I’m having some surgery on Wednesday. I’ve loaded up a few posts in advance so you might not even notice, but I probably won’t be checking in for a day after that. Have fun while I’m out, and be nice to each other! UPDATE: Surgery went very well, and I’m recovering nicely. Thanks for all […]
Last night a fake op-ed piece purporting to have been written by NY Times columnist (and former Executive Editor) Bill Keller was tweeted. The fake article discussed rumors of a “potential financial blockade against the New York Times by Visa, Mastercard, and American Express for hosting U.S. government cables published by WikiLeaks”. The hoax was […]
The US military has lots of M1 Abrams tanks — more than 2,300 deployed around the world, and 3,000 more in storage at a remote military base in California. But they have a problem — the M1 has a flat bottom that makes it vulnerable to improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that are so popular in […]
“The apartment President Obama used to live in when he was a college student is now up for rent. It’s $2,400 a month, which is a bargain when you consider how much money Mitt Romney is spending to try and move into where Obama is living now.” – Jay Leno “It’s now being reported than […]
© Jim Morin That’s right, Britain’s largest selling newspaper, The Sun, called Mitt Romney “Mitt the Twit” in its headline. Ironically, The Sun is owned by conservative Rupert Murdoch. Other British newspapers were equally unkind. The hard-conservative Daily Telegraph called him a wazzock and said that while he was in Britain, Romney could learn “some […]
Super PACs have garnered a lot of attention lately, but they aren’t the real money in politics. Far worse are so-called “dark-money nonprofits”, which are allowed to keep their donors secret. The Citizens United decision not only allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on politics, it gives the same right to nonprofits. However, […]
As if it weren’t bad enough that Republicans were deliberately blocking bills that would help the economy, in order to win elections. We almost expect that of them. But this is the height of cynicism and hypocrisy. Ohio’s Senate race is neck-and-neck, with progressive Sherrod Brown pitted against Republican Josh Mandel. Mandel vocally opposed raising […]
Even if you aren’t a Harry Potter fan, McSweeney’s has a hilarious article called “In Hindsight, Maybe We Shouldn’t Have Let Lord Voldemort Start His Own Super PAC”. Here’s just a short quote from it: I’m not saying that Super PACs are inherently evil or anything. After all, look how that Citizens United case turned […]
© Lee Judge I find this comic especially funny, since it came out before Mitt Romney’s disastrous attempt to be statesmanlike in England.
“A new CBS poll found that 47 percent of voters are supporting Mitt Romney, while 46 percent support Obama. Well, it makes sense, because if Romney wins, it’s definitely going to be thanks to the one percent.” – Jimmy Fallon “Jobless claims rose again by 35,000 last week. Not good. But it does show that […]
Lost in all the brouhaha about Mitt Romney’s gaffe-o-rama in England is the fact that one of the main things he did while in London is hold a fundraising dinner in a foreign city, where scandal-plagued international bankers paid $25,000 to $75,000 a plate to support his election campaign. That’s right. Romney is explicitly asking […]
© Ruben Bolling I said it already, but you really do need to read the article about Climate Change in Rolling Stone. There is absolutely no excuse for us not having the political will to do something about this.
“During a fundraiser a country club in Mississippi, Mitt Romney said the GOP is a party focused on helping the poor. See, his wife Ann is right, he is funny. He can make jokes.” – Jay Leno “In his new campaign ad, President Obama asks, ‘What is Mitt Romney hiding?’ My guess: a personality.” – […]
Despite my opinion of Mitt Romney, I always thought that at least he is more intelligent than our last Republican president. But now I’m not quite sure about that. Romney is in the middle of a trip to England, which is supposed to show him acting like a statesman. It also helps that the Olympics […]
Republicans have repeated the lie that Obama is a big spender so often, that even some democrats believe it. But the fact is that federal spending under Obama has increased at the lowest rate since Eisenhower wound down the Korean war. Adjusted for inflation, federal spending under Obama has gone down. Even not adjusted for […]
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