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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Targeting Obama At Democratic Convention
Tweet Share on Facebook July 31, 2012 CommentA protest by any other name is still a protest. But not all protests are an occupation.
Two months after the major group planning to protest the Democratic National Convention changed its name, a new and bigger demonstration is being planned for the September event. This time, it's being led by "original" Occupy protesters.
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Have The Koch Brothers Changed Their Mind About Climate Change?
Tweet Share on Facebook July 30, 2012 CommentOh, the irony, liberal news sites proclaimed.
A University of California-Berkeley study on earth surface temperatures, financed in large part by Libertarian petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch's foundation, has found that global warming is indeed happening and that the emissions of greenhouse gases are truly caused by humans.
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Foundation Will Hold Politician-Studded Summit Glorifying Africa's Longest-Serving Dictator
Tweet Share on Facebook July 30, 2012 CommentThe biennial summit organized by the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation, located in the heart of K Street, has for two decades been a place for world leaders to convene and talk about solutions for Africa with the help of the African diaspora.
Previous attendees include presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, General Colin Powell and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
And yet this year, the foundation—named after Baptist minister and Martin Luther King-era civil rights leader Rev. Leon Sullivan—has made an odd choice about the location and host of its summit. This August, the Sullivan Summit will be held in the central West African country of Equatorial Guinea, with host "His Excellency Teodoro Obiang-Mbasago."
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Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin: You Didn't Build That
Tweet Share on Facebook July 27, 2012 CommentWhen President Obama said at a rally earlier month that "if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own … if you've got a business, you didn't build that," he started a political firestorm, and an opposing "I built that" campaign from Mitt Romney. But it turns out Obama didn't build that argument from scratch, either. And his comments seem to be closer to the founding fathers' principles than opponents might like to believe.
As noticed by Reddit, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine, two men who literally built the country, expressed similar sentiments in the 1700s. And, reading the passages suggests that they wouldn't take all the credit for founding the country, either.
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196 People Control 80 Percent of Super PAC Money: Who Are They?
Tweet Share on Facebook July 27, 2012 Comment
This is what Citizens United looks like.
Viral website Upworthy has resurfaced a startling statistic from American academic Lawrence Lessig: That 80 percent of super PAC money spent in the presidential election so far has come from just 196 Americans. As Upworthy points out, that's less than the capacity of a single Boeing 767.
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Maine Democratic Lawmaker Uses Aurora Shooting To Drum Up Cash
Tweet Share on Facebook July 27, 2012 CommentWhispers was forwarded a strongly-worded E-mail Thursday from Cynthia Dill, the notoriously outspoken Democratic candidate in Maine's Senate race to replace retiring Republican Olympia Snowe.
"How many murdered children does it take?" the E-mail began. "My opponents... both agree it was OK for the Aurora killer to be able to legally purchase a 100-round magazine of ammunition, and I don't. That's the difference. Can you chip in $100 today?"
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Evangelical, Baptist Churches To Hold Massive Gathering Before Democratic Convention
Tweet Share on Facebook July 26, 2012 CommentOn the night before the Democratic convention in Charlotte, at the tip of America's bible belt, more than 40 evangelical, Baptist and other Christian churches will host a massive church service in the 20,000 seat Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre.
"Charlotte714," as the Sept. 2 event is being called, was inspired by bible verse 2 Chronicles 7:14, which instructs that if people "turn from their wicked ways," God will forgive their sins. The group's website says that with the country's focus on Charlotte that week, in a "morally degenerating culture," it is an opportunity to organize a service that will help "[God's] church return to Him."
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Will The Real Tea Party Please Stand Up?
Tweet Share on Facebook July 26, 2012 CommentA fight is brewing between tea party groups ahead of the GOP convention.
Some say the "Ron Paul Festival" will be the legitimate tea party event at the convention. Others say the Michelle Bachman-Herman Cain headlined "Unity Rally 2012" is the real deal. Tea partiers attending Ron Paul's event say the Texas Rep. is the only rightful tea party candidate for president while those attending the Unity Rally think Mitt Romney deserves their endorsement.
And both sides have some heated words to share with the other.
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This Is The Face Of Mitt Romney's Fake Twitter Followers
Tweet Share on Facebook July 25, 2012 CommentBen Sarma, an Internet marketer who hadn't used Twitter for months, was startled to find out Tuesday that his photo was being used by at least five other Twitter accounts.
"Not sure how this happened," he wrote to them, "but you are using my picture on your profile. Though I'm flattered, please change it."
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Gary Johnson: Colorado Theater Shooting Might Have Been Prevented If Moviegoers Had Guns
Tweet Share on Facebook July 24, 2012 CommentLibertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson told Whispers Tuesday that the Aurora, Colo. shooting, which left 12 dead and dozens injured, might have been prevented if moviegoers had been armed.
