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Shoestring Living: Be grateful every day

Back in the land where we didn’t have kids that participated in unimaginably expensive sports or wished for gifts like iPod Touches, my husband and I actually purchased gifts for each other. I am a go... read more

The 2005 Slate 60: Pledges

and Annette Simmons—$50 million to the University of Texas ... gifts to the business school by 50 percent. Bass is a member of Stanford’s board of trustees, and Anne is a member of the board of direct... read more

Slain Gunman Identified, 2 Teens Hurt In Maryland School Shooting

Authorities credited the school resource officer at the school of roughly 1,600 with stopping the rampage from going further. Austin Wyatt Rollins, 17, walked into the school he attended around 7:50 a ... read more

The Importance of Making the Moral Case for Immigration

In each case, success was achieved principally through arguments focused on universal moral principles and on the common humanity the rest of us share with the group in question, not arguments emphasi... read more

Americans Heavier Than Ever, But Most Still Say Their Weight Is "About Right"

A Gallup poll reports that on average Americans weigh almost 20 pounds more than they did in 1990, based on the self-reports of more than 1,000 people. The average man weighs 196 pounds while the aver... read more

The DVD Wrapup: Final Portrait, Overboard, Dark Crimes, Iron Brothers, Streets of Vengeance, Piranha II, Star Wars Rebels, Myanmar … More

Final Portrait picks up on their relationship in 1964, when they run into each other in a Paris restaurant and Giacometti ... In 2015, it sold at Christie’s for a sliver under $21 million. A while ago ... read more

Racism linked with gun ownership and opposition to gun control in white Americans

A new study has found that higher levels of racism in white Americans is associated with having a gun in the home and greater opposition to gun control ... for each one point increase (on a scale from ... read more

In Fla., Palin Goes for the Rough Stuff as Audience Boos Obama

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- "Okay, so Florida, you know that you're going to have to hang onto your hats," Sarah Palin told a rally of a few thousand here this morning, "because from now until Election Day it ... read more

Why CNN reported 'Slavery's Last Stronghold'

(CNN) - On Sunday, CNN Digital released a special report called "Slavery's Last Stronghold." It focuses on current-day slavery in Mauritania, a West African country where an estimated 10% to 20% of pe... read more

Merry Christmas Baby

Merry Christmas Baby To my beautiful wife, I wish I could give you the world this Christmas, and even that would pale compared to what you've given me. All I have to offer you is me and the eternal, u... read more

Take a Look at Where Californians Are Fleeing To

The biggest beneficiary was Texas, gaining about 600,000 from California while losing ... To add insult to injury, last year the state shifted $170 billion of pension costs to the school districts. As ... read more