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"Me am Bizarro Romney and me very disappointed at support you have shown me. Me have been in the media a lot lately for one reason, me have nothing to say that matters."

"Look, I'm not a scientist so I can't say one way or the other if the climate is changing, I think the jury is still out on that," President Koch III expressed as he christened the new impervious dome constructed around the White House in a high security ceremony.

Selma received nearly universal acclaim from film critics. It got tons of publicity. So where are the crowds? Well, I live in very conservative Missouri in an area where there are few blacks but "12 Years a Slave" did rather well here. It was made for $22 million and made $188 million. So???

What struck many as odd was that Boehner did not offer support for The Patriots, coach Bill Belichick, or quarterback Tom Brady, he simply chided those who would criticize anyone for having deflated balls.

      If there were really such a thing as "justice" the bush administration would be in prison, the cop who killed Mike Brown would also...

Join us tonight for a live chat throughout President Obama's State of the Union speech. The SOTU speech begins at 6:00pm PST but we'll...

President Obama will make his 2015 State of the Union speech tonight at 6:00pm PST and PlanetPOV will be hosting a Live Chat that will run simultaneously with his speech and the (now) three Republican rebuttals (known in some circles now as The Whiners Circle).

In a hot auditorium in Charleston, SC on July 30, 1977, I heard Dr. Martin Luther King declare: "I'm not gonna say, 'Burn baby burn'!" I'm gonna say "Build baby build!"

The Islamic Testimony Means Something Quite Different for Modernists versus Jihadist; and that could make all the difference.

With all of the hoopla surrounding the films screened in the Obama White House, I got curious about what the past presidents watched. What follows is by no means complete, but an interesting bit of history.