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It would not be the first time that it has been pointed out that, with all his billions, if he really wanted t make a difference on the streets of Gotham, Bruce Wayne would pack in all the Batman lark, invest in the city, its social services, its infrastructure and rid Gotham of its systemic issues. In today’s Batman #44, Scott Snyder and Jock paint a different picture. We begin with a dead teenager. But how did he get there? And I don’t just mean in the middle of an empty field outside Gotham… First, there is the corruption. And the interest...

The evening of Friday, January 19th found The Stiletto at the Directors Guild Theater in Manhattan for a screening of Mine Your Own Business, a 2006 documentary that reveals "the dark side of environmentalism." The film takes on Western environmental activists who parachute into developing nations to orchestrate well-funded campaigns against mining companies that want to renovate obsolete mines, provide desperately needed jobs and improve the roads, housing and water supply for the local populace. The environmentalists get quoted in the MSM, and this documentary is meant to give the impoverished people who would have benefited from the mining projects...

A hulking federal bureaucracy sues a Mom and Pop burger stand, and thecomplaint alleges discrimination and is steeped in political correctness.This sounds like something one would expect to during the Clinton years,but instead it's happening now. Richard Kidman and his wife Shauna, co-owners of R.D.'s Drive-In in Page,Arizona, say they are on the verge of bankruptcy. They can't afford todefends themselves against a lawsuit filed in federal court in Phoenix bythe Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The suit is thefirst-ever English-only discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of NativeAmericans by the federal government. Four former employees of R.D.'sclaimed that the...