©John Deering It’s amazing. Just a few weeks ago, his presidential campaign was just a show to help Gingrich sell books and videos. Less than 6 months ago his campaign staff abandoned him en masse due to his lack of seriousness. Gingrich has not risen like a phoenix, however. Everyone else not-Romney has just dropped […]
The Independent Weekly, Raleigh NC, has yet another excellent piece on our local Occupy movement. We’re not used to SWAT teams in our village, yet here they are: Just down the road in liberal, affable Chapel Hill, where I lived for many years without experiencing police brutality or much civil disobedience, a reporter with a […]
“In Los Angeles on Black Friday, a woman pepper sprayed Wal-Mart shoppers who tried to cut in line. The police acted fast by immediately hiring her to get rid of peaceful protesters outside banking institutions all across the United States.” – Craig Ferguson “It’s Cyber Monday, when everyone shops online. As soon as I woke […]
Our friend (and I mean friend like Cain means ham sandwich) Andy Borowitz is channeling Herman Cain’s political ghost in this satire of a Herman Cain fare well speech: A Farewell from Herman Cain [by Andy Borowitz of The Borowitz Report] Dear Friend, And when I say “friend,” I mean it in the normal way, […]
I’ve always liked the idea of a forum for dialectic discussion but the implementation usually devolves into a forum for polemics resembling a cage fight more than a meeting of minds. Rather than disappoint by promising balance, I present Good Point Bad Point. Two points of view are presented but you’ll have to decide for […]
“When are these Republican debates going to stop? I mean, this would be the very reason to call for a dictatorship, just to put an end to these.” – David Letterman “This is the 14th Republican debate and there are still 12 more to go. The plan, I think, is to keep debating until somebody […]
© Tom Tomorrow I agree with the sentiment that they should have made better decisions. Like deciding to vote for someone who doesn’t blame the victims for their misfortunes.
©John Sherffius This Sherffius cartoon is pretty accurate. It’s not so much that the middle is missing, it is the Center Right and merely Right that have disappeared from our political system. I’m not enamored by Americans Elect or any third party effort at this moment because splitting the vote could elect someone who makes […]
©Ed Stein Commentary by Ed Stein Education Secretary Arne Duncan called for colleges and universities to begin addressing the escalating cost of higher education. It’s about time. The cost of a college degree, even at state-supported universities, has for decades grown faster than inflation, and is becoming unaffordable to the student of average means. States […]
“If you think about it in certain terms, Obama has had a good year. First bin Laden, then Moammar Gadhafi. Next, Robert Wagner.” – David Letterman “It looks like the supercommittee chosen by President Obama to come up with a plan to solve the deficit has failed. The best idea they came up with? A […]
I wanted to call this “Son of TARP” but as Jon Stewart points out, this was 11 times bigger than TARP. Plus the government lied about it. Is there any doubt at all that we have government of the banks, by the banks, and for the banks?
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Buckley v. Valeo (1976) that spending money to influence elections is a form of constitutionally protected free speech, the speech of wealthy citizens and Corporations have increasingly dominated public debate. Even worse, money is nearly the only form of speech behind closed doors in the halls of […]
Don’t you have to have been ‘here and gone’ rather than just ‘not here’ in order to come back? Jon Huntsman’s daughters have followed up on their hilarious parody ad with a new take on Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back”: His daughters may be Huntsman’s greatest asset. Ironically it is his intelligence and rational thinking assets […]
“Rick Perry announced today to satisfy environmentalists he is now using solar power. And this is brilliant thinking, using solar power to run the Texas electric chair.” – David Letterman “I read that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has challenged Nancy Pelosi to a debate. Yeah, Perry got the idea when he was like, ‘I can’t […]
Ron Chusid’s blog Liberal Values is the first blog I check every day. Chusid is not prolific, about a post per day, but if he finds something interesting, it’s worth considering. I often find that he writes with a clarity that helps me focus my own thoughts whether I agree with him or not. His […]
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