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It's time for the annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. This year there is a new award that will be presented. The first King of Comedy award will be presented and the person to be honored is ... drumroll,…

As I suggested a few days ago when writing about this topic, I think people on both sides are sounding a bit too confident. Jon Stewart and others are claiming victory over what is, ultimately, a pretty mild endorsement by…

Meet the new plan, same as the old plan.Read More 

Alma Ruth, founder, and director of Practice Mercy Foundation said that an estimated 5,000 Russians is waiting south of the Mexican border for their chance to cross over into the United States and claim asylum. Ruth said that…

So much for DC statehood -- and so much for progressives' ideas about radical police reform, too. A month ago, Joe Biden stood in the House of Representatives pushing policing "reform," insisting that now was…

First of all, being gay doesn't make one a pedophile. Just as being straight doesn't prevent one from being a pedophile.Read More 

Thanks for speaking up almost three years into the job, Mitt. What a profile of courage. Better late than never, though. Romney joined a growing chorus of lawmakers willing to publicly speak out about the ineptness of the…

Matt Taibbi is back with another installment of the Twitter Files. This one is, in some ways, a follow-up on a story Taibbi reported last month about Hamilton 68.Read More 

During the Black Plague, a lot of people blamed cats. While it is disputed that mass purges of cats, which did happen, actually caused or made the plague worse due to an explosion in the rat population, there is no doubt that…

Germany's new Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, has only been on the job for a shade over a month, and already he's the shining star of the German government from a popularity standpoint. The well-documented…