Is Ed Rendell Right When He Says China Is 'Kicking Our Butt'?

Dec 28th 2010 – 5:07 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

Bradley C Bower, AP

Does Beijing have our number? Ed Rendell certainly thinks so. During a rant in which the Pennsylvania governor criticized the NFL for postponing Sunday's Vikings-Eagles game until today because of...

Elton John, David Furnish Welcome Baby Boy: 5 Other Old Celebrity Dads

Dec 28th 2010 – 12:10 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

You can now add "father" to Sir Elton John's jam-packed resume. He and his partner, David Furnish, became the parents of a 7-pound, 15-ounce baby boy named Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish, born to an...

With Festivus Coming Soon, Are You Prepared for the Feats of Strength?

Dec 20th 2010 – 11:20 AM |AOL News Surge Desk

(Dec. 20) -- Tired of all the holiday cheer floating about the air this week? Maybe what you need is a wintertime celebration that lauds the equally important values of mean-spiritedness and vitriol....

Florida Shooter Clay Duke's Red 'V': A Refresher on the Ominous Symbol

Dec 15th 2010 – 12:28 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

(Dec. 15) -- Before Clay A. Duke opened fire on a school board meeting in Panama City, Fla., he left behind what to some was probably a cryptic symbol: a red, spray-painted "V" crossing a crude...

Air Force Joins the War on WikiLeaks and The New York Times

Dec 14th 2010 – 8:20 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

(Dec. 14) -- It's held off on using bombers for now, but the Air Force has stepped up its opposition to international media organization WikiLeaks. It has reportedly blocked access to WikiLeaks and...

Salvia Takes Center Stage in Miley Cyrus Bong Video Drama

Dec 13th 2010 – 12:25 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

(Dec. 13) -- For anyone who's seen the video of Miley Cyrus having a, um, good time after hitting a bong, it definitely looks like she had something potent in that pipe. But did you know that what...

WikiLeaks, the Video Game

Dec 8th 2010 – 1:15 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

(Dec. 8) -- If some people see WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a James Bond figure, then why shouldn't he, like Ian Flemming's fictitious spy, get his own video game? A game developer and...

SpaceX Rocket Launches: 3 Facts About the Falcon 9

Dec 8th 2010 – 12:36 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

(Dec. 8) -- The Falcon 9 spacecraft is on its way up. The two-stage liquid oxygen rocket owned by private space company SpaceX blasted off from Cape Canaveral at 10:43 this morning. While putting...

IPad 2 to Drop in February? Opinions Vary on What the New Tablet Might Include

Dec 7th 2010 – 1:08 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

(Dec. 7) -- Start up the Apple rumor mill! According to a report from Digitimes, the iPad 2 could be coming to stores as early as February. The tech blog seems to have a report from the Chinese...

Tax Cut Deal: Yet Another Thing Liberals Hate About Obama

Dec 7th 2010 – 12:03 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

(Dec. 7) -- President Barack Obama has struck a tentative deal with Republicans to extend the Bush-era tax cuts -- and liberals are furious. While some pundits see the compromise as a necessary...

Cataclysm: The End of the World (of Warcraft) as We Know It?

Dec 6th 2010 – 11:50 AM |AOL News Surge Desk

(Dec. 6) -- The mountains will crumble, the dragon will rise, the wolves will howl and the goblins will take up their swords for the Horde. It sounds like the apocalypse, and for the 12 million...

Who in the World Can Arrest WikiLeaks' Julian Assange?

Dec 6th 2010 – 11:27 AM |AOL News Surge Desk

(Dec. 6) -- Controversial WikiLeaks head Julian Assange has been thumbing his nose at world leaders for a while now -- and world leaders have taken notice. The once-mysterious Australian's face has...

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