As scientists, environmental experts and all manner of government officials descend on Denmark for the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference, the question remains: do the conscientious congregants have an actual plan of action--or are they just a windy gaggle of greenhouse gasbags?

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He's baaaa-aaack!

Up from the primordial ooze from whence he sprang--and fresh from an extended vacay at Club Med Hades (wake- and water-boarding included!)--comes Dick Cheney, aka Dick the Impaler, our grumbling, bumbling, behated former Presi...er...Vice President.

Did you honestly think His Dickness would...

Tuesday's election brought down the final curtain not only on a grueling, two-year presidential campaign, but also on a noisy season of political advertising--one that included radio and television spots, internet banners, robocalls, a half-hour primetime infomercial, and an endless torrent of attack ads....

Sometimes those notorious 15 minutes of fame turn into a lifetime--or, at the very least, an hour-long chunk of primetime television. Click the arrow below to hear a promo for America's most promising new candidate for TV stardom.

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As America faces her most calamitous economic crisis since the Great Depression, she seeks salvation not from some geeky bean-counter, but from a real macho money maven. Enter Henry Paulson: The 700-Billion-Dollar Man!

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With the release of his new book, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman has lifted a dark veil from Bush presidency, confirming what we already knew, yet were probably too depressed to admit: that over the course of...

By now, we've all read about the latest environmental wedgie that Vice President Dick Cheney has given to the world's climate. If you somehow missed the story, here's the bad news:

Cheney wanted cuts in climate change testimony
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer

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South Carolina passed a law this month allowing it to become the first state in the nation to offer its citizens specialty license plates that carry a Christian message. Adorned with a stained-glass window, a cross and the words "I Believe," the plates are...

Glowing words from this past weekend's Firedoglake Book Salon:

So here's a puzzler: How do you write a book about a vicious, evil man like Dick Cheney without turning it into an off-putting, angry rant? Well, I have read the answer, and...

With the final Democratic primaries upon us -- Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota -- the question is no longer who will emerge the victor, but, rather, who will have the nerve to tell you-know-who that the game is over?

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Salman Rushdie knows Dick -- at least according to this item that ran in the Rush & Molloy column in today's New York Daily News:

Young Dick Cheney must be riveting. Salman Rushdie was reading...

What do Arianna Huffington, Keith Olbermann, Lewis Black, Phil Donahue and Mel Brooks have in common?

They all love Young Dick Cheney. Not the grumpy old Prince of Darkness, socked away in his secured, undisclosed location somewhere near Washington--but the adorable and...

Seems all morning the internet has been swamped with links to the White House Web site photo of Vice President Dick Cheney fly-fishing on the Snake River in Idaho. Speculation has run amok over what, precisely, is reflecting in the smiling Veep's...

For all the media chatter about the unprecedented power of the nation's elite army of superdelegates, we have to wonder: Who are these people? Considering that this select group of political operatives allegedly holds the key to the 2008 Democratic race for the presidency, you'd figure we should at least...

Wednesday, March 19, 2008:

Martha Raddatz, ABC's Good Morning America: Two-thirds of Americans say [the Iraq War is] not worth fighting.
Vice President Dick Cheney: So?

How does one respond to such....chutzpah? Click on the Dick pic below. Are we plugging a...

Look for Bruce Kluger and David Slavin's soon-to-be-released children's book (for adults), Young Dick Cheney: Great American (AlterNet Books).

If the final numbers from this week's historic Super Tuesday primaries tell us anything, it's that the 2008 presidential election still remains impossible to predict. One thing, however, is virtually guaranteed: that all of the campaigns will continue to invoke the word "change."

Over the weekend, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama unleashed another round of heated rhetoric about frontrunner Hillary Clinton, accusing her of running a "poll-driven campaign" that dodged questions and lacked substance. Although this newly aggressive strategy runs counter to Obama's earlier vow...

As the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies continue their 2007 World Series face-off, sportswriters have been taking note of one unique aspect of this year's Fall Classic: religion. Last year, USA Today reported that the Rockies roster had been built according to a "Christian-based code of conduct"; and...

As the Supreme Court begins a new session this week, docket watchers everywhere will be paying close attention to how our recently reconfigured panel of Justices will be ruling--especially given the slate of crucial arguments scheduled to come before the bench in...