RECALL

Musicians rock out against Gov. Walker at get-out-the-vote rally

Get out the vote rally screenshot

Thousands of people gathered at the Madison Labor Temple on Friday to participate in a get-out-the-vote rally targeting Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

DARN LIBERALS

George Will uses N.Y. soda ban to blast climate change laws

George Will speaks to ABC News

Conservative columnist George Will on Sunday used outrage over New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on large sugary drinks to slam attempts to curb climate change.

THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY ...

Tea Party and Occupy activists rub shoulders at Bilderberg protest

Flickr image of police watching Bilderberg protests, via markn3tel

A protest targeting a secretive meeting of powerful international leaders entered a third day Saturday, with numbers swelling well into the hundreds.

DOUBLE STANDARDS

CBS host to RNC chair: Romney ‘silly and petty’ for Solyndra stunt

CBS host Bob Schieffer interviews Reince Priebus

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday called an Obama campaign event in Boston a “political stunt,” but said the same wasn’t true of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s surprise press conference in front of Solyndra.

OPPORTUNITIES

Tampa strip club hopes to entice RNC patrons

[XXX image via Shutterstock]

The 2001 Odyssey strip club in Tampa, Florida has revamped its online marketing strategy in hopes of attracting some of the nearly 50,000 people expected to attend the 2012 Republican National Convention.

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‘War on women’ comes to the Wisconsin recall

[Image via Karen Hickey]

The GOP's 'War on women' has kindled the fire of women who are becoming politically engaged – some for the first time – as they see his reforms as unraveling the rights they fought so hard to win.

Science

The final frontier? Trillion-dollar plan to build Starship Enterprise

Engineer unveils detailed proposals for building spaceship from original Star Trek series over two decades,…

Race to map Africa’s forgotten glaciers before they melt away

A team of scientists and photographers aims to document the Earth’s fading glaciers Ptolemy thought…

Experimental drug keeps aggressive breast cancer at bay

Drug cocktail boosts ovarian cancer survival time

Tech News

World IPv6 Internet address system upgrade likely to be smooth

The Internet is set for a major upgrade in the coming week, but if all…

Facebook users vote on privacy policy changes

Facebook on Friday began letting its more than 900 million members vote whether they approve…

Media

Tintin comic cover fetches record price at auction

A rare 1932 cover illustration of “Tintin in America” by Herge, the artist who dreamed up…

International film festival opens in Transylvanian city

The films of Japan’s Daisuke Miyazaki and Norway’s August Joachim Trier will be the first among 12 movies in competition to…

World

10 al Qaeda fighters, soldier killed in south Yemen

ADEN — Clashes between the army and Al-Qaeda militants for the control of Yemen’s southern province of Abyan have killed…

Syria’s Assad ‘maneuvering’ to gain time: Saudi

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal accused Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad of “manoeuvring” to gain time, at…

153 feared killed as plane crashes in Lagos: air chief

LAGOS — A plane carrying 153 passengers crashed Sunday in a densely populated district of Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos, the…

Britain’s armed forces minister deems ‘cyber strikes’ a ‘civilized option’

Pre-emptive cyber strikes against perceived national security threats are a “civilised option” to neutralise potential attacks, Britain’s armed forces minister…

U.S. News

Wildfire budget cuts in Congress put communites in danger, experts warn

Congressional budget cuts of over $500m could leave crews scrambling for resources in an already…

Panetta to visit former U.S. base in Vietnam

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta will travel on Sunday toVietnam’s Cam Ranh Bay, a major base for…

Media critic: Fox’s ‘goddamn ratings’ won’t ever impress me to hire their employees

The Baltimore Sun‘s television critic David Zurawik offered no professional sympathy for anyone who works…

1,200 firefighters tackle record-breaking U.S. blaze

Over 1,200 firefighters battling New Mexico’s largest wildfire in history rappelled from helicopters Saturday to extinguish…

Florida suspends Gov. Scott’s voter purge efforts

Florida’s election supervisors announced their decision Friday evening to stop the controversial effort of Governor…