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WTF?

Are we really this stupid?

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Will We Ever Learn?

© Don Wright I guess not as long as it is so easy to buy elections in the US. © John Sherffius

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Dan Rather on how corporate media is destroying democracy

Dan Rather hits the nail on the head. I have worked in and with corporate-owned media, and have seen the same things. You don’t need to believe in any kind of conspiracy — either right or left wing — to understand how the slavish obsession with profits of our corporate controlled media is destroying the […]

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The Impracticality of Alternative Fuels

© Mike Thompson Between wars in the middle east, pollution, and taxpayer subsidies to oil companies, I don’t think most people realize how much our addiction to petroleum actually costs us.

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Taking this Lying Down?

© Jimmy Margulies The same people who opposed every effort to fix the economy are now profiting from the bad economy.

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Best of Daily Show v. Fox News

Jon Stewart seems to be the only media personality willing to take on Fox News, so it’s a good thing he does it so well. Here are some of the best clips from the Daily Show showing the hypocrisy and outright lying coming from Fox News, often in their own words: 1. Fair and Balanced? […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Last night in only his second Oval Office address, President Obama announced the end of Operational Iraqi Freedom. He said we have given the Iraqis a Western-style government. Well, we certainly have, haven’t we? Their economy is in shambles, their Congress is corrupt, the country is broke, welcome aboard!” – Jay Leno “Before President Obama’s […]

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#1 Story Censored by Mainstream Media

© Lee Judge

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Talk to the Hand

© Ed Stein I love reading Ed Stein’s comics on his website, because he usually includes extra information. Here’s what he included for this one: It’s not even a question that the national economic policies of the last few decades have favored the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. We’ve seen an astonishing […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“I just got back from vacation. I went on vacation the same time as President Obama. We both had to get away from it all and not do anything of significance. And now we are back and still not doing anything of significance.” – Craig Ferguson “President Obama was in New Orleans for the fifth […]

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Slip Quit

Now you don’t have to be an airline attendant in order to escape down an emergency slide with two beers! Too bad Sarah Palin didn’t have one of these on when she quit her job.

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Funny Gay Protest Signs

I hope I could keep this much of a sense of humor when my rights are being trampled upon.

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King Clown

© John Sherffius I once marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and trust me, Glenn Beck is no MLK.

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Counting Crazy

Estimates of the crowd size at Saturday’s Beckapalooza tell an interesting story: CBS News commissioned a crowd estimate from AirPhotosLive.com, which based their count on aerial pictures it took during the rally. They estimated 87,000, with a margin of error of 9,000. So they claim between 78,000 and 96,000 people attended. Sarah Palin claimed over […]

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Serving the Middle Class

© Tom Toles Are those tears, or drool?

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