Wednesday, January 5, 2011
This political cartoon was published in 1921 — 90 years ago: © Art Young [Hat tip to Lloyd Dangle.]
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives has a new rule. They must offset the cost of any legislation that would increase federal spending. Sounds good, yes? And yet, they are attempting to repeal Obama’s health care reform bill, a bill that the Congressional Budget Office says will reduce the federal deficit by […]
© Jim Morin Daily Kos has a petition to force Senators who want to filibuster to actually stand up there and filibuster. I figure if they feel strongly enough to filibuster something, the least they can do is stand up there and explain to the American public why they are filibustering.
According to a new poll, 61% of Americans say that the first step toward balancing the budget should be raising taxes on the richest Americans. Only 20% thought that the first step should be to cut defense spending, while 4% wanted to start by cutting Medicare, and 3% wanted to cut Social Security (the third […]
… before he hits the ground. © Tom Toles The new session of Congress doesn’t start until Wednesday, but Republicans have already scheduled a vote on January 12th to repeal Obama’s health care reform bill. Of course, this is a complete waste of time and money, since Democrats still control the Senate, and even if […]
The next time some politician says that we have to “seal the border” with Mexico before we can do anything about immigration reform, you should realize that this is an absolute lie. It is simply not practical to seal a border that is 2000 miles long.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Personally, I try to ignore Fox News as much as possible, but Ranker has a good list of the top 10 Fox News Fails of 2010. Along with lots of Jon Stewart goodness pointing out some of the worst fails.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
One of my favorite cartoons every year, Tom Tomorrow’s Year in Crazy: © Tom Tomorrow Speaking of Tom Tomorrow, another newsweekly has dropped running cartoons for “budgetary reasons”, including This Modern World. If anyone would like to make a donation to keep This Modern World running, please go to his website and hit the “donate” […]
Friday, December 31, 2010
© Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins It must be very convenient to have someone on whom to blame everything.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Cenk Uygur does a good job of pointing out the utter hypocrisy of the Republicans pretending to care about the middle class.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Every wonder why conservatives seem to expect the worst of people (Muslims, the poor), while liberals tend to dwell more on the goodness and dignity of all? Or why conservatives are more receptive to threats of terrorism? There may be a scientific explanation! A new study done at the University College of London shows that […]
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Not in my mail box: © Jack Ohman Everyone wants the government to reduce spending, as long as they still get their checks in the mail.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
We keep hearing that the economy is heating up, but unemployment remains high (and even rose last month). The stock market has rebounded, and corporate profits (and bonuses) are high. The latest news is that American companies actually are hiring! In fact, they are hiring a lot. Just not in the USA. Caterpillar hired 15,000 […]
