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BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America's most fabled...

"...The point about solar energy is that there is so much of it that you only have to tap 5% of it at an efficiency as tiny as 1% and you already have energy over 5 times the whole world's present consumption...what are we waiting for?" --Derek Abbott, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Adelaide in Australia

The GAO released a long awaited report on CIA abuse of prisoners during the Bush years. It documents many things we know and...

Blogs don't make the evening news; angry mobs do. Is Krugman, like the WH, trying to motivate the "progressives" to take to the streets, and be SEEN as well as heard?

Despite complaints about his ego, filmmaking style and his overexposure in the 2004 elections, Michael Moore remains the most effective, progressive and influential filmmaker...

We can do this. We can rebuild our Congress. We have the technology, we can rebuild it, and it won't cost $6 million dollars. This will be our revolution; 21st century style patriotism. The web will be our battleground, and we will win.

We've seen this same segment of the population before that is currently spewing hatred at the town hall meetings on health care. They were the...

Well when Huffy first announced it's creation of an "investigative team" I wondered what it would entail.  It looks like we now know.  They...

Profits are a reward for taking risks. How can it be that a company makes a 30% margin being the gate keeper between you and...

Seriously, what does the GOP stand for? Goofballs Opposing Progress? Now of course it's understandable that the most  loyal Republicans include those opposing evolution, racial equality...