their ideological positions is now a party-line issue. The House Oversight Committee...
View ArticleMinecraft Survival Games: EP 1
WASHINGTON, June 13, 2013 - In this all out brawl I got to face, and defeat, many people and claim victory (second place) in the epic Survival Games. In the server there are 6 different maps you can...
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