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Jon Stewart on the benefits of NSA surveillance: If you like your spy, you...
Even as the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance activities continue to come to light, Jon Stewart argued on Monday, they weren’t totally without at least one merit. “On the bright side, under...
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Rachel Maddow: Was Chris Christie enough of a bully to shut down a bridge to...
Even if it seems like a random conspiracy theory, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow argued on Monday, the investigation into the closing of the George Washington Bridge in September 2013 and its effects on a...
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Günter Grass, Margaret Atwood and Martin Amis join 500 of the world’s leading...
More than 500 of the world’s leading authors, including five Nobel prize winners, have condemned the scale of state surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and warned that spy...
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Nobel winner Randy Schekman declares boycott of top journals because they...
Leading academic journals are distorting the scientific process and represent a “tyranny” that must be broken, according to a Nobel prize winner who has declared a boycott on the publications. Randy...
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How Tila Tequila’s warm new embrace of Adolf Hitler is going down at Stormfront
Yesterday, we brought news of reality TV star and marginal rap talent Tila Tequila’s bizarre new turn towards Nazism. Tequila first made a name for herself on a 2007 MTV bisexual dating show, A Shot at...
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White House scoffs at Seymour Hersh claims that Obama lied about Syrian WMDs
The White House has flatly denied a new report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh that claims the Obama administration manipulated intelligence reports to support its case for military...
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Texas gets first statewide elected Democrat in 15 years after judge abandons GOP
A longtime Texas judge became the first statewide Democratic officeholder since 1998 after he switched parties this week. According to the Star-Telegram, state criminal appeals court judge Larry Meyers...
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North Carolina Republican’s DWI and drug possession arrest is his fourth in...
A North Carolina Republican county commissioner who ran on a platform of small government and fiscal responsibility was arrested last week when police found him passed out in his vehicle in the middle...
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Ted Cruz and John Cornyn support Bible-quoting high school cheerleaders
Texas Republican Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz filed a legal brief last week in support of high school cheerleaders who created banners with overtly Christian messages. “Through the First...
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Ex-Navy chaplain: I’ll shoot ‘Right Wing Watch’ readers and then ‘pray for...
A disgraced former Navy chaplain warned members of a group dedicated to monitoring fringe conservatives that he had would be willing to shoot their readers and then “pray for your soul” if necessary....
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Dan Rather says his Bush report was flawed, but Lara Logan’s Benghazi report...
Former CBS anchor Dan Rather says Lara Logan should keep her job, but he said there was a key difference between the erroneous “60 Minutes” report on Benghazi and the report that ultimately cost his...
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Oklahoma lawmakers: No Satanist monument because ‘this is a faith-based state’
Oklahoma lawmakers are appalled that Satanists would try to erect a monument in their state capitol, but their decision to include a monument to the Ten Commandments of the Christian Bible’s Old...
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Joe Biden to announce increased funding for mental health one year after...
US Vice President Joe Biden will announce $100 million to improve access to mental health services when he meets Tuesday with families of children killed in the Newtown school shooting, an official...
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Judges ‘will not entertain’ legal bid seeking personhood for chimpanzees
Three US judges have rejected lawsuits demanding that chimpanzees be recognized as people with fundamental rights, an animal charity said Tuesday. The Nonhuman Rights Project petitioned three courts in...
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Afghan president accuses U.S. of conducting ‘psychological war’ against his...
President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday accused the United States of conducting psychological war against the Afghan people in one of his strongest attacks to date on Washington’s policy in his country....
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You are what daddy ate, study says
A father’s diet influences the health of his offspring, according to a study published on Tuesday that suggests men, like women, should plan to eat and live healthily in the run-up to conception....
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Two jailed Pussy Riot members could be freed under amnesty bill
Two jailed Pussy Riot members could be freed early under a general amnesty backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin but anti-Kremlin ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is unlikely to benefit, according...
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John McCain reacts to Obama’s Castro handshake: ‘Chamberlain shook hands with...
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Tuesday suggested that President Barack Obama’s handshake with Cuban President Raul Castro was like shaking hands with Adolf Hitler. At the memorial service for former South...
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Hacker blames depression and pot for ‘sextortion’ threats against hundreds of...
A California man who hacked into hundreds of Internet accounts and blackmailed women into stripping for him blames depression and marijuana use for his crimes. Karen “Gary” Kazaryan, of Glendale, was...
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Study finds no link between teen pot use and schizophrenia risk
New research has found little link between marijuana use and schizophrenia, contrary to previous studies that suggested pot-smoking adolescents were at greater risk of developing the mental illness. A...
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