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Marine Corps to Start Involuntary Troop Recalls
Aug 24, 2006 Thousands of inactive service members will probably be called up to counter a decline in volunteers The official in charge of the Marines' manpower mobilization said he didn't know why the numbers have been dropping off recently Gee.Crazy Christianists Alert
Aug 23, 2006 Want to know what a Christian version of the Taliban would look like? Listen to these guys. They've got large followings and plenty of hate in their hearts.Black ?Daily Show? Reporter: GOP’ers Aren’t Racist Enough
Aug 23, 2006 Jon Stewart?s "senior black correspondent" Larry Wilmore said that Republicans like Tony Snow and Va. Sen. George Allen are giving real racists like Strom Thurmond a bad name.
Nuclear City
Aug 23, 2006
An Environmental Success Story (for Once)
Aug 23, 2006 Two of the scientists responsible for sounding the alarm on the thinning ozone layer have reported that the hole over the Antarctic has stopped widening, and may close within a generation or two. If true, this proves what can be achieved when government works to address, rather than deny, an environmental catastrophe. Global warming, anyone?The Next Lamont?
Aug 23, 2006 Maybe not. Although Jonathan Tasini would like to be the next maverick primary candidate to beat an entrenched pro-war Democrat?Hillary Clinton, in this case?he's failed to garner anything near the support Ned Lamont managed against Joe Lieberman.
Wal-Mart Can’t Hack it in Japan
Aug 23, 2006 The retail giant has met its match in the Japanese consumer: Seiyu, Wal-Mart's Japanese division, has posted $465 million in losses for the first half of 2006. It's not looking good overseas for the shopping mecca?German and South Korean divisions were shut down earlier this year after poor performance.
So a Militant Feminist and a Pro-Lifer Walk Into a Bar…
Aug 23, 2006 Well, not a bar, actually -- a house. On this week's episode of his FX network series "Thirty Days," Morgan Spurlock, the documentarian behind "Super Size Me," is putting two women with radically different worldviews in the same house for 30 days.
Matthews, Hackett Demolish GOP Candidate
Aug 23, 2006 This one was so brutal it almost wasn't fun to watch. Almost. NBC's Chris Matthews and antiwar veteran Paul Hackett made mincemeat of Texas GOP congressional candidate Van Taylor, whom they repeatedly chastised for using meaningless talking points. Taylor was more out of his depth than George Bush at a Mensa convention.Americans Favor Dems on Iraq War, Says Poll
Aug 23, 2006 In a reversal of the national sentiment of 2003, Americans now favor Democrats over Republicans on the Iraq war by 47% to 41%, according to a CNN poll. On the issue of terrorism, however, Republicans come out on top, 48 to 38.
Colbert Dominating TV-Web Fusion
Aug 23, 2006 During last night's (Aug. 21) show, Stephen Colbert aired fan-created video mash-ups of an earlier episode -- and then urged his viewers to make more. More than anyone else on TV, Colbert is harnessing the energies and enthusiasms of his viewers to produce a better product. Huff Po's Rachel Sklar has more.Death Toll Rises to 90 After Mexico Earthquake
Sep 11, 2017 President Enrique Pena Nieto says a third of the homes in the city of Juchitan are uninhabitable.