(ChattahBox)—If you needed another reason to support the passage of healthcare reform, to fix our broken health insurance system there is this: Hate talk radio host Rush Limbaugh promised to leave the country, if a healthcare reform bill became enacted into law. Limbaugh, a frequent critic of healthcare reform and President Obama, announced that he [...]

(ChattahBox)—-California Republican state Senator, Roy Ashburn, 55, came out of the closet on Monday, finally admitting the obvious: “I am gay,” he said. The conservative family values and rabidly anti-gay lawmaker, was charged with driving drunk last week, having a blood alcohol level of .14. He was stopped on a Sacramento highway [...]

(ChattahBox) – Google hoped to revolutionize the smart-phone industry by selling its phone, the Nexus One, directly to consumers online. But so far that sales model has failed or it’s at least a lot weaker than Goldman Sachs analysts had originally expected. Goldman Sachs has revised its estimate for Nexus One sales downward from 3.5 [...]

(ChattahBox)— Meryl Streep graced the red carpet at Sunday night’s Oscars wearing a long sleeve ivory gown that received rave reviews from the fashionistas and earned the two-time Academy Award winning actress a spot on the best-dressed list. But surprisingly, her Oscar frock wasn’t a Givenchy or a John Galliano for Dior, or even [...]

(ChattahBox)—Retiring Freshman Democratic Congressman Rep. Eric Massa of New York, officially exited the land of weirdness into the realm of the truly bizarre over the weekend, when he let loose with a lengthy and accusatory rant against members of his own Party, during his weekly radio show on New York station WKPQ. Massa, a 20-year [...]

(ChattahBox) – Bob Geldof, a campaigner against poverty, has demanded proof after a BBC report claimed that a large amount of the money raised during the Ethiopia famine was used for weapons.

Geldof has said their is no proof to support the claims that bags of sand were placed under bags of grain to siphon off [...]

Switzerland (ChattahBox) – A new referendum is up for vote after 140,000 people signed a petition that would require the Swiss government to provide free legal aid for the representation of abused animals.

After the petition for the law to be placed on the docket drew 140,000 signatures, it was put up for a coming vote.
The [...]

(ChattahBox)—Outspoken Irish singer Sinead O’Connor once furiously tore up a photo of the late Pope John Paul II during an appearance on Saturday Night Live. And her relationship with the Catholic Church has only gone downhill since. The recent release of the Murphy Commission Report detailing decades of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests [...]

(ChattahBox)—Academy Award winning actor and political activist Sean Penn is no stranger to controversy. And he is quick to become personally involved in disaster relief, most notably during Hurricane Katrina and now with the quake-ravaged country of Haiti, where he has used his fame and fortune to establish a private Haitian relief organization. But he [...]

(ChattahBox)—A Haitian judge ordered the release of one of the two remaining Baptist missionaries, charged with kidnapping and criminal association, from a Haitian jail on Friday. Charisa Coulter, 24, a member of an Idaho Baptist church, has been jailed since January when she was arrested along with nine other evangelicals trying to cross the border [...]