Yesterday was a bad day for companies that like to capture and display ocean life. First there was the horrific death of a Sea World trainer in Orlando: A veteran animal trainer whose dream was to work at SeaWorld‘s Shamu Stadium was killed Wednesday when one of the show’s killer whales dragged her underwater and […]

Wow – this sounds like something right out of a Hollywood screenplay: Last fall, a woman went to court in the Bronx to testify that she had been violently assaulted by a top aide to Gov. David A. Paterson, and to seek a protective order against the man. In the ensuing months, she returned to […]

Rep. Anthony Weiner totally reamed the Republicans today on the House floor. Watch the entire thing. You might think it’s over, but it isn’t.

In a vote of 406-19 the House passed a bill today that will allow health insurance companies to actually compete across state lines. That is something a lot of people have been pushing for for years, including Republicans. As matter of fact it has been a key of the Republicans “health care plan”, so it […]

It’s because of ditzs like this. Carrie Prejean isn’t the only beauty queen open to expressing her objection to same-sex marriage. Miss Beverly Hills 2010 Lauren Ashley is also speaking out in support of traditional nuptials. “The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman. In Leviticus it says, ‘If man lies […]

You are about to get left behind. Starting on March 13th YouTube won’t care about you anymore: Over six months ago, Google announced it would start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 on Orkut and YouTube, and started pushing its users to modern browsers. The search giant has now given a specific kill date […]

John Cole reminds us of a harsh reality when it comes to the little $15 billion jobs bill: What is fifteen billion? A couple weeks of unemployment benefits? Not to go all Everett Dirksen and everything, but we ***LOST*** almost that much in Iraq, and no one flinched. But $15 billion is going to remedy […]

Rep. Steve King is trying to justify the attack on the IRS in a discussion with Think Progress: TP: Do you think this attack, this terrorist attack, was motivated at all by a lot of the anti-tax rhetoric that’s popular in America right now? KING: I think if we’d abolished the IRS back when I […]

Without the help of Ben Nelson, Democrats were able to break the GOP filibuster on the jobs bill with the help of Kit Bond, George Voinovich, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Scott Brown. The final vote was 62-30, with Frank Lautenberg missing the vote because of his chemo. As Aravosis points out, Conservatives are on […]

Yes it is: Unions and liberal groups have dismissed Sen. Harry Reid’s $15 billion jobs bill as “puny” while calling for larger stimulus measures. More than two dozen organizations, including the AFL-CIO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP) and National Council of La Raza, warned Democratic leaders in Congress to avoid tackling […]