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Fox has released the official X-Men: Apocalypse trailer, which can be watched below. You can also check out a large batch of screenshots from the trailer. “X-Men: Apocalypse” has a May 27, 2016 release directed by Bryan Singer starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner,…
Matthew Short , public relations director with Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com. (Jay Janner /Austin American-Statesman via AP) Days before a planned ‘mock shooting’ demonstration just outside the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, a panel on Thursday recommended policies that would allow concealed handguns in classrooms. UT President Greg Fenves will…
View this image › Daniel Holtzclaw in court on Dec. 10, while the verdict was being read. Sue Ogrocki / Via AP ID: 7521383 Former Oklahoma City Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw has been found guilty of multiple counts of rape — first and second degree — as well as sexual battery, procuring lewd exhibition, and…
After four days of deliberation, a jury found former Oklahoma City Police Department Officer Daniel Holtzclaw guilty of multiple counts of rape and sexual assault on Thursday December 10. Holtzclaw, who has been on trial since November 2, was accused of sexually assaulting 13 black women in the community he patrolled. All 13 women testified…
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Chris Blattman cites a recent estimate that Americans own 42% of the civilian guns in the world. You’ll also see estimates that America accounts for about half of the world’s defense spending. I believe those numbers are a misuse of purchasing power parity comparisons, but with proper adjustments it is not implausible to believe that…
Conference season invokes the stuff of Hieronymus Bosch’s apocalyptic paintings.Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photo by Mike Watson Images/Thinkstock, painting by Hieronymus Bosch. One of the advantages of an academic career is that most universities take a two- or three-week winter break. While students clog the overhead compartments of America with fetid laundry and…
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia AP Photo/Jim Mone During oral arguments in a pivotal affirmative action case on Wednesday morning, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia raised the suggestion that African American students might belong at less rigorous schools than their white peers, and that perhaps the University of Texas should have fewer black students in…
1. I am six. My babysitter’s son, who is five but a whole head taller than me, likes to show me his penis. He does it when his mother isn’t looking. One time when I tell him not to, he holds me down and puts penis on my arm. I bite his shoulder, hard. He…