“Rick Santorum wants to crack down on pornography. Most political analysts say it could hurt him with the ‘every single man in America’ vote.” – Jimmy Kimmel “Santorum said when he’s in the White House he’ll tell his attorney general to prosecute people who distribute any content that is deemed obscene. Will he appoint a […]
© Drew Sheneman After the last disastrous budget fight, you might hope that things would get better. But this time, Paul Ryan’s budget proposal has everyone — left and right — pissed off. The new budget still includes “sweeping cuts to federal health care programs and social programs aimed at the poor” but now the […]
When the Wall Street Journal was bought by Murdock’s News Corp, people were worried that it would be turned into another Faux News. Well, you don’t have to worry any longer, it has been. With the publishing of the recent editorial by Karl “Bush’s brain” Rove, the WSJ has become just another arm of the […]
I had the same reaction when I first heard about this (after all, I am a grammar Nazi), but Deon Cole says it so much better than I could.
Last week, over fifty newspapers pulled the Doonesbury comic strips because they dealt with the increasing number of new laws that require women to get an unnecessary sonogram to show them an image of their fetus before they can get an abortion. This week, Jen Sorensen did a comic about the newspapers pulling Doonesbury, and […]
To give you an idea of how dismal politics is today, the two top political stories are a) that Santorum’s plan is to deliberately sabotage Romney to make him lose to Obama, so that Santorum can become the candidate in 2016, and b) that nobody, not even the media, cares about the primaries any more. […]
“March Madnesss… the only place where you hear ‘Kansas is advancing.’” – Bill Maher “You know who hates March Madness? Rick Santorum. It combines the two things he hates most, college and putting something in a hole.” – Bill Maher “First Santorum is against the gays, then contraception, now porn. This guy is more backed […]
March 19th was the nine year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. If you are one of those people who feels disappointed in Obama because of some vague feeling that he hasn’t changed things enough, I just want to remind you of how much at least one thing has changed from just nine years ago: […]
“This is America. We must defend the principles symbolized by Lady Liberty – unless she’s on the pill, in which case, she is a giant green tramp.” – Stephen Colbert “The Army is pulling out of Rush. Meanwhile, they’re staying in Afghanistan to negotiate with the Taliban, who evidently have a better track record on […]
© Kevin Kallaugher I know it sounds like a conspiracy theory, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if someone is manipulating gas prices in order to hurt Obama. UPDATE: Meanwhile, the public is not sure whom to blame for high gas prices. I know who is to blame for that — the media for […]
Here’s a story you probably haven’t heard about. The US cuts off all funding for UNESCO even though they are doing work that benefits us. I love the multiple levels of irony. What is it about the Arab-Israeli conflict that has us so blinded? UPDATE: The Atlantic has an interesting article about the Daily show […]
Mitt Romney as Eminem: UPDATE: Here’s a new meme, started by one of Romney’s staffers, that Romney is an “Etch a Sketch”. You shake him up and restart all over. © Adam Zyglis
“How about those Republican presidential candidates. Newt Gingrich is behind in delegates. But he’s leading in chins.” – David Letterman “Newt Gingrich has promised to cut the price of gas to $2.50 a gallon… it’s not catching on with the voters. See, here’s my question: what kind of candidate are you if people are willing […]
Is Bill Maher the left-wing equivalent of Rush Limbaugh? Jon Stewart rips this meme to shreds. I totally agree with his last line.
The NY Times has an interesting article by psychologist Jonathan Haidt that examines the behavior of voters. To understand politics, we are often told to “follow the money”. Monetary self-interest is a good predictor for the behavior of politicians, but it doesn’t seem to help at all for understanding how people vote. Consider people who […]
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