Tuesday, January 18, 2011
© Rob Rogers I love how some people want to blame the Tucson shootings on a random nut job, but then fail to mention how we have dramatically cut funding our mental health system, which dumped all those random nut jobs out on the streets.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Fifty years ago, Dwight D Eisenhower warned America about the growing power of “the military-industrial complex”. His words were unfortunately prophetic: Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer […]
John McCain wrote an editorial in the Washington Post praising Obama, even calling him a patriot. He also — without mentioning her by name — defended Sarah Palin, doing a better job than Palin when she attempted to defend herself. If this is the beginning of a new political civility, then it is a damn […]
Fox News celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. day in its own unique and ironic way. The article “Ronald Reagan – More of a Friend to Blacks than Obama?” by Michael Reagan (president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation), claims that Ronald Reagan did more for blacks than Barack Obama. But the article does it using crude […]
© Tom Toles UPDATE: Even the media is getting tired of Sarah Palin. As brilliantly reported by Stephen Colbert:
I kid you not. This is an actual book title by political scientist Daniel Drezner, which you can buy on Amazon: What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner’s groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too […]
Saturday, January 15, 2011
© Mike Luckovich Palin has played the victim card too many times. And if her response to the Tucson shootings wasn’t tone deaf enough, her next public appearance is at a gun and hunting convention in Nevada. UPDATE: I guess she just can’t stop herself. Jon Stewart points out the obvious, but does it hilariously:
Saturday, January 15, 2011
“Sarah Palin’s reality show will not be returning as she contemplates a possible run for president in 2012. When a candidate walks away from a reality show, that’s when you know they’re serious about being president of the United States.” – Jay Leno “Sad news. It looks like ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ won’t be back for […]
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Congressman Peter King (R-NY) is calling for it to be made illegal for Americans to support WikiLeaks, by adding them to the Treasury Department’s “economic blacklist”. This would put WikiLeaks on the same list as terrorist groups and international drug dealers. And indeed, King has publicly likened WikiLeaks to a military act of aggression. I […]
Amazing news from Egypt: Muslims showed up at Christmas Eve mass services in churches around Egypt and at candle light vigils held outside, offering their bodies and lives as “shields” to Egypt’s threatened Christian community. Among those shields were beloved comedian Adel Imam and movie star Yousra, popular Muslim televangelist and preacher Amr Khaled, the […]
It probably isn’t this bad, but I did get a good laugh out of this: © August J Pollak
Thursday, January 13, 2011
“I wouldn’t blame our political rhetoric any more than I would blame heavy metal music for Columbine. And that is coming from someone who truly hates our political environment.” – Jon Stewart “I do think that it’s a worthwhile goal not to conflate our political opponents with our enemies, if for no other reason than […]
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Paul Waldman at The American Prospect makes an excellent point about what passes for political discourse in this country recently: The rhetoric of violence is not the only kind of rhetoric that encourages violence. The apocalyptic rhetoric we’ve seen from some on the right, most notably Glenn Beck, should be part of this discussion too. […]
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
© Chan Lowe The only way the inflammatory rhetoric will get toned down is if we stop supporting it. When people use it, let them know you don’t like it. When politicians spew it, don’t vote for them. That applies whether you agree with their positions or not.
