In a recent article in the Atlantic, P.J. O'Rourke discusses the difficulty Disney's had in renovating the House of the Future attraction in Tomorrowland. The problem is of course that when it came out, folks apparently were willing to accept that the 1950s was the golden age of Americana (a...

I want to applaud Mark Leon Goldberg of the Huffington Post for his recent story on the a survivor from Uganda. Goldberg does an excellent job of summing the history and ultimately setting up for the story he shares about a boy he recently met. Tens of thousands of people were killed and over 2 mill...

I’m wholly liberal and only half Oklahoman (my mom grew up there, I lived there as a child for a few years and as a college student and I’ve spent the majority of the last four years in its capitol city at Southern Nazarene University). So this editorial by Robin Meyers, in Oklahoma City’s alt...

Robert Pierre, staff writer for the Washington Post, addressed the tip of the ice burg of sex trafficking in the District in this article addressing a history class presentation held on sex trafficking. The article focuses on this program to bring human-trafficking awareness to the schools that have...

I remember a moment on Election Day, while walking past the White House I remarked to my internship buddy Tiffany "I'm so sick of the campaigning. Really I don't even care who wins, so long as it's over." But according to an article in the LA Times, Obama's not done with th...

The Golden Triangle of Texas is not a pretty place. I'm from there, I should know. To paraphrase Natalie Maines, we've got a crucifix (and refinery) skyline instead of actual skyscrapers. And though we're on one of the longest stretches of coastline in America, it's nothing to brag a...

I drove past Qualcomm Stadium every morning on my way to work  last summer. Home to the San Diego Chargers and the SDSU Aztecs, Qualcomm  is also the center for the biggest, most important, most popular events in San Diego. And in some cases, the most controversial. On Saturday, the stad...

If you haven't read DeNeen L. Brown's Washington Post feature on "The Impassive Bystander," make it a priority for some interesting reading. The article uses three case studies to showcase how people in need were ignored by the "Bad Samaritans" in Brooklyn, NY, Hartford, Conn. an...

So, the news in Miami is that Mikhail Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union, is going to make an appearance at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL.   Oh, and he's gonna earn $125,000, at least, for just showing up.  Being a former communist l...

People who care about international news already know that mainstream U.S. media have a globe-sized blind spot. Below is some hard data proving that point from the Miami Herald's Latin America analyst Andres Oppenheimer:  If you think that Latin America is getting a short shrift in the U.S. med...