This weekend, our nation will celebrate the 233rd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The day is usually marked with cookouts, fireworks, red-white-and-blue bunting, and patriotic displays that entertain both kids and grown-ups alike. If you can’t make it to our Nation’s Capital this weekend for the fun, check out what you can do in [...]

Today, Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in jail, the maximum penalty, for bilking thousands of people out of billions of dollars over the past few decades. Since Madoff is already 71 years old, the sentence will ensure that he dies in prison (unless he finds a fountain of youth or something, in which [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner … or maybe it’s a loser. The World’s Ugliest Dog was declared last week. His name is Pabst, and he’s a 4-year-old Boxer mix from California. Pabst beat out the former winner, a Chinese Crested named Rascal, to take the honor, the $1,600 prize money and the modeling [...]

Remember Lynndie England? She was the Army Reservist pictured in the shocking 2004 photos of abuse that came out of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. England and others involved served jail time for the prisoner abuse scandal that rocked the world, but now, she’s on a book tour, hoping to tell her story and make [...]

With all the legitimate and unexpected celebrity deaths in the past few weeks, it seems that some people are beginning to post celebrity death hoaxes online. Claiming that yet another famous person has met an untimely end can be great for driving traffic to a website or starting a Twitter frenzy, even if it’s not [...]

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc. (the company that makes iPods, iPhones, iTouches, and i-everything), was the “sickest patient on the waiting list” before his liver transplant, but now he’s doing well, according to Methodist University Hospital’s transplant institute in Memphis. Jobs had had liver cancer, but now, his prognosis is excellent, which is great [...]

The NBA Draft of 2009 has permeated the sports world over the past few days. While most people knew that Blake Griffin would be chosen first (and chosen he was, by the Clippers with their number one pick), some players fell down the list, while others moved up higher than expected. So who ended up [...]

As you probably know (if you don’t live under a rock), Michael Jackson died yesterday at the age of 50. He was the King of Pop, the star beloved worldwide for his music despite his occasional eccentricities. As fans pay tribute to Jackson today, many are recalling similar tributes to other lost musicians, especially Tennessee’s [...]

Read the full text on the Huffington Post… I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt’s advancement. [...]

List of colleges and universities in Tennessee From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This is a list of colleges and universities in Tennessee. This list also includes other educational institutions providing higher education, meaning tertiary, quaternary, and, in some cases, post-secondary education. Contents [hide] 1 State institutions 1.1 Two-year institutions 1.2 Four-year [...]