Scientists have “hacked” the photosynthetic process in tobacco plants using enzymes from blue-green algae in a way which will someday allow them to grow faster, more robustly, and without nearly as much as fertilizer, Popular...

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday accused a viewer of having a “liberal mentality” because she suggested that tax-exempt status was essentially a government handout to churches. “Whose church are we?” the viewer named...

The campaign of San Diego Republican congressional candidate Carl DeMaio hired and  hours later fired a new campaign aide after racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic tweets by the new employee were discovered online, reports San Diego Beat. Former...

A self-proclaimed militia group plans to confront likely Democratic voters at Wisconsin polls Nov. 4 over outstanding warrants or tax defaults. The Wisconsin Poll Watcher Militia clams it will check names on the 2012 recall petition for...

The great paradox of “masculinity”, as defined by our sexist culture, is that it’s supposed to be about being all tough and confidence and unbreakable, yet at the very same time, masculinity itself is treated like a fragile,...

Though you would have no idea by watching the Sunday “News” shows, an estimated 310,000 people gathered on Sunday in New York City for the People’s Climate March. The event, which was one of the over 150 protests held around...

At the Texas Tribune Festival this weekend, Texas Governor Rick Perry claimed that if New York City’s outpatient surgical clinics had to operate under the strict laws that would have governed abortion clinics in his state had a judge not...

Over at Bill Kristol’s make-work place for his dumb unemployable son-in-law, known as The Free Beacon – Because Who In Their Right Mind Would Pay For It, Combat Journalist Alana Goodman has dug up the goods on the woman who will one...

Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Monday argued that requiring a “citizenship test” to vote made the outcome of elections “more meaningful.” Two Republican state legislators in Utah last week announced a bill that...

Over the weekend, Harry Potter actress Emma Watson delivered an impassioned speech aimed at ending gender inequality — to which group 4chan responded by creating a site called “Emma You Are Next,” which alleges to count down...

A Michigan gun rights group protested the arrest earlier this month of an open-carry activist in Detroit. About 20 men and women carrying firearms walked Sunday afternoon along a commercial boulevard to the Detroit Police Department Northeast...

James Golden, who is better known as Rush Limbaugh’s sidekick “Snerdley,” asserted over the weekend that the quality of life for African-Americans has been going downhill ever since the end of Jim Crow. In an interview with The...

Colorado businesses joined together over the weekend to distribute free medical marijuana and pot-infused products to military veterans, reports CBS Denver. Organized by Operation Grow4Vets, the giveaway distributed nearly $60,000 in cannabis...

Scores of Palestinians who were rearrested by Israel after being freed in a prisoner exchange are to stage a hunger strike Tuesday as truce talks resume in Cairo, officials said. The Ramallah-based Prisoners’ Club said Monday the strike...

Hundreds of protesters plan to risk arrest on Monday during an unsanctioned blockade in New York City’s financial district to call attention to what organizers say is Wall Street’s contribution to climate change. The Flood Wall...