Al Gore

Is All of Hollywood the Bitch in Twitter "Sex Tape," or Just P. Diddy?

Alexia Tsotsis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media


Alexia Tsotsis

A.J. Keen: Technology start-ups have become the "hottest celebrities in America... Receiving the same kind of obsessionally intimate coverage... that was once reserved for... Michael Jackson or Elvis."

Obama Should Provide Financial Options to CIT Customers

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics


Lloyd Chapman

Obama should take a closer look at his administration's policies involving CIT and the over 40 million voters that could be impacted by those decisions. 2012 will be here before you know it.

Gore To Back Emissions Reduction

theage.com.au | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


A fully costed map for how Australia could reduce greenhouse gas emissions "at emergency speed" will be developed with the backing of former US vice-p...

The Spectator Is Hot for Global Warming Denial

Alex Higgins | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


Alex Higgins

Global warming denial is not a set of scientific ideas -- it's a collection of bogus factoids which have a zombie-like ability to keep returning to life, seeking new brains to feed on no matter how many times they are shot down.

J. Stephen Simon, The Exceptional Oil Man

Taylor Marsh | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business


Taylor Marsh

ExxonMobil has many enemies on the activist side, but J. Stephen Simon was one of the most honorable, decent, dedicated American patriots you'll ever find. Yes, even an oil man can be a patriot.

Dear Sen. Franken: The Terrorists (and Fox News) Win If You Stop Making Jokes

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics


Ariel Gonzalez

Throughout your campaign and its aftermath, you went out of your way to not be funny -- please free your sense of humor from whatever black site it's been languishing in for the last two years.

Urgent July 4th Declaration: Bo Webb to Al Gore: Stand with Me at Ground Zero for Climate Change

Jeff Biggers | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green


Jeff Biggers

If we are to be serious about addressing the "inconvenient truth," then banning mountaintop removal is a logical and required first step in capturing carbon and saving our forests.

The Power to Mislead

Bernie Bulkin | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green


Bernie Bulkin

In the last decade, we have realized that we have a very difficult problem to solve. It requires an unprecedented amount of global cooperation. It goes by the name of climate change.

The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics


Gary Cohan

Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.

Jeff Muskus

Pelosi: Gore Not In D.C. Because It Wasn't "Energy Efficient"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics


Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she's seeing "a great narrowing of the undecided" in favor of the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill this week. Not enough, h...

Does Al Gore's House Use 20 Times More Electricity Than Average?

thedailygreen.com | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green


Is it true that Al Gore's mansion uses significantly more energy than the typical home? Daily Green investigates. ...

Reckoning at Coal River: Media and Nation Must Bear Witness to Coalfield Tragedy This Week

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.22.2009 | Green


Jeff Biggers

The human rights and constitutional violations of American citizens besieged by ruthless outside coal companies will be on full display this week to the national media and the nation.

Laura Ling, Euna Lee Families Appeal To N. Korea

cnn.com | Posted 07.18.2009 | World


Family members of two U.S. journalists imprisoned in North Korea said they are worried about the women's well-being and are pleading for their release...

Be an Ex-President Without Being President First!

Dave Astor | Posted 07.18.2009 | Comedy


Dave Astor

There's the Star Trek solution of changing the time-space continuum, but I'm hesitant to recommend that because of the damage it might do to the Obamas' new White House vegetable garden.

Terry McAuliffe's Achilles Heel was not the Clintons

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics


Kimberly Krautter

McAuliffe presented himself as a carpetbagger, pure and simple. Blaming the Clintons is grossly unfair to the former President and the Secretary of State.

When Democracy Is Stolen

Giles Slade | Posted 07.16.2009 | World


Giles Slade

With the assistance of a few corrupt politicians, the world has now brought the middle east to the brink of nuclear war.

The Webby Award Speech: the original Twitter

Ariston Anderson | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media


Ariston Anderson

Last night Seth Myers hosted the 13th Annual Webby Awards at the Wall Street Cipriani, a location that symbolized one more example of how new media is...

Gore To North Korea? Obama May Send Ex-VP To Negotiate Journalists' Release

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.10.2009 | World


President Obama is considering sending former Vice President Al Gore to North Korea to negotiate the release of two American journalists from Current ...

Fox Nation: The Seedy Underbelly of Rupert Murdoch's Evil Empire?

Karl Frisch | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media


Karl Frisch

In the two months that followed the website's launch, The Fox Nation has displayed an uncanny ability to mislead readers, twist the truth, spread wild conspiracy theories, and misrepresent the reporting of legitimate journalists.

Terry McAuliffe, All That Was Wrong With the Democratic Party

Mark Nickolas | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics


Mark Nickolas

Nader's accusation goes to the heart of the good ol' boy politics that McAuliffe represents and the very type which Obama sought to push out of the DNC's inner circle.

Asperger's Syndrome (AS) Or Typical Male Behavior (TMB)?

Emily Bracken | Posted 06.28.2009 | Comedy


Emily Bracken

Now, I don't mean to belittle those with Aspies-as it's known in the lay-community, but to me, these "symptoms" sound a lot like the characteristics of your average, meat-eating American male.

Why Didn't Washington Post Columnists Call Cheney a Disgrace?

Eric Boehlert | Posted 06.27.2009 | Media


Eric Boehlert

What a difference two terms make when a Republican former vice president harshly critiques the new White House, compared with when a Democratic former VP raised policy concerns.

Gore Pushes CEOs To Back Climate Change Deal

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 06.24.2009 | Green


COPENHAGEN — Climate-change heavyweights U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders on Sunday to...

Al Gore Chastises Dick Cheney: "I Waited Two Years... To Make Statements That Were Critical" (VIDEO)

Politico | ANDY BARR | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics


Al Gore said Friday that fellow former Vice President Dick Cheney has jumped back into the political fray too soon into the new administration's term....

Gore Calls Climate Change Bill A 'Good Start'

AFP | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green


With the House Energy and Commerce Committee due to start its formal debate on the bill come Monday, hoping to approve it by week's end and send it to...