Paul Ryan (R-WI), the head budget writer for the Republicans in the House, has repeatedly attacked Obama for ignoring the recommendations of the bipartisan deficit commission (Ryan was one of the people whom Obama appointed to that commission). Here’s part of a recent interview: Ryan: President Obama, through an executive order, created his own commission […]
[reprinted from the Washington Post, by Tom Toles] Da Doo Ron Ron Okay, I’m calling it. On the same authority that the Wizard of Oz cited, the Universitatus Committeeatum e pluribus unum, I’m officially declaring the Reagan Era at a close. I think we can all agree on the name. Republicans never tire of naming […]
Is Matt Taibbi the only real investigative journalist left in America? It isn’t like there isn’t plenty to investigate. In another of his brilliant but deeply disturbing articles, Taibbi shows how Wall Street bankers steal Billions of dollars, and even when caught red handed face essentially no penalties at all. At worse, they receive a […]
“A Republican Congressman, Rep. Chris Lee, was caught flirting with a woman trolling for dates on Craigslist and sent her a shirtless photo of himself. He lied about his age and his marital status. He said he was 39 and divorced. He’s 46 and married, though being a Republican congressman, I’m guessing he’s really 60 […]
Dick Cheney presenting Donald Rumsfeld with the “Defender of the Constitution” award. Seriously. And if that isn’t ironic enough, both Cheney and Rumsfeld were booed by conservatives during the presentation. I’m so confused.
Despite Jon Stewart poking fun at us for trying to take credit for the relatively peaceful revolution in Egypt, I really do have to wonder what role the Internet played in all this. Is free exchange of information making it more difficult for dictators to control their populations? I hope so.
Here’s an interesting twist to the story about HBGary Federal, the computer security firm whose computers were hacked into recently. The larger story involves WikiLeaks, Paypal, Amazon, Bank of America and others — you can read more about it here. The twist is that the techniques that were used to hack into HBGary Federal were […]
A report released yesterday by a government watchdog group says that politicians in New York are more likely to leave office because of ethical or criminal misconduct than by losing an election. In fact, in the last six years, the number of government officials who left office due to scandal tripled over the previous six […]
Daniel Kurtzman has a hilarious Glenn Beck Conspiracy Theory Generator over at his About.com political humor site. A lovely way to give yourself a giggle or two. Who needs the real Glenn Beck when a computer program can make just as much sense? Here’s just one example, but there are plenty more where this came […]
© John Sherffius Just a few days after the Iran government praised the protesters in Egypt, they got their own protests, which they promptly tried to suppress.
Glenn Greenwald has a disturbing report concerning WikiLeaks, Bank of America, and the merger of corporate and government power in this country. I’m loathe to use the overused word “fascism” but the textbook definition of that particular f-word is the alignment of the government and economy of a country around corporatist interests. Just in case […]
“President Obama had lunch with Republican leaders at the White House today and had to do without salt, pepper and butter. Not for dietary reasons. The Republicans refused to pass anything.” – Jay Leno “On the ‘Today’ show, Michelle Obama called the Bush twins ‘magnificent’ and Chelsea Clinton a ‘solid young woman.’ In fact, the […]
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