© Ruben Bolling People are outraged that the president has assumed the authority to assassinate anyone he determines to be a terrorist, without judicial review or congressional oversight, and even if the target is an American citizen. But the constitution does give the president the power to prosecute wars, and wars do involve killing people. […]
[Politicians who are shaming and blaming woman for having sex are forgetting something. Written by Emily L. Hauser, reprinted from her blog “In My Head“] Dear GOP: You do know how pregnancy works, right? I have been pregnant four times. These pregnancies led to the following four results, in this order: abortion, baby, miscarriage, baby. […]
© Jen Sorensen Commentary by Jen Sorensen: I spent way too much time last weekend reading about pink slime. I really wanted to get to the bottom of the slimebucket, if you will. This particular controversy has been burbling (and oozing and gurgling) ever since celebrity chef Jamie Oliver did a segment trashing the stuff […]
Somehow, you knew this was going to happen. The woman who owns a small auto repair shop and is now the lead plaintiff in the case going to the Supreme Court to overturn Obama’s health care reform because she claims she should not be required to have health insurance, has filed for bankruptcy with a […]
The financial world is in a tizzy about an editorial published yesterday in the NY Times written by an executive of Goldman Sachs (who simultaneously tendered his resignation). It doesn’t paint a very pretty picture of the company. Ironically, the reaction from both supporters and detractors of Goldman Sachs is pretty much the same — […]
This week, Doonesbury is featuring a series of strips dealing with the controversial laws that require women to go though a gauntlet of unnecessary requirements before receiving an abortion. Many newspapers have declined to run these strips, while some have moved them from the comics page to the editorial page. If your local paper isn’t […]
Are you getting tired of all the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth from the religious right about the moral decline of America? Rick Santorum claims that “Satan has his sights on the United States of America”. Newt Gingrich says “A country that has been now since 1963 relentlessly in the courts driving God […]
It constantly surprises me how Republican’s don’t seem to understand that in the age of YouTube and the Internet, you can’t say crazy things, lie and flip-flop willy nilly, and expect that people will forget. For example, tonight on CNN, Romney spokesperson Eric Fehrnstrom said “I don’t think anybody expected Mitt to win Alabama or […]
© Tom Tomorrow Yes, I understand that Obama is probably mainly doing this because he is already being attacked as weak on defense (I guess because he hasn’t started any stupid wars). But I still don’t like it.
What’s the worst thing that has happened to Rush Limbaugh? The Sandra Fluke controversy? Claiming that Obama’s election was encouraging black kids to beat up whites on schoolbuses? Getting caught with illegal drugs? The fact that the median age of his audience has probably exceeded the US life expectancy? Or that he has fewer female […]
Public Policy Polling released the results of their Republican Primary polls in Alabama and Mississippi today, but the most interesting result are the last few questions: In Alabama, only 14% think Obama is a Christian, while 45% think he is Muslim, and 41% are not sure. It is worse in Mississippi, where only 12% think […]
Many progressives assume that removing money (such as campaign donations from corporations) from politics will clean things up, but that is not necessarily so. Consider India, where in 1967 prime minister Indira Gandhi outlawed corporate contributions to political campaigns. Unfortunately, this removed one of the few legal (and transparent) methods of financing political races. Instead, […]
© Jack Ohman I guess it could be worse — they could be just making shit up to justify going to war, like we did in 2003.
Back in 2008 when gas prices spiked, Fox News said “no President has the power to increase or to lower gas prices.” And that the best way to reduce gas prices is to reduce consumption, so Americans should “get rid of those gas guzzlers, buy decent insulation for your house.” But now, Fox News is […]
© August J. Pollak No matter what you think about what Rush Limbaugh said recently, what really surprises me is that anyone actually listens to anything he says. Or that there are any companies willing to sponsor him. What does the fact that so many Americans listen to him (and even believe him) say about […]
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