Iowa native Steve Chmelar, who is credited with inventing the foam finger is not the No. 1 fan of Miley Cyrus’ performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Chmelar. 59, created the foam finger prototype in 1971. They went on to be mass-produced by Geral Fauss in 1978. He said he did not like the [...]

By Sara Morrison LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – The man credited with inventing the foam finger – like the one Miley Cyrus brought to the forefront of national attention at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards – is not her No. 1 fan. Iowa native Steve Chmelar, who created the foam finger prototype in 1971 (which Geral [...]

Steve Chmelar is credited with inventing the foam finger at age 16 in 1971, when he brought a giant finger made of papier-mâché to the Iowa High School Athletic Association Boy’s State Basketball Finals. So imagine his outrage, given his creation’s wholesome, corn-fed origins, when Miley Cyrus used it to rub her nude-colored latex crotch (and those [...]

Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said Wednesday that Syria will turn into a “graveyard of the invaders” in case of foreign military intervention and accused the West of inventing pretexts to attack. Syria will “surprise the aggressors as it surprised them in” the 1973 Yom Kippur war, when Arab forces caught Israel off guard, and become [...]

A teenage girl has denied inventing an allegation of rape because she wanted to outdo her sister in her sexual abuse claims against a man both girls have accused of molesting them. ”This isn’t a competition. This is real life,” the 15-year-old said yesterday in response to a suggestion she changed her story to include [...]

Those who know me personally know that I am something of an inventor. Hardly a day goes by when I do not build some device that addresses a pressing human need or, failing that, identifies a problem to be solved or, failing that, duplicates a [...]

Matthew Morgan, 38, made 'easy money' by using his expert knowledge to make the fraudulent claims saying he owned the pets over the space of three years.

Matthew Morgan, 38, made 'easy money' by using his expert knowledge to make the fraudulent claims saying he owned the pets over the space of three years.

CRESWICK, AUSTRALIA–(Marketwired – Aug 27, 2013) – In an age where unrelenting competition is forcing insurance companies into perpetually re-inventing themselves, a new management tool is reducing costs while speeding up the planning, designing, and managing of organizations, processes and technology. The outcome is a sector more responsive to the constantly emerging needs created by [...]

In this commentary, Katelynn McBride from the Institute for Justice argues that, counter to what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stated this week, judges who enforce the Constitution’s prohibition on arbitrary discrimination are properly fulfilling their judicial role. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Photo by Stephen Masker. Speaking unfavorably of the Supreme Court’s recent [...]