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The Republican Argument Against PACs

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Obama is on record against PACs and SuperPACs, which can funnel unlimited amounts of money into protected political speech. So of course, when he accepts money from them, he is attacked for being hypocritical. And yet, it seems that the only way this country will get any restrictions against PACs and SuperPACs, is by them [...]

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Hawaiian Election Humor

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Two months ago, Arizona’s Secretary of State Ken Bennett sent a request to Hawaii to verify that Barack Obama was born there, so that Obama could be placed on the presidential ballot. This despite the fact that Hawaii has already stated over and over again that Obama was born there in 1961 and that they [...]

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Let the SuperPACs Begin!

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Karl Rove’s SuperPAC American Crossroads releases an anti-Obama ad. It is actually pretty funny, both intentionally and unintentionally:

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Mitt Romney in a Nutshell, in his own Words

Friday, May 18, 2012

Mitt Romney, when asked if he stood by comments he made on Sean Hannity’s radio show saying that President Obama wanted to make the U.S. a “less Christian nation”. Romney replies “I’m not familiar, precisely, with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was.” Watch him say it: I [...]

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James O’Keefe Lies Again

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Who keeps funding these stupid propaganda videos made by James O’Keefe? The guy isn’t even very good at lying, and he certainly is a very sorry excuse for a journalist. His latest video, which you can watch here (if you can stand to), he harasses two men claiming that they voted in North Carolina elections [...]

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Don’t Worry, I Got This

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

At least bipartisanship humor isn’t dead. New Jersey Gov Chris Christie (R) and Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) did a very funny video for last night’s state Press Association Legislative Correspondents Club dinner.

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A Matter of Perspective

Saturday, May 12, 2012

© Mike Luckovich Sometimes I try to figure out from what Mitt Romney says what kinds of things he would do as president, but quickly realize that I have absolutely no idea, since Romney seems to be willing to say just about anything that is politically expedient. The best I can figure is that he [...]

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Why Doesn’t Romney Talk About Being Governor?

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Paul Begala has a good article in Newsweek that asks the sensible question: Romney talks about his family, and his business success, but he never talks about his tenure as governor of Massachusetts. Why is he ignoring “the only time he has ever held public office.” Perhaps it is because when he was campaigning for [...]

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The Facts Didn’t Send Us a Press Release

Friday, May 4, 2012

© Brian McFadden I’m posting this mainly for the line about false equivalences. But I also like the warning at the end. Of course, the whole problem with this is that the political parties often do hope that you will get bored with the election and tune out, since then the results will be defined [...]

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Responding to Lies

Friday, May 4, 2012

What can be done to respond to the lies that are inevitably spread during political campaigns? If the candidate being attacked denies them, they often just help spread the lies more. But if they don’t respond to them, then people will think they are true. So it is very interesting to see how the Obama [...]

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Not Learning from Mistakes

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Is anyone else frightened by the fact that most of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy advisors are the same neocon chicken hawks that lied us into two disastrous wars and made the world hate us? Twenty three of Romney’s most senior advisors formerly advised George W. Bush. For example, Robert Kagan (founder of the Project for [...]

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The Mormon Questions

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Only Jon Stewart could get away with asking these questions:

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Projection is the sincerest form of flattery

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Republicans and Fox News have gotten to the point where they just reflexively attack Obama for everything he does, even if it is something they themselves do all the time. They are blind to their own hypocrisy: My big question now is, are the Republicans just projecting? Have they actually attacked Obama for anything [...]

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Why Stop There?

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

© Derf What I find ironic about this comic is that it asks “why stop there?” but the truth is that we never stopped. Most politicians are already more like actors anyway, and the movies (especially Pixar) have blurred the line between real and virtual actors. For all we know, Romney is a CGI. And [...]

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Slow Jam The News

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Jimmy Fallon has a special musical guest on his show, live from the University of North Carolina:

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