The town of Scottsdale, Virginia has your typical Fourth of July parade, but here’s an interesting juxtaposition. In the first photo is challenger Tom Perriello, the democratic nominee for Congress, riding on a float pulled by a bio-diesel fueled tractor: Two floats later came the incumbent, Republican Virgil Goode, being pulled by… a Hummer. Just […]
As a lawyer, Vincent Bugliosi is a famous prosecutor, winning every trial he has prosecuted, including the Charles Manson case in 1971. As an author, Bugliosi has written three #1 best selling books and won the top award for crime writers — three times. His previous book was made into a miniseries on HBO starring […]
The liberal blogosphere was aflame with new accusations that Obama is trying to win the 2008 presidential election. Here are just a few of the blog quotes: Obama is “betraying the Democratic Party’s losing tradition.” “Barack Obama seems to be making a very calculated attempt to win over 270 electoral votes. He must be stopped.” “Any […]
At a Fourth of July celebration at Monticello (Jefferson’s home) President Bush misquoted Jefferson. Here’s what Bush said: On the 50th anniversary of America’s independence, Thomas Jefferson passed away. But before leaving this world, he explained that the principles of the Declaration of Independence were universal. In one of the final letters of his life, he […]
This would be even funnier if it weren’t for the fact that bin Laden’s goals were actually to bankrupt the US and to drive up the price of oil. © Ted Rall
So far, the Republicans have staged 77 filibusters during the current Senate session, already beating the previous record of 58 filibusters held during the 1999-2002 Senate term by a significant amount. So the next time you wonder why Congress can’t get anything done, you know where to look.
McCain has refurnished his campaign airplane with a special section that is reserved for the “good reporters”. How does a reporter get into the VIP section? “You’ll have to earn it” says campaign aide Mark Salter. It looks like McCain’s strategy is working, with a number of sycophant reporters falling all over themselves to praise […]
I am repeatedly amazed that politicians (especially older ones, like McCain) don’t seem to get the fact that everything they say is now available on the Internet for instant review. That must be why they keep denying things they said against solid evidence to the contrary. For example, McCain’s repeated statements that he doesn’t know […]
In 1998 Osama bin Laden complained that Americans have stolen $36 trillion from Muslims because they purchased oil from Muslim nations at low prices. Interestingly, he said that oil should cost $144 a barrel, which is just what it costs now. So what did bin Laden have to do to get the price of oil […]
Is Charlie Crist, the bachelor Republican Governor of Florida, gay? And just to add to the weirdness, Republican dirty trickster Roger Stone (who worked for Crist during his 2006 gubernatorial campaign) is distributing a video showing Crist making out with a girlfriend. Supposedly this shows that Crist is not gay. Except, well, the purported girlfriend […]
Senator Norm Coleman’s wife Laurie Coleman is introducing a product for hands-free hair drying called the “Blo & Go”. While the media is snickering loudly about the name’s connotations, Coleman herself doesn’t seem to be helping, with quotes like “You get blown . . . out. And then you go.” and “The whole key to […]
George Lucas won’t answer the question of whether or not Darth Vader is an appropriate name for Dick Cheney, other than to say that Cheney seems to like the nickname (some people think he came up with it himself). But he did say that Obama is definitely a Jedi Knight. “I would say that’s reasonably […]
Someone is going to have an extra reason to celebrate the Fourth of July — Rush Limbaugh just signed a radio contract worth $400 million. This is what our forefathers fought for: from 23/6 We have to wonder how things would have been different if Rush had gone to prison for his illegal drug use, […]
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