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GOOD FRIENDS WE HAVE HAD, OH GOOD FRIENDS WE’VE LOST ALONG THE WAY/ IN THIS BRIGHT FUTURE YOU CAN’T FORGET YOUR PAST/ OH MY LITTLE SISTER, DON’T SHED NO TEARS/ NO WOMAN NO TEARS. No woman, no cry (

WON’T YOU HELP TO SING/ THIS SONG OF FREEDOM/ CAUSE ALL I EVER HAVE…REDEMPTION SONGS, REDEMPTION SONGS. by BOB MARLEY Old pirates, yes, they rob I; Sold I to the merchant ships, Minute

On COUNTDOWN with Keith Olbermann, Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute Chief Astronomer Derrick Pitts explains how the administration’s revised plans for NASA will save space exploration.

“IF YOUR CHILD COMES TO THIS SCHOOL, WE WILL GUARANTEE THAT WE WILL GET YOUR CHILD INTO COLLEGE. WE WILL BE WITH YOU, WITH YOUR CHILD FROM THE MOMENT THEY ENTER OUR SCHOOL TILL THE MOMENT THEY GRADUA

ON COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN, PRINCETON PROFESSOR MELISSA HARRIS LACEWELL EXPLAINS HOW STATES FORMING MILITIAS CONTRIBUTES TO ANTI-GOVERNMENT VIOLENCE. TUESDAY, APRIL 13, An Oklahoma Repres

THAT HAS NOT STOPPED THE “LOST CAUSERS” WHO SUPPORT MR. McDONNELL’S PROCLAMATION FROM TRYING TO RECAST THE WAR IN MORE RESPECTABLE TERMS. THEY WOULD LIKE WHAT LINCOLN CALLED “OUR FIERY TRIAL” TO BE SE

ASKED IF THE SLAVERY OMISSION WAS A MISTAKE, HE SAID, “I DON’T THINK SO…ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN THAT SLAVERY IS A BAD THING, IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING…IT’S SORT OF FEELING THAT IT’S A

RICHMOND, VA-- In his most ambitious effort yet to connect Virginia to its past, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) today proposed building what he called "a gigantic, state-of-the-art hot tub time machine.

Watch: Karen Finney, African-American Democratic Strategist and descendent of Confederate General Robert E. Lee debates Pat Buchanan, member of the Sons of the Confederacy, moderated by Hardball’s Chr

Watch HARDBALL's Chris Matthews jump on the historical distortions and the idiocy of celebrating a war of rebellion to destroy the country.

DR. KING SPOKE ABOUT THE DAMAGE THE VIETNAM WAR WAS DOING. “A NATION THAT CONTINUES YEAR AFTER YEAR TO SPEND MORE MONEY ON MILTARY DEFENSE THAN ON PROGRAMS OF SOCIAL UPLIFT IS APPROACHING SPIRITUAL DE

Comedian Wanda Sykes' showed singer Erykah Badu her take on the "Window Seat" controversy in a video clip where Wanda is trying to take her clothes off as she walks down the street, but has a few prob

Call him the Basketballer-in-Chief. On Saturday night, during halftime of the Butler-Michigan State game, CBS aired footage of Barack Obama taking on CBS Sports analyst Clark Kellogg in a game of P-O-

THIS UNDERSCORES THE CURRENT FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF THIS COUNTRY. IT’S NOT JUST A TUG OF WAR BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT. IT’S A STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE MIND AND THE HEART, BETWEEN EVIDENCE AND EMOTIONS, BET

BALANCE, PEACE, MEDITATION, NATURE. WHY WE NEED IT.

SENEGAL’S MONUMENT TO THE “AFRICAN RESISTANCE” WILL BE FORMALLY UNVEILED BEFORE FOREIGN DIGNITARIES AND CELEBRITIES ON SATURDAY. SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN NEW YORK’S STATUE OF LIBERTY, THE GIANT STATUE OF

I SAW PLENTY OF DEAD BODIES AS A REPORTER FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. BUT I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE COME BACK TO LIFE. THAT IS STUFF OF MYTHOLOGY AND LEGEND. AT LEAST, THAT IS WHAT I THOUGHT… By Lee Str

THE LATE GREAT COMIC GEORGE CARLIN USED TO JOKE ABOUT THE FACT THAT LITERALLY AND STATISTICALLY, SOMEWHERE ON EARTH THERE HAD TO BE “THE WORLD’S WORST DOCTOR.” AND SOMEONE HAS AN APPOINTMENT TO SEE

“THE FIRST INDICATOR THAT YOUR CHILD IS HAVING PROBLEMS IS THE DRESS CODE,” SAID SEN. ADAMS, A FORMER POLCIE CAPTAIN. “PRIOR TO THE SAGGING PANTS IT WAS SHOESTRINGS OUT OF SNEAKERS. ALL THIS COMES F

MOUNT DORA — A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek

THERE IS NO PROUDER MOMENT IN HAITI’S HISTORY THAN JAN. 1, 1804 WHEN A BAND OF STATESMEN/WARRIORS DECLARED INDEPENDENCE FROM FRANCE. THEY PROCLAIMED THEIR FREEDOM BOLDLY. BUT FOR DECADES HAITI LACKE

ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HOAXES, THE TOP ONE HUNDRED APRIL FOOL’S DAY PRANKS OF ALL TIME WERE JUDGED ACCORDING TO NOTORIETY, CREATIVITY AND NUMBER OF PEOPLE DUPED. HERE ARE THE TOP TEN:

Republicans in the Georgia State Senate are calling for the impeachment of Attorney General Thurbert Baker because he refuses to sue the Federal Government over the Constitutionality of the Health Car

Jon Stewart gave C-SPAN some advice on how they should have handled the caller who said if they "keep on with the way you've been programming, you should change your name from C-SPAN to BLACK-SPAN."

“WE HAD BAIL MONEY AND EVERYTHING. I THING SHE REALLY WANTED TO GET ARRESTED AND EVEN MAKE A BIGGER MESSAGE. YOU KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING?—HER CONTINGENCY PLAN WAS GET ARRESTED. SHE WAS BIG ON DOING IT