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When Keeping It Mediocre Goes Wrong: Supreme Court Rejects Abigail Fisher's...
It's not often that we misread how the Supreme Court is going to vote on an issue in this highly politicized world we live in, but I'm happy to say that this was one of those times. The Supreme Court...
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Book Reviews: End of Watch, The Emperor's Armies
End of Watchby Stephen KingEnd of Watch, as the title might indicate, is the concluding volume of the trilogy King started with Mr. Mercedes, reviewed earlier here. Depending on my mood it is...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: The Winds of Winter Season Six Finale
Well all in all this was a mostly satisfying season finale that wrapped up some storylines and opened other ones to ponder over the next year. Book readers will recognize how some events were altered...
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Abortion Law
There's no doubt that the issue of abortion is a highly contentious issue in America. But alas, we are a nation of laws, and, in 1973, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Roe v. Wade that a woman's right...
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Movie Reviews: Free State of Jones, 13 Hours, Cell
Free State of Jonesdirected by Gary RossAlright, alright, alright. This could have been a better movie. Maybe if this were the seventies or eighties some of the critical reaction to this movie would...
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Professor Nagel Sires 22 Children
A little over a decade ago the film director Spike Lee made a movie which was titled She Hate Me. Among other things this film depicted the plight of a desperate biotech executive who, running into...
View ArticleAlton Sterling Killed By Louisiana Police While Lying on the Ground
A few facts about this tragic case of yet another Black death at the hands of police:A 37-year-old man was fatally shot by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, early Tuesday morning in an incident caught...
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Movie Reviews: 10 Cloverfield Lane
10 Cloverfield Lanedirected by Dan TrachtenbergThis film tries and succeeds in having it both ways. It could be a sequel or even a reworking of the 2008 movie Cloverfield and a film that stands...
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Rudy Giuliani and the Black Lives Matter Movement
Black lives matter. Those three words have been at the center of heated public debate over the recent police shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, and also of the...
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Philando Castile, Dallas, and Blowback
On July 6th, in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, local police stopped a car driven by school cook Philando Castile. Castile was a black man. Also in the car was Castile's girlfriend Lavish Reynolds and...
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Miko Grimes and Anti-Semitic Statements
I was raised to believe that no matter what your family should be united against the outside world. So this means that if your brother gets into a fight with the local college football team you jump in...
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Book Reviews: Monster Hunter International
Monster Hunter Internationalby Larry CorreiaI had heard different things about this book. Judging by some of his blog posts the author seemed like an optimistic sort though we certainly wouldn't agree...
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Melania Trump and Plagiarism
Donald Trump has run a deliberately disruptive and occasionally amateurish campaign for President. He's gotten as far as he has by breaking or ignoring the normal rules of political decorum. You can't...
View ArticleJon Stewart and Late Show: Donald Trump
Jon Stewart has a special talent for the describing the phenomenon which is the Donald Trump campaign for President of the United States. Below is his appearance on the Late Show where he goes in on...
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Ailes Out at Fox News
Once a year everyone in my company has to complete online training on how to prevent or not engage in sexual harassment. It's painfully obvious stuff. You don't have to believe in or accept 100% of the...
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Movie Reviews: Green Room
Green Roomdirected by Jerry SaulnierOk, first things first. If you are a person who is very sensitive to apparently realistic cinematic depictions of violence then this is most definitely not the flick...
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Michelle Obama Reminds America About Its Greatness: "I wake up every morning...
The first night of the Democratic convention took place Monday, July 25, 2016, with a line-up of Democrats that included Corey Booker, Eva Longoria, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and First Lady...
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Book Reviews: Kill 'em and Leave, Lovecraft Country
Kill em and Leaveby James McBrideThis was a short book. It wasn't a biography of the late James Brown as much as it was a series of stories about Brown and the impact he had, good or otherwise on the...
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Trump Hits All New Low...Even For Him
"There have been Republican presidents with whom I disagreed with but I didn't have a doubt that they could function as president. I think I was right and Mitt Romney and John McCain were wrong on...
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ObamaCare Revisited: Premiums Go Up
Surprise, Surprise Surprise! The premiums for most 2017 ObamaCare policies will go up even higher than expected. For example some non-profit companies are considering 60% premium increases. Blue Cross...
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