Just a few days after the budget bill that included canceling emergency unemployment benefits but increased spending on the already bloated military, our government has added injury to insult by passing a new National Defense Authorization Act which unbelievably gives $30 billion more to the military than was was allocated just a few days ago. […]
© Tom Tomorrow As a special one-time bonus, here are some panels that didn’t make it into the real comic — there was just too much crazy this year! If you want to see extras like this on a regular basis, you should join Sparky’s List, because I won’t do this again (you have been […]
2013 may have been a new low for Congress, but it was nonetheless a year for breakthroughs. The Pew Research Center has put together a baker’s dozen list of milestones the public passed for the first time in 2013: A majority of the public (51%) now favors same-sex marriage, while 67% (2 out of 3) […]
© Steve Kelley I keep seeing headlines that the approval of Congress is at an all time low. And yet the last time it was at an all time low we kicked out a bunch of them and elected Tea Party candidates, and things got worse. Far worse. What’s a voter to do? Answer: the […]
More good news for health care reform. The rise in health care costs has hit a 50-year low, and is likely to stay low for at least the next few years. Meanwhile, a survey of hospital executives shows that 93% of them believe that Obamacare will improve the quality of US health care (55% believe […]
If you don’t think the media is tightly controlled, think again.
© Tom Tomorrow I can’t think of anything I could possibly add to Tom Tomorrow’s brilliant review of this most crazy of years, except that there will be a part 2 next week. If you enjoy TT as much as I do, I can highly recommend that you join Sparky’s List.
© Ruben Bolling Any time I hear someone say “the government shouldn’t pick winners and losers” I have to laugh. Almost everything the government does picks winners and losers. When something becomes illegal, the people who were doing that thing become losers. When Congress gives tax breaks, the people who receive those breaks become winners. […]
Despite all the noise about renewable energy sources — solar, biomass, wind, geothermal, and hydropower — not yet being ready for prime time, Yale University points out that all of the additional electricity-generating capacity added in the US in November came from renewable energy sources. Lest you think that was a fluke, in October 99% […]
“Fox News host Megyn Kelly now says she was just kidding when she said Santa Claus is white. However, she’s standing by her statement that the Grinch who stole Christmas, definitely Jewish.” – Conan O’Brien “Is Santa Claus an American? Well he is fat and wears a velvet track suit.” – Stephen Colbert “More snow […]
Once again, reality proves that it is stranger than fiction. There is a war going on, but it is not a War on Christmas. First the facts. A week ago, a satirical website called The National Report printed a fictional piece (designed to look like a real news story) about a (fictitious) school involving one […]
© John Backderf And just why are we arguing about the race of various mythical and/or dead people? Are we really that race obsessed? And even if she was kidding, did Megyn Kelly really think that kids would be traumatized if someone told them that Santa Claus is not white? Things are even worse than […]
“This week President Obama attended Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in South Africa. Hundreds of world leaders were there. President Obama said it felt strange to listen to these leaders in person rather than eavesdropping on their phone calls.” – Jay Leno “Yesterday everybody reported on the fake sign language interpreter at the Nelson Mandela memorial. […]
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