U.S. overspending on the military has diverted resources from civilian / social investments, including public goods, weakening the U.S. economy, and, by extension, weakening the nation.
Clearly, men are getting balder younger and quicker.
I am constantly astounded by the lengths to which same-sex marriage opponents go to draw distinctions between their cause and the long-discredited cause of anti-miscegenation activists, when any clearheaded examination will show how similar they are.
Galloway's flirtation with Assad was only one of his many adventures with questionable characters.
In the two days since a California court declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional, the Republican response has been swift and utterly predictable. But the most ridiculous response came from Rick Santorum, who claimed that opponents of same-sex marriage were the real victims of intolerance.
For the third straight night, Jeremy Lin dominated a game and led the Knicks to victory. Lin is not just riding a hot streak. He's for real.
There is a debate that has been heating up recently, and it's likely to continue to split some of the smartest minds from coast to coast. This debate revolves around whether prices for goods in the United States are on the rise or not.
All 30 NBA teams passed up on Knicks guard Jeremy Lin when he entered the draft. Was Lin's ethnicity one of the reasons he went undrafted?
The Big East as we know it is dead.
Two wrongs don't make a right. India's beleaguered aviation sector needs a boost. But letting airlines avoid punitive state taxes by directly importing fuel isn't smart. Some tax is necessary to pay for environmental costs.
Each day Facebook serves as a procrastination tool for students struggling to write papers, office workers stranded at their desks, and social media junkies getting their fix. But what if posting on Facebook was your job? What if users made money based on all the content they generated for the interactive Internet community? After all, Facebook wouldn’t be worth $100 billion without its dedicated fan base of Web addicts.
A parade goes down Broadway about once every other year here in New York.
If President Barack Obama has demonstrated anything of note this week it’s that he simply doesn’t get it. He has zero grasp of what made America great and, as a result, no capacity to fix our problems.
Bundchen’s looks are not as Mother Nature intended. She was essentially created in a laboratory like Frankenstein’s monster.
When Ron Paul was asked by CNN host Piers Morgan on Friday whether he would allow one of his daughters or granddaughters to have an abortion if she were raped, he said yes -- if it's an honest rape. What does that mean?
Until Tom Brady met Gisele Bundchen, the Patriots were unstoppable. Since then, New England has been anything but.
I find the whole spectacle rather patronizing and yet another effort to both “trivialize” and unnecessarily “exoticize” Indian women and their lifestyles.
Brady is what Peyton manning used to be. With Brady as the new Peyton, Eli Manning has stepped into Tom Brady's role.
He was not only the greatest baseball player who ever lived (or ever will live), but I also believe Ruth is the most enduring American icon of them all.
I went to Madison Square Garden on a Saturday night out of boredom. Nothing more. Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks changed all that. But more about how that happened in a moment.
Many white sports fans that love and admire black athletes, while simultaneously holding very prejudiced views against “ordinary” black people.
When the New York Giants and New England Patriots battle in Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday, they'll be playing in a stadium that was largely financed by taxpayers. Some critics dispute the positive economic benefits of stadiums, which have received around $20 billion in subsidies in the last two decades.
I have never been enamored with the NFL.
As I view various news programs, I wonder if they're reporting on the same universe. How can any event, presented as something so obviously good by one network, be reported as being so sinister by another? How did it get so crazy?
Perhaps it is only a coincidence, but the drop in violent crime has roughly occurred concurrently with a spike in obesity.
Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie are outdated, irrelevant and--let's face it--nearly dead. Who are the new figures of a musical revolution?
In most European polls, and in an ever-increasing number of American surveys, Israel is viewed as evil and very “self-serving,” as opposed to being open-minded like the rest of the world’s nations.
Groundhog Day is upon us. Up in Punxsutawney, Penn., the famous prognosticating groundhog Phil may see his shadow this year. We could be in for six more weeks of winter. Never mind the fact that it's been so unseasonably warm that Al Gore started writing the script for his next Oscar-winning documentary called Ha! I Told You So. If Phil says winter will continue then, by golly, it will.
Liturgy is the sexless hive-geek counterpart to Lana Del Rey, 2011's most polarizing and polarized artist. Her just-dropped album Born to Die, has landed number 1, despite global critical condemnation. The Brooklyn black metallers (Liturgy) generated what seemed a comparable amount of criticism to the manufactured pseudo-pop darling (Del Rey) in 2011. Liturgy sold far fewer albums, proving that artistic merit and integrity do not always win out.
According to a poll, If the election were held today, Paul would get 46 percent of the vote compared to President Barack Obama’s 49 percent.