Day: December 30, 2013

Nice Atheist Collects $125,000 Thanks to Wolf Blitzer’s Douchery

Trish

Comedian Doug Stanhope helped raise $125,000 for the tornado victim who told Wolf Blitzer earlier this year that she wasn’t thanking the lord for sparing her and her child because she’s an atheist and doesn’t go in for that sort of thing. But before you go thinking Stanhope did it because he’s a nice guy…well, watch his explanation.

War in Afghanistan the Most Unpopular U.S. Military Action

Buck Banks

82%

Of Americans opposed the war in Afghanistan with just 17% in support — making it the most unpopular war in U.S. history, a new CNN/ORC poll finds. Pollster Keating Holland: “Opposition to the Iraq war never got higher than 69% in CNN polling while U.S. troops were in that country, and while the Vietnam War was in progress, no more than six in 10 ever told Gallup’s interviewers that war was a mistake.”