Home » Archives » Video » Featured Video (Page 9)
![[Image via Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons licensed]](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Mike-Huckabee-by-Gage-Skidmore-230x105.jpg "Mike Huckabee by Gage Skidmore")
Republican demands Obama apologize for funding climate change research
In a speech on the House floor Tuesday, Representative Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) called on President Barack Obama to apologize to the people of Oklahoma for funding climate change research. The freshman congressman claimed global temperatures stopped rising a decade ago. He said variations in the Earth’s temperature were the result…
Georgia vandals knock over monument to Michelle Obama’s freed slave ancestor
Police in Rex, Georgia are investigating after a monument to one of First Lady Michelle Obama’s ancestors was vandalized. WSB-TV reported on Monday that a heavy stone monument to Melvinia Shields was recently pushed off its foundation block. According to Georgia’s Civil War Sesquicentennial website, Shields was born into slavery…
Robertson: Boy Scouts being destroyed by gay ‘kids who want to do sex with each other’
Televangelist Pat Robertson is accusing LGBT people of trying to destroy “traditional marriage” and the Boy Scouts of America for “a few kids who want to do sex with each other.” The TV preacher told his viewers on Tuesday that it was “a terrible shame” that the Boy Scouts had…
Glenn Beck’s teary-eyed silent monologue: ‘My vocal chords [sic] are paralyzed’
Conservative talker and professional conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck announced Monday that he has temporarily lost his voice. On his web-only The Blaze TV broadcast Monday, he delivered the news over dramatic string music with the help of handwritten flash cards. “Doctors told me Friday,” he said by way of the…
Florida woman screams racist insults at Dunkin’ Donuts workers in video she posted online
A Florida woman filmed and shared a video over the weekend featuring a first-person view of her screaming racist insults at Dunkin’ Donuts workers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida over a request for free food that was not immediately granted. The woman, identified by The Smoking Gun as 27-year-old Taylor Chapman,…
Fox News guest: Trayvon would be alive ‘if he didn’t have a street attitude’
Former NYPD detective Harry Houck on Tuesday told Fox News that Florida teen Trayvon Martin was responsible for his own death because he had a “street attitude.” During a break in witness selection for the trial of accused murderer George Zimmerman, criminal defense attorney Tamara Holder explained to viewers of…
Huckabee: Portrayal of same sex couples on TV is ‘being forced’
Appearing on a radio broadcast Monday, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) expressed shock that LGBT couples are popping up in TV commercials, saying it’s “something I guess I didn’t expect to see anytime soon” and insisting that equality is somehow “being forced” upon Americans. Huckabee was speaking to the…
Maddow: State Department personnel running amok with drugs and ‘hookers on foreign soil’
Monday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow detailed a series of State Department sex and drugs scandals which have been simmering for some time but because of recent leaks, may be about to blow wide open. Maddow began the segment by rehashing the Secret Service scandal…
Florida man catches self on fire siphoning gasoline with a vacuum cleaner
A man in Florida caught himself on fire and exploded his garage over the weekend when he attempted to use a vacuum to siphon gasoline from a vehicle. Palm Bay police told Florida Today that Michael Mirabel was attempting to retrieve some gasoline from a disabled Volkswagen Passat in his…
Texas lawmakers cut volunteer firefighters off from $91 million in earmarked funds
Volunteer firefighters in Texas are raising questions about why they are not getting access to more than $90 million worth of earmarked funds for their departments. “The money is earmarked for us, why is it just sitting there?” Capt. Jonathan Reed from the Briar Volunteer Fire Department asked KXAS-TV. According…
Brand new on Raw Story
- Review shows FBI relied heavily on FISA-enabled ‘secret evidence’ to prosecute accused terrorists
- John Oliver: Just f*cking ignore Sarah Palin’s turd supermarket of self-contradictory nonsense
- Republican cites masturbating fetuses to support new abortion restrictions
- U.S. patent case climaxes with win for Canadian vibrator maker
- Obama on prosecuting Edward Snowden: I will leave it up to the Department of Justice
- Rand Paul: Marijuana users lose IQ points and lack motivation
- New Hampshire court strikes down law to divert public funds to religious schools
- Bill Clinton to Israelis: There is ‘no alternative’ to a Palestinian state
- China now home to the world’s fastest supercomputer
- Watch: Funny or Die mocks Michele Bachmann’s retirement
Commentary
The Center For Inquiry Likes Atheism’s Cranky White Guy Image, So Screw You Ladies
By Amanda Marcotte
From hope to fear: the broken promise of Barack Obama
By Paul Harris, The Observer
Work/life issues really depend on what kind of job you have
By Amanda Marcotte
Raw Exclusives
Featured Video
Follow Us!
