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

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Fox News, Seinfeld, U.S. Senate, Minnesota Senate Race, Kurt Vonnegut, Al Franken, Politics News
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.

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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

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Carol Browner, Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, Climate Change, President Barack Obama, Al Gore, Aces, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Sutley, Coal, Green News
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.

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The Power to Mislead

Bernie Bulkin | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Climate Change, Al Gore, Climate Crisis, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Green News
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.

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The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Ann Coulter, Olympics, Lobbyists, Blue States, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Adultery, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Michael Savage, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Manchurian Candidate, Constitution, Republican Party, Bob Ney, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Lobbying, Scandal, Barack Obama, Red States, Homosexuality, John Ensign, Sean Hannity, Oxycontin, Neocons, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, David Vitter, Conspiracy, Contract With America, Prostitution, Mail-Fraud, Big Tent, Tax Evasion, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Teenage Pregnancy, Divorce, Internet Porn, Fox News, Phil Gramm, Hal Turner, Al Gore, Summer Olympics, Pilonidal Cyst, Vietnam Draft-Dodger, Draft-Dodging, Vietnam War, Politics News
Gary Cohan

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

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Jeff Muskus

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Waxman-Markey, House Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, Climate-Change Bill, Climate Change, Politics News

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...

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

thedailygreen.com | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Green, Environment, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore, Green Living, Mansion, Vice President Al Gore, Green News

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

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

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Massey Energy, Smcra, Barack Obama, Carol Browner, Epa, Ken Hechler, Nancy Sutley, Coal River Mountain, Mountaintop Removal, Al Gore, Darryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal, Benjamin Carden, Green News
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.

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Laura Ling, Euna Lee Families Appeal To N. Korea

cnn.com | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Journalists, Current TV, Laura Ling, North Korea, Euna Lee, Reporters, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, World News

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...

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Be an Ex-President Without Being President First!

Dave Astor | Posted 07.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Supreme Court, White House, Gop, Election Fraud 2004, Al Gore, Newspapers, President Obama, Free World, George W. Bush, Time-Space Continuum, 9/11, Iraq, GOP Shenanigans, War and Peace, Star Trek, John Kerrey, Failing Newspapers, Election Fraud 2000, Iran, First Lady, Former Presidents, Ohio, Iran Election, All the News That's Fit to Print, Rip Van Winkle, President Bush, President Clinton, Bill Clinton, Florida, Michelle Obama, Washington Irving, Ex-Presidents, Election Fraud, Hypnosis, White House Vegetable Garden, Democrats, Bully Pulpit, Barack Obama, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Mainstream Media, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Tolstoy, Ahmadinejad, The Obamas, Iraq War, Republicans, Huffington Post, Comedy News
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.

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Terry McAuliffe's Achilles Heel was not the Clintons

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kimberly Krautter, Al Gore, Southern Voters, Howard Dean, Voters, John Kerry, President Barack Obama, Terry McAuliffe, Democratic, Dnc, Southern Strategy, Election, Politics News
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.

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When Democracy Is Stolen

Giles Slade | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Al Gore, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, CIA Secret Prisons, Rush Limbaugh, Iran Nuclear Program, George W. Bush, Iran Election, Democracy, Benjamin Netanyahu, Robert Mugabe, Republican Party, Wire Tapping, Torture, Dick Cheney, Iran, World News
Giles Slade

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

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The Webby Award Speech: the original Twitter

Ariston Anderson | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Al Gore, Charlie Rose, Isabella Rossellini, Trent Reznor, Lake Bell, Nine Inch Nails, Martha Stewart, Webby Awards, Twitter, Stephen Colbert, Seth Myers, Webbys, Lisa Kudrow, Sarah Silverman, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, David-Michel Davies, Molly Sims, Alessandra Ambrosio, Arianna Huffington, Cameron Diaz, Beastie Boys, Bill O'Reilly, Biz Stone, Jimmy Fallon, Ashton Kutcher, 2009 Webbys, Soy Bomb, Seth MacFarlane, Beaker, Media News
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...

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

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Al Gore North Korea, Laura Ling, Current TV, Gore, Al Gore Current Tv, Euna Lee Laura Ling, Euna Lee, North Korea Hard Labor Camp, Gore North Korea, Al Gore, Gore to North Korea, Korea Journalists, World News

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

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

Karl Frisch | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Right Wing DHS Report, News Corp, Markos Moulitsas, Bloggers, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, Department of Homeland Security, Obama Birth Certificate, Freddie Mac, Fox Nation, Sonia Sotomayor, Rupert Murdoch, Dhs Report, Fox News, Al Gore, Huffington Post, Tea Party, Bill O'Reilly, Blogging, Fox News Channel, Gay Marriage, Media News
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.

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Terry McAuliffe, All That Was Wrong With the Democratic Party

Mark Nickolas | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dnc, John McCain, Tim Kaine, Mark Warner, Terry McAuliffe, Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Terry Mcauliffe Virginia Governor, Barack Obama, Ralph Nader, Politics News
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.

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

Emily Bracken | Posted 06.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Marriage, Mozart, Differences Between Men and Women, Autism, Doctors, Bill Gates, Asperger's Syndrome, Al Gore, Husband, Bob Dylan, Comedy, Communication, Asperger's, Comedy News
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.

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

Eric Boehlert | Posted 06.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Al Gore, Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer, Michael Kelly, Dick Cheney, Media News
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.

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Gore Pushes CEOs To Back Climate Change Deal

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 06.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Al Gore, Gore, Gore Un, Gore Un Climate Change, Al Gore Climate Change, World Business Summit on Climate Change, World Business Summit, Al Gore Copenhagen, Al Gore Climate Change Summit, Green News

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...

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

Politico | ANDY BARR | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore on Cnn Video, Al Gore and Dick Cheney, Al Gore, Al Gore Video, Al Gore Criticizes Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney, Politics News

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....

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Gore Calls Climate Change Bill A 'Good Start'

AFP | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Al Gore, Climate Change Bill, Al Gore Climate Change Bill, Gore, Green News

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...

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Oprah "Community Organizes" for Capitalism

Ariston Anderson | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Graduation, Oprah Winfrey, Al Gore, John Travolta, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Madonna, Private Jets, Graduation Speeches, Media News
Ariston Anderson

Sure, you can praise Oprah for not being a hypocrite. She's rich and she's proud of it. It's kind of tacky to flaunt your riches in a recession, but whatever.

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Brian Rogers "Dead To Me" Says Fellow McCain Staffer

Talking Points Memo | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Goldfarb, Al Gore, John McCain, Senator John McCain, John McCain Campaign, Brian Rogers, Alliance for Climate Protection, Politics News

Earlier today, Ben Smith reported that McCain research director-cum-press secretary Brian Rogers will begin working as the research director for Al Go...

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Coming Out of the Closet: My Climate Trauma (and Yours?)

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Witness, Mental Health, TED Conference, Climate Change, Psychology, Al Gore, Global Warming, 1sky, Psychiatry, Green News
Gillian Caldwell

As I started to immerse myself in the science and early impacts of global warming, I became increasingly distraught.

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If Twitter Was Invented in 1989

Greg Boose | Posted 06.05.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Arlen Specter, Diablo Cody, John McCain, Corey Feldman, Twitter, Espn, Demi Moore, 50 Cent, John Mayer, Oprah Winfrey, Wil Wheaton, Mtv, CBS News, Chris Cornell, Al Gore, Batman, Comedy News
Greg Boose

algore / Al Gore I received another one of those Koosh Balls in the mail... Probably from Dukakis.

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James Inhofe, Climate Change Denier, Joins Al Gore Environmental Fight

guardian.co.uk | Suzanne Goldenberg | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Inhofe, James Inhofe, Al Gore James Inhofe, Inhofe Gore, Epa, Inhofe Climate Change, Al Gore, Al Gore Inhofe, Green News

He has called global warming a hoax, compared the Environmental Protection Agency with the Gestapo, and over the years dismissed Al Gore as desperate ...

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