“A YouTube video is making a bizarre one-eyed kitty famous a week after it died. “He was born alive and survived only a short time. This was a horribly sad experience, but very intriguing to us all,” reads a video description of Cleyed the Cyclops kitten. According to the folks …
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Pizza Hut Obama-Romney Debate Question Controversy
Pizza Hut is offering a lifetime of free pizza — one large pie a week for 30 years — or a check for $15,600 to anyone who poses the question to either President Barack Obama or Republican candidate Mitt Romney during the live Town Hall-style debate next Tuesday. The proposed …
Read More »Ad Shows Invasive Vaginal Probe Promoted by Sen. Goolsby
“Incumbent state Sen. Thom Goolsby’s Democratic opponent in the general election, Deb Butler, has chosen a visually frank political advertisement to kick off her TV campaign against the Republican. As her campaign says, it may be the first ever appearance of a trans-vaginal ultrasound wand in a political ad. Goolsby …
Read More »Tea Party Candidate Attacks Disabled Veteran Opponent for Dress Shopping
“One of the dirtier House races this election cycle is between Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., and Army vet Tammy Duckworth, who lost both of her legs in combat. Walsh has been attacking Duckworth for things like talking about her military career (“My God, that’s all she talks about,” he once …
Read More »Big Brother: RFID Chips Track Kids’ Truancy, Eating Habits
“The digital tracking and surveillance of school-aged kids has been growing. Much attention has been given to the phenomenon of corporate tracking of kids’ online activities, activities that violate the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The law, originally adopted in 1998, requires Web sites aimed at kids to get …
Read More »Neurosurgeon: I Experienced Afterlife
“Dr Eben Alexander, a Harvard-educated neurosurgeon, fell into a coma for seven days in 2008 after contracting meningitis. During his illness Dr Alexander says that the part of his brain which controls human thought and emotion “shut down” and that he then experienced “something so profound that it gave me …
Read More »Brain-Eating Amoebas in Water Kill 10 in Pakistan
“A waterborne, brain-destroying species of amoeba has killed 10 people in Karachi, Pakistan, this year, prompting local water officials to increase the amount of chlorine in the city’s water supply and advise residents to use sterilized water when performing a Muslim ritual which involves cleansing the nostrils. Misbahuddin Farid, managing …
Read More »Global Warming ‘Scam’ – Fox Host Grills Scientist
“On Wednesday, Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade spoke with Dr. Alex Berezow, a RealClearScience editor and author of Science Left Behind, about his take on the left’s relationship with science. “Scientists are great at doing science, but they’re not necessarily great at proposing policy,” he explained. “Whenever you consider policy …
Read More »Oprah Asks KONY 2012’s Jason Russell if He’s Gay
“Oprah Winfrey nabbed Invisible Children founder/KONY 12 creator Jason Russell for his first post-meltdown interview, which aired tonight via Oprah’s Next Chapter. As we already knew, he distanced himself from the pavement-slapping, publicly nude Jason Russell of that March day. He didn’t shirk responsibility, exactly, but he did refer to …
Read More »QVC Host Cassie Slane Passes Out On Live TV
“QVC host Dan Hughes proved Sunday night that no matter what happens on live television, you should just keep on selling. Shortly after guest host Cassie Slane came on QVC to promote a kid-friendly tablet Sunday, she began patting her chest and appeared to stop breathing, a YouTube video shows. …
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