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America Is the Funniest Country in the World

Richard Lawson · 06/08/11 12:05PM

A recent online poll asked 30,000 thousand users of social networking site Badoo (so, not Americans basically) to pick the funniest and least funny countries from a list of fifteen, and the good old Red, White & Blue came out on top.

Fun With Census Statistics!

Seth Abramovitch · 05/26/11 02:52AM

The 2010 U.S. census figures have been released. The big picture, basically, is that men are living longer, marriage is downtrending, and the baby boom population is entering their twilight years.

Patriotic Hoagie Shoppe Punished for Too Many Flags

Lauri Apple · 05/08/11 10:34AM

The owner of the Taste of Philly Cheesesteak and Hoagie Shoppe in Crystal River, Florida (it's where the Crystal Ships are manufactured) has been told she has to stop flying six patriotic flags in front of her place because of a local ordinance limiting people to only three flags. Why does Crystal River hate America?

Meet Alvin Wong, the Happiest Man in America

Max Read · 03/06/11 09:32PM

What does it take to be the happiest man in America? "Friendship," you might say. "Trust." Ha!. The real secret to happiness being a tall, married, business-owning Asian-American Jewish man living in Hawaii. Like Alvin Wong!

Why Are Americans So Much Fatter Than Canadians?

Richard Lawson · 03/02/11 03:56PM

Despite having a diet that consists solely of french fries with gravy, weird bacon-ham, and moose brains, Canadians are still significantly less obese ("less obese" is where we're at these days, "skinnier" went out the window long ago) than their neighbors to the south. Namely, us. Yes, a study released today shows that 34% of Americans are obese versus 24% of Canadians. What gives?

In Honor of Veterans Day, Fox News Interviews a Bald Eagle

Kate Shapiro · 11/11/10 01:53PM

Today, Fox & Friends had a very special guest — a famous Bald Eagle. It's name? Challenger. You can tell they thought a lot about this segment when Steve Doocy asks, "What is it saying with all the eagle talk?"

The History Detectives Spotlight the Birth of American Propaganda

Chris Wyman · 07/19/10 10:33AM

Long before FOX News and MSNBC began propagating truthiness, Woodrow Wilson created the Committee on Public Information to keep impressionable American minds from straying too far to the left, or even worse, to Kaiser Bill and the Huns.