The world’s oldest living person, Edna Parker passed away last week at her home in Indiana. She was 115 years old.Parker was born on April 2, 1893 on a farm in Indiana. She married her next door neighbor, Earl Parker, and had two sons. Mr. Parker passed away when she was 45, and she lived […]
Now that we’ve elected a new president, the mainstream media is abuzz with talk of whether Obama will really deliver The Change he promised throughout his campaign. But all this speculation is only gonna get us nowhere—time will tell.What we should be asking ourselves is whether the previous President lived up to all of his […]
With the economy in the tank, many analysts believe that Americans are foregoing life’s extras and putting a tight watch on their household budgets. Yet despite slow retail sales on Black Friday and confirmation of a recession, Americans are buying “Material Girl” (a.k.a Madonna) tickets (so far 550,000 have been sold). Her North American tour […]
November has been a long string of weekends finishing ahead of last year’s numbers.In movies, that is.The Thanksgiving long weekend was no exception, with audiences flocking to see a range of new releases, from the treacly (Four Christmases, $32 mil ) to the teen-y (Twilight, $27 mil) to the family-friendly (Bolt, $26 mil) to the […]
When President-Elect Barack Obama introduced his nomination for secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, at his press conference on Monday, he had plenty of kind words for his former Democratic primary rival.I believe that there’s no more effective advocate than Hillary Clinton for that well-rounded view of how we advance American interests. She has served on […]
Nobody said it would be smooth sailing … The New York Times reports that Eric Holder, Barack Obama’s pick to be attorney general, was much more involved in Marc Rich’s pardon than has previously been acknowledged. The most meaty paragraph:Mr. Holder had more than a half-dozen contacts with Mr. Rich’s lawyers over 15 months, including […]
On Monday’s “The Colbert Report,” Stephen Colbert called out Kanye West for his arrogance to think he was the voice of this generation in this decade. And to counter West’s superiority complex, Colbert showcased his own and challenged West to an iTunes download sell off. Check out the video.
In Richard Nixon’s time, all the president’s men fretted about threats on every front: disquiet out on the streets, disloyalty …
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