About The News Blog
Politics, controversy, analysis, and more. Welcome to the News Blog, where you'll read insightful, controversial, and somewhat quirky analysis about the world in which we live. Forget mainstream media with the same exact messaging on channel after channel and site after same ol’ site. Where else could you find out the scoop on the latest and greatest youtube videos, getting personalized Sharpie markers, or the health benefits of almonds?

Let’s face it, in a cyberworld full of endless newsfeeds, this blog gives you unique take. Like ingesting a daily vitamin, it’s hard to go without a daily dose of this newsy blog. After all, it’s about making sense of it all, asking the right questions and sometimes leaving things unanswered.

Ranging from politics to The Daily Show, no topic is left unspoken on the News Blog. As for one of the best parts about it? It’s brief. One or two sentences of your daily news blog fix is all you need to keep on the pulse of all things news.

Think of it this way: where politics and culture collide, national and lesser-known local news intersect, the news blog covers it all with a splash of red and a whole lot of white and blue.

Resistance in Tibet?
The Tibetan Youth Congress has been described as an organization bent on terror wherein Young Tibetans ‘will resist China with blood’. ...

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“I feel very fortunate to have it eat my flowers…”
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the Fluorescent Pink Katydid "Every year in Pennsylvania mountains a few people are fortunate enough to see an amazing thing, a normally green katydid that is brilliant pink, e...

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“I don’t mind you having a black character, but please don’t show them in school together.”
Charles Schulz: "I finally sighed and said, 'Well, Larry, let’s put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How’s...

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Back-handed by Anubis
Astaria Films presents: Something Lost ... the Love of Your Life ... ...

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Knight Challenge Round 2: Journalism Doctor Telepresence
My Journalism Doctor Telepresence Reporting Experiment made it into Round 2 of the $5 million Knight News Challenge. I just uploaded the Round 2 materials about an hour ago. I...

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That’s just a scroll in his hand!
The source of a recently-broken curse, the tallest statue to adorn the top of any building surmounts the tallest masonry building in the wor...

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ANCIENT GANJA STASHES FOUND IN CHINA
The Western press is heralding the discovery of the "world's oldest marijuana stash" (789 grams) in the tomb of a 2,700-year-old bl...

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Death to film critics! Hail to the CelebCult!
Death To Film Critics! Hail The CelebCult! "A newspaper film critic is like a canary in a coal mine. When one croaks, get the hell out....

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70s Rock Stars in their parents’ homes
70s Rock Stars in their parents' homes (via BuzzFeed) ...

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seier + seier = (architecture + comment) x excellence
Jørn Utzon, the architect who designed Sydney Opera House despite the project being plagued by controversy and scandal, died today. While ...

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A Canadian Legend
On this date in 1949, a Canadian music legend was born. Stanley Allison "Stan" Rogers chronicled Canadian life. He wrote his own sea...

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