Archive For January 2010
To Pass Health Care, Dems Should Be Against It
on January 31, 2010 by Jude Emantsal in Other News, Comments (0)
President Obama made a point the other day in speaking at the Republican retreat to say he wasn’t an ideologue, and while there was skepticism in his audience about whether […]
Korea maintains mandatory HIV testing despite lifting travel ban
on by Jude Emantsal in Other News, Comments (0)
January 2010 has seen the lifting of travel bans for HIV-positive people in two countries: the United States and South Korea. Barack Obama referred to the ban in the US […]
HuffPost Weekend Box Office Review: Avatar Crosses $2 Billion Worldwide
on by Jude Emantsal in Other News, Comments (0)
Avatar won the box office derby for the seventh straight weekend, taking the record for the biggest seventh weekend gross ($30 million) from Titanic ($25 million). Dropping just 14%, the […]
Gray Matters–A Kennedy Dream Denied
on by Jude Emantsal in Other News, Comments (0)
Another piece of Ted Kennedy’s dream of universal health care may be lost in the compromise meat grinder that has produced a deformed, complicated, top heavy and unpopular pro-insurance company […]
Peaceful Revolution: Rhodes Scholar Mothers Face Inequality Too
on by Jude Emantsal in Other News, Comments (0)
A great deal of our popular discourse on “successful women” is centered around the alleged question of “work-life balance.” Can a professional woman, at the top of her career, really, […]
When the French Spiced Up Film: Rohmer, Truffaut, Godard and Cahiers Du Cinema
on by Jude Emantsal in Other News, Comments (0)
I happened to meet recently with a film student from Paris who wondered why so few Americans attended a certain French film festival held recently in New York City. My […]
Credit Card Legislation Means Consumers Under 21 Need a Way to Navigate the ‘Plastic Gap’
on by Jude Emantsal in Other News, Comments (0)
In the past several decades, the way we pay for things has made plastic, not cash, king. The rise of plastic began with credit cards which for years have attracted […]
Praise the Lord and Pass the Football
on by Jude Emantsal in Other News, Comments (0)
Next Sunday, we rededicate ourselves to the proposition that football is America. The commercial enterprise, humbly termed by Pete Rozelle as “The Super Bowl,” features orchestrated violence, women in short […]
Wal-Mart Billionaire Wants $8 Million Subsidy
on by Jude Emantsal in Other News, Comments (0)
Missouri Sports Mogul Needs Welfare To Build Superstore
By Al Norman
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Is Apathy Socially Redeeming?
on by Jude Emantsal in Other News, Comments (0)
Many an activist and other members of the liberal left (sorry, conservatives, there’s nothing derogatory about that term you use for us) has torn out his or her hair over […]