This gem is from Mike Stanfill’s blog, The Far Left Side: From the sublime to the truly ghastly, presidential contender and noted scam artist Newt Gingrich opened his big yap to complain about those mean old Occupiers at a Republican forum in Iowa this past weekend. One line that caught my ear was the following: […]
©Bob Englehart What do you call a person who vociferously hates our government and works tirelessly to destroy our government? A traitor? Perhaps. What if he also would defund the military, police and fire departments? An anarchist? No, he’s a conservative icon and one of the most influential political figures in America. He’s Grover Norquist, […]
Right Wing Watch captured a charming moment with Pat Robertson on The 700 Club. The video clip answers that age old question: Just how out of touch can one man be? Apparently our renowned evangelist has never attended a church picnic. Robertson is a lot like that proverbial sweet, kind, well-meaning, out of touch racist […]
The Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special with the audio replaced with the Republican debate. Wow.
I have mixed feelings about Thanksgiving. The fourth Thursday in November is the holiday closest to my heart because I deeply believe in being thankful. On the other hand, celebrating an event which led to the eventual genocide of most Native American societies is distasteful. I choose to celebrate Giving Thanks rather than Thanksgiving. I […]
Then the #@*! Christmas cartoons start! ©Ed Stein Commentary by Ed Stein I normally don’t like to draw cartoons like this. I’m usually a stickler for at least explaining why I don’t care for a politician or a party or a political idea in a cartoon rather than just ridiculing him/her/it. But, after watching a series […]
©Mike Luckovich Au contraire, there is plenty more hot air where that came from. In fact, the supply appears endless. When Newt inevitably deflates, another candidate will rise from well deserved obscurity, soaring to ridiculous heights of political buffoonery. It seems a shame to waste all this energy just to fluff talking heads for their […]
©Keith Tucker Bruce Mirken of the Greenlining Institute applauds Committee members who refused to accept a bad deal: Ordinary Americans should breathe a sigh of relief because we dodged a bullet,” said Greenlining Institute General Counsel Samuel S. Kang. “The committee was looking at cuts to vital programs for the elderly and other vulnerable Americans […]
©Bob Englehart In this video of Newt Gingrich speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Nov 18th (warning: starts with commercial), Newt Gingrich said: It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in, first of all, child laws, which are truly stupid. Most of these schools ought to get rid of […]
Talk about chutzpah! The government, rightly or wrongly, pulls AIG from the brink of bankruptcy and now the beneficiary cries foul. Former AIG chief, Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, is suing our government for $25 billion claiming that the bailout/takeover of 80% of shares essentially robbed AIG shareholders without due compensation. If the government had not […]
CBS is reporting that three Americans were arrested in Cairo. Given that our own Iron Knee last reported from Cairo, I was concerned. Iron Knee is not one of the three unfortunate people shown in this video from CBS. It will be most interesting to hear from Iron Knee when he safely returns. – Iron […]
At least this “Ready, Aim, Misfire” is better than the more typical “Ready, Fire, Aim” we had under Bush and Cheney. – Iron Filing
©Ben Sargent One of the reasons we, as a nation, can’t agree on the answers is we’re not even clear on the questions. Is the economy for the 1% or should it work for 100%? The Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at the University of Washington has an interesting project called “What’s the Economy […]
AP reports that the large foreclosure mill, Steven J. Baum P.C., will close laying off all of it’s employees: The firm’s demise began after photographs surfaced of employees dressed like homeless people for a Halloween party in 2010, which prompted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation’s largest mortgage lenders, to stop referrals. In October, […]
©Jeff Koterba This cartoon is from a very interesting series sponsored by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists called “Cartoons for the Classroom. Each segment is a downloadable lesson plan with a few cartoons, background information and talking points. Public school teachers have less freedom in lesson planning now than 50 years ago when […]
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