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Young Adults' Obamacare Awareness Low Ahead Of Rollout
Posted: 08/21/2013Jeffrey Youngjeffrey.young@huffingtonpost.comYoung adults, especially those with low incomes who will qualify for financial assistance, have poor awareness of health insurance options...
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Huge Increase In Number Of Devastating Forest Fires
Of the 96 North American forest fires on Wikipedia's "List of Forest Fires," 56 occurred after 2000 A.D.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires#North_America
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Ave Maria University Alleges Violation Of Religious Beliefs Against...
(Photo: Mitch Stacy, AP)STORY HIGHLIGHTSThe school was founded in Michigan in 1998 by the founder of Domino's PizzaIt moved first to Naples, then built a campus about 30 miles east of the Florida...
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"Syria: The Very, Very Basics" (Washington Post)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. (AP)By Dylan Matthews, Published: August 29, 2013E-mail the writerWednesday’s news conference by Secretary of State John Kerry was, as colleague Max Fisher...
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Physics Says You’re An Impurity In An Otherwise Beautiful Universe
Amid perfect cosmic symmetry, there's us.Illustration by Alex Eben Meyer***"Is Perfectionism A Curse? Paul Ryan Tells The...
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Why Rugged Individualism Is Toxic For Technological Development. (The New...
You don't build this "in a garage."In fact, "you" didn't build it at all."We" did.With indispensable help from governmentThe GOP Plan to Crush Silicon ValleyWhat will become of Steve Jobs’s angel?BY...
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Street Killings Underscore Iraq's Rising Unrest
FILE - In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, a woman reacts after a car bomb attack in the Sha'ab neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. Violence inside Iraq has accelerated in recent months...
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U.S. Internet Users Pay More for Slower Service
Illustration by Mark Owens"South Korean Internet 200 Times Faster Than U.S. Costs $27.00 A Month"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/08/south-korean-internet-200-times-faster.html***By Susan...
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South Korean Internet 200 Times Faster Than U.S. Costs $27.00 A Month
For many low-income Americans, Internet access is a luxury they can't afford.Too bad they don't live in South Korea.By the end of this year, South Koreans will have access to Internet speeds that are...
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"U.S. Internet Speed Slows Compared To Other Countries"
The Huffington Post | By Betsy IsaacsonPosted: 07/24/2013 Compared with other tech-savvy nations, Internet service in the U.S. is overpriced and slow. According to a "State of the Internet" report...
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Ted Nugent’s Wife Forgot Gun Was In Her Bag At DFW Airport
Actually, Shemane Nugent decided to take her pistol when - after hours of effort - she gave up on getting a bow in her handbag.***Alan: How can sane people forget where they put their guns? No wonder...
View ArticleStrongest Man Lifts 975 Pounds
Warning: video contains some graphic language.Claudine ZapDon’t try this at home: Sports enthusiast Per Gunnar Roalkvam caught an eye-popping sight when he trained his cam on strongman Brian Shaw...
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The 47 (Now 43) Percent, In One Quick Video
By Dylan Matthews, Published: August 30As Brad noted yesterday, the share of people paying no income taxes has fallen from 47 percent to 43.3 percent. And of those left, 28.9 percent pay payroll tax,...
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Despite Conventional Wisdom, Young Adults May Be Easiest Recruits For Obamacare
The bros might just sign up for Obamacare yetBy Sarah Kliff, Published: August 30 73CommentsAlan: There are some complicated graphs in the following article - and the subject matter is full of shifty...
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Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet of Soil and Strife, Dies at 74
Seamus Heaney, an accomplished and admired Irish poet, died Friday. He was 74.By MARGALIT FOXPublished: August 30, 2013 208 CommentsARTSBEATSeamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel laureate in Literature, who was...
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If Martin Luther King Were With Us Now, Health-Care Would Be A Civil Right
Ah! But they love 'em in the womb!***"Universal healthcare and infrequent abortion are obviously linked." Catholic Cardinal, Basil Hume -...
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Aquinas, St.Symeon The New Theologian and Their Spiritual Kin
Aquinas observes that love infuses joy in the will. “The soul’s joy, flowing over into the body, fills it with happiness in the form of health and incorruptible vigor.”[vii] He infuses love in us as...
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Bradlee Dean, "Christian" Talk Show Host and Humankind's Reversion To...
Bradlee Deanhttp://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bradlee_Dean***When faith displaces intellectual rigor, "the faithful" believe it their duty to champion intellectual blindness and deliberately impugn...
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Author Reza Aslan Explores Uncomfortable Facts About Jesus
In the video clip,below, author Reza Aslan makes pointed reference to the pseudipigraha, the literary matrix in which early Christian writers wrote. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudepigrapha We now...
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Liz Cheney: I don’t support same sex marriage even though my sister is in one.
We are all hypocrites. I, for example -- after years away from the church because I couldn't stand the hypocrites there -- finally re-joined the flock after realizing: "Hey! There's always room for one...
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