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Sarah Palin's India Trip: Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela Have Made Same Journey
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyThe jokes are already flying as Sarah Palin prepares to embark on a trip to India later this month, and more are surely to come. Will she rock a sari? Perhaps guest star in a Bollywood movie? Or bathe in the Ganges for a photo op? Palin has been invited to give the keynote address, "My Vision of America," at the two-day India Today conclave in New Delhi, an event hosted annually by the magazine since 2002. The March 18-19 event is sponsored by global business heavyweight Aditya Birla Group, a billion-dollar metals company, along with a bevy of industry co-sponsors. The news came in late ...
Why We Care About the Academy Awards
By James Grady - Politics DailyThe Academy Awards shone bright lights in my family's night sky well before 2007, when I stood in a Santa Monica street hugging my black-gowned and borrowed-diamonds daughter Rachel and not crying, I did not cry, I did not! as she climbed into the black limo that whisked her and her co-director/producer Heidi to the Oscars where they would lose Best Documentary to Al Gore. And why yes: it is way cool just to be nominated. The Academy Awards had me long before that night. Way back in America's black & white Cold War daze, my father managed movie theaters on our home turf of Montana prairie ...
A Brief History of Al Gore's Current TV, Keith Olbermann's New Home
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsUPDATE: Olbermann confirmed via Twitter that he has accepted a position as chief news officer of Current Media and will also anchor a prime time program for the cable channel. Keith Olbermann has done time at ESPN, MSNBC, CNN and other media outlets. Now, he seems prepared to add a new employer to his resume. Last night, Olbermann sent out a tantalizing tweet promising big news. But he may have been scooped: The New York Times says Olbermann is likely headed to Al Gore's Current TV. Olbermann, a source tells the Times, will have an equity stake in the channel. Olbermann watchers have been ...
Groundhogs Lousy at Predictions; Will a Chinese Zodiac Rabbit Be Any Better?
By David Knowles - AOL NewsAnimals may be good at some things, but fortune-telling may not be one of them. For all the attention Americans pay to a certain rodent who goes by the nickname "Punxsutawney Phil" each and every Groundhog Day, you'd think that the little buggers would have a better track record at forecasting the weather. In truth, however, the groundhogs that have been cast in the role of Phil since 1887 have a lowly 39 percent accuracy rate when it comes to telling us whether winter will drag on for another six weeks, LiveScience reports. This year's shadow-chasing ceremony -- held as a massive blizzard ...
Al Gore: Blizzard of 2011 May Be So Fierce Because of Global Warming
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsIt's the global warming denier's favorite "gotcha": If the planet is heating up, then why are we getting so much snow? (Remember the snickers when the 2009 Copenhagen climate-change summit was interrupted by snowfall?) But Al Gore, patron saint of global warming believers, isn't brooking any of that nonsense. Last week, Bill O'Reilly asked on his Fox News show, "Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?" He also quipped that he had a call out to Gore. Gore has now responded via his blog Al's Journal. "I appreciate the question," he writes. "As it turns out, the scientific community ...
Mark Sanford and Maria Belen Chapur: Happily Ever After?
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailySoul mates are hard to find. But former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has likely found his, and no thanks to popular websites like Match.com and eHarmony. Sanford, who left office on Jan. 12 when Nikki Haley was sworn in, was spotted last week at a glitzy resort in Uruguay with Maria Belen Chapur, a former Argentine journalist he calls his soul mate. The couple fascinates the Argentine press. The Argentine celebrity magazine "Caras" published an eight-page spread on them. One picture shows Sanford in a blue polo shirt, khaki shorts, baseball cap and sunglasses holding hands with Chapur ...
Sodexo Joins Meatless Monday Bandwagon
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsVeggies, it's what for dinner, on Mondays. International food services provider Sodexo announced that it is signing onto the Meatless Monday health campaign, which promotes social and environmental change through vegetarianism, one day a week. Sodexo feeds over 10 million people daily, so it's no surprise that Meatless Monday program director Chris Elam calls the development a "big deal." "Sodexo is truly leading the way by lending their large-scale support to the movement," read a statement posted on the Meatless Monday website. "Not only will their Meatless Monday meals reach hundreds of ...
Cancun Climate Change Summit Ends: Not Such a Hot Issue?
By David Corn - Politics DailyHere's a bet that I probably won't be able to collect upon: I wager that in 50 years, historians gazing back at now will pay less attention to the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, or even the economic downturn. They will wonder why present and past administrations did not sufficiently respond to the threat of human-induced climate change. If the scientific consensus is on the mark, the planet is likely to heat up by several degrees in the next half-century, and this will cause all sorts of severe consequences: droughts and other extreme weather, disease, species extinction, water shortages for ...
Todd Palin on DWTS? How About 'Dancing With the Pols'?
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailySo "Dancing With the Stars" is flirting with Todd Palin, after daughter Bristol waltzed her way to the finals and created a voting brouhaha that resulted in record ratings. Sarah Palin -- former Alaska governor, 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate, wife of Todd, mom of Bristol -- discounted reports from our sister site, Popeater.com, that she encouraged DWTS producers to include failed Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell in the show's next season. Certainly, Bristol put the politics in DWTS. So clearly, more politicians mean higher ratings. And who needs stars? Here's ...
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