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Modern Politics Handles a Real Crisis

© Ruben Bolling

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The Best “New Rules” EVER!

Bill Maher on the Birthers and related topics:

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Birth Defect

Ann Coulter calls the “birthers” (people who think Obama is not a natural born citizen) a bunch of “cranks” on Fox News: Of course, the birthers immediately turn on Coulter: Coulter has gone over to the dark side. Her dark roots are showing. Anne, you are losing it girl. In fact, I think you have […]

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Profiles in Profiling

© Ken Catalino A funny twist to the ongoing discussion about the arrest of Skip Gates.

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Mixed Nuts

© Clay Bennett

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Jon Stewart is a genius; Birthers are freaking idiots

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The Bono-Bush Hug Dodge

At the 2006 National Prayer Breakfast, U2 singer Bono stiffed then-president Bush out of a photo op when Bush tried to give Bono a hug. He dodged the hug by stepping behind the podium, and thought that nobody noticed. But when he sat down, he was sitting next to then-Senator Barack Obama. In the following […]

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When Context is Everything

We’ve had two very good examples recently of something that, when taken out of context, causes a vastly different reaction than if it is taken in context: Example One: Is Obama just a guy? Last week, a photograph flashed across the internet, which appears to show Obama checking something out: This photo is pretty funny; […]

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Bipartisanship isn’t going to work

© Tom Toles

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Sprouts

© Paul Peterson and Yul Tolbert

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No More Great Satan?

© Nick Anderson President Barack Obama is doing the right thing with his careful response to the chaos in Iran. Obama right to keep U.S. out of Iran’s political process Even conservative columnist George Will and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan agree.

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SWAT team

© Steve Benson See Obama swat a real fly:

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John Hodgman – Revenge of the Nerds

John Hodgman at the Radio and Television Correspondent’s Dinner, with Barack Obama. Part 1: Part 2: Here’s Obama’s joke-filled speech. UPDATE: The untravel blog has a good posting about Hodgman’s speech. Here’s some of it: on one level, it’s just a bunch of silly, obscure jokes. On another level, the jokes mock their own obscurity. […]

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Transparently Ridiculous

Obama promised a new era in transparency in government. He even complained about all the oil company executives who visited the White House to write Dubya’s Energy Bill (code named “No Oil Well Left Behind”), even though Obama voted for that bill. But now, MSNBC reports that the Obama administration is trying to block access […]

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Why they hate us

© Mike Luckovich

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