Last week, the Supreme Court made another bizarre and wrong decision, led by the conservative justices. Here’s the summary from SCOTUSblog: When petitioner had not yet been placed in custody or received Miranda warnings, and voluntarily responded to some questions by police about a murder, the prosecution’s use of his silence in response to another […]
Regular readers know how much I love Tom Tomorrow. So I was delighted to see a Tom Tomorrow comic from 1994 making the rounds of the innertubes because it was disturbingly visionary: © Tom Tomorrow Dan Perkins (TT’s real name) responds in true form: But here’s the dirty secret about prognostication: publicize your hits, not […]
Conservative Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts has issued a report that warns that the US court system is being damaged by the sequestration budget. According to Roberts, the cuts to the federal court system’s budget “pose a genuine threat to public safety”. So, Republicans will not let the government raise any new […]
Last August, Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz promised to renounce his Canadian citizenship before the end of the year. Well, he lied. He is still a dual citizen of the US and Canada. When asked recently about it, Cruz claimed that his lawyers are still preparing the paperwork. But immigration attorneys say that renouncing Canadian […]
© Matt Wuerker Yes, the Supreme Court really did temporarily rule that employers can refuse to cover birth control in their health insurance plans based on religious beliefs. For now, the ruling only applies to a few Catholic groups involved in lawsuits challenging the ACA based on their claims that it infringes on their religious […]
Interesting New Year news about Colorado’s legalization of recreational marijuana. Anyone, including people from out of state, will be able to purchase pot for personal, private use in licensed stores, starting today. Washington State is next. It will interesting to see how this works out. So an especially happy new year to Colorado. UPDATE: Reports […]
I’ve made no secret that I believe in free markets (I have started several companies and have worked as a CEO) but I have two caveats: First of all, what I mean by free market is not always what politicians or conservative pundits mean when they use the term “free market”. A free market is […]
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.
Abortion Bush Campaign Finance Cheney Climate Clinton Congress Conservatives Corporations Corruption Deficits Democrats Drugs Economy Education Election Elections Energy Environment Fox News Gays Guns Health Immigration Lies McCain Media Middle East Obama Palin Protests Racism Religion Republicans Romney Spying Supreme Court Taxes Tea Party Terrorism Terrorists Torture Trump Unemployment War
