Walid Shoebat travels around the US giving speeches to police departments, churches, and universities about terrorism. His qualifications? He says he was a terrorist for the PLO who helped firebomb a bank in Israel and spent time in an Israeli jail. This supposedly makes him an expert on terrorism. The first question here is whether […]
What’s ironic about this is not just that Fox News is avoiding mentioning the scandals their parent company News Corp is embroiled in — shutting down one of their British newspapers due to illegal phone hacking, bribery, and lies to Parliament. No, the real irony is that other News Corp properties, like the Wall Street […]
© Tom Tomorrow Sometimes when I read about the latest shenanigans in Congress, I feel like an alien. Is this really how we look to the rest of the world? UPDATE: Paul Krugman has an excellent editorial about how the Republican Party has been acting crazy for a long time. And the current insanity is […]
“The British government may cancel Rupert Murdoch’s $14 billion satellite deal because they’ve discovered that he’s evil.” – Craig Ferguson “In the media business, being evil isn’t always a bad thing. There’s also the lovable kind of evil that we have here at CBS.” – Craig Ferguson “One of Murdoch’s tabloids was hacking people’s phones […]
To give you an idea of how far out of step with reality the Congressional Republicans who are demanding that we balance the budget with no tax increases are, a new Gallup poll shows that only 28% of all Republicans think that the deficit should be reduced only with budget cuts. Large majorities think we […]
[Note – this story is not completely true. While News Corp is one of the top three big companies in their utilization of tax havens, they did indeed pay taxes. They changed the way they report information in 2007, which caused confusion. See the link at the end of this posting for more info.] Rupert […]
Conservative David Brooks points out that the Republicans in Congress are being handed “The Mother of All No-Brainers” to reduce the deficit, but they are so beholden to their more radical fringe that they would rather destroy the US economy than do what is right, as long as what is right involves compromising with the […]
© Clay Jones Until recently, Rupert Murdoch was considered an “uncrowned king” of Britain. But now his kingdom is falling apart. He’s been forced to shut down one of his newspapers after the disclosure of widespread hacking into the cellphones of possibly thousands of people, including the relatives of killed soldiers, politicians, and celebrities. They […]
“People are mad. There’s a lot of soul-searching going on after the Casey Anthony verdict. Florida is looking into the jury selection process, their legislatures are reviewing laws, and CNN is considering whether Nancy Grace should be replaced by an actual glassy-eyed vulture.” – Bill Maher “If you can look at a crime where everything […]
I’m getting tired of the Republicans pretending that they are serious about deficit reduction and blaming it on Obama. They keep claiming that Obama raised the deficit more than Bush, but that was only to fund the stimulus to clean up the economic mess left by Bush. And the stimulus spending has now mostly gone […]
© Matt Davies Are the Democrats spineless, or is Ralph Nader correct when he claims that they are just as beholden to corporations and the rich? Or is Obama triangulating like Clinton used to do?
© Dan Wasserman Are they playing chicken or are they just determined to drive us off a cliff?
“Democrats warned that if the debt ceiling isn’t raised, the government would cease to function. How would you be able to tell?” – Jay Leno “You know what the scary part is? Not that the government will cease to function, that they think this is actually the government functioning. They think it is working well.” […]
© Matt Wuerker We’re doing everything the Republicans said we should do to create jobs. We cut taxes on the rich to the lowest they have been in 60 years, we reduced government spending, corporate profits are up. So where are the jobs?
Remember “Keep your government hands off my Medicare“? Well, the craziness is much more common than even that. According to a paper from Cornell University, around half the people who have benefitted from government social programs believe that they “have not used a government social program”. Do you think you’ve never gotten money from a […]
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