Wildlife Photo of the Year

By Ben Osborne
“I staked out this waterhole in Botswana’s Chobe National Park for three weeks,” Osborne says, “taking pictures from my vehicle of thirsty elephants and other animals coming to drink. Sometimes the waterhole overflowed, and this huge bull was the first to indulge in a head-to-toe spa. I focused on the centre of the [...]

Al Gore on American Healthcare

“I strongly support universal, single-payer, government-provided — or, government-funded — healthcare. It doesn’t mean the government runs it, it has competition among the different providers. But I just think that we’ve long since reached the stage that its immoral to put people in a situation where they cannot get the medical care they need because [...]

2007 Farm Bill: More Corporate Welfare

(cross-posted at FreedomDemocrats.com) 
We’re fat. Americans are the fattest people on the planet, bar none. We (as a people) don’t exercise, and we eat like shit. And part of the reason for that is that we have a corporate welfare system that extends to those large commercial farmers that produce products that are [...]

Polls show Obama is Still Strong

Hillary may seem like the inevitable winner, but the polls in Iowa, a major primary state slated to vote on January 3rd, show him (and Edwards) hot on her tails.   It ain’t over yet.
According to an LA times story, there is a lot the polls don’t show, including the massive popular appeal of Obama among [...]