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Al Gore called Wednesday for "civil disobedience" to combat the construction of coal power plants without the ability to store carbon, Reuters reported. The former vice president, whose efforts to raise awareness of global warming have made him the most prominent voice on that issue, made the comment during a session at the fourth annual Clinton Global Initiative in Manhattan.

Is Al Gore nuts? I’m serious. Is it possible that the disappointment of losing the presidential campaign eight years ago destabilized him? If you think about it, since then, he’s been a changed man. First he got fat. He went through a dramatic physical change. He put on a significant amount of weight and grew a beard and got reclusive. Then he lost the weight and found a cause. Manmade global warming. It absolutely became his theme in life. After being largely silent on the issue during eight years as the vice president and a good run in the Senate,...

ON AIR Q&A: T. Boone Pickens Fri. Jul 18, 2008 Tammy Haddad spoke with Texas oil magnate T. Boone Pickens for the July 18 edition of "National Journal On Air." This is a transcript of their conversation. Q: I'm Tammy Haddad this is National Journal On Air and we have the man of the hour with us, T. Boone Pickens, welcome Mr. Pickens. Pickens: Thank you Tammy. Q: You know, you have really changed the world with your conversation about wind energy, PickensPack.com is really an incredible website-these videos, the ads, what you're doing. For those who haven't seen it,...

I ADMIT IT: I'm no environmentalist. But I like to think I'm something of a conservationist. No doubt for millions of Americans this is a distinction without a difference, as the two words are usually used interchangeably. But they're different things, and the country would be better off if we sharpened the distinctions between both word and concept. At its core, environmentalism is a kind of nature worship. It's a holistic ideology, shot through with religious sentiment. "If you look carefully," author Michael Crichton observed, "you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian...

It's clear that for either Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic presidential nomination, they'll have to win the majority of superdelegates at the convention. But what if the superdelegates split right down the middle like Democrats across the nation? Talk of a joint ticket -- Obama-Clinton or Clinton-Obama -- might be an elegant solution to the problem. But what if Clinton wins the popular vote and Obama wins the majority of delegates? What if the next two months of campaigning turns so ugly they can't stand each other? Would either candidate willingly step aside to...

Ad to challenge Gore's planet-saving image March 8, 2008 By Jennifer Harper - He has a mighty big carbon footprint. Al Gore's opulent lifestyle and his virtuous plea to save the planet from global warming don't mesh, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which announced plans yesterday for a new national advertising campaign to showcase the contrast before the American public. It comes at an unsure time for the former vice president, whose climate efforts have netted both an Oscar and Nobel Prize in the last year. Mr. Gore's finances were questioned this week by Business Week, Bloomberg and...

The president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission says comments by best-selling author John Grisham at the recent "New Baptist Covenant" meeting are theologically off base. During a rare public speech, Grisham criticized Baptists who believe the Bible is the inerrant Word of God. The novelist spoke about a Baptist church he attended as a youth, which he described as intolerant because its leaders said the Bible should be read literally. The Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission president, Dr. Richard Land, disagrees with Grisham and says it is not intolerant to defend God's Word....

Oh Mighty Goracle! We had such faith in you as our savior to fight back against the deadly scourge of the EVIL Republicans. And now you have let us down with your announcement that all your devotees should immediately cease any efforts on your behalf. Such is the mood now in KOmmieland as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Word from Al Gore's Office: Stop Ballot initiatives." So let us now watch the KOmmies mourn the loss of the Mighty Goracle from the 2008 campaign while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting that his Global Warming shtick...

EMAILS FROM ALGORE.ORG: Word from Al Gore's Office: Stop Ballot initiatives Mon Nov 12, 2007 at 09:25:38 PM PST It is painful for me to write these words, I just got this letter from Karen Wunderman Chief of Staff at AlGore.org Dear AFG Steering Committee Members: We have received a communication from a member of Al Gore’s staff discouraging our efforts to put Al Gore’s name on any primary ballots. This includes California, New York, Massachusetts, and the write-in effort in New Hampshire, as well as any other states that are working to get him on the ballot. Accordingly, effective...

PHOTO: (Rosie O'Donnell escorts Al Gore to the Rebellion's ceremony stage.) Today, at the Massassi Temple at the hidden Rebel base on Yavin 4, Princess Leia Organa presented the Alderaanian Medal of Honor to Vice President Al Gore for his efforts in stopping universal warming: Distinguished Rebel Alliance leaders, brave warriors, ladies and gentlemen; In honor of Mr. Gore's tireless service protecting the universe from warming and helping to stop the Emperor and Lord Dick Cheney from spreading their imperial tentacles around the world, we present the rebellion's highest honor, the Alderaanian Medal of Honor to Vice-President Al Gore. Oh,...

All Hail the Mighty Goracle!!! He has been Canonized with the highly politicized Nobel Peace Prize!!! All who deny the Goracle as the Savior of the Planet shall be denounced as Global Warming Deniers. All who would deny the Goracle his rightful place as President shall be denounced as vicious rightwingers! All Hail the Mighty Goracle!!! As I suspected, the fact that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize has sent the Left into a frenzy of hope that their Goracle will soon announce that he will strike down the dreaded Hildebeast by entering the 2008 presidential campaign. For...

Al Gore Called Away Unexpectedly for 'Exciting and Urgent Mission' Thursday , October 11, 2007 A simple phone call by Al Gore to Sen. Barbara Boxer's office has touched off widespread speculation that the former vice president is getting ready to make an even bigger splash — perhaps as a Nobel Peace Prize winner. The politician-turned-environmental-crusader contacted the California Democrat to beg out of a Thursday fundraising event for her, where he was to headline alongside musicians Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, the political blog SFGate.com reported. Click here to read the SFGate.com blog. In a note sent to event...

It's finally coming to a head. Goracle worship will be reaching a fever pitch this Friday when the Swedes, acting as a branch of the DNC, will be handing the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore just as they did to Jimmy Carter a few years ago. Of course, the one president that really deserved the Nobel Peace Prize was Ronald Reagan who ended the Cold War but the Swedes would never have considered that possiblity in their wildest socialist imaginations. However, back to the present, there is now wild speculation in the Leftwing blogosphere that Al Gore winning...

I have been predicting that the major party tickets for 2008 will be Romney/Huckabee vs Hillary/Vilsack although I am willing to admit that I could be wrong. However, I do have one prediction of which I am absolutely CERTAIN: Pied Piper Pitt will NOT be hired by the Hillary campaign no matter how hard he tries to ingratiate himself with her. Sorry, Pitt, but you are condemned to remain on the political sidelines once again. You will NOT be a major player no matter how hard you try such as your latest pathetic effort to make nice with Hillary...

You can tell the Left is dissatisfied with the inevitability of the Hildebeast by their yearning for Al Gore. This yearning has taken the form of desperation as you can tell by this DUmmie THREAD titled, "Randi asked Al Gore to run, please run. He held her head between his hands & kissed her cheek." The best thing about this desperation is that it is FUn to watch. So let us now watch Randi Rhodes and the DUmmies BEG their mighty Goracle to run in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting that Randi is only...

"And the Lord spoke all these words: I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. (Exodus 20: 1-3) Their names are Legion, for they are many; the Romans knew them as Juno, or Diana, or Ops. Freyr, Gerd, Idun, and Jord ruled the Norse, Dziewona and Mokosh were their names to the Slavs. The Hawaiians had Papa, the Aztecs Coatlicue, the Egyptians had Geb and Nut.  The Celts had many: Cerunno, Cyhiraet, Druantia, Maeva. The ancient Canaanites had...

Nicholas Kristof: I ran into Al Gore at a climate/energy conference this month, and he vibrates with passion about this issue -- recognizing that we should confront mortal threats even when they don't emanate from Al Qaeda. "We are now treating the Earth's atmosphere as an open sewer," he said, and (perhaps because my teenage son was beside me) he encouraged young people to engage in peaceful protests to block major new carbon sources. "I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers," Mr. Gore said, "and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants."

As soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore continues to duck every person on the planet willing to debate him about his unproven anthropogenic global warming theories, one well-known skeptic has put his money where his mouth is. On Monday evening, the website JunkScience.com, owned and managed by Steven Milloy, announced The Ultimate Global Warming Challenge. As laid out in this video, entrants are asked the following in order to receive $100,000 while, at the same time, saving Al Gore from looking like one of the biggest charlatans to ever walk the face of the planet: $100,000 will be awarded to the first person...

The former vice president’s new book is itself an assault on reason. The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore (Penguin Press, 320 pp., $25.95) The most surprising thing about The Assault on Reason, Al Gore’s current bestseller, is that for a little while it actually makes some sense. The first few dozen pages, while hyperpartisan, mainly excoriate a dumbed-down, trivia-and-celebrity-obsessed culture, and in the age of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan who could disagree? But Al Gore is like one of those guys at a party with whom, once you get a few drinks in him, you never know what’s...