Former Minnesota governor and one-time professional wrestler Jesse Ventura has run afoul of the Huffington Post's no-conspiracy-theory policy, and he's not happy about it. "I can't believe the Huffington Post today will practice censorship," Ventura says in astonishment. "I've got news for them. ... I won't ever write […]
Jon Stewart on Thursday assailed Fox News's Megyn Kelly for cherry-picking poll numbers to make a "partisan" case against the health care bill. "The loyal opposition, Fox News, has started running negative ads against health care reform as they go into their own campaign mode," Stewart explained. "As the president is getting out […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – A federal appeals court in California ruled Thursday that the references to God on US bank notes and in the pledge of allegiance to the US flag are constitutional and not religious in nature. By a two-to-one margin, the three judges overturned their own 2002 ruling that sided with atheist Michael Newdow's [...] […]
Comedian reviews former Bush aide's 'who-didn't-dun-it' memoir Stephen Colbert apparently couldn't get the real Karl Rove on his show to discuss his new book, so he found the next best thing: a large, oval-shaped chunk of meat on a plate with spectacles on it. "Nation, you know I love Karl Rove," Colbert said on ComedyCentr […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) assured a skeptical Rachel Maddow that Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) won't actually try and derail health care reform over abortion, in an interview Thursday night. "Bart Stupak wants health care reform," Pelosi said on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show. "I don't think that he himself would be one to say […]
A top aide to former US president George W. Bush has defended the use of harsh interrogation techniques, insisting he is "proud" of the methods and they had helped prevent terrorist attacks. Karl Rove also told the BBC in an interview broadcast Thursday that he did not believe waterboarding -- a simulated drowning method -- amounted [...] […]
The American Civil Liberties Union sued state prison officials and a private company Thursday, claiming violence is so rampant at the Idaho Correctional Center that it's known as "gladiator school" among inmates. The ACLU filed the lawsuit against Nashville, Tennessee-based Corrections Corp. of America in U.S. District Court in Boise. The laws […]
KANSAS CITY, Missouri – Nearly half the public schools in Kansas City, Missouri are slated for closure as the cash-strapped district struggles to address years of declining enrollment and poor performance. The predominantly African American school district has seen numbers cut in half over the past 10 years as parents moved their children out of the [...] […]
After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center. The settlement was announced Thursday evening by the WTC Captive Insurance [. […]