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The Teabuggers, those pesky kids charged with a federal felony for getting into Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu’s office under false pretences, see themselves as avant-garde Republican activist/humorists. So why aren’t they, or any other right-wingers really, funny?
On the surface it makes no sense. Why should political ideology affect humor when it doesn’t affect earnings potential [...]

President Barack Obama, interviewed in Moscow today, said that his vice president’s assertion that Israel is a sovereign nation and cannot be told what to do, or not to do, about Iran’s nuclear program is “absolutely not” a green light for a preemptive attack against Tehran’s nuke plants.

“Absolutely not,” Obama told CNN’s Ed Henry. “And [...]

President Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States, founded with the slavery of Africans and perpetuating legalized racial discrimination well into the 20th Century, addressed the parliament of Ghana today in his first journey to Africa as president.
Obama called this time “a new moment of promise.”
He told an intimately personal tale of [...]

US President Barack Obama has promised the Pope that he will try to reduce the number of abortions in the United States.
President Barack Obama has had his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican.
A Vatican spokesman says they discussed the “defence and the promotion of life” and that the President has promised the [...]

The Australian Crime Commission has won access to the medical records of eight Indigenous female patients under the age of 16 despite concerns by a health service that it breaches confidentiality.
As part of the federal intervention in the Northern Territory, the Crime Commission was seeking access to the detailed health records of eight underage girls, [...]

Wanna get you some meditation, some peace, some wisdom? Wanna do a weekend program where you learn how to calm and open your mind to…reality? Buddhism–tested over 2,500 years in dozens of diverse cultures–is worth a go.
Thanks to murderous Mao (he killed more than Hitler and Stalin) & his loyal Red comrades, Tibetan Buddhism came [...]

Election day is less than 24 hours away and this Halloween weekend, we ran into two different election posters that seek to get your vote by dressing the candidates up in a different skin color.
The first, sent to us by a reader and designed by Tor Myhren who is Chief Creative Officer for Grey Advertising [...]

Throughout this historic campaign season, the economy has without a doubt been the most dominant issue on the minds of American voters. Once the turbulent markets have subsided, we must continue to support policies that will return purchasing power to those hit hardest by our current crisis: America’s middle class workers.
While bailouts, regulation and taxes [...]

Worries in the west regarding the global economy went up to a new stage when Russia, Iran and Qatar announced that they were going to create a gas cartel. The decision of the three countries raised concerns and was criticized by the European commission, which considers that the cartel could increase prices on gas due [...]

With the US Presidential Election looming on the horizon in just a few short months and the campaign trail hotting up, the issues that are relevant to the American public are coming under scrutiny.
It’s no wonder when you think just how many problems George W Bush will be leaving behind for the next lucky man [...]