© Jen Sorensen This has become a very political issue, with some people on the right calling them patriots, and some people on the left calling them terrorists. As usual, the reality is somewhere in the middle. There is a good, balanced article in the New Yorker discussing this called “The Bundys and the Irony […]
To nobody’s surprise, the very first act of Congress in 2016 is a bill that (once again) attempts to repeal Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood. Speaker Paul Ryan seems proud of this action, and even admits that he knows the bill won’t become law, telling a conservative talk host: “You’re going to see us put […]
To help you start the new year right, here’s an excerpt from Margaret and Helen, by Helen Philpot: Yesterday was the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, a document that gave me the right to call Sarah Palin a bitch (1st Amendment) and idiots the right to own guns (2nd Amendment). And […]
One of my favorite things is checking up on people’s predictions of the future. Even better is when someone else does the checking up for me. Which brings us to this interesting article in ThinkProgress, containing four predictions made before the 2012 election of the dire things that would happen if Obama was reelected. The […]
Go read Matt Taibbi’s latest column in Rolling Stone, “In the Year of Trump, the Joke Was On Us. Yes, even if you are sick and tired of reading about Trump. This isn’t about Trump, it is about us. UPDATE: If you need something lighter to read on this fine New Year’s day, I suggest […]
Obama believes that not only was 2015 a good year, but 2016 will be even better: And it looks like Obama has reason to be happy. According to Real Clear Politics, Obama has broken the “second term curse”. What’s the “second term curse”? When a president is reelected, they often have problems midway through their […]
Eugene Robinson has an interesting opinion piece in WaPo titled “How Donald Trump destroyed the Republican Party in 2015”, as if it is a fait accompli. He does soften that, saying “An entity called the GOP will survive — but can never be the same.” His point is that Trump has exploited the resentments and […]
© Stuart Carlson Aren’t we the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Republicans keep trying to create a conservative utopia, with predictable results. First there was Kansas, where Sam Brownback showed us how to cut taxes and destroy the social safety net, and when that failed, they doubled down with even more tax cuts (for the rich) and spending cuts, with disastrous results. But did they learn? […]
FactCheck.org, for the first time ever, has named a “King of Whoppers“. As they put it, “In the 12 years of FactCheck.org’s existence, we’ve never seen his match.” And that’s saying alot, as this has been a “banner year for political whoppers.” You can probably guess the Master of Mendacity, it’s Donald Trump. Not only […]
Senator Lindsey Graham dropped out of the presidential race. Why is this significant? Because he was the last remaining major Republican candidate who publicly accepted the scientific consensus of climate science. You know, that the climate is warming and we are the cause of it. Now there are none. At the presidential debate in October, […]
In a recent poll, people were asked if they support bombing the kingdom of Agrabah. There is just one problem. Agrabah is fictional. It is from the Disney movie Aladdin. Nevertheless, 30% of Republicans are in favor of bombing it. To be fair, 19% of Democrats also support bombing it. 19% of Republicans and 36% […]
The good news is Congress passed the $1.15 trillion spending bill that will keep the government from shutting down next week. How they did it is the bad news. First of all, it includes $620 billion in tax breaks, which will make our deficit worse. The really bad news is that new Speaker of the […]
More bad news from Conservative Utopia. And in an ironic way it is too bad that Wisconsin governor Scott Walker quit his run for the presidency, or else this story would be getting more attention. Part of why Walker never got any traction in his presidential bid is that his state’s economy has gone into […]
Price of life-saving drug Daraprim before Martin Shkreli’s company bought the rights to it: $18. Price to which he raised it: $750 per pill. Image of Shkreli being led off in handcuffs after being arrested for securities and wire fraud: Priceless.
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