Thank goodness someone is standing up to big monopolies and illegal anti-competitive behavior. The Department of Justice announced today that it is filing suit to block AT&T from acquiring competitor T-Mobile on antitrust grounds. I applaud the DOJ for taking our vital antitrust laws seriously. Of course, AT&T claims that the proposed merger is not […]
© Henry Payne So, if the revolution in Libya turns out well, do you think any Republicans will give Obama any credit at all for how he handled it?
“Dick ‘Kaboom’ Cheney has written a book, and he says he wouldn’t change anything. He feels strongly about this. He’d still invade the wrong country.” – David Letterman “Get this. In a recent interview, Dick Cheney said that his new memoir will have quote ‘heads exploding’ in D.C. Yeah, especially if you read it while […]
© Mike Thompson I’m noticing that the wing-nut crowd isn’t making fun of climate change very much recently. I guess they are blaming it on God instead. UPDATE: The Science Guy goes on Fox News to discuss climate change and Hurricane Irene, and explains slowly and carefully:
Buried near the end of an article in the NY Times on Super PACs is an interesting fact. Super PACs, created after the Supreme Court ruled that money was protected speech, are like regular Political Action Committees (PACs), with one big exception — they are able to raise and spend unlimited amounts of cash on […]
“Gaddafi’s sons are getting arrested. A revolution is not the best time to be a dictator’s sons, or as they’re called in Libya, dictator tots. It’s tater tots with a “dic” in front.” – Craig Ferguson “No one knows where the low-budget Bond villain Moammar Gaddafi is. He swears he’ll die in his compound. He’s […]
© Jim Morin FEMA was ready (despite budget issues), and loss of life was kept to a minimum, so now will the Republicans blame Obama for overreacting to hurricane Irene?
CNN commentator Jack Cafferty asks a very good question: When it comes to presidential politics, why does America seem to be allergic to brains? I’ve been wondering the same thing. Like, how did we end up with the current crop of Republican frontrunners? As The Onion satirically put it in a recent headline “White-Hot GOP […]
© Stuart Carlson The GOP wants you to think that they are against raising taxes, so much that they claim that letting a tax cut expire counts as raising taxes (for example, in the case of the Bush tax cuts for the rich). So why are the Republicans trying to stop Obama from extending the […]
“The CEO of Starbucks said that President Obama shouldn’t be vacationing during a crisis, and that he should be getting Americans back to work — so they can afford a $9 cup of coffee.” – Conan O’Brien “The White House is pointing out that all presidents take vacation. Teddy Roosevelt took trips to Long Island, […]
[from Calamities of Nature. You can also buy this as a poster.] © Tony Piro This graph definitely supports American Exceptionalism! See Piro’s proof of evolution. He also has an interesting graph plotting Google searches for “god” against “free gay porn”.
© Ben Sargent Perry continues to give high-level government jobs to his big campaign donors, despite the fact that he just announced he is running for president, and despite the fact that the New York Times just published a front page article about how Perry hands out tax breaks, contracts, and appointments to his strongest […]
© Glenn McCoy And if an earthquake doesn’t do the trick, how about a hurricane?
The east coast received a rare, but powerful earthquake earlier this week, which struck very close to a nuclear power station, causing it to be shut down. How lucky were we? First of all, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission rated that plant as the seventh most likely nuclear plant to receive core damage from a […]
[by Deena Stryker, originally published in OtherJones] An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were mentioned only in […]
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