On March 1, 1957, CBS televised Flannery O’Connor’s short story The Life You Save May Be Your Own, starring Gene Kelly and Agnes Moorehead. In the original story, a one-armed handyman named Mr. Shiftlet agrees to marry a woman’s handicapped daughter if he can keep her rundown car. Not caring much for the civil union, he abandons the girl in a bar and drives away to face the fury of God, symbolically spinning toward him in a tornado.
More than three years after George Floyd’s death at the hands of police, it is clear that Minneapolis allowed the Black Lives Matter movement to destroy it. Was it all really worth it?
The United Nations is a useless organization full of grandstanding and funded by billions in United States taxpayer dollars. You need not take my word for it, though; the U.N. secretary-general will tell you himself.
Not just Democratic realists but good conservatives, too, should be wishing, hoping, pleading, even begging a responsible Democrat to challenge President Joe Biden’s renomination. It’s almost “now or never” time, and the republic’s health depends on it. Or, better yet, on Biden voluntarily withdrawing.
The cannabis industry, both medical and recreational, has expanded rapidly in the United States over the last decade. Currently, 38 states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana. Twenty-two states and Washington, D.C., have more recently legalized recreational cannabis. The catch for the dispensaries is that because cannabis is illegal at the federal level, these businesses are unable to engage in commercial banking.
Former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson alleged in her new book that Rudy Giuliani groped her backstage during former President Trump's rally on Jan. 6, 2021, just hours before the riot on the Capitol. Hutchinson claimed Giuliani, who served as Trump's former personal attorney, of moving his hand “under my blazer, then my skirt,” in an...
Acute drug shortages are threatening the health care of millions of Americans at an escalating rate. Roughly 300 medications are currently in short supply, mostly low-cost generics, which account for 90 percent of the drugs used by patients. Hospitals are facing severe and prolonged problems securing sterile injectable generic drugs, including older chemotherapy drugs used...
Ohio's Supreme Court late Tuesday ruled that much of the GOP-controlled state ballot board's language to describe a November question about abortion is accurate, dealing a blow to the abortion rights groups that challenged the board's description. The sharply divided court said only one element of the description is misleading and must be rewritten. The...
Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday compared Ukraine’s fight for survival to that of a "drowning person" capable of bringing down those who try to help. “Ukraine is behaving like a drowning person clinging to anything available,” Duda told Polish journalists, the Financial Times reported. “A drowning person is extremely dangerous, capable of pulling you...
His increased presence in Iowa coincides with recent comments he made about abortion, which could pose risks to his campaign in the state, as The Hill previously reported. The former president attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a rival for the GOP presidential nomination, for his signing of a six-week abortion ban, calling the move “a...