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Obama Says Temple Shooting Could Prove We Love Each Other

Think of it this way: You’re in the middle of a long day at work, you’re signing some documents that need to go out the […]

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Teenage Plastic Surgery Won’t End Bullying

Earlier this week, CNN host Dr. Sanjay Gupta featured Nadia Ilse, a 14-year-old girl who received plastic surgery to stop bullying. Through the Little Baby […]

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City of Philadelphia Wants to Protect the Nitwits

We all got a big kick out of the city’s April Fools’ prank this year—the world’s first “e-lane” for distracted pedestrians—but the joke did carry a message: […]

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Why Would ABC Bother With Journalism When They Can Just Google James Holmes?

Earth to TV news: Speed kills. Americans’ confidence in TV news has hit an all-time low, says a new Gallup poll, and it doesn’t take […]

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Banning Guns Won’t Stop Evil

As we see the pictures of the dead, read the stories of the wounded, hear interviews with those who escaped unharmed, and watch the video […]

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Judge Was Right to Tell Mom to Cut Off Daughter’s Ponytail

We know about an eye for an eye. But a ponytail for a ponytail? A Utah Judge recently ordered a 13-year-old girl to serve 30 […]

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Now the Media Is Bullying School Bus Monitor Karen Klein

I was 11 years old that night I went out after dinner to Mr. Grocer. Mr. Grocer was a small, 7-Eleven-type store a few blocks […]

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How Much THC Does it Take to Make a DUI?

Last March, Max Drosi, 28, of Miami, blew a red light on 8th and Washington in the Italian Market, plowing his rented Chevy Impala into […]

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What You Should Know About Bath Salts

With Rudy Eugene’s vicious attack last week on Miami-area homeless man Ronald Poppo making national headlines, a class of designer drugs known as “bath salts” […]

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The FOP Hates Philadelphia

Here is the problem with Philadelphia cops: They seem to hate Philadelphia. Don’t get me wrong: I’m sure there are plenty of officers who love […]

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It’s OK to Sneak Food Into the Movie Theater

I love going to the movies because it’s so dramatic: The lights dim, the audience buzzes, and then images dance across a giant screen. Throw […]

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Horse Doping Reigns in the Sport of Kings

This Saturday, Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another will join a field of a dozen young colts at Pimlico Race Course, in Baltimore, for a […]

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How College Students Can Avoid Hazing

Florida state attorney Lawson Lamar addressed reporters last week about the death of Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion, who was allegedly beaten to death […]

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Cinco de Mayo Is Not Another Reason to Get Wasted

Let me see if I understand this: Some of us would like our government to put up a fence to keep Mexicans in Mexico, maybe […]

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10 Rules of Gym Etiquette (Including: No Hoodies)

I work out seven days a week at a monster gym that used to be a supermarket. Part of a national chain, it comes fully […]