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Canadian lawmaker: ‘Everyone knows that Santa Claus is Canadian’
Canada vowed Tuesday to defend the North Pole and Santa Claus, insisting the mythical figure is a citizen, after Russia ordered its military to step up its Arctic presence. Paul Calandra, parliamentary...
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It’s official: Uruguay legalizes production and sale of cannabis
Government experiment reaches new heights as it attempts to regulate marijuana business and find alternative to war on drugs The world’s most far-reaching cannabis law was passed by the Uruguayan...
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Jon Stewart and Jason Jones tackle ‘legislative clusterf*ck’ that created...
Even if the country is seemingly in an academic freefall, Jon Stewart took heart in this year’s Congress being “hailed” as the least productive in U.S. history, and particularly House Speaker John...
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Shake, Rattled, and LOL
Proving that no gesture ( a wink, a nod, a jerk-off motion indicated by the vigorous pumping of a closed fist up and down) is too small to not possibly result in some deep geopolitical repercussions...
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If Nelson Mandela was not a saint, then who is a saint?
In many of the tributes paid in recent days to Nelson Mandela, it has been observed, approvingly, that he was no saint. Most know what it means, in ordinary language, to say of somebody with affection...
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40 days in chains: Afghan shrine ‘cures’ evil spirits
All it took to land Din Muhammed in a cell at an Afghan shrine, chained up and living on bread for 40 days, was an argument with his father. Muhammad was forced to undergo the traditional “cure” at the...
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Florida man called out for racist TV ads tells Raw Story he’s fine with...
Last week, we told you about an online ad for an Alabama law firm featuring a white man playing an “Asian” character while affecting an accent reminiscent of Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s....
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Sharing a name with Saddam Hussein has mostly meant trouble for many Iraqis
In a predominantly Shiite town near Baghdad, Saddam Hussein roams the streets unmolested, joking with checkpoint guards and shaking the hands of passers-by, proudly announcing his name. “You didn’t...
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Japan setting aside $970 million to store tons of soil contaminated by radiation
Japan is planning to earmark $970 million for a storage facility for tens of thousands of tons of soil contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima disaster, a report said Wednesday. The government...
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Coal port plan will kill the Great Barrier Reef, activists say
Conservationists on Wednesday slammed Australia’s approval for an Indian firm to expand a major coal port on the Great Barrier Reef coast, warning it would hasten the natural wonder’s demise. “The...
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India’s top court upholds a law criminalizing gay sex
India’s Supreme Court upheld a law criminalizing gay sex, setting aside a landmark lower court decision in 2009 which had overturned a colonial-era ban on homosexuality. A two-judge bench ruled that...
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Cop cleared of wrongdoing after shoving police dog into suspect’s car after...
A grand jury declined to indict a North Carolina police officer this week despite viewing dashboard camera video that clearly shows him shoving a police dog inside a suspect’s vehicle as he holds his...
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Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade tells general: Iraq was a ‘great place’ until U.S. left
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade asserted on Wednesday that the U.S. invasion had turned Iraq into a “great place” until troops were ordered to withdraw in 2011. In an interview on Fox & Friends, Chief...
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NBC plans TV mini-series remake of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’
NBC set to begin shooting for mini-series based on Ira Levin 1967 horror novel brought to big screen by Roman Polanski Rosemary’s Baby is poised to wail demonically again – on the small screen. The US...
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Bubonic plague killed 20 villagers in Madagascar, health experts confirm
Announcement of one of worst outbreaks in years raises fears that disease could spread to towns and cities Once feared as the Black Death – the rodent-born disease that wiped out a third of the world’s...
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Hindus join Satanists demanding equal placement on Oklahoma capitol grounds
Members of the world’s oldest faith would like to join a display of religious symbols at Oklahoma’s state capitol, joining a Judeo-Christian tablet and a proposed Satanist monument. The Universal...
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How cold is the coldest place on Earth?
Scientists have apparently spotted Dante’s Inferno, or at least its ice-lacquered ninth circle, found in a pocket in an Antarctic ice sheet…
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How A Young Conservative Taught Mankind To Get Laid Through Street Harassment
Just ask yourself: What would Paul Newman do? He would definitely stare at her ass like it’s hypnotizing him. I was going to ignore Patrick Howley, the Daily Caller twerp who wrote this paranoid piece...
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British woman wins right to get married in Scientology ‘chapel’
A British woman on Wednesday won her fight to get married in a Scientology chapel in London after the Supreme Court ruled that her church could be considered a place of worship. Louisa Hodkin had been...
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U.S. suspends all non-lethal assistance into northern Syria
The United States has suspended all non-lethal assistance into northern Syria after Islamist rebel forces seized armed depots belonging to the opposition Free Syrian Army, a US embassy spokesman said...
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