The controversial debut of Britain's far-right leader on a flagship television debate show has been a ratings bonanza for the BBC, but it's unclear whether British National Party chief Nick Griffin gained from all the attention.
The BBC defended its decision to invite the leader of a white-supremacist party onto its leading political debate show, as protesters prepared to picket the broadcaster's studios during Thursday's taping.
German police say they have searched the headquarters of a far-right party in an investigation of letters it sent to politicians of foreign descent.
A far-right party has sent letters to 30 politicians of foreign descent who are candidates in Germany's national election on Sunday, telling them to leave the country.
Hundreds of anti-fascist protesters tried to block people Saturday from attending a festival held by the far-right, anti-immigrant British National Party, which has been encouraged by recent electoral success.
British far-right leader Nick Griffin was forced to abandon a London press conference Tuesday when egg-throwing demonstrators chased him away.
The Supreme Court ordered a Seoul hospital to heed a family's request to suspend life support for a 76-year-old woman in a coma, a landmark ruling that heralded a shift in South Korean attitudes on death.
- It seems a shame to let the week go by without taking a deep breath and debriefing the first overseas trip by President Barack Obama.
Germany's top security official on Tuesday banned a far-right group on the ground that it organizes seemingly harmless activities to promote racist and Nazi ideology among children and young people.
Investigators say they have taken into custody two people suspected in the stabbing of a police chief in a presumed neo-Nazi attack.
Pundits declared evangelicals among of Election Day's losers. Conservative Christian leader James Dobson confessed he was grieving. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said religious right leaders "kept their own flock in line, but the majority of Americans were unmoved."
Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts.
The longtime treasurer of Germany's leading far-right party was sentenced Friday to two years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of euros from its accounts.
The Bush administration has proposed allowing oil and gas drilling in an area of the Bering Sea considered important for the recovery of the world's most endangered whale.
One of North Korea's worst fears is about to come true: The liberal South Korean government that has pampered Pyongyang with aid while shying from criticism of its rights abuses is about to be swept from office.
A bedridden Spanish woman with muscular dystrophy died Wednesday after doctors fulfilled her wish and turned off her respirator, bringing an end to a case that had triggered a nationwide debate on euthanasia.
A senior member of Germany's far-right National Democratic Party charged with incitement for producing CDs that prosecutors say encouraged violence against foreigners went on trial Tuesday.
The Roman Catholic Church on Friday denied a religious funeral for the paralyzed Italian author who died after a doctor disconnected his respirator, saying it would treat his public wish to "end his life" as a willful suicide.
A look at legislation covering euthanasia and assisted suicide in the industrialized world:
"Let me die," wrote Piergiorgio Welby, paralyzed and confined to his bed by muscular dystrophy and unable to eat, speak or breathe on his own.
A delegate on the outer fringes of Austria's far-right party on Sunday took his leave from the party's convention with "heil" — the greeting associated with Adolf Hitler. The head of the party said he saw nothing wrong with the word.
A liberal activist group bought newspaper and television ads to accuse three conservative leaders of hypocrisy for promoting Christian values while amassing money and political power. The targets of the spots said the accusations were lies.
My parents are and were far from perfect. My father was a bare-knuckle brawling truck driver of the stereotypical type. He lived the life and was the kind of man people like Dave Dudley sang about.
If you like what Rupert Murdoch, the right-wing billionaire behind Fox News and the New York Post, has done for the national discourse, you'll love what Philip Anschutz is trying to do in your hometown.
It's been said that the political spectrum isn't really a straight line, with the most extreme right-winger standing out on one end and the most extreme left-winger out on the other end.
Rush Limbaugh is calling for a military coup, and the joke, if it is a joke, is not funny. Rush, speaking about President Obama's upcoming speech at West Point, expressed hope that military officials at the Academy would "detain" President Obama.
I guess it took months for the New York Times to see the Light. Article in part...
This is Really Funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the Transcript AND the Video, a picture is worth a Thousand words! Transcript of SNL
BOSTON – A convicted murderer who is seeking a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation has asked a judge to order Massachusetts prison officials to provide electrolysis treatments.
Why is that on almost every issue, even ones that have little to do with one another, do Right and Left take the opposing viewpoints? With recent examples of the Fort Hood attack and the decision to try terrorists in Federal Courts in NYC, we see these conflicting visions of the …
Have you ever seen so much hatred for, and vitriolic criticism of, someone who had only a brief stint on the national political stage? More than a year after the presidential election in which Sarah Palin, as the GOP nominee for Vice-President, campaigned for about 3 months, she …
After reading and responding to many articles and seeds lately I have noticed a theme of right vs. left on almost every single issue. Many of the posts go way off topic and descend into insults based on ones political affiliation.
Obama IS in opposition to the Stupak Amendment in the government health care that would not allow Tax Dollars for Abortion.. Why did Obama say no Tax Dollars for Abortion in the Town Hall meetings? White House Axelrod tells it like it is... Article in part...
I think it is significant that the Democrat Congressman David Obey wants true numbers and facts on the recovery.gov site as it is "undermining government creditability". I think it is truly worrisome the misinformation about jobs in Districts that do not even exist.
When I got my first wristwatch for Christmas in (I believe) 1969 I automatically put it on my left wrist with the face on the top of my wrist. I guess because that's how my dad wore his. However it wasn't long before I noticed that different people wear them differently.
Somewhere out there, there's a picture of me naked. It's a Polaroid shot taken with an instant camera (y'know, back when cameras needed film). I'm lying on a bed, wearing nothing but me birthday suit.
NEWBERRY, Fla. — In retrospect, even Charlie Crist admits that "the optics" of The Hug are not great.
It is hard to explain to white people like Glenn Beck why their "innocent" questions about race actually just reveal their ignorance and their false assumptions about people of other races and the nature of race relations.
Media Matters gives a informative account of Lou Dobbs right wing fringe rhetoric and why he should have been kicked off of CNN. The piece is very informative and a good read.
I like to drink alcohol. That shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone who knows me online or in my life. My drink of choice is scotch on the rocks and it's a rare night that I don't have 3 or 4 of them.
I see more and more of these moving political cartoons. What of this art form have you seen and noticed? Contribute your links to this thread.
I think there may be more GOOD Journalists leaving CNN and other mainllined media MSNBC as the biased and Risk Management info continues. Article in part and link to Video "New York (CNN) -- CNN's Lou Dobbs stepped down from his controversial role as an advocacy anchor at the n …
There is a Right, it is called Freedom of Religion. The Catholic Church has been in existence for over two thousand years; Christianity. Our Country allows a Tax Exempt Status for Churches.
Trying to interpret the intention of the founding fathers on the Constitution is entirely dependent upon the a person's ideology and political outlook.
When Alan Grayson called a female corporate lobbyist a "K-Street whore" -- and was attacked as crude and sexist at the same time that he was lauded as gutsy and honest -- he played a role in a familiar script: hero of the left (MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher) attacks female …
"Last night former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura made a secret visit to the devastated military families at Fort Hood.
I remember in my Contract Law Class, never Sign anything until you READ it AND Know what you are signing. There are many attorney's throughout our governing system, I would have hoped they did not miss the class on Contract Law and the Fundamentals for all attorneys who Represen …