Via Yahoo! News: Women support her, she’s got name-brand recognition, and she’s got a sense of humor — no wonder Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been tapped for vice-president … on the small screen anyway. The Seinfeld alum stars in HBO’s new series ‘Veep,’ where she plays a former senator who accepted the call to be vice [...]
UK abortion provider under threat from hackers
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s largest abortion provider said Thursday that thousands of attempts have been made to hack its website following a high-profile security breach when personal details of 10,000 women were stolen. Last week a judge jailed a computer hacker for breaking into the website of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service and stealing the [...]
Dress Like Katniss from The Hunger Games – For $398
April 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Via Lucky Mag: . . .Want to dress like a tree-climbing tribute? Even if you don’t spend your early-morning hours hopping electrified fences to go hunting in the woods, there’s no reason to deny yourself the comfy, practical footwear necessary for such a task. Enter The Frye Company’s Melissa lace-up boots—the very same pair Jennifer [...]
Horrific: Customs Agents Find Fetuses in Luggage from Cuba
March 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Via McClatchy: Leave it to Miami to shock even a reality-TV film crew. The crew was shooting footage at Miami International Airport for an upcoming episode when customs agents found a pair of human fetuses in the luggage of two women returning from Havana. The fetuses were to be delivered to someone in Miami and [...]
Soledad O’Brien & That Guy From Cheers Get Really, Really Mad
March 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Aaron Goldstein on 3.9.12 @ 8:01PM I saw the video of this interrogation of Joel Pollak of Breitbart.com on CNN by Soledad O’Brien over the video of a then Harvard Law Review President Barack Obama embracing the late Harvard professor Derrick Bell followed by Harvard Law’s Charles [...]
At Least 29 Dead From Midwest Tornado Outbreak
March 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Via AP: A string of violent storms scratched away small towns in Indiana and cut off rural communities in Kentucky as an early-season tornado outbreak killed nearly 30 people, and authorities feared the already ugly death toll would rise as daylight broke on Saturday’s search for survivors. Massive thunderstorms, predicted by forecasters for days, threw [...]
Lessons From Obama’s Home State
February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Back in the 1980s, tourism officials in Illinois coined the phrase, “Illinois, you put me in a happy state,” as the sales pitch to would-be visitors to the Land of Lincoln. Three decades later, President Obama’s home state is far from a happy state. What’s happening in Illinois is a reminder of how destructive tax [...]
EU Wants More From Greece
February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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All Liberty, Not “Just” Religious Liberty, At Risk from Obama
February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Quin Hillyer on 2.16.12 @ 12:11PM At the twelve23 site, I explore the more far-reaching ramifications of the Obama contraception/abortifacient mandate. [T]he HHS regulations don’t merely affect Catholic practices related to contraception. Instead, they would allow the government to interfere almost at will with any economic- or [...]
Obama’s Catholic Church Gambit: Lessons from American Communists
February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A fascinating theory has been advanced by Dick Morris, which, in turn, is being considered by Rush Limbaugh and other leading conservatives. Morris speculates that the Obama HHS mandate on contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients is a fight with the Catholic Church that Team Obama wants — and with the focus based narrowly on contraception, not [...]