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Hillary Clinton: We can’t hide from hard truths on race In San Francisco, Hillary Clinton spoke at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors on the need to address systemic racism in the wake of the shooting in Charleston. Thank you! Thank you all so much. It’s great to be here…
CHRIS KEANE/REUTERS ‘We have to also acknowledge we have some serious problems with race and justice and systemic racism which unfortunately is all too often present,’ Hillary Clinton said Thursday at a South Carolina event. WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton declared that “black lives matter” in South Carolina Thursday, as she repeatedly stressed that endemic…
A lot of people have a strong interest in portraying terrorists as dedicated, evil badasses. Hollywood, is always desperate for proper bad guys. There are people who are trying to get you to vote for their terror safety laws or sell you terror safety equipment. And of course, there are the terrorists themselves. When they…
In a campaign speech on Thursday, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Hilary Clinton has let the world know that even “open-minded” white people get scared when they see a black man wearing a hoodie. In her speech, given at South Carolina’s Brookland Baptist Church, Hilary Clinton made a painfully embarrassing pandering attempt towards the black lives matter…
The Senate was on Sunday set to meet in a rare session. On the agenda were efforts to repeal President Barack Obama’s healthcare law and reviving the federal Export-Import Bank. Related: Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz could face off in debate – under Senate rules Both are amendments to a must-pass highway bill the Senate…
Computer experts have long warned about a catastrophic cyber-attack in the US, a sort of Web 3.0 version of 9/11 that would wreak enormous damage throughout the country. Like most Americans, I shrugged. With all of the enormous resources the country enjoys, those warnings seemed like the rantings of a digital Chicken Little. Oddly enough,…
Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in Trainwreck.Photo courtesy Universal Pictures In the new Amy Schumer movie Trainwreck, Bill Hader plays the boyfriend, one who is sweet and charming and good. Despite his virtues, however, Hader can’t hide his shock when he learns that Schumer has slept with an enormous number of men. (He’s not sure…
Mourners stand outside of the Grand Theatre on July 24, 2015 in Lafayette, Louisiana.Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images When news emerged that a middle-aged white man in Lafayette, Louisiana opened fire at a showing of the Amy Schumer vehicle Trainwreck, I immediately had this sinking feeling that the movie choice wasn’t a coincidence—that this was,…
As you have likely heard, Pixels is a bad movie, almost pleasingly stupid. After watching it last night, I had more fun retelling the plot to my wife, who had never heard of the movie, than I did sitting through Pixels. I am now going to spoil it, all of it, so that you don’t…