Reliable sources say a Super-PAC craze is sweeping the nation. Don’t get left out. Stephen Colbert will help you start your own Super PAC, for just $99. According to the Federal Election Commission, “more Texans have donated to Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow [Colbert’s Super PAC] than to the pro-Romney Restore Our Future.”
© Jim Morin The individual mandate was originally a Republican idea, and they introduced two health care bills that included an individual mandate. Romneycare includes it. Ironically, Barack Obama in 2008 was opposed to it. But when Obama changed his mind, the Republicans suddenly became against it. So the Republicans are desperately fighting to repeal […]
Hollywood is making a movie about Eugene Allen, the White House butler who served from 1952 (under Harry Truman) to 1986 (Ronald Reagan). The all star cast being assembled reportedly includes Liam Neeson as Lyndon Johnson, and John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Forest Whitaker as Allen and Oprah Winfrey as his wife. But the best […]
© Kevin Siers Is anyone else worried that after such insane decisions as Citizen’s United, the Supreme Court is going to do something really stupid to health care reform? I may have to move away again after all.
Matthew Spaccarelli was upset about the fact that AT&T guaranteed him “unlimited” bandwidth on his iPhone, but then slowed down (in their terms, throttled) his service. So he sued in small claims court, and won. Score one for the little guy. What happened next is interesting. AT&T said they would appeal, and sent him a […]
© Joe Heller It is ironic that Republicans don’t like Mitt Romney for changing his positions, when they do the same thing about candidates trying to find “Anyone but Mitt”. I’m often confused about the whole “flip-flopping” deal. Voters want candidates who respect their wishes. When Romney was running in a pro-choice state, he was […]
© Drew Sheneman After the last disastrous budget fight, you might hope that things would get better. But this time, Paul Ryan’s budget proposal has everyone — left and right — pissed off. The new budget still includes “sweeping cuts to federal health care programs and social programs aimed at the poor” but now the […]
I had the same reaction when I first heard about this (after all, I am a grammar Nazi), but Deon Cole says it so much better than I could.
Last week, over fifty newspapers pulled the Doonesbury comic strips because they dealt with the increasing number of new laws that require women to get an unnecessary sonogram to show them an image of their fetus before they can get an abortion. This week, Jen Sorensen did a comic about the newspapers pulling Doonesbury, and […]
To give you an idea of how dismal politics is today, the two top political stories are a) that Santorum’s plan is to deliberately sabotage Romney to make him lose to Obama, so that Santorum can become the candidate in 2016, and b) that nobody, not even the media, cares about the primaries any more. […]
© Kevin Kallaugher I know it sounds like a conspiracy theory, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if someone is manipulating gas prices in order to hurt Obama. UPDATE: Meanwhile, the public is not sure whom to blame for high gas prices. I know who is to blame for that — the media for […]
Here’s a story you probably haven’t heard about. The US cuts off all funding for UNESCO even though they are doing work that benefits us. I love the multiple levels of irony. What is it about the Arab-Israeli conflict that has us so blinded? UPDATE: The Atlantic has an interesting article about the Daily show […]
Is Bill Maher the left-wing equivalent of Rush Limbaugh? Jon Stewart rips this meme to shreds. I totally agree with his last line.
The NY Times has an interesting article by psychologist Jonathan Haidt that examines the behavior of voters. To understand politics, we are often told to “follow the money”. Monetary self-interest is a good predictor for the behavior of politicians, but it doesn’t seem to help at all for understanding how people vote. Consider people who […]
The State Integrity Investigation has released the results of its study of corruption in state governments. First, the bad news. No state received a grade of “A”, and eight states received an “F”: Michigan, North Dakota, South Carolina, Maine, Virginia, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Georgia. Ironically, New Jersey received the highest grade (a “B+”) despite […]
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