Saturday, February 19, 2011
© Lee Judge Mike Huckabee said on Monday that abortion is the most important political issue — more important than the economy, jobs, the deficit, wars, etc.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
“It was Egypt’s first week without Mubarak. He finally stepped down because of that sexy picture of him on the Internet.” – Craig Ferguson “Egyptian officials say that Hosni Mubarak is going through a ‘severe psychological condition.’ It’s called ‘getting dumped a week before Valentine’s Day.’” – Jimmy Fallon “Hosni Mubarak stepped down. You have […]
Friday, February 18, 2011
If the whole HBGary Federal fiasco wasn’t bad enough, there is more bad news coming out of their leaked emails. It turns out that one of HBGary’s “products” is sophisticated software to allow public opinion to be manipulated. The software allows a small number of hired employees to impersonate a large number of fictitious citizens […]
Friday, February 18, 2011
© Matt Davies So, who is going to blink first at the 500 billion ton twin gorillas that are military spending and entitlements? I guess the only thing that we can be sure of is if the Democrats do anything at all (which is sadly unlikely), the Republicans will attack them for it, no matter […]
Friday, February 18, 2011
Paul Ryan (R-WI), the head budget writer for the Republicans in the House, has repeatedly attacked Obama for ignoring the recommendations of the bipartisan deficit commission (Ryan was one of the people whom Obama appointed to that commission). Here’s part of a recent interview: Ryan: President Obama, through an executive order, created his own commission […]
Thursday, February 17, 2011
[reprinted from the Washington Post, by Tom Toles] Da Doo Ron Ron Okay, I’m calling it. On the same authority that the Wizard of Oz cited, the Universitatus Committeeatum e pluribus unum, I’m officially declaring the Reagan Era at a close. I think we can all agree on the name. Republicans never tire of naming […]
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Is Matt Taibbi the only real investigative journalist left in America? It isn’t like there isn’t plenty to investigate. In another of his brilliant but deeply disturbing articles, Taibbi shows how Wall Street bankers steal Billions of dollars, and even when caught red handed face essentially no penalties at all. At worse, they receive a […]
Thursday, February 17, 2011
“A Republican Congressman, Rep. Chris Lee, was caught flirting with a woman trolling for dates on Craigslist and sent her a shirtless photo of himself. He lied about his age and his marital status. He said he was 39 and divorced. He’s 46 and married, though being a Republican congressman, I’m guessing he’s really 60 […]
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Dick Cheney presenting Donald Rumsfeld with the “Defender of the Constitution” award. Seriously. And if that isn’t ironic enough, both Cheney and Rumsfeld were booed by conservatives during the presentation. I’m so confused.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Despite Jon Stewart poking fun at us for trying to take credit for the relatively peaceful revolution in Egypt, I really do have to wonder what role the Internet played in all this. Is free exchange of information making it more difficult for dictators to control their populations? I hope so.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Here’s an interesting twist to the story about HBGary Federal, the computer security firm whose computers were hacked into recently. The larger story involves WikiLeaks, Paypal, Amazon, Bank of America and others — you can read more about it here. The twist is that the techniques that were used to hack into HBGary Federal were […]
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
© Tom Toles Bipartisanship returns to Washington?
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
A report released yesterday by a government watchdog group says that politicians in New York are more likely to leave office because of ethical or criminal misconduct than by losing an election. In fact, in the last six years, the number of government officials who left office due to scandal tripled over the previous six […]
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Daniel Kurtzman has a hilarious Glenn Beck Conspiracy Theory Generator over at his About.com political humor site. A lovely way to give yourself a giggle or two. Who needs the real Glenn Beck when a computer program can make just as much sense? Here’s just one example, but there are plenty more where this came […]
Monday, February 14, 2011
© John Sherffius Just a few days after the Iran government praised the protesters in Egypt, they got their own protests, which they promptly tried to suppress.
