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Rand Paul Addresses Rightbloggers, Who Receive Him Well, Despite All Those Black People Getting in the Way

Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul spoke at historically black Howard University last week, and it was a major event. No, he didn't seem to win any black votes for the GOP -- even his fans admit as much. But white people of the rightblogger variety were all over it, and that's what counts. Some ... More >>

The Energy Industry Gets Needled In Greedy Lying Bastards

Climate Change Activists Project Hurricane Sandy Images Onto Gas Station

The Exxon Mobil station on 2nd Street and Avenue C became an impromptu movie theater last night, as a coalition of climate-change activists projected a short film about Hurricane Sandy recovery onto the wall above it. Josh Fox, one of the filmmakers behind the anti-fracking film Gasland, shot the 2 ... More >>

New York AG: Bronx Gas Station Charged $10 For Gallon Of Gas After Sandy

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman just announced that his office has notified 12 additional gas station owners of his intent to "commence enforcement proceedings" against them after he claims they jacked up prices after Hurricane Sandy.In one case, the A.G. says, a gas station in the Bronx ... More >>

The 10 Most Corrupt Tax Loopholes

If Mitt Romney won't tell you which need to be closed, we will

BP Wants to Get Back to Drilling in Gulf Of Mexico

​BP is petitioning U.S. regulators to continue drilling in the Gulf of Mexico less than a year after the massive oil spill that killed 11 workers and caused massive environmental damage. The deal would be that BP would be able to resume pre-existing drilling operations in the Gulf in exchange for ... More >>

Exxon Wins Oil Spill Case: David Slays Goliath Yet Again!

via Alaskan Dude​Good news from Alaska: The Huffington Post reports that Exxon Mobil Corp. -- the good folks who keep your homes warm, your lanterns lit and your ovens cooking -- fought off a claim from Rick Steiner, yet another "too big to fail" marine science professor. Steiner, who was mad ... More >>

Tony Hayward Will Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dammit

​Even though Tony Hayward is off to Russia in October, taking with him $1.5 million for his troubles (plus a pension fund worth about £11 million), he still seems to have a powerful ability to grate on our nerves. To wit, his declaration today that the Gulf spill "represents a failure for th ... More >>

The Great Faisal Shahzad Garbage Pick: A Scoop You Can't Tweet

​Between the alert Vietnam vet T-shirt vendor, the big good-looking cop on horseback, the detective who squeezed underneath the Nissan Pathfinder to read the VIN number that klutzy car-bomber Faisal Shahzad forgot about, the FBI agents who lost his trail, and the mayor who decided he'd deal wi ... More >>

The Blame America First Crowd

thinkprogress.org​Mark Hemingway at NRO posts a reader's jaundiced take on US journalismMark, believe me, I hope the Daily Mail is right. But crowd estimates aside, I'm almost incredulous at that Daily Mail report. It's a fairly straight report, and it's fair! What American media outlet would prin ... More >>

Please Let the Auto-Tune Jokes End: A Brief History of the Pitch-Correcting Software's Legacy

If Auto-Tune hit its peak as a joke delivery device last week amidst the spectacle of a weirdly robotic Katie Couric involuntarily singing an "O Superman"-reminiscent lament for melting polar ice caps, it also hit its nadir at about the same time, when a tape surfaced of an Auto-Tuned Martin Luthe ... More >>

Chopped: There Are No Top Chefs Here

Last night, onetime Bravo boy and sometimes Top Chef judge Ted Allen premiered his new  rival show on the Food Network, Chopped. Allen has spoken out against allegations that the show is a Top Chef rip-off, elucidating the differences on his blog, saying "There is no sleep deprivation, no "Big ... More >>

Russia's oil companies plead for bailout; our oilmen, of course, are flush with cash

Live Drunk Liveblogging the Palin-Biden Debate, Part I

First Reax Palin-Biden (Still Drunk!)

Waste Deep in the Big Muddy: Reps Seek Superfund for Newtown Creek

Apocalypse Now? Purse-snatchers and iPhone Robbers

Free Will Astrology: Week of April 24

A Spill Bubbles Up

It came from beneath Greenpoint: A creepy oil plume starts to get some notice

Exxon's Big, Big, Big Bucks

Oil company posts record profits. Guess who helped.

Any Profit in a Storm

Stormy weather allows big oil to practice a crude sort of blackmail

Crude Manipulation

In Katrina's wake, the supposed oil shortage and suspicious gas price hikes

Pumping Us Dry

Katrina tragedy is an absolutely perfect storm for oil companies

Bush Digs Dry Well in Alaska

Glut of right wingers, dearth of oil

Feeding-Tube Frenzy

The miracle of Capitol Hill tries to pump new life into the Christian right

Rice Needs Fluffing

Her sticky issue: Is she or is she not running for president in 2008?

New China Much More Sturdy

Morning Report 12/30/04
Bush Misoverestimates It

Indonesian Army Said to Block Tsunami Aid

Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil finds an extra $5 million for victims

Morning Report 12/27/04
Disasters Natural and Unnatural

The Next Big Scandal

Oil Business Couldn't Be Better, Except For The People Who Use It

The Other Black Sea

Seeping into the harbor, the city's oldest oil spill nears court action

In No One's Army

A West Coast Call for Civil Disobedience

Demonstrators Regroup, Plan MLK Day Actions

Activists Focus on the Mounting Costs of War

Bush's War on Women, Part Two

The Myth of Progress

Can't Help but CRI

Composers Recordings Incorporated, 1954–2003

Uncle Sam's Crude Solution

Our Expensive, Deadly Role as Global Oil Police

The Spoils of War

Be the First on Your Block to Make a Buck off Iraq

Nation

Horoscope

Act Up! Here’s How

A Selected List of Organizations

Nation

Nation

Location, location, location

Clone Alone

Hillary Race Is Textbook Case

Passing the Bucks

Fund-Loving President's Fond 'Give Backs'

Virtual Bill

Assault Charges Hit President, Right Revives

Letters

Hyde & Seek

Wider probe could burn judiciary chair