SNL: Carl Sagan's Global Warming Christmas Special [VIDEO]
By Adam Howard, AlterNet
With special surprise guest Ralph Nader! Read more »

The Grinch Who Stole SCHIP [VIDEO]
By Cliff Schecter, Cliff Schecter's Blog
Anyone who could vote to raise their own pay and give tax cuts to corporate crooks while denying kids health care isn't qualified to be called human. Read more »

Teenager Dies After Insurance Company Balks at Transplant
By Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report
Obviously, as a matter of humanity, one's heart has to go out to the Sarkisyan family, whose pain has to be unimaginable right now. Read more »

9-Year-Old Banned from Christmas Party "Because He Didn't Believe in Jesus"
By Paddy, Cliff Schecter's Blog
Sounds like someone got a bug in their saddle over the fact the family was "non-religious" and decided to be a Grinch. Read more »

"Shock Doctrine" Applied to Autistic and Retarded Kids
By Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake
I guess it's the "trickle down" theory of torture. Read more »

Huckabee Claims "If Anything," We Treat Inmates at Gitmo "Too Nice"
By Matt Corley, Think Progress
FBI agents who worked there have said detainees were subjected to harsh conditions, including "the use of growling dogs" to "intimidate detainees." Read more »

Lakota Tribes: Stop This Country, We Want to Get Off!
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Independence movements: they're catchy. Read more »

Is TIME's Putin "Person of the Year" Cover Story a Fraudulent Cover Up?
By Rory O'Connor, Media Is Plural
A glaring factual error was apparently edited out of the transcript in an attempt to spare top executives embarrassment. Read more »

Giuliani Snuck 2,000 Boxes of Records Out of New York's City Hall
By Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend
If you thought Darth Cheney was secretive...you'll love Rudy Read more »

Larry Flynt on Republicans Who "Can't Keep Their Pants On"
By GottaLaff, Cliff Schecter's Blog
Flynt claims he now has evidence about a closeted gay GOP senator who's not Larry Craig. "The other shoe's going to drop any day," Flynt says. Read more »