Stephen Colbert is brilliant. I can’t imagine anyone else who could make someone look so wrong just by agreeing with them:
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
It looks like the Republican nominating process is even more of a mess than we already knew it was. In fact, there is a chance that it isn’t actually over yet. For example, first Romney was declared the winner in Iowa, then Santorum, and now it looks like Ron Paul actually won. In 1920, Warren […]
© Adam Zyglis Once upon a time, the word “conservative” came from the same root as “conservation”. But today, the only thing conservatives are trying to conserve is their bank accounts. For thirty years prior to 2000, earthquakes in the central US averaged 21 a year. But after oil and gas drilling operations started using […]
In March, Rush Limbaugh lost most of his national advertisers because of his sexist remarks about Sandra Fluke after her Congressional testimony. But now at least one national advertiser has resumed advertising on his show. Ironically, that advertiser is Angie’s List. I wonder what Angie Hicks would have to say about that. And doubly ironically, […]
In an interview Sunday night, former presidential candidate Jon Huntsman had some things to say about the current state of the Republican Party. At his first presidential debate, he was struck by the question “Is this the best we could do?” Apparently it was, since any deviation from party dogma was swiftly punished. When he […]
Follow the money: Conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Michael Savage all work for Premier Networks. Premier Networks is owned by Clear Channel Communications, which is the largest owner and operator of radio stations, and also owns various other media outlets, including billboards. In 2008, Clear Channel was bought by […]
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© Matt Bors The obsession with trying people in the media is truly evil. It rarely leads to true justice, ruins lives, cost millions if not billions of dollars, and distracts us from real issues and problems. And why do certain cases trigger a sustained media obsession, while thousands of equally compelling cases go completely […]
Mitt Romney gave a speech at a shuttered Gypsum plant in Ohio yesterday, using it as a backdrop to claim that Obama has failed to create jobs. There are just a couple of problems. First of all, the plant was closed four years ago, before Obama was elected. And second, when Obama was sworn in, […]
© Tom Tomorrow Yes, the Supreme Court really did rule that it was ok for jails to use routine strip searches, even for people arrested for minor traffic violations. Why should we be afraid of body cavity searches if we have nothing to hide?
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© Keith Knight This is one of those issues where emotional arguments get in the way of practical arguments. It doesn’t matter if you think the death penalty is morally wrong. The simple truth is that the death penalty doesn’t work and costs taxpayer money. It is an anachronism that needs to go. We got […]
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Mitt Romney is already selling exclusive presidential access, for only $50,000. This despite the fact that he hasn’t even been nominated yet, let alone elected. Don’t have $50,000? For only $10,000 you can get a photo taken with Romney. © Jim Morin
This is how it works. SuperPACs are allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns and other political activities, but they are required to disclose their donors. To avoid this, you just set up a non-profit organization, which is not required to disclose donors, to “launder” the money so you can’t tell where […]
In the aftermath of the crash of the housing bubble, banks went on a foreclosure spree, even foreclosing on houses on which they didn’t hold a mortgage. But supposedly they cleaned up their act. Or did they? According to publicly available records, one Bank, the Bank of America, in a single county alone, has sued […]
According to a story by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker, between 2005 and 2007, US was secretly training members of a known terrorist group. So if someone (like you or me) donated some money to the group, they could be jailed for supporting terrorism, but the US government provided training in the use of […]
