Silly season has begun again. The sideshow is threatening to move into the big tent, and distraction will seem like it's the main event.
CNN's Erin Burnett takes a closer look at Herman Cain's new political campaign ad.
An Iranian cleric becomes a comedic target after saying women who dress provocatively are to blame for earthquakes.
Women who dress provocatively and tempt people into promiscuity are to blame for earthquakes, a leading Iranian hard-line cleric has apparently said.
About six weeks ago, a large earthquake devastated Haiti and killed over 200,000 people. Saturday, a huge earthquake releasing 500 times more energy, devastated Chile and killed hundreds.
Haitian parishioners describe the role faith plays in their life after the earthquake.
Given all their country and people have been through, between political upheavals, human rights abuses, hurricanes, abject poverty and last week's earthquake, "If Haitians were constantly questioning their faith, they would all be atheists."
HLN's Joy Behar and panel discuss Pat Robertson's remarks that Haiti is cursed because it made a pact with the devil.
Televangelist Pat Robertson wasn't blaming Haiti's catastrophic earthquake on "God's wrath," but was talking about a "widely discussed" legend that a Satanic pact aided its founding slave revolt, a spokesman said.
Dr. Rajiv Shah President Obama announced Wednesday that Shah, the 36-year-old administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, will be in charge of the overall U.S. relief effort in Haiti. "The goal of the relief effort in the first 72 hours will be very focused on saving lives," Shah said.
Pat Robertson, the evangelical Christian who once suggested God was punishing Americans with Hurricane Katrina, says a "pact to the devil" brought on the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
Evangelical Christian leaders such as Pat Robertson have assailed President Obama's effort to engage Iran, and the results so far have not vindicated the president's approach as a diplomatic policy.
Time.com: Eating Up Huckabeeupdated: Mon Jan 07 2008 19:00:00
Neither the voters nor the press were quite ready for Mike Huckabee. Now they can't get enough of him
The National Right to Life Committee, a key anti-abortion group, endorsed Fred Thompson for president Tuesday, saying the former senator was the best candidate to beat Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani.
CNN's Dana Bash reports on a prominent pro-life group's endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson.
GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson will get the endorsement of the National Right to Life Committee, three GOP sources told CNN.
Methodical Mitt
updated: Fri Nov 09 2007 06:22:00
CNN's John King looks at the campaign strategy of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in South Carolina.
He is the methodical tortoise of the Republican field, and well aware conservative South Carolina could prove the defining test.
Call it a battle for the hearts and minds of Christian conservative voters.
Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson annouces he is endorsing Rudy Giuliani for president.
After five years of trying to date girls and to conform and conceal his sexuality, 18-year-old Steven Field told his friends and family that he was gay.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell is dead at 73. Ron Godwin, executive vice president of Falwell's Liberty University, said Falwell had "a history of heart challenges" and was found unresponsive Tuesday at the university.
We live in interesting times, we do, we do. We can read in our daily newspapers that our government is about to launch a three-day propaganda blitz to convince us all that its secret program to spy on us is something we really want and need. "A campaign of high-profile national security events," reports The New York Times, follows "Karl Rove's blistering speech to national Republicans" about what a swell political issue this is for their party.
Pat Robertson's mouth has cost him his piece of the Holy Land.
Television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed.
After two days of criticism, Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized for his controversial suggestion that the United States should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has called for the United States to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him "a terrific danger" bent on exporting Communism and Islamic extremism across the Americas.
Bush administration officials Tuesday dismissed Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson's call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as the remarks of a private citizen, but Venezuela accused Robertson of promoting terrorism.
Federal Judge Joan Lefkow, whose husband and mother were killed by a man police believe appeared in her courtroom, asked a Senate committee on Wednesday to fund home security for judges and to repudiate slurs against the judiciary that could incite violence.
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Meet John Kerry, regular guy. Just a baseball watchin', beer drinkin', geese huntin', gun totin', stem cell research supportin' guy. That's who we'll see today in Ohio, the jackpot battleground of regular guys.
A White House spokesman denied Wednesday that President Bush told Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson that he did not expect casualties from the invasion of Iraq.
There is a long-standing Hollywood fantasy about how to succeed in American politics. From Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to Bulworth, the story is the same: the hero is liberated when he breaks free from political convention and starts speaking from the heart. In the old days, Mr. Smith fought political bosses. Nowadays the bosses are political consultants. Senator Bulworth?in Warren Beatty's 1998 film?is liberated after deciding to commit suicide while watching his re-election ads.
Finley Peter Dunne, the Irish-American satirist, created at the turn of the last century "Mr. Dooley," who was a bachelor, a saloon-keeper and an eagle-eyed observer of politics and the human condition.
Liberia is in chaos, and that's bad news for televangelist Pat Robertson. Liberian President Charles Taylor has been indicted for war crimes by a UN-backed court in Sierra Leone, rebels control lar...
There's no commandment that says thou shalt not pose nude!" says Garrett Morris over a dinner of crab cakes and pineapple juice at the tony Sugar Hill Bistro on 145th Street in Harlem. All around h...
Fortune: Editor's Deskupdated: Mon Oct 14 2002 00:01:00
To cover powerful women, it helps to have journalistic powerhouses on your team who also happen to be female. Senior writer Patricia Sellers (that's Pattie seated on the right) pulled together our ...
Jesus mania swept Liberia. For eight nights last December the nation's TV channels--both of them--simultaneously showed programs created by Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. There was...
When most liberals picture George W. Bush's "armies of compassion," they see Pat Robertson's Christian soldiers. Likewise, they view Bush's controversial effort to aid religious groups--the faith-b...
This is the time of the political season when Republicans trim their views to the specifications of the Christian Coalition, when commentators talk of invisible armies of zealous campaigners, when ...
Money Magazine: Pat Robertson, E-bankerupdated: Sat May 01 1999 00:01:00
Televangelist, hurricane buster and erstwhile presidential candidate Pat Robertson is teaming up with the Bank of Scotland to create a new telephone- and Internet-based bank, which has yet to be na...
This is not good. Not one person in the entire country buys my story about the Buddhist monks. There's an independent counsel cruising my way, and I look like a dufus hiding behind legalisms even m...
The far left and the far right are screaming at China. The liberal Ted Kennedy and the conservative Orrin Hatch are conspiring to win health care benefits for children. The Democratic President and...
When Dick Cheney kicked off his New Year by deciding not to make a run for the White House in 1996, business executives lost their favorite candidate for President. But corporate America has a muc...
Fortune: THE INSIDERupdated: Mon Jan 24 1994 00:01:00
Mike Milken invests, we report. His Junkbondness is now backing Seventh Level, a Los Angeles educational interactive multimedia software company. Sort of like videogames with vitamins. A co-founder...
In which Keeping Up seeks to build upon Yuletide merriment by presenting its first annual list of the year's ten most hilarious happenings. A funny thing about this exercise is that it started out ...
Fortune: HEAVEN EXPRESS?updated: Mon Oct 24 1988 00:01:00
Short of cash on Sunday mornings? That's no excuse. Just pull out your plastic. Last month, parishioners at St. Marks United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, became one of the first congregat...
TO HEAR THEM tell it, presidential candidates high-tailing out of snowy New England for Super Tuesday's Southern primaries expect nothing but sunshine and success. It's going to be a little more co...
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