Al Gore is now a Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it. “I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel […]
This guy seriously needs to be taken off the air. Via Think Progress: Gibson: Whites commit suicide, blacks ’shoot and move on.’ A student in Cleveland yesterday shot four people at a high school before killing himself. On his radio show that day, Fox News’s John Gibson claimed that he “could tell right away†that […]
It’s amazing that there is an apparent leak from the White House that may have just closed a very important back end to al Qaeda. If you have been in a cocoon for the past 24 hours, here is the run down: A small, privately run intelligence analysis company says that a Bush administration leak […]
So far nine House Republicans have announced they won’t seek re-election next year. Now we start hearing the excuses for them not running: Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.), 61, one of those who announced he’s packing it in, said that the Democrats’ new five-day workweek made traveling back home that much more difficult. “I do think […]
The wingnut attacks on Graeme Frost are getting ridiculous. It turns out that Malkin isn’t the only one harassing the family now, according to ABC: According to Senate Democratic aides, some bloggers have made repeated phone calls to the home of 12-year-old Graeme Frost, demanding information about his family’s private life. On Monday, a spokesman […]
A lot of chatter is going on about Graeme Frost, the 12 year old boy who gave the Democratic radio response a couple of weeks ago. He was speaking in support of SCHIP. Of course the viciousness of the right has come out on this, and they are making the victim into some monster. Think […]
Republicans have screwed themselves. This is no secret. From their constant signs of hypocrisy, to their obstructionism in the Senate, to their lock step legislating with the worse President in American history, they are working on handing the Democrats another big sweep next year: Democrats are positioned to bolster their Senate majority in next year’s […]
The war on terror is actually fueling al Qaeda. That is the determination of a new study: A report by the Oxford Research Group (ORG) said a “fundamental re-think is required” if the global terrorist network is to be rendered ineffective. “If the al Qaeda movement is to be countered, then the roots of its […]
The Republicans keep talking about how we should let the insurance companies fix the healthcare problem. Well we have had a good test run of that when the Republican designed Medicare system went into effect last year. The results are disgusting: Tens of thousands of Medicare recipients have been victims of deceptive sales tactics and […]
How many stories have we heard about airstrikes in Iraq going bad? How many times have there been different accounts between what Iraq says and our military says? Here is the latest: American troops backed by aircraft attacked a Shiite town north of Baghdad at dawn on Friday, killing at least 25 Iraqis the military […]