Showing posts with label video games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video games. Show all posts
John Stossel: It's Better Now
Contrary to what you may see on television. Americans now face beheadings, gang warfare, Ebola, ISIS and a new war in Syria. It's natural to assume that the world has gotten more dangerous. But it hasn't. People believe that crime has gotten worse. But over the past two decades, murder and robbery in the U.S. are down by more than ... MOREVIDEO: 10 Dumbest Quotes About Video Games
The option-destoyers are relentless. Actual quotations from high-profile idiots!
John Stossel: Codgers Freaking Out
America's most popular cable news host is upset. "Marijuana use, video games and texting (are) creating major social problems," says Bill O'Reilly. "This is an epidemic that will lead to a weaker nation!" Give me a break. Crotchety old geezers always complain about "the kids." The Boston Globe frets about "Idle Trophy Kids." The New York ... MOREAngry Birds Transformed Into 'Spying Birds' By Hackers
by Lucian Constantin. The official Angry Birds website was defaced by hackers following reports that U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies have been collecting user information from the game and other popular mobile apps. Some users trying to access the angrybirds.com website late Tuesday were greeted by an image depicting the Angry Birds ... MOREJohn Stossel: Banning The Things That Make Us Happy
People say America is a free country. But what if you want to drink, have a cigarette or make a bet? Government often says "no" to protect us from ourselves. It's as if the government is still run by the Puritans who settled this land four centuries ago. They said pleasure and luxury are sinful. Today's government has a better argument ... MORETechdirt: Crusader Feinstein Looks To Limit More Options
This time it's violent video games. Dianne Feinstein, whose post-Newtown assault weapons ban was defanged by Sen. Harry Reid before its inclusion in the Democrats' gun control bill, has decided to switch scapegoats. Now, she's determined to do something about violent video games, apparently unaware that the Supreme Court has already ... MOREA Fisher: 6 Unbelievably Dumb Congressional Hearings
Sex, violence and satan. In the wake of last December's school shooting, Sen. Jay Rockefeller
(D-West Virginia) has proposed
yet another congressional study on violent video games (he's
joined in his effort by
Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns). Such studies are
typically accompanied by hearings where members of the
World's Greatest ... MORE
Steve Chapman: Wrong Answers For Mass Shootings
Rounding up the usual suspects. The film "Casablanca" has many famous lines, but none more immortal than Capt. Renault's order after seeing a Nazi officer shot by Humphrey Bogart's character, Rick Blaine: "Round up the usual suspects." He issues that command to give the impression he's trying to solve the crime. In the aftermath of the Newtown massacre, the ... MORE
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