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“I didn’t even want it on the record,” Morissette, 46, said on Rolling Stone's “Music Now” podcast. “And I remember a lot of people going, ‘Please please, please.’ So I said, OK. That was one of the first songs we wrote, almost like a demo to get our whistles wet. But people wound up really liking the melody, and I wasn’t that precious about it.” … [Read more...] about Alanis Morissette says she feared being viewed as ‘stupid or uneducated or ignorant’ because of ‘Ironic’ song

“I suspect most of the other so-called conservative justices on the court would concede that Thomas is correct as a textual and historical matter but are reluctant to join him because to adopt this position would require undoing over 70 years of precedents,” Dreisbach said, referring to the 1947 ruling. “I think it highly unlikely that this particular jurisdictional argument will become a majority position anytime soon.” … [Read more...] about Thomas gains support from a Supreme Court colleague on view that states can favor religion

"The way I view it is, when you have certain elements of society encouraging violence, [and] at the same time asking the police to stand down, what's the only possible result?" McCloskey responded. "The only possible solution is for individual citizens to stand up to defend themselves, and I'm afraid what's being promoted is causing citizens to stand up and defend themselves so they can be chilled and abused the way we have been." … [Read more...] about Missouri man who guarded home with rifle tells Tucker that ‘rumor is’ he and wife will be ‘indicted shortly’

John Travolta has ended the case against two people accused of trying to extort him and his wife, Kelly Preston, following their son's death in the Bahamas, the Daily News reported Monday. Judge declares mistrial in Travolta extortion case declared a mistrial last year after a local politician suggested that the still-deliberating jury had acquitted Bridgewater. … [Read more...] about John Travolta Drops Charges in Extortion Case

The ruling dramatically illustrated attitudinal shifts in the nation’s high court. In 1986, the court addressed claims of gay rights for the first time and ruled 5-4 that states could punish gays and lesbians for consensual sexual activity. Chief Justice Warren Burger, in a concurring opinion, said the ruling was based on “millennia of moral teaching.” The court overturned the ruling 17 years later after most such laws had been repealed. … [Read more...] about U.S. Supreme Court grants gays constitutional right to marry