Hair

POSTED BY , 24 July 2007 | PERMALINK

We just felt we had to embed John Edward's witty response to his 'pretty boy' critics he put on You Tube yesterday.

On FDR

POSTED BY , 24 July 2007 | PERMALINK

Amity Shlaes wrote a piece in the LATimes today calling for more politicians like FDR.

During that first euphoric legislative period, Roosevelt managed to rescue the banking system from disaster, assist bankrupted farmers, rewrite the economics of agriculture and the rules for flailing businesses, bring back beer — you name it. Contemporary leaders can't even act on pressing issues such...

Debate Round-Up

POSTED BY , 24 July 2007 | PERMALINK

The questions were from all corners of curiosity - Iraq to Darfur, sex-ed to their children's schooling - and all walks of life - including a talking snowman.

And Hillary's still on top - or at least that's the news ticked out by copy editors the nation over.  "Most observers agreed that none of the candidates debating at the Citadel in Charleston, South...

Kids Won't Stop Sexing

POSTED BY , 23 July 2007 | PERMALINK

The long heralded statistics that teens were saying no to sex are now taking a turn, or a plateau to be exact. The Washington Post reported:

"After decreasing steadily and significantly for more than a decade, the percentage of teenagers having intercourse began to plateau in 2001 and has failed to budge since then..."

This fall corresponds to an increase in the teaching of sexual...

Dems Prepare for YouTube Debate

POSTED BY , 23 July 2007 | PERMALINK

With Hillary ahead in the polls and holding a steady double-digit lead over top competitor Barack Obama, a chance for movement has rounded the political corner.  Tonight, the democratic candidates will line the stage in Charleston, SC for their first official debate hosted by the hotly contested and much maligned harbinger of the modern political era: YouTube.

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If the Water Didn't Kill Ya, the Formaldehyde Could

POSTED BY , 23 July 2007 | PERMALINK

“How many times can the federal government let down the victims of the hurricanes that ravaged the Gulf Coast two years ago?”

That is the question posed by an editorial in the Sunday NYTimes. Everyone is perhaps too aware of the answer. The Gulf Coast is housing 66,000 Katrina victims in FEMA’s huge trailer parks, ironically meant to protect people who lost everything to 175mph...

Thanks Woodrow

POSTED BY , 23 July 2007 | PERMALINK

Woodrow Wilcox sent us his YouTube vid... Woodrow, thank you for the song. Just the thing for a Monday morning. We hope your question gets asked at the Dem debates tonight.

Friday Cartoon

POSTED BY , 20 July 2007 | PERMALINK

Our Friday cartoon from Mikhaela..

Cheney plays President for a Day

POSTED BY , 20 July 2007 | PERMALINK

President Bush will undergo a routine colonoscopy Saturday... temporarily handing the presidential reigns to Cheney.  See the video at MSNBC.  Let's hope it's a very uneventful few hours.


- Raleigh-Elizabeth Smith

Final Alive in Baghdad Uncut- ABC Video

POSTED BY , 20 July 2007 | PERMALINK

Today Veracifier airs its final Alive in Baghdad Uncut. We urge all our viewers to keep watching Alive in Baghdad at www.aliveinbaghdad.org. Veracifier has been very proud to be associated with this kind of journalism. It comes at a time when the Guardian's Sean Smith's video footage from being embedded with American troops in Iraq is lighting up the online video. Aired by ABC News on Monday,...