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Socialism for the Religious Right

My head is spinning because of an email that Mike Huckabee sent out to his followers that claims that the economic stimulus bill is “anti-religious”. His gripe is that the bill prohibits higher education construction grants to be used for “… modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities — used for sectarian instruction, religious worship … […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“On Friday, the Senate agreed to an economic stimulus package of at least $780 billion, which I know sounds like a lot of money, but, remember, that’s in American dollars.” -Seth Meyers “Hi everyone, I’m Jimmy. I’m your late-night stimulus package. … Word out of the Senate tonight is that a deal has been reached […]

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Bill O’Reilly’s Right To Privacy

Jon Stewart dramatically demonstrates the stunning and hilarious hypocrisy of Bill O’Reilly:

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Desperate Times

© Jim Morin

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Bipartisanship for Beginners

Watching Obama’s press conference last night got me thinking again about the whole issue of bipartisanship. I’ve come to the conclusion that it really is pretty simple. First, one of the biggest issues in the last election was the economy. When businesses started to fail and people started losing jobs, McCain’s poll numbers went down […]

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Why We Didn’t Impeach Dubya

© August Pollak

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Cause for Concern

© Mike Luckovich

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Mistake

© Jack Ohman

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Late Night Political Humor

“Man, here’s something chilling. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is now warning that there will be another terrorist attack. He got that information by waterboarding himself.” -David Letterman “This week in Washington, President Obama took time out from his busy day to read a book to a group of second graders. Did you see that […]

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That’s the point!

Earlier this week, Congressman (and GOP whip) Eric Cantor (R-VA) attacked Obama’s stimulus plan, saying “This was not a stimulus bill. It was a spending bill.” To which Obama replied: My favorite comment about this is “I really enjoy that he did not leave the sassiness behind on the campaign trail. I was afraid he might…”

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It’s a Twofer!

© Tom Toles

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How the Stimulus Package Should be Paid For

© Keith Knight

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No way to die

According to the Army, not only were suicides among soldiers up last year, but there has been a sudden spike in suicides already this year. In January alone, 24 soldiers are believed to have committed suicide (six times as many as the same month a year ago). What is ironic about this is that there were […]

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Broken Record

© John Sherffius

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Who’s Responsible?

© Mike Thompson

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