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A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism, even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money. This February, a highly provocative series of 65 billboards went up around Atlanta, which featured an African American infant proclaiming “Black Children Are an Endangered Species.” The signs directed viewers to a website created by the Radiance Foundation, a vaguely defined antiabortion nonprofit group with funding from Georgia Right to Life. If this gets buried it's all true. Dog-killing DEA agents and now this. I hate my state. President Barack Obama said House Republicans would reverse the U.S. economic recovery and increase the deficit, sounding a campaign theme before November elections that will determine whether Democrats retain control of Congress. Obama, speaking in his weekly address on radio and the Internet, pounced on Republican opposition to funding clean... A federal judge "has" blocked controversial sections of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect. What would two dozen servers from across the country tell you if they could get away with it? Well, for starters, when to go out, what not to order, what really happens behind the kitchen's swinging doors, and what they think of you and your tips. Here, from a group that clears a median $8.01 an hour in wages and tips, a few revelations that ... LeBron James has chosen the Miami Heat. James announced his decision to play for Miami during a televised special from the Boys and Girls Club in Greenwich, Conn., on Thursday night. In one of the most explosive, racist and vile outbursts by a celebrity ever caught on tape, Mel Gibson told the mother of his love child that the way she was dressed would get her "raped by a pack of n***ers" Republicans and leaders of other faiths are rallying against the building by a Muslim organization of a "community center"—including a mosque—two blocks from Ground Zero, calling it a threat to American values. But the threat to our values isn't coming from the mosque. It's coming from those who want to stop it. After deliberating for weeks, Hawaii's governor has vetoed a bill that would have permitted same-sex civil unions. If she had not vetoed it, the measure would have granted gay and lesbian couples the same rights and benefits that the state provides to married couples. Two Muslim women from Slough claim they were refused a bus ride in London, as one of them had her face covered by a veil. It's one thing for a coterie of liberals at a late-night Washington soirée to say that George W. Bush was the worst president in their lifetimes. It's another thing when the same is said by the nation's 238 leading presidential scholars, who have been polled annually for the last 28 years. While on the surface unemployment seems like a perfectly reasonable expense for the country, at its core it fails in the same way that most welfare systems do. The bureaucrats who run these organizations have no method of policing their systems, leading to rampant abuse. House Republicans late Thursday were able to corral enough votes to defeat a bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to those sickened by toxins resulting from the 9/11 attacks. "President Obama waded into the national race debate in an unlikely setting and with an unusual choice of words: telling daytime talk show hosts that African-Americans are 'sort of a mongrel people.'" The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is considering a resolution condemning what it calls racist elements in the Tea Party movement, a charge that conservative leaders say is driven solely by a political agenda. After an initial grace period in which most Americans were willing to give a new president the benefit of the doubt, what this nation has steadily watched is a man and an administration almost exclusively governing against the will of the people A study of over 1600 Miamians, aged 18 to 23, surveyed by The Journal of Health and Social Behavior (and translated out of academese by the New York Times), reported, "It appears that young men benefit more than women from support, and that they are more harmed than women by strain in ongoing romantic relationships." She was only 14 when she was forced into marriage with an older man. Within a year of her wedding, Azar Bagheri was charged with adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death. In the past 4 years she has been on death row waiting to reach maturity so she could be put to death. She had been subjected to two mock stonings in this time. A group called 'Stop Islamization of America' is promoting ads on major city public transportation that urge people to leave the Muslim faith. The anti-Islamic campaign is sparking thought about the religion's place in American society. Most Americans think a GOP Congress would be better at running the economy, but few can tell you just what that means. Sen. John Kerry, who has repeatedly voted to raise taxes while in Congress, dodged a whopping six-figure state tax bill on his new multimillion-dollar yacht by mooring her in Newport, R.I. Sarah Palin made another rash appearance on Bill O’Reilly’s "The Factor" Friday night, wherein he grilled her about immigration reform. The half-term governor left the Fox News Channel program angry and humilitated as O’Reilly exposed Palin’s limited knowledge for the Fox News crowd to see. You have to watch the video for yourself. Because really, what's one more killing, right? To add insult to injury, the Southwest personnel berated her when she questioned the decision to boot her from the plane.\r\n Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Sunday that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has "the cojones" that President Obama "does not have" to take on illegal immigration. "When I heard that there were people at the Lexington July 4th Festival selling t-shirts with the slogan, “Yup, I’m a racist” emblazoned on the front, I just had to see for myself." (Includes video) A Tea Party group in Missouri, reacting to the NAACP's plan to take up a resolution branding the conservative movement as "racist," has drafted a resolution of its own condemning the civil rights group for reducing itself to a "bigoted" and "partisan attack dog organization." The thirty books listed here are of unparalleled prose, packed with wisdom capable of igniting a new understanding of the world. Everyone should read these books before their thirtieth birthday. Android has overtaken BlackBerry and iPhone sales to hold the largest share of the smartphone market in the US, Canalys argued today. "Home sales are down. Retail sales are down. Factory orders in May suffered their biggest tumble since March of last year. So what are we doing about it? Less than nothing," he said. California is tightening faster than Greece. State workers have seen a 14pc fall in earnings this year due to forced furloughs. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is... Virginia Senator Jim Webb urges an end to government diversity programs, saying that they hurt deserving whites and benefit people not entitled to them. This is a debate we should have, but can we? Thirty-four U.S. billionaires pledged Wednesday to give away at least 50 percent of their wealth to charity as part of a campaign by investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Not until you learn how to drive. The president said the Republican Party lack one "single, solitary new idea" and are "betting on amnesia" to help them in November. He likened the GOP to a driver who has gone into a ditch, and after not helping to push the car out, demands the keys back. We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual, a disappearance that marks with disgrace a particularly dangerous period in American history. This is the first of a five-part series focused on the 99ers, people who've exhausted their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits and still can't find work. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled that California’s Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage, violates the U.S. Constitution. The ruling was released on Wednesday afternoon at approximately 1:40 p.m. The cost of harboring illegal immigrants in the United States is a staggering $113 billion a year -- an average of $1,117 for every native-headed household in America -- according to a study conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). "I'm going to speak plainly in a language everyone can understand. M. Night Shyamalan's THE LAST AIRBENDER is a hate crime against film lovers. No one should ever have to endure what I was unexpectedly put through yesterday afternoon watching this murky 3-D shitstorm of a movie that appears to have been shot through unflushed toilet bowl water"