“Responding to the deadly mass shooting Friday in Newtown, Connecticut, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said new laws regulating guns won’t deter such shootings, linking a lack of religious discussion in the classroom to increased violence in schools. “We ask why there’s violence in our school but we’ve systematically removed …
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Worldwide Bank Fraud – Bankers Get Slaps on the Wrists
“When the LIBOR interest-rate fixing scandal broke wide open over the summer, I asked whether it was “The Crime of the Century.” The answer to that question relied on whether banks were understating their LIBOR submissions in order to appear stable at the height of the financial crisis, or whether …
Read More »Will Obama ‘Save’ Unemployment From Republicans?
“Discussion over the fiscal cliff is focused on taxes and spending cuts, but there are other policy measures — unrelated to either — that are also due to expire at the beginning of next year. For example, the unemployment insurance extension — secured by President Obama in the 2010 lame …
Read More »V for Vendetta Airs in China – Anti Censorship Message?
” Television audiences across China watched an anarchist antihero rebel against a totalitarian government and persuade the people to rule themselves. Soon the Internet was crackling with quotes of “V for Vendetta’s” famous line: “People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” The …
Read More »Tim Scott and GOP Mental Health Hypocrisy
“The lawmaker who South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) has chosen to replace tea party-backed Sen. Jim DeMint (R) says legislators should focus on mental health instead of gun laws following the massacre of 20 elementary school children in Connecticut last week. CNN host Soledad O’Brien on Wednesday noted that …
Read More »Sexual Assault Reports Spike At Military Academies
“Reported sexual assaults at the nation’s three military academies jumped by 23 percent overall this year, but the data signaled a continued reluctance by victims to seek criminal investigations.”* More and more people are reporting sexual abuse in military academies. Is it becoming more prevalent, or are more people breaking …
Read More »‘Stand Your Ground’ Invoked Over Pizza Argument
“An argument that started over bad service at a Little Caesar’s Pizza shop has lead to a shooting and a man claiming his innocence under Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law. Randall White, who is 49 years old, got angry when his vegetable thin crust pizza took longer than 10 …
Read More »Samsung Ativ S review
Tom Warren takes a look at Samsung’s latest Ativ S Windows Phone 8 device http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/21/3788102/samsung-ativ-s-review More from The Verge: Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theverge Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/theverge/videos Visit our playlists: http://www.youtube.com/theverge/playlists Like The Verge on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/verge Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/verge Follow on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/verge Read More: http://www.theverge.com
Read More »Lets Play Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 – Part 11
Welcome to my first let’s play series of Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7! It will also be the first game I explore in my new gaming playlist, RoPG’s (Ro Playing Games) I am not the best at PC games, but I love playing them. Great way to relax and have …
Read More »The WEIRDEST CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS Around the World
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