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In a wide-ranging talk about the Internet and government, Al Gore urged the techie crowd at South By Southwest to use digital tools to improve government.
Former Vice President Al Gore on Friday described Current TV as the "consistent" liberal TV network compared with MSNBC, and said it will keep Keith Olbermann in the fold.
Apple orchestrated one in consumer electronics. Cadillac in cars. Al Gore in politics. And Tim Tebow in football. Now, Lincoln is trying to stage one of its own for its aging cars.
Former Vice President Al Gore linked climate change to a rash of environmental catastrophes Thursday, from floods in Pakistan to drought in Texas and rampant algae blooms sucking oxygen from Lake Erie.
Apple hasn't said when it will release the next version of the iPhone, but former Vice President and current Apple Inc. board member Al Gore believes "new iPhones" will be here in October.
Current TV plans to air a presentation on climate change by former vice president Al Gore.
A former CNN Washington bureau chief is the new president of Al Gore's Current TV.
Facing an internal investigation that included questions about a polar bear deaths study that Al Gore cited in "An Inconvenient Truth", a federal scientist went on the offensive Thursday, filing a complaint alleging persecution from within the Interior Department.
President Barack Obama seems to have forgotten about Al Gore and the ashtray smashed to smithereens.
Former Vice President Al Gore is doing what few environmentalists and fellow Democrats have done before, criticizing President Barack Obama's record on global warming.
Al Gore is complaining that News Corp. plans to kick his Current TV off the Sky Italia pay-TV platform for political reasons, but News Corp. said Friday that the decision was commercial.
Former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore on Saturday remembered Ned McWherter, Tennessee's governor from 1987 to 1995, as a politician with a special way of connecting with everyday people.
The NFL is making two additions to its legal team — David Boies, who represented Al Gore during the recount fight in the disputed 2000 presidential election, and former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement.
Less than a month after leaving MSNBC, liberal lightning rod Keith Olbermann said Tuesday he's headed to Current TV, the public affairs channel launched in 2005 by former Vice President Al Gore.
Students at a new green themed school named for noted conservationists Rachel Carson and Al Gore don't have to go far for a lesson in environmental contamination: Their $75 million campus was laden with toxic soil.
The case of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the massage therapist has been closed.
A wealthy Manhattan investment banker and former top Democratic fundraiser was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison for defrauding banks of $292 million, some of which he donated to politicians including Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Al Gore.
Former Vice President Al Gore welcomes a Portland police decision to reopen an investigation into a massage therapist's allegations that he groped her at a hotel four years ago, his spokeswoman said.
Portland police say they investigated allegations that former Vice President Al Gore had "unwanted sexual contact" with a massage therapist during an October 2006 visit, but they found insufficient evidence to support the woman's claims.
Tens of thousands of pages worth of documents from Elena Kagan's past have left President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee relatively unscathed and important details about her still a mystery heading into confirmation hearings for a lifetime job as a justice.
Poorer countries that have borne the brunt of climate change's effects will save, not lose, money by putting in place ways to rescue the environment, Al Gore said Tuesday.
Even cynics were startled when former Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper announced Tuesday that they were separating by mutual consent. While the rocky marriage of Gore’s former running mate Bill Clinton to Hillary Clinton had long since become headline news, the Gores were best known for their famously passionate public smooch at the 2000 Democratic Convention.
Al Gore once claimed his romance with wife Tipper inspired the novel "Love Story" and the couple shared an uncomfortably long kiss before millions on the stage of the Democratic National Convention.
In another dimension, my punk rock '80s self is no doubt drunk on schadenfreude with today's somewhat surprising announcement that Al and Tipper Gore (of 1985's fame) are, after four children and 40 years of marriage, divorcing.
The Vanishing Feeling of FreedomThe primary reason why it is so difficult to defend political liberty today is because freedom is a rational construct, and thus cannot be understood by the irrational. Children, or adults whose moral reasoning skills are stalled at childish levels, are unable to experience it …
Dumbing democracy down: Leadership is not a drinking gameI don't know about the rest of you, but when I'm looking for a new doctor the first thing I consider about the candidates is whether or not I'd like to have a beer with them. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I immediately headed out to a bar to find an oncologist. I use the sa …
Bin Laden, Unabomber, Manson Are Climate Change Believers So You're EvilThe Heartland Institute, “the primary American organization pushing climate change skepticism,” has a new billboard campaign featuring Osama bin Laden, Ted Kaczynski, aka, the Unabomber, Charles Manson, and Fidel Castro, and the words, “I still believe in Glob …
Environmental 'religion' | Tulsa WorldRobert Nelson thinks Earth Day is a pagan holiday and has written a long and rambling article trying to justify the idea that environmentalism is a religion. He would like to prohibit the teaching of some aspects of science dealing with greenhouse gases and environmental sc …
Global Warming Leader: I Was 'Alarmist'James Lovelock, the famed 92-year-old British scientist who pioneered the so-called “Gaia theory” of the environment, has walked back his strident global warming rhetoric over the past few decades today. Lovelock’s “Gaia theory” sugg …
Al Gore to Finally Receive Proper Credit for Inventing the InternetThe former vice-president and current head of Current TV has done a lot of things in his life, but he will mostly be remembered for his 1999 claim that he created the Internet. Appropriately, he will be one of the first inductees into the brand new Internet Hall of Fame, where …
Too late for Current TV to be shocked (about Keith Olbermann)Keith Olbermann’s ex-bosses all eventually sound like ex-boat owners, those who say that the second best day of their lives is when they bought a boat, but their best day is when they sold it. Actually, though, if Olbermann plays his cue cards right, he has a strong case …
Preface: I first encountered the Green Dragon on a Newsvine post by Publius Redux where he introduced it with: “Now, here is a novel analysis of the undercurrent of urgency and irrationality characteristic of climate doomsayers’ prophecy. This explains the …
Olbermann's low road after firing a lesson Finally, I thought Keith Olbermann had come to his senses. Olbermann, who has a history of being fired from multiple networks and blaming others when things go bad, was ready to communicate in a responsible, mature and accountable fashion. As I listened to his appearance this …
Why Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a RepublicanWithout remorse, Democrats deliberately keep blacks in poverty because Democrats have built their political power base on the backs of poor blacks, just as Democrats built their economic power base on the backs of poor blacks during the days of slavery. The centuries- …
Current TV's Lawsuit Against Keith Olbermann Makes Him Look Like The World's Biggest Diva - Business InsiderJust one day after Keith Olbermann filed a lawsuit against his former employer Current TV, the network has fired back, filing a suit of their own against the outspoken TV host. Though it's not as juicy as Olbermann's suit, which called Current TV …
Keith Olbermann Plans to Sue Current TV ASAPThe $10 million chandelier is about to smash into the ballroom. Keith Olbermann, who was swiftly fired from Current TV last week after less than a year since bringing his signature Countdown show to the Al Gore-founded cable network, vowed to take legal action. And E! News ha …
Olbermann to Letterman: 'If you buy a $10 million chandelier, you should have a house to put it in'Olbermann, who had a reported $50 million contract with Current, compared himself to a $10 million chandelier. "I didn't say, 'You know, if you buy a $10 million chandelier, you should have a house to put it in.' Just walking around with a $10 million chandelier isn't go …
Keith Olbermann's Angry Email Trail Traces Breakup With Current TVThe arguments escalated for months, with Olbermann directly appealing to the former vice president on three or four occasions, until relations had become so poisoned that, on Friday, Current fired Olbermann for breach of contract. He has vowed to take the matter to court and qu …
Current TV Dismisses Keith Olbermann - US Business News - CNBCTodays "Worst Person in the World". An ironic and stupid slogan even for the self-professed god of journalism. (at least in his own mind).
Al Gore Fires Keith Olbermann For Being TerribleSanctimonious screeching creep Keith Olbermann, whose ego isn’t the size of Jupiter but certainly is that of Jupiter’s largest moon, has been fired from his 757th job on television, for being horrible. Current TeeVee owner and other relatively liberal person Al Gore …
Current TV Fires Keith OlbermannIn an open letter to Current viewers, Gore and co-founder Joel Hyatt wrote “We created Current to give voice to those Americans who refuse to rely on corporate-controlled media and are seeking an authentic progressive outlet. We are more committed to those goals today tha …
Bill Maher Says Democrats Partly To Blame For Martin KillingComedian Bill Maher says that Democrats who helped approve the stand-your-ground law are partly to blame for the teen's killing.
Environmentalism, The Autopsy More to the point of yesterday’s post about the slow and agonizing death spiral of the environmental movement: could anyone have predicted this? In fact, some one did, at the very beginning of modern environmentalism around the time of the first Earth Day. …
Tom Hanks Narrates Obama Campaign's 'Documentary'It's as slick as any commercial Hollywood production.
The Wattree Chronicle: Dr. Boyce Watkins Announces His Withdrawal from Cornel West ControversyDr. Boyce Watkins Announces His Withdrawal from Cornel West Controversy In the recent video, "Dr. Boyce: My Two Cents on Michael Eric Dyson," released on Black Like Moi!, Dr. Boyce Watkins of Syracuse University announced his retirement from the Dr. Cornel West controversies.
Former VP Al Gore's Office Evacuated Due To White Powder A suspicious white powder was found at the offices of Former Vice President Al Gore in Green Hills Friday afternoon.The incident occurred at the Freeman Webb building on Bedford Avenue around 2:00 p.m.Police said that two interns were opening mail at the office and found a thre …
GOP gospel continues to fly in the face and teeth of reality.I am not surprised that Rick Santorum is an idiot.
OpEdNews - Article: The Irrefutable Case for Barack Obama's Second Term: Supreme Court AppointmentsThere may well be a hundred reasons for progressives questioning whether President Barack Obama deserves a Second Term, ranging from all of the issues on which he has caved in (think: Bush-era tax cuts for the very wealthy); all of the issues which he has tried to sweep unde …
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