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-> Entertainment -> Magazine This week's talk I can think of absolutely no reason why anyone on this planet could possibly care about anything involving the Detroit Lions. Who cares about the Lions? The owner of the team doesn't. http://www.detnews.com - 51 minutes ago George Will: Activist government generates unhappy unintended consequences Like pebbles tossed into ponds, important Supreme Court rulings radiate ripples of consequences. Consider a 1971 Supreme Court decision that supposedly applied but actually altered the 1964 Civil Rights Act. http://www.detnews.com - 52 minutes ago Thomas Sowell: New book, 'Outliers,' explains unusual keys to success Outliers" are not politicians who lie even more than other politicians. It is a term used by statisticians to describe some data that are far away from the average-- data on seven-foot women or freezing temperatures in Los Angeles, for example. http://www.detnews.com - 53 minutes ago Michelle Malkin: Sluggish U.S. economy hasn't ended problems at the border If you think the bad economy has "solved" America's immigration problems, welcome to your end-of-the-year reality check. It's certainly true illegal crossings from the south are down and that many foreign workers are returning to their native lands as work dries up. But border chaos, haphazard enforcement, massive backlogs and deportation negligence remain the order of the day. http://www.detnews.com - 53 minutes ago Focus of New Year must be education Forrest Gump had it right: Stupid is as stupid does. http://www.detnews.com - 54 minutes ago Michael Barone: Obama may stay aloof from grubby party politics Barack Obama and his family vacationed in his native Hawaii, far from the wintry snows of Chicago -- and far from almost every other American politician. There's a metaphor here for how I think Obama is going to conduct himself as president: He's going to try to keep his distance from other politicians, including his fellow Democrats. I see him trying to remain aloof from his party, much as Dwight Eisenhower did five decades ago. Like Eisenhower, I think he's drawn the conclusion that his party needs him more than he needs his party. http://www.detnews.com - 55 minutes ago Kathleen Parker: Newspapers may be struggling, but solid reporting is still necessary Let me be the first in the new year to declare that the mainstream media are dead. http://www.detnews.com - 56 minutes ago |
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