First lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday reflected on her own family's rise from slavery to the White House as she helped to unveil a statue of abolitionist Sojourner Truth — the first black woman to be so honored at the Capitol. Complete Story...
For decades, journalists have been guided by what most considered an absolute defense to libel lawsuits: If a news report is true, it can't be libelous.
If you say you've never lied to your kid, you're probably, well, stretching the truth a little. Your fib may have been as innocuous as "there aren't any Fudgeos left" or as significant as "Fluffy went to live on a farm," but face it: The judiciously deployed lie is as much a part of a mother's arsenal as hand sanitizer and string cheese. In fact, 84 percent of REDBOOK readers recently surveyed admit to lying to their kids about once a month. We moms tend to beat ourselves up about fibbing; more than 76 percent of the readers we surveyed said they felt guilty about telling their kids a lie. But the untruths that fly out of your mouth in times of duress (read: tantrum at the mall) aren't going to permanently damage your kids. Ditto for those "developmental" lies that help kids kick bad behaviors or habits ("If you don't stop sucking your thumb, it might fall off!"). In fact, sometimes, massaging the truth is the most responsible thing to do. "Part of y
The "Straight Talk Express" has detoured into doublespeak.
Strap you to a polygraph and you'll have to admit — you checked out a little of Fox's "The Moment of Truth."
House Minority Leader John Boehner has posted an alarming new video on his YouTube page that includes images of the Pentagon burning on Sept.
They say life is what we make of it. By the end of this post, I hope to have helped you decide whether that statement is true or not. There is no doubt that life has its ups and downs. However, how we deal with them can sometimes make all the difference.
The torture trail starts and ends in the White House.
We are, or at least we used to be, a nation of moral ideals. In the past, our government has sometimes done an imperfect job of upholding those ideals. But never before have our leaders so utterly betrayed everything our nation stands for.
Part One, Interpreting The Past "Religion tells us what Man is to the Universe, Science tells us what the Universe is to Man," Daniel Slack
..."Yes, at low levels of exercise, a greater percentage of the calories burned come from fat, whereas at higher levels of exercise intensity a greater percentage of the calories burned come from carbohydrate combustion.
Activist editors at Wikipedia have changed the name of the "World Trade Center Controlled Demolition Hypothesis" page to "World Trade Center Demolition Conspiracy Theories", are removing all links to the paper "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trad …
There were lots of culprits behind the crash; but one act of congress stands out because of how badly it exposed the whole nation to the effects of corporate greed the repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act
Submitted anonymously, as seen on FaceBook. With a nod to the tongue-in-cheek nature of this list, this is an excellent exposition on the fallacies of the arguments against marriage equality.
The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. Is Obama just another Puppet OR is he really a man of hope & change??? Watch the film and... YOU BE THE JUDGE.
There is one particular type of bad argument that has always existed, but it has now spread like tar over the world-wide web, and is seeping into the pubs, coffee shops and opinion columns everywhere.
Sometimes an organization will reveal the nature of its principals, this blog shows a dark side to cnn that I did not suspect.
Last evening the British Television Channel, Channel Four, showed the "Network Premier" of Al Gore's controversial film "An Inconvenient Truth".
'More is known about Appalachia that is untrue than anywhere else.' I realized that even though I lived there and taught in a rural school district, there was a lot that I didn't know.
Summary: During an interview with Norm Coleman, Fox & Friends co-hosts Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade advanced a slew of misinformation about the Minnesota Senate race.
There is so much stigma today associated with atheists and who they are. One can hardly wonder why so few of us choose to "come out" when there are realities of intolerance, discrimination, even threats against us. It is natural though, to fear what we do not understand.
"Well, well. Two days into the new Netanyahu government, and Israel gets up off its knees. First off, Netanyahu tells Obama 'Stop Iran or we will'.
A debate raging within the JFK research community over a photo taken by a bystander named "Mary Moorman" has yielded unexpected benefits in impeaching the most famous film of events in Dealey Plaza, which is attributed to Abraham Zapruder.
Just wondering…why do people ask to be told the truth, when they can not take it? The truth is, truth hurts! People do not take criticism in a good way, even if it's a constructive one.
Any viewers of cable news, who for even one silly second doubted corporate media's desire to fry the brain of its audience and render it hopelessly confused, need only to have seen tonight's bizarro 'WORD CLOUD" on CNN.Any viewers of cable news, who for even one silly second doub …
Just to provide a little background, my wife and I purchased a Kona coffee farm about four years ago. We had been looking for a place to move to as we were tired of the big city. We both loved the countryside, warm weather and being outdoors.
Especially relevant to newsviners, Digby offers analysis of one instance of irresponsible sensationalist journalism. This involves the story of Chandra Levy and Gary Condit, and speaks volumes about what news consumers will swallow without concern for toxicity.
Liberals, particularly those who are Jewish and who belong to racial minorities, should have second thoughts about supporting Barack Obama.
IT IS A fact of life that the organisation which has mutated into the European Union was founded on deception. Ted Heath's insistence that we were merely joining a Common Market concealed the real truth.
A look at the path to inner peace and the part that suffering plays in this process. Also touches on how we can use suffering to learn and get rid of the internal causes of it.