Around 6,000 people showed up to yesterday's gun-control rally in Washington, according to NYMag. Reuters reported a vaguer "thousands," including a group of Newtown, CT residents who were bussed in. The rally was organized by Molly Smith and One Million Moms for Gun Control; similar events were held in other cities…

Sarah Palin has long planned to attend an Iowa rally organized by the Tea Party of America on September 3. The Tea Party folks invited popular author Christine O'Donnell to speak there, too! A fine catch, to be sure. But when you lump so many historically unreliable people and groups together, things tend to fall…

National Tea Party groups had planned to make a statement to lawmakers today with a well-publicized rally on Capitol Hill. Hordes of attendees were going to demand that wavering Republican members of Congress not compromise halfway with Democrats on a budget deal. A compromise for $33 billion in cuts instead of the…

Just how big was the Stewart/Colbert rally yesterday? Way bigger than Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor," according to the same company commissioned by CBS to count both. There were around 215,000 people there yesterday, compared to 87,000 at Beck's.

Hello! We're in Washington D.C. at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. There are nine billion people here! But you all have the best view, watching on your computers. Let's liveblog this thing.

At 12:00 PM, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's much-anticipated Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear will begin on the National Mall in Washington, DC. If you couldn't make it, why not watch live and comment along in our open thread!

Is the Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert rally in Washington going to be the biggest satirico-political rally ever? So far, Facebook has registered 290,000 'definite' attendees. Impressive! Then again, Facebook is just a website where people lazily click anything.

Everyone wants to know... who had the bigger rally in DC, Glenn Beck or the socialists? The AP and The Washington Post both say Beck drew a bigger crowd to his "Restoring Honor" rally in August. Liberals lose again.

The organizers of today's One Nation Working Together rally in DC really blew it by adding angry MSNBC buffoon Ed Schultz as a speaker. They introduce him as "one of the most courageous voices in America today." Ugh.

Comedy Central funnymen Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert recently unveiled their plans for dueling, satirical Washington rallies on October 30. But October 30 is the Saturday before midterm elections! Shouldn't America's wiseasses be campaigning for Democrats, instead of attending this?

That Tea Party Guide to Washington for Glenn Beck's rally should've warned attendees in advance about the new five-cent bag tax in the District. But it didn't, and look what happened: stunned Tea Partiers hurling sandwiches at deli employees.

Sarah Palin, taking to Twitter, is furious at mainstream media "sheeple" for calling the major rally in Washington D.C. this weekend "irrelevant." But why is she crediting the rally to famous musical artist Beck instead of Glenn Beck?

Breaking news, live from the Glenn Beck "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington D.C.! (Actually, we already left.) The speakers, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and some baseball players, want Americans to believe again. In something. Yeah... it was vague!

Teabaggers will soon descend on Washington for Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally, taking place at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Dream" speech, on its anniversary. What precautions should they take to avoid being murdered in this deadly town?