In the annals of loopholes, one that the Federal Election Commission, the nation's election watchdog, created in 2008 could rank as one of the most absurd. The FEC's Republican commissioners decided that shadowy nonprofits running political ads (think: the US Chamber of Commerce) …
The George Carlin & Scott Walker Clip Every American Needs To See It’s almost like George had a pair of magic, look-into-the-future glasses.Warning: A little bit NSFW.
In conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe’s latest video, he features two “non-citizens” who have supposedly committed voter fraud in North Carolina. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, one of the men, Zbigniew Gorzkowski, has actually been an American citi …
Large numbers of the famed Tennessee Walking Horses have been tortured and beaten in order to make them produce the high-stepping gait that wins championships, an ABC News investigation has found. "All too often, you have to cheat to win in this sport," said Keith Dane of the …
The violent mugging of a young soldier in Tampa earlier this week has gained national attention. Surveillance video showing the 24-year-old being punched and kicked has been seen by millions. It has been described as "heartbreaking" and "shocking." Police are …
We assumed we were talking behind this guy's back, but apparently JaVale has had the Internet this entire time and eventually began to understand how he's perceived in the media. So what does JaVale do to teach us all a lesson for the borderline cyber-bullying? He lofts those o …
Sometimes it doesn't pay to do the right thing. Just ask John Chevilott, a former public-works employee in Wayne County, Mich., who earlier this month found a loaded, snubnosed revolver while mowing grass in Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood, turned it in and was promptly fired.
On April 21, The New York Times reported that Wal-Mart de Mexico paid $24 million in bribes to local land use officials in exchange for allowing the company to build stores in virtually every corner of the country, and to make environmental objections vanish. Although its top exe …
What's going on with America and the rest of the world?In a story that is suspiciously floating just below the general U.S. media radar, former President George W. Bush and his puppet-master/VP Dick Cheney were unanimously convicted of war crimes by a five panel tribunal in Malay …
President Obama made history on Tuesday, at least according to a Twitter hashtag.
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