Wed, Aug 5th, 2009 | Politics, World |

Former Vice President Al Gore welcomed home the two American journalists who had been detained in North Korea. The journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were pardoned by Kim Jong-il on Tuesday after former President Bill Clinton made a surprise ...Read More

Inhofe: Al 'First Potential Climate Billionaire' Gore 'Running for Cover'

Tue, Mar 16th, 2010 | SciTech |

Inhofe: Al 'First Potential Climate Billionaire' Gore 'Running for Cover' Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Monday that Nobel Laureate Al Gore, "the world's first potential climate billionaire," is running for cover as a result of various scandals surrounding his favorite money-making theory known as manmade global warming. "He is under siege ...Read More

Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam's IOUs: Paper bonds parked in Parkersburg

Sun, Mar 14th, 2010 | Business, Top Stories, U.S., World |

Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam's IOUs: Paper bonds parked in Parkersburg Associated Press, FileIn this July 1, 1998, photo, Vice President Al Gore, speaking in Cranston, R.I., points to a graph representing decreasing Social Security revenues, that if allowed to continue, would render the fund in solvent by 2032. During his ...Read More

Ad Watch: Meg Whitman ad ignores her Boxer endorsement

Thu, Mar 11th, 2010 | U.S. |

GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is running a series of ads attacking opponent Steve Poizner as she seeks her party's primary nomination. Following is the text of one ad and an analysis by Bee Political Editor Amy Chance and Jack ...Read More

Sean Penn Suggests Prison Time for Journalists Who Call Hugo Chavez a Dictator

Mon, Mar 8th, 2010 | Politics, U.S., World |

Sean Penn Suggests Prison Time for Journalists Who Call Hugo Chavez a Dictator At the end of a discussion of Haiti on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, actor Sean Penn went on a rant in defense of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, suggesting prison time for American journalists: "every day, this elected leader ...Read More

Gore still hot on his doomsday rhetoric

Wed, Mar 3rd, 2010 | SciTech |

THE CASE for global-warming alarmism is melting faster than those mythical disappearing Himalayan glaciers, but Al Gore isn't backing down. In a long op-ed piece for The New York Times the other day, Gore cranked up the doomsday rhetoric. Human beings, ...Read More

Al's Latest Global-Warming Whopper

Tue, Mar 2nd, 2010 | SciTech |

Al's Latest Global-Warming Whopper Al Gore's defense of global-warming hysteria in Sunday's New York Times has many flaws, but I'll focus on just one whopper -- where the "Inconvenient Truth" man states the opposite of scientific fact. Gore wrote, "The heavy snowfalls this month have ...Read More

What Gore Missed When He Broke His Silence

Mon, Mar 1st, 2010 | Most Viewed |

Despite one Climate-gate revelation after another, Al Gore has been remarkably silent. Indeed, since the Copenhagen Climate Summit he hasn't said anything. That is until now. He broke his silence on Sunday in the New York Times with his 1,900+ ...Read More

Gore Feels the Heat, Comes In From the Cold

Mon, Mar 1st, 2010 | Most Viewed, SciTech |

Gore Feels the Heat, Comes In From the Cold Al Gore has come in from the cold -- writing an Op-Ed for the New York Times just two days after FoxNews.com noted the former vice president's seeming unwillingness to comment on the Climate-gate scandal. Gore won a Nobel Prize and ...Read More

Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics

Sun, Feb 28th, 2010 | SciTech |

Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore on took aim at skeptics who doubt the reality of human-caused climate change, saying he wished it were an illusion but that the problem is real and urgent. Barack Obama | Green Business ...Read More

Al Gore: IPCC Mistakes Don't Change 'The Reality Of The Danger We Are Courting'

Sun, Feb 28th, 2010 | SciTech |

I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of ...Read More

Global warming's snowball fight

Sat, Feb 13th, 2010 | Politics, SciTech |

The back-to-back snowstorms in the capital were an inconvenient meteorological phenomenon for Al Gore. "It's going to keep snowing in D.C. until Al Gore cries 'uncle'," Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) exulted on Twitter. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) posted photos on Facebook of ...Read More

The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: 'Global Weirding' VS. Climate skeptics' slushy thinking

Fri, Feb 12th, 2010 | SciTech |

Climate skeptics found plenty of reasons to dig out their dreary critiques this week, between the continuing controversy over erroneous reports from the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the record-breaking snowfall on the East Coast. Sen. James Inhofe ...Read More

Conservatives Use "Snowmageddon" to Mock Global Warming

Wed, Feb 10th, 2010 | World |

Conservatives Use (CBS/ Jill Jackson)Conservative congressmen are using Washington's serious snow storm (known as "snowmageddon" or "snowpocalypse") to mock those who say the government should act to curb global warming, and at least one Democrat says the storm could actually set back ...Read More

Palin: Gore wrong to call me 'denier'

Thu, Dec 10th, 2009 | U.S. |

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hit back at former Vice President Al Gore on Wednesday for calling her a global warming “denier.” Speaking to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday, Gore criticized an op-ed Palin wrote for the Washington Post calling on ...Read More

Al Gore Calls Sarah Palin A 'Global Warming Denier'

Wed, Dec 9th, 2009 | Politics, Top Stories |

Nobel Laureate Al Gore Wednesday called former Alaska governor Sarah Palin a "global warming denier." Speaking with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Gore also repeated his false claim about ClimateGate e-mail messages obtained from Britain's Climatic Research Unit: "the most recent one is ...Read More

Al Gore Cancels $1200 Per Handshake Event In Copenhagen

Fri, Dec 4th, 2009 | Most Viewed, SciTech |

The Media Research Center Al Gore apparently has canceled a high-priced speaking engagement during the upcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen. As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, the Nobel Laureate was slated to lecture about his new book "Our Choice" where attendees could pay ...Read More

Jon Stewart On ClimateGate (VIDEO)

Wed, Dec 2nd, 2009 | Entertainment |

On the Daily Show Tuesday night, Jon Stewart dug into ClimateGate -- a series of leaked emails between climate scientists which global warming skeptics have latched onto to prove climate change doesn't exist. "Poor Al Gore," Stewart proclaimed, "global warming ...Read More

Al Gore's Our Choice: Progressive Book Club Review

Tue, Nov 3rd, 2009 | U.S. |

Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis There's been a certain amount of debate about whether Barack Obama deserved his Nobel Prize. About Al Gore there is no argument. He singlehandedly managed to wrest the topic of global warming ...Read More

Lisa Ling to sub as a co-host on ABC's 'The View'

Thu, Sep 17th, 2009 | Entertainment |

NEW YORK - Lisa Ling, a former co-host of "The View," will be back as a guest co-host for two days next month. ABC said Thursday that Ling will sit alongside Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd for ...Read More