Obama's expected Afghanistan escalation will drive the annual cost of that war alone to about $80 billion a year -- or roughly the annual cost of the health care bill being debated in Congress.
And this year's Plaxie goes to Dodger pitcher Vicente Padilla. Stealing a page from Plaxico Burress, Padilla accidentally shot himself in the leg while hunting in Nicaragua.
Barack Obama ended up beating John McCain rather easily one year ago, but Stephen Colbert didn't stay in the race for the White House or Obama could have really been in trouble (for a minute or two, anyway).
Rosanne Cash appeared on the Colbert Report last night on the use of music to torture at Guantanamo, and she made it clear: using music as torture is wrong and there's no gray area.
Asked what she might need to do in order to make Fox News a better fit with the Comedy Channel formula, Viacom's MTV networks CEO, Judy McGrath replied, "Absolutely nothing."
How did some of these banks make so much money? You can thank the government. First and foremost, there was TARP funding.
I have to admit before I begin that I don't watch cable television "news" during the day, because I consider it largely to be a waste of my valuable t...
The point is we gotta stop constantly judging other people's sex lives. Unless they produce an amateur sex tape. Then it's fair game. Until then leave Letterman alone!
It strikes me as downright surreal that Stewart and Colbert, and not the 'real' anchorpersons, seem to be the people on TV who actively adhere to concepts like fairness, primary sources and facts.
Our perceptions of single people and their place in society have not caught up with the realities. How well do you know your single people? Take this quiz.
If you're a media observer like myself, you not only follow the hot trends, and follow the new and emerging technologies, but, you also follow the people whose and body of work permeate the social landscape.
What's wrong with wanting to make a living speaking and writing about environmental issues? Colin Beavan's never claimed to be an expert, simply a layperson who wanted to enlighten himself and others.
Baucus' was supposed to be the "bipartisan" bill, but the only way it can truly be referred to as such is in the growing bipartisan distaste for the bill.
Hey, DonorsChoose.org is about helping out teachers trying to fund classroom projects. It's like microfinance, where p...
Remember Fort Sumter? Yes, Joe Wilson's ancestors literally started the Civil War.
Deep in your heart, you know Colbert's got the complete package of comic timing, creativity, audacity, and that indefinable "it" to pull off a portrayal of such a multi-layered villain.
What has stood out for me about Ted Kennedy was his ability to balance his vision with the most pragmatic of details, across the wide breadth of issues.
The Riddler is intellectually curious, wickedly funny, and relentlessly creative -- all of the things I would associate with Stephen Colbert. Add in the usual debauchery, mischief and shenanigans and Colbert could really pull it off.
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert pass themselves off as comedians, but they are really the most influential satirists of the day: they inform and illuminate through ridicule.
The conference on Afghanistan with Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, sponsored by the Center for American Progress on August 12 turned into a disappointing press conference
