By Jon Swartz , USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO — President Trump isn’t the only one venting on politics online. More than 60 mobile apps on politics — from Presidential Actions to Quartz News — have surfaced since Trump’s election three months ago, spanning the ideological spectrum. In-between, a swarm of apps such as Countable, VoteSpotter, Political Actions, Congress, Presidential Election & […]

By Mel Robbins at www.melrobbins.com If you are reading this then you know exactly what you need to be doing in order to get what you want. There is nothing that I could tell you about how to get what you want that you don’t already know, or that you couldn’t easily get from a […]

BY JESSICA BLOUSTEIN writing for Newsweek As long as there have been people in power, there have been wiseacres mocking the people in power. Those Paleolithic French cave paintings of horses? It’s a safe bet that at least one of them is an old-school political cartoon meaning “Tribal leader Gary is a jackass.” Greek playwright Aristophanes’ […]

from U.S. History.com Hollywood was established in 1853, with a single adobe hut on land outside Los Angeles, California. Growing crops was so successful there that by 1870, Hollywood became a thriving agricultural community. One of its most notable historic figures was real estate tycoon, Harvey Henderson Wilcox and his wife, Daeida, who moved to […]

By Peter McGraw and Joel Warner Charles Dickens thought Americans weren’t very funny. “They certainly are not a humorous people,” he wrote in 1868, “and their temperament always impressed me as being of a dull and gloomy character.” That’s not to say there weren’t early-American humorists. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Artemus Ward, and Mark Twain helped […]

By David Kithcart – 700 Club Features Director Flowers, candy, red hearts and romance. That’s what Valentine’s day is all about, right? Well, maybe not. The origin of this holiday for the expression of love really isn’t romantic at all—at least not in the traditional sense. Father Frank O’Gara of Whitefriars Street Church in Dublin, Ireland, […]

By Marissa Willman, Viator.com Travel Blog With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, stores are flooded with candy hearts, chocolates and stuffed animals. In the U.S., shelves brimming with teddy bears and boxes of chocolate are typical Valentine’s Day fare, but not every country turns to greeting cards and heart-shaped candies to declare love. Some […]

By: Karl Smallwood Clapping is the near-ubiquitous way we show our appreciation of something, particularly when we’re in large groups. But have you ever wondered why slapping our hands together has come to be so closely associated with approval and where the practise originated from? To begin with, the idea of clapping to show appreciation is […]

from Harriet-Tubman.org The Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century and reached its height between 1850 and 1860. Much of what we know today comes from accounts after the Civil War and accurate statistics about fugitive slaves using the Underground Railway may never be verifiable. It is believed that around 100,000 slaves between […]

by Kevin Sheridan http://kevinsheridanllc.com/ According to a 2016 survey by CareerBuilder, more than half of American companies said a bad hiring decision had negatively impacted their business this year. Many company leaders cited associated challenges such as lost revenue, poor productivity, lower employee morale, and strained client relations. Furthermore, 27 percent said a single bad hire […]