Actor Mel Gibson announced today that he is retiring from movies to run for Senator of California on the Republican ticket. “It’s been clear for some time that I embrace Republican values,” the former actor said. “I haven’t had time to draft a formal position paper yet,...

The Coalition Against Religious Bigotry, a collection of right-wing Christian groups, and one organization comprised partly of Jews, who think joining them will persuade people who believe this should be a Christian nation to make nice with them, has protested a planned Comedy Central cartoon show depicting...

Just two days after agreeing to join President Obama’s Task Force on saving the Gulf of Mexico, former Vice President Dick Cheney abruptly resigned, citing “philosophical differences” with the President. “I thought my mission was to save the Gulf of Mexico for further oil exploration,” he said,...

President Obama today called on former Bush administration Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and former Vice President Dick Cheney to coordinate efforts to save the Gulf of Mexico and the coastal economies of the United States from the rapidly deteriorating environmental catastrophe. “It...

Senator Inhofe, British Petroleum Fight Climate Change – Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), the Senate’s foremost climate change denier, today reversed his position and admitted climate change did exist. “It takes courage to admit when you’re wrong,” he said, “And it turns...

On the eve of the ecological disaster about to strike the wetlands of Louisiana from the exploded oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama renewed his call for increased off-shore oil drilling. “This unfortunate accident is going to cost close to a billion dollars in cleanup costs, and much...

In his Easter address tomorrow, Pope Benedict will ask for forgiveness for not defrocking a priest who sexually abused over 200 deaf children and for not informing parishioners about Father Murphy and other pedophile priests. In his apology, released in advance to the media, the Pope will state, “As...

Abandoning their emotional rhetoric, scare tactics, misrepresentations and lies, Republicans mounted a detailed and reasoned argument against the Health Care Reform Bill now poised to pass Congress. “This bill is based upon assumptions about our nation’s health care needs for the next two...

Orlando, FL SeaWorld CEO Jim Atchison today insisted that he will not punish the orca Tilikum for killing a SeaWorld trainer. Implicitly criticizing those who tried to anthropomorphize the orca as a murderer, Atchison pointed out that Tilikum was just behaving like a normal orca and ” is a valued...

Alexander Haig, former Chief of Staff to Ronald Reagan, died today. Haig, best known for ignoring the Constitution by immediately announcing after an assassination attempt on Reagan, that “I’m in charge here,” reportedly tried it again in heaven, where it worked equally well. Josylyn...