After taping his last show, the 83-year-old icon said he would happily return to the "Price" stage if a replacement host isn't found by the time the new season starts in the fall.
A review of the book "American Fascists" by Chris Hedges. In it he notes that televangelists like Robertson, Benny Hill & others "rule their fiefdoms as despotic potentates" which some adherents might think isn't God's way of doing things. They travel in kingly luxury on private jets and have amassed huge personal fortunes
VP Cheney came out and predicted, correctly, that Democrats will give the President a clean bill for funding our troops.
More than two-thirds of Americans believe there are circumstances in which a patient should be allowed to die, but they are closely divided on whether it should be legal for a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their own lives by prescribing fatal drugs, a new AP-Ipsos poll finds.
The hard right in the U.S. has tried to exploit the arrest of Middle East scholar Haleh Esfandiari to create a reason for America's conservatives to attack Iran.
A review of Chris Hedges' new book, The Christian Right and the War on America. It's an incisive examination of the huge threat extremist Christian fascists pose to a shaky free society most people in the US take for granted but no longer will after reading this important book.
Get set for round two of the Great American Immigration Debate as Congress attempts to reform an immigration system that almost everyone agrees is dysfunctional, regardless of one's ideology or position on the issue. Building off of last year's Senate proposal -- one that came very close to becoming the law of the land -- Congressional leaders n
Compassionate conservatism strikes again: Radio personality Laura Schlessinger, in Salt Lake City to speak to Army families at Ft. Douglas, said she was tired of hearing the complaints of lonely and overwhelmed military wives whose husbands are deployed.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney wooed Christian conservatives on Saturday but passed up a chance to address their concerns about his Mormon roots.
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Go ahead, name your movement. Name something good and positive and pro-environment and eco-friendly that's happening right now in the newly "greening" America and don't say more guns in Texas or fewer reproductive choices for women or endless vile unwinnable BushCo wars in the Middle East lasting until roughly 2075 because that would defe
They were a new force. They believed completely in their cause and that they should have power. They arrived cloaked in old familiar and reassuring rhetoric, so they encountered little resistance, and conquered rapidly and thoroughly. What is astonishing is how rapidly their ideas are being revealed as bankrupt. oped
The idea of a "culture of life" has been a rallying cry for religious conservatives in their opposition to all abortion and embryonic stem cell research, and in their opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Kansas' concealed carry law took effect January 1, 2007. On January 19, two armed men burst into a gas station owned by Dean Yee. According to police, they twice demanded money from Yee while holding him at gunpoint. A customer inside the store, however, had a concealed-carry permit. He shouted for the robbers to drop their weapons. When they refus
In 2004 it was Swift Boating. In 2008 will it be gay-baiting that skewers the Democratic candidate? It's not too late for Democratic contenders to start thinking about the so-called culture wars. Indeed they'd better do more than think, if the campaign so far is any indication of where it might be headed. Ann Coulter's not going anywhere. There
To the editor: The writer of "D.C. gun ban was threat to freedom," (March 22 letter) argues: "The final defense of a free people against an overstepping government is to always remain armed." This argument raises some very ominous issues if considered as anything other than a fringe right-wing sound bite. For example, doesn't th
The part of San Francisco I lived in was the Presidio, which was then a military base. I was 12, and my father was an Army officer. I remember my family once driving toward the Presidio's Lombard Street gate past tens of thousands of protesters who seemed to think my father was part of a very bad outfit.
In 1999, Matthew Dowd became a symbol of George W. Bush's early success at positioning himself as a Republican with Democratic appeal. A top strategist for the Texas Democrats disappointed by the Clinton years, Mr. Dowd was impressed by the pledge of Mr. Bush, then governor of Texas, to bring a spirit of cooperation to Washington. He was wrong.
Given Bob Barker's retirement this spring, The Price is Right is more popular than ever. Dakota reports from the set of the show.
With the recording industry in a slump, bands can no longer expect blockbuster sales - except for Nickelback. Past multiplatinum albums are no guarantee of future success either - unless you're Nickelback. Concert sellouts aren't guaranteed - but that doesn't apply to Nickelback.
NEW YORK, NY - Hillary Clinton and her staff of 712 met Tuesday to carefully plan out whether Clinton should take her foot out of her mouth, and if so, where she should place it afterward.
Ten years after Oregonians passed a controversial ballot measure allowing physicians to help some patients take their own lives, the records show that what critics feared has apparently not happened. No rush to end one's life, no people flocking here from other states, no pressure from family, doctors, and insurance companies to commit suicide.
For a couple of years, there have been encouraging signs that conservative Christians are starting to take environmental matters seriously especially global warming. But in a recent letter, several of the most prominent leaders of the conservative Christian wing of the Republican Party has told others to shut up about global warming.
In an effort to meet growing consumer demands for smaller portions at casual dining restaurants, T.G.I. Friday's has announced the inception of their new 'Right Portion, Right Price' menu.
IF YOU HATED IT the first time, you might like the sequel better. Remember Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the right-wing goon squad whose defamatory insinuations helped sink John Kerry's presidential campaign? They're back!
Many consider this "an unholy alliance of religious and political power." In our contemporary setting, when someone is charged with Constantinianism, they are being charged with too closely uniting these two - religious and political power - so that the church begins to see the state and legislation as a way to accomplish its goals.
NEW YORK -- Should you find yourself in a bar in New York City, and the music playing makes you want to get up and dance, please resist the urge. A state court on Thursday upheld the city's Prohibition-era law that bans social dancing in bars, restaurants and certain clubs.
In recent years, the Left and even the Democrats managed to appear hostile to faith and to people in faith communities. Regardless of what one's views of the divine are, that's called shooting yourself in the foot.
"The monologue of the Religious Right is over, and a new dialogue has now begun." We have now entered the post-Religious Right era. Though religion has had a negative image in the last few decades, the years ahead may be shaped by a dynamic and more progressive faith that will make needed social change more possible.
A citizen in one of America's most conservative cities; Cincinnati, writes a comprehensive letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer, one of the most conservative newspapers in the nation - a paper that regularly publishes the most conservative syndicated writers to be found.
For several weeks now, Washington has been abuzz with rumors that U.S. President George W. Bush is preparing to attack nuclear and other sites in Iran this spring -- rumors deemed sufficiently credible that lawmakers from both parties are hastily preparing legislation precisely to prevent such an eventuality. The evidence cannot be ignored.









