© Matt Wuerker Despite his staggering loss in South Carolina, most pundits still expect him to win the Republican nomination. I guess the old maxim “follow the money” still applies. Thank goodness we still have Stephen Colbert pointing out the corruption funding our elections.
Yes, this really is from Rick Santorum‘s website. Come on, can anyone be this clueless? Or is it a Freudian slip?
The battle between old media and new media is becoming interesting. Y Combinator, the famous firm that invests in early stage companies, has issued an RFS (Request for Startup) that they are looking to fund companies that can help (in their words) kill Hollywood: Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry […]
© Adam Zyglis In December, Congress tucked a provision into the bill extending payroll tax reductions that required Obama to make a decision within two months on the Keystone XL project — an oil pipeline from Canada all the way across the US to the Gulf of Mexico. But they weren’t actually expecting the Obama […]
The mainstream media loves a good horse race, and they are sure getting one in the Republican primaries. Just a couple of days ago, Romney had won two races and was on his way to a double-digit knockout in South Carolina. But it looks like he might get Rickrolled. Today Iowa finally announced their official […]
© Jerry Holbert I’d like this comic even better if the money bags sitting behind the Congress character was the money thrown at Congresscritters by lobbyists (like all the money they get from the MPAA, the Chamber of Commerce, and other organizations pushing the SOPA and PIPA bills). To their credit, most Internet companies have […]
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert continue to not coordinate the activities of their super PAC. And make fun of our totally bizarre and corrupt election laws: The Christian Science Monitor says it is all completely legal. In addition, Colbert’s super PAC is running a new ad in South Carolina, encouraging voters to vote for Herman […]
I won’t be posting any articles on Wednesday, in support of the Internet strike against PIPA and SOPA. Meanwhile, go read this article by Andrew Sullivan “How Obama’s Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics”. It is brilliant.
On Wednesday, several major internet sites are going on strike. So if you try to access Wikipedia, Reddit, Craigslist, The Oatmeal, Boing Boing, Mozilla, MoveOn, or hundreds of other sites, you may be out of luck. Some sites, including Google, ArsTechnica, TechCrunch, WordPress, and Wired, have a notice on their main page, but will allow […]
Legislator co-sponsoring a bill requiring drug testing for welfare recipients — Normal Republican tactics. Same legislator getting arrested for DUI — Normal Republican hypocrisy. When arrested, the legislator was driving his gold four-door Jaguar XJ8 — Priceless. What makes this even more ironic is that when the Republican bill to require welfare recipients to be […]
© Tom Tomorrow This would explain a lot. Even in the best of times, politicians (like diplomats) have an uncomfortable relationship with the truth. There is a certain tension between a politician’s need to follow the wishes of their electorate, and the need to actually, you know, lead. But Mitt Romney seems to be especially […]
Call me crazy, but the fact that Jon Huntsman couldn’t get any traction at all with Republican voters and is now dropping out of the race, shows how bankrupt the Republican party has become. It is ironic that the day Huntsman announced he was withdrawing from the race was the same day he was endorsed […]
I remember when I was young, it was not uncommon for some people to say things that were racist, even out loud in public. The civil rights movement managed to make it unacceptable for people to be explicitly racist, but it didn’t get rid of racism itself. Those people just found more socially acceptable ways […]
© Jen Sorensen Republican presidential candidates are increasingly using “racially coded language” in an attempt to win votes. For example, when asked a question about welfare 2 days before the Iowa caucuses, Rick Santorum replied “I don’t want to make Black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money; I want to give them […]
Jon Stewart on the State of the Republican Primary. Saturday night, the pundits complain because nobody attacks Mitt Romney, so right on cue, the pundits get their wish Sunday morning:
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