As we head into hour five of the Vermont senator’s speech, NewsFeed can’t help but wonder how Bernie Sanders is still standing, let alone talking?
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Restoring Honor: Glenn Beck for TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year?
Long before Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert descended on the National Mall, the Fox-News figurehead summoned his followers to the Lincoln Memorial for an equally public outpouring of political activism.
MythBusters, Obama Edition: The Top 5 Myths About President Obama
On tonight’s episode of MythBusters., Obama asks the team to investigate the myth that ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes set a ship on fire by reflecting the sun off mirrors. But why not use the airtime to deflect myths about himself?
‘Hacktivists’ Bring Down MasterCard to Support WikiLeaks
Here’s a priceless update for you. A group of anonymous online hacker activists (hacktivists) have initiated what they call Operation: Payback, a call to action to shut down websites of companies that have pulled the plug on …
Extra! Extra! How Did Journalists Cover Pearl Harbor The Day After?
Today they may have Tweeted: “Thousands dead in Hawaii after JP attack. Worst ever on homeland. FDR: US in it to win it.”
Fighting Words: ‘Palinism,’ ‘Obama-mess’ Among 2011 Buzzwords
Shocker: We’re probably going to say the same words in 2011 as we did this year.
Quotes: Bristol Palin on Why Margaret Cho Should Embrace Conservative Values
“You would embrace us faster than KD Lang at an Indigo Girls concert.”
—BRISTOL PALIN, in a Facebook memo to her former Dancing With the Stars co-star Margaret Cho, on what would happen if the liberal comedienne came to …
From Russia With Love: Could a British Aide Have Been a Spy?
As WikiLeaks continues to out diplomatic cables in the pursuit of “truth”, the Brits have found their own relic of the cold war spy game — or so they think.
Quotes: Hillary Clinton Will Not Be Running for President Again
WikiLeaks Strikes Back and Moves to Switzerland
WikiLeaks was left scrambling to keep its website alive after an American domain provider pulled the plug late Thursday forcing the whistleblowing website to create a new Swiss web address just six hours after Wikileaks.org was shutdown.
Quotes: New York Governor David Paterson on His Job Stress
“I’m a shell…of the man I was before I became governor.”
-DAVID PATERSON, governor of New York, joking to a reporter after lamenting the stresses of his position (via New York Daily News)
Canuck Cablegate: U.S. Diplomats Fret Over Anti-Americanism on Canadian TV
Blame Canada? More like blame the USA. The latest batch of leaked cables show that American diplomats find Canadians a tad too suspicious of America. Their evidence: Cheesy Canadian TV.