A few weeks ago the front page of the London Sunday Times newspaper broke a story about how some investigative reporters posed as lobbyists for the banking industry trying to get banking reform legislation watered down. Three members of the European parliament took the bait, and agreed to be paid a yearly salary of 100,000 […]
Paul Craig Roberts, a former editor of the Wall Street Journal and former assistant secretary to the treasury under Ronald Reagan, wrote recently: “Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists as the greatest threat to the American public.” If you don’t believe him, read this article on the criminal justice system in […]
“Finding bin Laden was like finding a needle in a country that swore it didn’t have needles.” – Stephen Colbert ‘He was living a half a mile from Pakistan’s version of West Point in a town surrounded by retired ex-military officers. Let me put it in New York City terms. Bin Laden was on 21st […]
The new Fortune 500 listings are out, ranking big corporations by revenue. But the list gets even more interesting if you rank them by profits. Exxon Mobil is #2 by revenue, but they are far and away #1 in profits, making what even Fortune magazine called “astonishing” profits of $35.6 billion dollars. That’s 52 times […]
Pew Research has an interesting (but short) quiz that can help you identify your politics. I wouldn’t take it too seriously, since I don’t think the labels “conservative” and “liberal” actually have any meaning anymore, but it is a fun diversion.
Does anyone really think that releasing photos of Osama bin Laden will convince any of these idiots? This is why you don’t negotiate with terrorists. © Scott Stantis
David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget under Reagan and a former Congressman puts it bluntly “I believe we no longer have free market capitalism and we no longer have a democracy.” What we have instead is “crony capitalism” — a system that is rigged in favor of the financial elite, and […]
© Andy Singer Osama bin Laden often said that his goal was to bankrupt our economy. Let’s make sure he didn’t succeed.
“We finally killed bin Laden. That didn’t take too long.” – David Letterman “The good news: Osama bin Laden is dead. The bad news: there is no bad news.” – Jay Leno “I’m as giddy as a schoolgirl who just shot bin Laden in the eye. Suck my giant American balls, Al Qaeda. Hey Osama, […]
Satirist Andy Borowitz reports that a new poll shows that 97% of Americans favor SEAL Team Six — the elite unit that took out Osama bin Laden — landing on the US Capitol building and taking out Congress by force. According to the study “There’s a broad consensus out there that the Navy SEALs get […]
Conservatives are trying to promote the idea that former president Bush deserves some, if not most, of the credit for finding Osama bin Laden, and that torture provided the information that helped find him. For example, Representative Steve King (R-IA) wrote “Wonder what President Obama thinks of water boarding now?” and the Tea Party Express […]
A few days ago I posted an article about how local politicians are claiming they have to give tax breaks to rich people or else the wealthy will move somewhere else — despite the fact that more than one study has shown that this is completely false. Well, here’s an even crazier example. The Texas […]
© Matt Wuerker An article by Robert Fisk makes a good point: the mass revolutions in the Arab world over the past four months mean that al-Qa’ida was already politically dead. Bin Laden told the world – indeed, he told me personally – that he wanted to destroy the pro-Western regimes in the Arab world, […]
“President Obama released his long-form birth certificate yesterday. So we found the birth certificate. Now it’s on to bin Laden.” – David Letterman [now that was prescient!] “President Obama finally showed his birth certificate and it turns out he was born in Hawaii, of all places.” – Jimmy Kimmel “President Obama released his birth certificate […]
Ranker has a fascinating article on internet reactions to the announcement by President Obama that Osama bin Laden had been located and killed. Number one on their list was Fox News getting it terribly wrong: If that weren’t bad enough, they did it again: But they weren’t the only news organization with that particular fail: […]
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