How ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ almost didn’t happen
Op-ed by Lee Habeeb/National Review Online The Gospel According to Peanuts – How A Charlie Brown Christmas almost didn’t happen Few headlines about network television make me giddy. Fewer still make me hopeful More...
This Day in History: BP Oil leak contained within 20 miles
It was the summer of 2010 and the BP oil spill captivated headlines as the environmental rose month after month. From that report: Academic scientists are challenging the Obama administration’s assertion More...
Ezekiel Emanuel Quotes
Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel was the special adviser for health care at the Office of Management and Budget and the brother of Obama aide, now Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel. photo Will O’Neill via Flickr In articles More...
Remembering Ex-Univ. of Delaware student Nate Henn killed in Uganda
A former college rugby player who toured U.S. colleges and churches urging people to help children in war-riven Uganda was among 74 killed by explosions that tore through crowds watching the World Cup final in the More...
Joe Lieberman in 2011: ‘The threat of a bioterrorism attack keeps me up at night’
The consequences of a biological terrorist attack are nearly unimaginable and the possibility of such an attack remains frighteningly high, agreed several current and former Congressional members during a panel More...
Look back at 2011: the dollar hit a record crash, Sterling hit highs as the debt deadlock continued
It was this month in 2011 when Bloomberg began their report “The dollar fell against all of its most-traded counterparts as politicians struggled to agree on raising the U.S. debt ceiling and reducing its More...
Remembering: Five Pakistan women killed on this day in 2012 for ‘singing and dancing,’ officials deny claims
On this day, in 2012, five women in Kohistan, four of whom were filmed ‘singing and dancing’ with men at a wedding party, were killed on May 30 after a tribal jirga ordered their execution, claimed Muhammad More...
This Day in History: Natalee Holloway goes missing, Stephany Flores Ramirez dead five years later, Joran Van der Sloot guilty
May 30, 2005 was the day Natalee Holloway went missing and five years later, Stephany Flores Ramirez was found dead and Joran Van der Sloot confessed to the murder. Authorities believe Van der Sloot attempted to More...
No Disney ‘Aladdin’ here, in Weird News story about a Saudi man chained for 6 years ‘possessed by evil genie’
As Disney’s live-action Aladdin film wins big at the box office, a bizarre 2010 story from Saudi Arabia features a “genie” of its own. From that story: A Saudi man has spent six years chained in More...
Chuck Schumer Quotes (UPD: No Ride List for trains)
I love the example of AT&T…Over the last ten years, AT&T has paid an average tax rate of eight percent a year. They have 80,000 fewer employees today than they had then. Tax breaks don’t lead More...
Honoring Memorial Day- Great quotes and links
On this Memorial Day, I am proud to thank all of those who served our country defending our freedom and rights as we know them today. While it is easy to thank them it is even more important to understand the long-term More...
Ridley Scott Quotes
Religious themes in “Alien: Covenant”: “Prometheus raised the question eventually of how we were made. Was it God? I don’t think so. Was it random? No, I think it was planned” “I’m More...
Indonesia: 2-year-old boy, Ardi Rizal, hooked on smoking, Dad is not worried
UPDATE: Ardi Rizal is back in the headlines, this time with some good news – he’s kicked the habit. Indonesian boy Ardi Rizal shocked the world when his 40 smokes a day habit made headlines. Now Ardi, More...
Gawker’s Ken Layne quotes
Ken Layne, renown blogger on Gawker and Wonkette, now author of “Desert Oracle” “You can have utter peace and quiet if you need it. It’s a place where you can live a mythic existence if you try — More...
Tom Foolery joins the DOB team unexpectedly at a Christmas Party
Years later, Tom is still around, coming out annually to sit at Brandon’s desk. He is wrapped in lights now and still causes raised eyebrows and questions. Sometimes it’s the most unlikely places or More...
Jesse Jackson Quotes
2009 photo/Eric Guo, cropped by Beyond My Ken via wikicommons Rev. Jessie Jackson has pointed the finger at U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump and his followers for helping to creating the climate of fear More...
Richard Nixon met with Elvis December 21, 1970
On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley paid a visit to President Richard M. Nixon at the White House in Washington, D.C. The meeting was initiated by Presley, who wrote Nixon a six-page letter requesting a visit with More...
FDR’s Declaration of War- December 8th, 1941 (VIDEO and transcript)
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT’S Speech to the U.S. Congress on December 8th, 1941 (as delivered): Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7, 1941 More...
Photo Gallery Hurricane Irene making landfall
It was five years ago today. Below is the coverage from 2011 and a few photos submitted to us, then Desk of Brian, and now a look back at Hurricane Irene. Hurricane Irene roared closer to landfall Friday evening More...
‘Pro-Trump’ Alexander Dugin three years later: globalization, stop the ‘hegemony’ of the West
In February 2012, Professor Alexander Dugin (Aleksandr Dugin) traveled to New Delhi, India to attend the 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, the theme of which was “After Western Hegemony: More...
