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Google has quietly (secretly, one might say) invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming behemoth Zynga, we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. The company has raised somewhere around half a billion dollars in venture capital in the last year alone, including...

The man they called Bush’s Brain blasted Obama for putting the country on the road to fiscal hell. Clinton strategist Paul Begala on the outrageous claim by the real villain. Stop, Karl, you're killin' me. I mean it. This stuff is hilarious. Your latest column in The Wall Street Journal...

The chair of the Republican National Committee finds himself at the center of controversy again, this time for comments he made criticizing President Obama over the war on Afghanistan. They were made at a Connecticut fundraiser, and captured by a video camera that appears to have been...

In a remarkable interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, House Republican Leader John Boehner explicitly called for cutting Social Security in order to pay for the war in Afghanistan. The article reports: "Ensuring there's enough money to pay for the war will require reforming...

Old but WTF? A 2004 study of the results of stock trading by United States Senators during the 1990s found that that Senators on average beat the market by 12% a year. In sharp contrast, U.S. households on average underperformed the market by 1.4% a year and even corporate insiders on...

A dire report circulating in the Kremlin today that was prepared for Prime Minister Putin by Anatoly Sagalevich of Russia's Shirshov Institute of Oceanology warns that the Gulf of Mexico sea floor has been fractured “beyond all repair” and our World should begin preparing for an ecological...

If you're like us, you're besides yourself with joy about the return Futurama. Life just wasn't the same without the adventures of Philip J. Fry and his obnoxious friend Bender on our TVs every week. Last night's episode took aim at discarded technology being dumped in third-world...

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, they became a symbol of the government’s inept response to that disaster: the 120,000 or so trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to people who had lost their homes. The trailers were discovered to have such high levels...

Still some love left for Goldman Sachs? Then here comes the rest: By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing. You're wrong. There's more. It turns out that the most destructive of all their recent acts...

Yesterday, we made note of a new study from the Kennedy School of Government that found that America's major newspapers, after decades of reliably and accurately referring to waterboarding as torture, suddenly stopped doing so around 2002, when America started waterboarding people like the...

Fox News is BP oil spill misinformation clearinghouse | Media Matters for America DING DING DING! Sry to much text to pust but meh check out! :p

Wikipedia has become home base for a loose worldwide network of pedophiles who are campaigning to spin the popular online encyclopedia in their favor and are trying to lure more people into their world, an investigation by FoxNews.com confirms. OMFG? Sounds like serious investigative...

Speaking on the House floor last night, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) continued his assault on common sense by making the generally nonsensical claim that terrorists were recruiting pregnant women in order for them to have U.S.-born children who would, several decades from now, attack the United...

As you all might now: When you actually call with your brand new iphone it stops working cuz then your hand is to close to the antenna. But it wouldn't be apple when they wouldn't say "working as intended" and "just do not hold it this way" Cuz you like pics: But hey no biggy. Funny...

BP buys Google, Yahoo search words to keep people away from real news on Gulf oil spill disaster Clever use for this hm? Wonder what CTR those get :D