Al Gore was overwhelmingly selected as the unsuccessful Democratic nominee who would have made the best President, according to a Foolocracy.com poll. The poll included all defeated Democratic standard-bearers since 1972. Gore received 58% of the vote. This is not really a surprise as Gore was the Vice-President in the popular Clinton government. Gore has also [...]

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Shenzhen, China, has the dubious distinction of being the world’s most watched city. More than 200,000 surveillance cameras can be found there, constantly recording its inhabitants’ most ordinary daily activities. The Taipei Times reports that within two years, Shenzhen is expected to have video feeding into a database from 2 million cameras — “the highest [...]

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The FBI is using all means to crackdown on violence at the upcoming Republican National Convention. They are planning to infiltrate the ranks of protesters. So what is the best cover?
Well, the FBI is looking for vegans. Yep, they plan to use moles to infiltrate vegan potlucks at the twin cities. I guess they figured [...]

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John Edwards is back. After spending a better part of a month in seclusion since admitting to an affair with Rielle Hunter, Edwards will continue with a previously scheduled engagement at Hofstra University in New York on September 8. There is one change, however. Edwards was originally scheduled to speak with his wife, Elizabeth. She [...]

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Muammar Gaddafi, the Leader of Libya, has been a relatively well-behaving despot the last few years. Gaddafi, who has no formal title in Libya, does go by some lengthy honorifics. There is “Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya” or if you like a shortened version, “Brotherly [...]

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The Bush administration is beginning to tout Iraq as a democratic success story. The “surge” has quieted the fighting and the economy is slowly getting back to normal. That is all true. Iraq is far from a success, however. The Iraqis continue to squabble over the most basic details of democracy. When the U.S. finally [...]

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Sarah Palin has been Governor of Alaska for less than two years. Her longest stint as a political official was as mayor of the tiny town of Wasilla, Alaska, for six years. Today, Wasilla has less than 7,000 residents. When Sarah Palin was elected to its city council in 1992, its population was 4,635. In [...]

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Sarah Heath, later Sarah Palin, in her Miss Wasilla 1984 photo. She would be runner-up to Miss Alaska. She also won the title Miss Congeniality in the Miss Wasilla contest. That is quite a contrast from the nickname she earned when her high school team won the 1982 girls state basketball championship. Playing the point [...]

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Bill Clinton finally gave a rousing endorsement for Barack Obama. Clinton’s powerful words, “Barack Obama is the man for this job,” convinced many skeptics of his support for the Democratic ticket.
It could not be clearer than that…or could it?
It is intriguing that Bill Clinton did not say “Obama is the person for this job.” For [...]

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Families always have differences, but Cindy McCain’s family have differences a bit more public than most. Cindy McCain claims she is an only child. That is not entirely true. She is the only child of her father and mother. Her father, Jim Hensley, was married earlier and had a daughter, Kathleen Hensley Portalski. Her mother [...]

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