Calling a dictator crazy is like calling cat fuzzy. It's pretty much a given. Yet some dictators go above and beyond just genocide and repression, and travel so far into balls out madness that you have to give them some sort of credit. These 12 ruthless bastards not only ruled with an iron fist,...
Jon Stewart is an American actor, comedian, political satirist, writer, media critic, and television host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Stewart has gained fame and acclaim for his political stance and criticism of American media networks including CNN, FOX News, and MSNBC. Stewart has been...
OPEC is the acronym for the “Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries”. It was established in 1960 with the mission and vision of unifying the world’s biggest oil producers in the midst of an oil crisis. At the time, Western oil companies were bullying countries to lower their oil prices....
Image: Eddie Adams Popular photography as we know it was presented to the public in the 1840s. It was proposed as the ultimate portrayal of reality and the eternal confinement of history - unlike art or prose, photographs are not easily altered. They have been used to depict the terrors and truths...
Vice President Joe Biden contributed humor at Thursday's Health Care Summit at the Blair House. CSPAN's cameras followed Biden during the afternoon session of the summit. CSPAN also recorded a conversation he had with one of the participants and reported: "It's easy being vice president — you...
While it is something of a trite cliché to say that a picture paints a thousand words, since the invention of the camera, photographs have brought the realities of the world to the eyes of ordinary people.
Artificial intelligence has not yet reached a level that allows for a truly autonomous robot, but we have come far in the last 50 years. Robots are in use today, performing duties from vacuuming our floors to building cars, to fighting our wars for us. Only a handful of these machines possess any...
