GOP at its Gracious Best

Pennsylvania GOP airs an attack ad featuring Rev. Wright.

House GOP leader calls Obama "chicken shit" for voting present in IL.

A selective quote from an Obama interview is used to make robocalls in coal-producing states.

Nasty push polls are reported in Ohio.

Not So Clean Coal

Both candidates talk about clean coal technology. What is it? And how clean is it? A new artilce from Salon takes a look at "clean" coal.

So does the solution really lie in "clean coal technology," as both presidential campaigns keep saying? As nice as it sounds, clean coal is an oxymoron of epic proportions, promoted by the coal industry, a sort of Orwellian doublespeak meant to introduce the notion that coal can be environmentally friendly...