Rep. Joe Wilson claims he feels so strongly that illegal immigrants should not benefit from health care reform that he shouted “You lie!” at the president during a joint session of Congress. Now, let’s ignore whether Wilson’s outburst was rude or disrespectful. Let’s also ignore whether providing health care for illegal aliens is a good […]
The Scopes Monkey Trial in 1926 challenged a state law that made it illegal to teach evolution in public schools. But now, evolution is being challenged in a much more insidious way. A new movie about Charles Darwin, from BBC Films and the UK Film Council is being released this weekend, and although it was […]
“President Obama giving a lot of very important speeches. He gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in order to succeed they need to work hard and study hard. Then today, former President George W. Bush presented the rebuttal.” – Conan O’Brien “Yesterday, […]
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“Earlier today, President Obama delivered a speech to America’s schoolchildren. And he encouraged them to work hard and study hard. Yeah, then he said if that doesn’t work, grab the seat next to the Asian kid.” – Conan O’Brien “The President also said that kids — he told them if they study hard, the United […]
Newt Gingrich, whose 1995 “Contract with the American Family” promised to fight pornography, has named Allison Vivas of Pink Visual a 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year. The only problem? Pink Visual is a porn DVD superstore. How’s that for “stimulating” the economy? When Gingrich’s American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF) was informed of the […]
A church group (who also have a website “Would Jesus Discriminate?“) has put up four billboards along a freeway in north Texas that quote the Bible in support of gay rights. Here’s one of them: You can see more of them here and also here. But what made me laugh was this story in the […]
Warren Buffett, who is the second richest man in the world, met with Senate Democrats yesterday, and told them that the rich are not paying enough taxes. One of those Democrats, Claire McCaskill (D-MO) put it this way: It was interesting to see someone who is such an aggressive capitalist, who believes so much in […]
By request, I have added a discussion forum so you can chatter amongst yourselves. It is a Google Group found at http://groups.google.com/group/politicalirony There is also a link (FORUM) in the sidebar. The forum is for friendly political discussions. Extra points for humor. Demerits for hypocrisy. Liberals, Conservatives, Marxists, Libertarians, Religious, Atheists, or whatever, you are […]
Robert Reich does a great job of explaining concisely what the public option is, and why we need it. The opposition knows that their only chance is to confuse everyone by throwing out all kinds of disinformation, so if someone you know is confused about health care reform, have them watch this video.
Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) will probably now be known forever as the man who shouted “You Lie!” during Obama’s speech to Congress. But it appears that his emotional outburst is backfiring. The Democratic fund raising site ActBlue is showing a huge amount of money is being donated to Wilson’s opponent in the upcoming election. And […]
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“Next Tuesday — a lot of people talking about this — President Obama plans to make a televised speech to the nation’s students during school hours. Many Republicans are planning to keep their kids home from school in protest. As a result, those kids have voted Obama ‘Best President Ever.’” – Conan O’Brien “It’s a […]
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