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The Onion on 9/11

Everything The Onion has done about 9/11. A fitting way to remember the 9th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The headlines alone are worth it. Here are a few examples: Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell — The hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon expressed […]

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Enough Said

Yesterday, a Fox News reporter asked Obama about “the wisdom of building a mosque a couple of blocks from Ground Zero“. I think I’ve been pretty clear on my position here. And that is, is that this country stands for the proposition that all men and women are created equal, that they have certain inalienable […]

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Political Stimulus

© Rob Rogers Election season is upon us. Let the negative campaigning (fed by unlimited amounts of corporate cash) begin!

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When you play with matches…

© Nick Anderson Pastor Terry Jones certainly got the 15 minutes of fame he seemed to desire. The only question is, will he survive it?

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How the Cookie Crumbles

The Girl Scouts allow homosexuals and atheists to join their ranks, and they have become a pro-abortion, feminist training corps. If the Girl Scouts of America can’t get back to teaching real character, perhaps it will be time to look for our cookies elsewhere. — Hans Zeiger, Republican candidate for Washington State Representative, who recently […]

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How can a candidate be taken seriously when they threaten armed insurrection if they lose the election?

Is this what our politics has become? Really? And what’s worse — that an actual major candidate for the Senate could threaten violence if she doesn’t win, or that the mainstream media doesn’t even find this unusual? [via Crooks & Liars] Interestingly, I agree with Sharon Angle on most of her points. The second amendment […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer stopped speaking during an interview and stared blankly at the camera for 30 seconds. The good news is, she’s now eligible to be governor of Alaska.” – Jay Leno “Mayor Bloomberg may join President Obama’s administration. If he does, it will cost about $3 million. They’ll have to lower every door […]

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Facts

© Nick Boyer [from B as in Booya]

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Whatever happened to moderate Republicans?

© Lloyd Dangle See also this.

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Scary, scary, news, scary!

© Tom Tomorrow When are we going to grow tired of being manipulated all the time?

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Late Night Political Humor

“Hillary Clinton is denying rumors that she will replace Joe Biden as the Vice President in 2012. It’s fun to have a Clinton denying stuff again.” – David Letterman “The Department of Labor has launched a new website to help unemployed Americans. President Obama said the website is amazing and he can’t wait to check […]

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Islamophobics Anonymous

© Brian McFadden I’ll take a mosque over a mega-church any day. I get the sinking feeling that the majority of Americans don’t have the wisdom to recognize a wedge issue when they see it.

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And THIS is how Carter repays us?

A few weeks ago, the conservative Right Wing News released their poll of right-wing blogs to determine the worst Americans of all time. Topping their list, ahead of “all the gangsters, serial killers, mass murderers incompetent & crooked politicians, spies, traitors, and ultra left-wing kooks in all of American history” ahead of Timothy McVeigh, Benedict […]

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The greatest threat against America are the tens of millions of Americans who won’t turn out to vote this November effectively giving power to 87,000 angry assholes

[reprinted from Margaret and Helen] 100 Grand Bore Margaret please tell Howard that 100,000 people will show up to a tractor pull if the entry fee is cheap enough. Big deal. I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to ignore them and have some pie. As I see it dear, if more […]

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You Are What You Eat

This site reported last week on yet another example of RAI — Republican Attendance Inflation — where a commissioned count of the attendees at Glenn Beck’s White Civil Rights Rally pegged the number at 87,000, but Glenn Beck himself declared the number to be 300,000 to 500,000 people (naturally, Michele Bachmann wins the “most inflated […]

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