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Monthly Archives: March 2009

You can’t spell Economy without NO

© John Darkow

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God Promises that Global Warming will not Destroy Earth

Here is an amazing video of Congressman John Shimkus (R-Illinois) at a hearing on climate change (note that they don’t call it global warming anymore). Shimkus reads from the bible in order to justify his claim that global warming is false, because God promised to never ever destroy the earth ever again. He also claims […]

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More Rebranding

© Jerry Holbert

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Sore Losers

Texas Senator John Cornyn wins the overreacting award for threatening “World War III” if the Democrats try to seat Al Franken in the Senate before Norm Coleman can fully pursue his case through the federal courts. Even Cornyn admits that a federal challenge could take “years” to resolve. Meanwhile, Minnesota will be without one of […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“You know, we own AIG, right? We own 80% of it. And because of all of the outrage over these bonuses, armed guards now have to be placed outside the AIG offices. You know what that means? Not only are we paying the AIG executive bonuses, we are now paying to protect the executives from […]

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The Murdoch Echo Chamber

Since Rupert Murdoch (the founder of Fox News) purchased the Wall Street Journal in 2007, we can see just how the mainstream news works. Last month, the WSJ claimed that Obama was using a list of reporters to call on during his press conferences, and argued that President Bush would not have been able to […]

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Stupid Is as Stupid Says – Congressional Edition

© August J. Pollak

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Late Night Political Humor

“According to the New York Times, President Barack Obama plans to nominate Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, a former New York City health commissioner to be the new head of the Food and Drug Administration. See, I think this is a chance for President Obama to step across party lines. You know who he should nominate […]

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Branding the GOP

© Steve Sack

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Conservatives Reject Moral Equivalency

Jon Swift has an excellent column that explains something that has baffled liberals for a long time — why is it that when a liberal does something that is attacked as bad, a conservative can do exactly the same thing, but it is OK? The example du jour is Bristol Palin, who is now officially […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Hey, before we get started tonight, I want to remind any potential cabinet members you have until April 15th to not pay your taxes, okay?” – Jay Leno “Well, earlier this week, President Obama took on the teachers union by saying he wants merit pay for teachers and to fire the ones who do not […]

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Teleprompter v. No Teleprompter

Why is all the incisive political news coming from comedians these days?

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Financial Depression in the Age of Irony

© Jen Sorensen

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Big Bedfellows, Indeed.

As noticed by the blog Sadly, No, the conservative websites National Review Online and Town Hall both have published articles containing identical words (attacking Obama, naturally), although attributed to two different authors (Jonah Goldberg in the case of NRO, and Kathryn Jean Lopez in the case of Town Hall). It has been obvious for a […]

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The Sorcerer’s Stimulus

© R J Matson

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