PolitiFact, a non-partisan fact checking service, is one of my favorite sites for finding out the truth about politicians. Not only do they do the hard research and fact checking that the media doesn’t bother with anymore, but they do it with style and often a good sense of humor. A good example is their […]
© Rex Babin I guess we will find out in November the shortness of Americans’ attention span.
Matt Bors has been traveling in Afghanistan, along with fellow cartoonists Ted Rall and Steven Cloud, unembedded and unprotected, drawing what he sees and hears. Here’s the first cartoon in the series but there are six more (all from Afghanistan) now; click here (or on the comic) to follow along: © Matt Bors
“In Delaware, Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell won in a big upset in the primaries. She has an interesting background. Back in the 1990s, she mounted a campaign to stop masturbation. It didn’t work.” – Jimmy Kimmel “I don’t know a lot about Christine O’Donnell, but she has some interesting views. She has come out […]
You may or may not like Paul Krugman, but he has a must-read rant in the NY Times called “The Angry Rich“. Here are a few quotes, but the whole (fairly short) thing is worth a read: Anger is sweeping America. … No, I’m not talking about the Tea Partiers. I’m talking about the rich. […]
“Well-known, veteran politicians were upended by candidates from the Tea Party. It was especially shocking because I’ve been to a lot of tea parties with my daughter and most of the people there are stuffed animals.” – Jimmy Kimmel “It’s a great day for the members of the tea party. You know, the new political […]
© Tom Toles More and more I’m feeling like this. I mean, when I lived overseas and our government did stupid things like the Viet Nam war, people would console me by saying that the American people were good, it was just our government. But now it seems like we finally elected a president who […]
I’m testing out a fancy new anti-spam, caching mechanism that is supposed to speed things up for regular visitors, while making things much more difficult for spammers and other “evil doers”. Unfortunately, things can always go wrong, so if you have any problems with the site, please let me know — either leave a comment […]
What I want to know is why is Meg Whitman so desperate to be governor of California? She has already spent $119 million of her own money on the campaign, more than any other self-funded candidate in history. But now, Whitman has been caught staging a fake town hall meeting. And it isn’t like she […]
California proposition 19 — to decriminalize and tax marijuana — is being opposed by an organization called “Public Safety First”. But it seems ironic that an organization whose very name implies that they want to promote public safety, has received a rather large donation from the California Beer and Beverage Distributors. Why would the alcohol […]
© Joel Pett I’m all for reform, but it seems like we are going backward rather than forward.
It was bad enough when, back in 2003, Fox News won a lawsuit against two whistleblowing reporters who accused the network of deliberately and knowingly lying. Two Fox reporters were working on a story about the significant health risks of milk coming from cows treated with bovine growth hormone (BGH). The station was initially excited […]
“New FBI statistics say that crime in the United States fell 5 percent from last year. You see what happens when we put Lindsay Lohan in jail?” – Jimmy Kimmel “You know things are bad when even criminals can’t find work in this country.” – Jimmy Kimmel “Experts say the decrease in crime could be […]
The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. So you can’t masturbate without lust. – Christine O’Donnell, Tea Party, and now Republican candidate for the Senate, and founder of an organization opposed to masturbation. Wouldn’t this Jimmy Kimmel routine be funnier if it were Karl Rove doing the masturbating? Then, when he […]
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