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Barack Obama has hit back at Republicans who want to stop the US taking in Syrian refugees – with the president saying some of the language used in the wake of the Paris attacks only serves to strengthen the Islamic State terror group. Obama rounded on Republicans in Congress who are preparing legislation that threatens…
AddThis Button Begin I am sitting in Maryland’s basketball arena at 8:20 p.m. on Tuesday night and the arena clock says there are still 47 minutes before player introductions begin. That means the game will tip-off at 9:10, unless there’s some kind of delay because the football game on ESPN2–on a Tuesday night!–runs long. I’m sitting three…
Like a kid taking his basketball home because you weren’t going to let him play anyway, Kurt Sutter has cancelled his medieval mess of a show, The Bastard Executioner, due to low viewership. Rather than release a barrage of tweets to that effect, Sutter made the announcement by taking out an ad in The Hollywood…
Entry Text On Halloween, four boys who most likely went to my university pulled up next to me in a battered sedan as I walked to meet my friend. “Must be cold in that skirt,” they yelled, and then gunned the engine before I could respond. I ran the rest of the way home. A…
Could this be the final nail in the coffin of Silicon Alley? Tech start-up bros are going to feel a little less secure in their morning commutes following a recent alarming report that hoverboards-that-don’t-actually-hover may actually be illegal in NYC. Good thing we found a way to fund that capital plan. After a string of…
Short answer? A few things. The motto of the state of Connecticut is “Qui transtulit sustinet” which means “”He who is transplanted still sustains.” Speaking of transplanting, where’d Connecticut go on this map? The official Ben Carson Twitter account also published the image. This is a very interesting interpretation of the United States? That’s not…
He may not have walked into a party like he was walking onto a yacht, but Warren Beatty did inspire at least part of Carly Simon’s iconic song, “You’re So Vain.” Simon has kept the inspiration to her song a secret for 44 years, but now she’s finally letting out at least part of her…
Anonymous, the anarchic online collective of hackers and trolls, has once again declared “war” on the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris. As of Tuesday, 129 are confirmed dead and more than 350 are wounded. According to Business Insider, a channel on the messaging app Telegram believed to be affiliated with ISIS sent out…
Ron Klain, the Obama administration’s former point person on Ebola, on Tuesday weighed in on the growing debate in the wake of the deadly Paris attacks of what to do with refugees fleeing Syria’s bloody civil war. It is worth repeating Klain is the former Ebola czar because fears over the deadly virus turned out to…
You know who hates ISIL, which claims to represent all Muslims? Countries with some of the world’s largest Muslim populations, according to a recent poll by Pew Research Center. Since the deadly attacks in Paris on Friday, which killed 129 people and injured hundreds more, Muslims across the world have expressed solidarity with the victims,…