Dear Fox Viewers: You Are Being Duped

It looks like the health care debate was not the only place where Fox News executive Bill Sammon decided to use his “news” organization to snooker the public. Media Matters has uncovered further evidence of Mr. Sammon’s abuse of editorial license, this time in the climate change debate. In...

David Suzuki: “Sickened” By Canadian Senate Vote Against Environment

When one thinks about people who have had a large impact on the debate surrounding environmental issues only a couple of names come to mind, Al Gore and David Suzuki. I recently had the privilege of meeting one of these men, David Suzuki, at the Vancouver International Film Festival screening of his...

Democracy in Lotus Land

Imagine a State Government like Pennsylvania publicly asking for feedback on shaping a proposal like Cap and Trade rather than what they did with House Bill 220 (signed into law in 2008 by Governor Rendell as Act 129). Well the “Socialist” Canadian Province I have called home for three years,...

Even More Annals of Stupidity

1. When Glenn Beck says he was wrong, you know it’s gonna lead to something worse: For almost a year, Glenn Beck has been warning with increasing panic that America is headed toward socialism. Tonight, he issued a correction: “They” are not marching the United States toward socialism, Beck...

You’d Think They’d Take Off One Night a Week

Conservatives never miss a chance to show off how stupid they are: Today is the second annual Earth Hour, a worldwide campaign to raise awareness on the issue of climate change. At 8:30pm local time, major businesses, local and national points of interest, and individual homes will dim their lights for one...

Did Palin “Establish Debating Parity” with Joe Biden?

David Brooks thinks she did: There are some moments when members of a political movement come together as one, sharing the same thoughts, feeling the same emotions, breathing the same shallow breaths. One of those occasions occurred Thursday night when Republicans around the country crouched nervously...