A trans-Pacific partnership between Ford and Toyota is set to bring us a new generation of hybrid vehicles. The two companies will join together in creating a gas-electric hybrid system suited to light trucks and SUVs, the Wall Street Journal reports. The two firms already have hybrid systems that power…
Continue reading …If Moammar Gadhafi gets the boot, we should get some booty, or so thinks Donald Trump. “We are NATO. We back NATO in terms of money and weapons. What do we get out of it?” he asked the hosts of Fox & Friends today. “Why won’t we take the oil?”…
Continue reading …Rep. Maxine Waters wants the Democrats to get tough with the Tea Party—really tough. “You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned—the Tea Party can go straight to hell,” she said Saturday night at a California summit. “I’m not afraid of anybody,…
Continue reading …As Washington focuses on how to fix the Social Security retirement program, it’s the disability program that’s truly in danger—and facing insolvency, soon. Flooded with applications from an aging population and laid-off workers with disabilities who can’t find new jobs, the disability fund is now estimated to run out…
Continue reading …What makes the kangaroo hop? That’s just one of the questions answered by international researchers who’ve decoded the genome of a kangaroo species, the BBC reports. The genome research team—the first to be led by Australian scientists—sequenced the genome in 2008 but finally completed its analysis of it…
Continue reading …Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s accuser lied to prosecutors again and again, they allege in a court document full of what two sources to the New York Post call “bombshells.” The document calls for the case against Strauss-Kahn to be dismissed on grounds that Nafissatou Diallo—the alleged assault’s only witness—is not…
Continue reading …On Saturday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich gave a rousing speech at … Hempfest. “Open up, America! Show yourself! Time for mass action! This is why, and how, recent movements for freedom in Tunisia and Egypt gained momentum,” he urged marijuana activists. “This is how Gandhi cast off the British Empire. This…
Continue reading …Take a look at the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial unveiled today, and one thing is immediately obvious: The famous black activist is white. To be precise, he’s more pinkish and “blush-colored,” carved from stone bearing “a striking resemblance to pale, freckled skin,” writes Blake Gopnik at the Daily Beast…
Continue reading …Unless you spent the weekend under a rock, you are probably aware that Kim Kardashian is now married (and $17.9 million richer ). And if you were annoyed by her wedding extravaganza, well, you weren’t the only one: Several neighbors got fed up with the noise from the 460…
Continue reading …An Ohio cheerleading coach has become the seventh fatality in the Indiana State Fair stage collapse. Meagan Toothman, 24, died Saturday night from injuries sustained in the disaster, police said. She worked as a coach at her old high school while pursuing a master’s degree in counseling, the Indianapolis Star…
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