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Poster Child

© Lalo Alcaraz

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Health Care Reform Upside-Down

© Clay Bennett

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United States Supreme Corporate

© Paul Conrad

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Late Night Political Humor

“Well, big changes announced today for the next Indianapolis 500. All the cars will be Toyota Priuses.” – Jay Leno “As you know, the Toyota Prius is a hybrid — half gas engine, half runaway racehorse.” – Jay Leno “Yesterday, in San Diego, a man called the police when the accelerator on his Prius got […]

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Wasted

© Steve Sack After spending an hour interviewing Democratic Congressman Eric Massa, who was just forced to resign, Glenn Beck admitted “America, I’m gonna shoot straight with you. I think I’ve wasted your time. I have wasted an hour of your time. And I apologize for that.” Shouldn’t he end every one of his shows […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Sarah Palin is getting her own reality show. It’s going to be called ‘So You Think You Can See Russia?’” – Craig Ferguson “As you may have heard, the House has passed a $15 billion jobs bill. That’s the good news. The bad news? All those new jobs, fixing Toyotas.” – Jay Leno “They have […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Record ratings for the Oscars last night. Kathryn Bigelow won best director for her film about the Iraq war. But in her speech, she forgot to thank the two people without whom this film could never have been made — Bush and Cheney.” – Jay Leno “Now this year, the Academy Awards had a salute […]

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Pro-Life

© Max Ink Nice commentary on his site, too.

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And the Award for Self Parody Goes To…

© Tom Toles Not to mention that the Republicans are acting like they are the defenders of Medicare, while simultaneously working to destroy it.

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An Unexpected Benefit of Health Care Reform

On his radio show, a caller asked Rush Limbaugh what he would do if the health care bill passes. Limbaugh replied: I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica. I don’t know […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“There’s a story today in the entertainment trade papers that Sarah Palin is shopping a reality show with the producer of ‘Survivor’, Mark Burnett. That’s why she quit being the governor of Alaska. I find it strange that Sarah Palin would be shopping a reality show considering the fact that she hasn’t shown much interest […]

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The Sins of the Father, Revisited

Many people have theorized that Dubya wanted to invade Iraq in order to gain retribution for (or just one-up) his father’s failure to topple Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War. Well, it seems like we might have something of the same thing going on between Liz Cheney and her father. Dick Cheney was chronically unpopular […]

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Caffeine Dissonance

© Matt Bors Starbucks is getting pushed into the middle of a debate about retailers’ open-carry policies.

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God Help Us

© Joel Pett

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Why Hasn’t There Been a Tea Party Protest Against This Socialism?

Conservatives in general, and tea partiers in particular have decided that anything that even smells like socialism is evil, and must be protested vigorously. However, they seem to have overlooked a bastion of corporate socialism in the US. Why aren’t they protesting this? Are they closet socialism fans? I am talking (of course) about the […]

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