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Here's how the IRS scandal could cost Uncle Sam billions

Revelations that IRS civil servants used biased criteria to target conservative groups seeking tax exempt status is rightly drawing bipartisan outrage. President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Finance Committee...Show More Summary

Lionsgate Acquires The Quiet Ones From Exclusive Media

Lionsgate announced today that it has acquired from Exclusive Media the North American distribution rights to the Hammer production of The Quiet Ones, a supernatural thriller starring Jared Harris and Sam Claflin, and will bring the film to theaters next year on April 25, 2014. Show More Summary

Lionsgate Nabs Hammer’s ‘The Quiet Ones,’ Sets 2014 Date!

Lionsgate closed a deal with Exclusive Media for North American distribution rights to the Hammer production of The Quiet Ones, the John Pogue-directed supernatural thriller that stars “Mad Men’s” Jared Harris and Sam Claflin, who starred in the last Pirates of the Caribbean, reports Deadline. Lionsgate has already slated the pic for release on April... Read More

John Krasinski Lip Synching Teenage Dream Will Make You Drop an Egg

Last night, John Krasinski and Jimmy Fallon engaged in a lip syncing battle — it's pretty wonderful. It's basically Boys II Men v. Sam Harris, and it's hard to pick a winner. Read more...

The Dixie Group's CEO Discusses Q1 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

The Dixie Group, Inc. (DXYN) Q1 2013 Earnings Conference Call May 1, 2013, 2013 11:00 am ET Executives Dan Frierson - Chairman & CEO Jon Faulkner - CFO Analysts Sam Darkatsh - Raymond James Arnie Brief - Goldsmith & Harris Keith Hughes...Show More Summary

Sam Worthington To Star In ‘The Keeping Room’

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Worthington is now set to star in The Keeping Room, alongside Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Nicole Beharie. Harry Brown helmer Daniel Barber will direct. Wind Dancer Films will finance and produce with Gilbert Films and Anonymous Content. Show More Summary

Meditation As Self-Defense

Sam Harris, a practitioner of meditation and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, connects the two: Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to [...]

Sam Harris (Literally) Fights with a Reporter

The Atlantic's Graeme Wood recently visited Sam Harris to fight him using Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ). I won't say who wins, but this paragraph was just eye-opening: [Click headline for more…]

New Statesman: Criticism of Islam is Not Islamophobia

After seeing article after article claiming Sam Harris and the New Atheists who criticized Islam were guilty of "Islamophobia," Andrew Zak Williams at New Stateman argues that the atheists have a point. It's possible that criticism of...Show More Summary

Such Obvious Islamophobia…

This explains the criticism against Sam Harris: (via Jesus & Mo)

Atheist Author Takes Issue With 'Islamophobia' Label

A well-known atheist author has taken issue with recent claims that his criticism of Islam is a form of bigotry against Muslims. Sam Harris posted a lengthy essay on his website last week responding to the controversy over his words...

Criticism of Islam Is Not ‘Islamophobia’

Sam Harris' The End of Faith opens with a fictional account of a suicide bomber killing innocent people on a bus with the press of a button. We don't know much about the bomber... but Harris suggests we do have a good idea of one thing:...Show More Summary

Poster Round Up: ‘Errors of the Human Body,’ ‘Pacific Rim’ and ‘The Quiet Ones’

Starring Jared Harris (“Mad Men”, The Ward) and Sam Claflin and directed by John Pogue, below you’ll find a leaked look at the first poster for Hammer Films’ The Quiet Ones. “Inspired by true events, it tells the story of an unorthodox, but charismatic Professor (Harris) who uses controversial methods and leads his best students [...]

NBA Draft 2013: Who Has Helped or Hurt Their Stock in the NCAA Tournament? And Why Did Ben McLemore Struggle So Badly?

2 months agoSports : The Big Lead

Guys who will go in the Top 5 struggled, and two guys to keep an eye on in the Sweet 16 - Vander Blue, Gary Harris and Sam Thompson.

Does Morality Need Religion?

16-17 May 2013, Christ Church, Oxford For centuries, atheism was suppressed because of its supposed amorality. Now, New Atheists such as A.C. Grayling and Sam Harris argue that decent, liberal morality is perfectly possible without religious belief--indeed, that it is only possible without it. Show More Summary

Sam Harris is Crowdsourcing Changes to His Next Book (Prizes Are Involved)

In 2011, Sam Harris released a long essay called "Lying." It was available as a Kindle single, but not as a physical book.

Berlin 2013: Lionsgate U.K. Inks British Deal For Jared Harris, Sam Claflin Starrer 'The Quiet Ones'

Exclusive Media seals a slew of deal memos across the globe for John Pogue's supernatural thriller which recently finished shooting. read more

Why I’m Not a Gun Owner

Atheist author Sam Harris argues that owning a gun is a moral imperative for personal protection, but he fails to take into account that the ordinary hazards of widespread gun ownership cost far more lives than attention-grabbing but extremely rare acts of criminality.

Why more guns won't make us safer

IN HIS ARTICLE on gun control in the last issue of The Week, author Sam Harris argued that firearms serve as a great equalizer, enabling good men and women to defend themselves against stronger and more aggressive attackers. I respect...Show More Summary

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