Paul Begala has a good article in Newsweek that asks the sensible question: Romney talks about his family, and his business success, but he never talks about his tenure as governor of Massachusetts. Why is he ignoring “the only time he has ever held public office.” Perhaps it is because when he was campaigning for […]
Arizona has had more than a few problems since turning over a dozen of its prisons to private corporations. Security problems increased, most famously allowing two convicted killers to escape from a private prison in 2010 and wreak murder and havoc. Even worse, the annual review of the private prisons shows that in many cases, […]
The main thing that gives me hope for this country is that modern (so-called) conservatives are so ideologically driven that they cannot seem to avoid shooting themselves in the foot. Repeatedly. This explains why — despite having way more money than the 99% of us, most of the power, control of the mainstream media, a […]
© Brian McFadden I’m posting this mainly for the line about false equivalences. But I also like the warning at the end. Of course, the whole problem with this is that the political parties often do hope that you will get bored with the election and tune out, since then the results will be defined […]
What can be done to respond to the lies that are inevitably spread during political campaigns? If the candidate being attacked denies them, they often just help spread the lies more. But if they don’t respond to them, then people will think they are true. So it is very interesting to see how the Obama […]
“This story just keeps getting bigger and bigger. CNN said Secret Service agents may have visited a strip club in El Salvador as well. Don’t you like that language, ‘they visited’? That’s what guys do when they go to strip clubs, they visit. ‘Hi, just visiting.’ No, you visit a hospital!” – Jay Leno “Now […]
Is anyone else frightened by the fact that most of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy advisors are the same neocon chicken hawks that lied us into two disastrous wars and made the world hate us? Twenty three of Romney’s most senior advisors formerly advised George W. Bush. For example, Robert Kagan (founder of the Project for […]
Only Jon Stewart could get away with asking these questions:
© Tom Toles Obama is officially winding down the war in Afghanistan, but will it ever really be over?
The Republicans and Fox News have gotten to the point where they just reflexively attack Obama for everything he does, even if it is something they themselves do all the time. They are blind to their own hypocrisy: My big question now is, are the Republicans just projecting? Have they actually attacked Obama for anything […]
© Derf What I find ironic about this comic is that it asks “why stop there?” but the truth is that we never stopped. Most politicians are already more like actors anyway, and the movies (especially Pixar) have blurred the line between real and virtual actors. For all we know, Romney is a CGI. And […]
“A new poll found that Michelle Obama has a much higher approval rating than Barack Obama. Which explains Barack’s new slogan, ‘Vote for Michelle Obama’s Husband.’” – Jimmy Fallon “According to a new ABC poll, both Michelle Obama and Ann Romney are more popular than their husbands. At this point, so is asbestos.” – Jimmy […]
© Tom Tomorrow The problem is that the media doesn’t even have to make shit up like this, they can just repeat the crap that other people make up.
Author Stephen King has a fantastic rant in The Daily Beast. Go read it now. If you need some incentive to go read it, here are a few choice quotes. But the whole thing is reasonably short, funny, and as good a read as any Stephen King story: The U.S. senators and representatives who refuse […]
© Ed Stein According to the constitution, patents are supposed to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”, but nowadays they are mainly used to stifle innovation, crush competition, and keep lawyers employed. Part of the problem is that patents are supposed to be for things that are “non-obvious”, but the patent office is […]
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