[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Week – Rush Limbaugh apologizes, Russians vote, LiLo does SNL, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion1. RUSH LIMBAUGH APOLOGIZESAfter six advertisers bailed on his show, conservative talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh apologized Saturday for branding 30-year-old Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke [...]

A week ahead of what is touted as being the first attempt by a private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station, SpaceX test fired their Falcon 9 rocket.? The private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully test fired the rocket that will launch the first-ever commercial space capsule to the International Space Station [...]

Ben Johnson: +1. In 2012, the only thing that seems to terrify governments, corporations, or celebrities enough to make them act quickly is the fury of the Internet, spread by social media. Can you imagine if there was SOPA-level activism and rage regarding financial reform, spurred by simple, focused messaging? Bank of America was shaking [...]

Stocks Stocks are devices used in the medieval times as a form of physical punishment involving public humiliation. The stocks partially immobilized its victims and they were often exposed in a public place such as the site of a market to the scorn of those who passed by. Since the purpose of putting offenders in [...]

>>> word that a quote on the new martin luther king memorial will be changed after it was said that it didn’t reflect his words and made him sound arrogant. the memorial opened in august with a quote, i was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness. but the [...]