Well, we don’t have to guess any longer. In June, Alabama passed a tough immigration law and it was immediately challenged by the Obama administration, as has been done in other states. But unlike other states, a federal judge declined to block the Alabama law, leaving Alabama with the toughest law against illegal immigration in […]
© Ed Stein I’ve forced myself to watch the last three Republican debates. It’s one of those unfortunate sacrifices one must make to do this job. It’s getting harder each time to stomach the pandering, the self-aggrandizement, the bromides, banalities, platitudes and inanities, not to mention the mis-statements, half-truths and outright lies this collection of […]
Now that Herman Cain is leading in the Republican primary race, he is getting a lot more attention. © Kevin Siers And the attention is not just focused on Cain himself. Politico recently held a blind taste test of pizza from five chains, and Godfather’s Pizza (where Cain was formerly the CEO) was unanimously rated […]
For the first time since Gallup started asking Americans if marijuana should be legal, 50% say yes, while 46% say no. In addition, support for legalizing marijuana is directly and inversely proportional to age. Among 18 to 29 year olds, the percent who want it to be legal is 62%. For those 30 to 49 […]
© Ruben Bolling I guess if conservatives believe that homosexuality is a choice, then it must also be true that heterosexuality is a choice. So any man who is attracted to women must also be attracted to men. If he is heterosexual, he just chooses to seek out only women, and if he is homosexual, […]
Wanna predict who is likely to win any federal election? Just look up how much money they spent on their campaign. It’s amazing. In 2006, the biggest spenders running for the House won their race 94% of the time. In 2008 the number was 93%, and in 2010 it was 85%. The numbers for the […]
Herman Cain is currently leading in several polls for the Republican presidential nomination. Since several other candidates have held the lead for brief periods, some people think that Cain might just be the flavor of the month, but there is something different about Cain. Remember when the Tea Party movement became funded by the Koch […]
© Ed Stein If Wall Street is going to kick people out of their homes and occupy their houses, isn’t it fair that people should be able to occupy Wall Street in retaliation? Stein also provides commentary to his comic: I was working my way across the radio dial on my way home the other […]
Kudos to former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. Finally, a politician (at least a former one) who makes the obvious point: local governments who give tax breaks to bring jobs to their locales don’t create jobs, they just move jobs from one state to another and in the process destroy the infrastructure that actually creates jobs […]
© Lee Judge To be honest, I don’t blame this entirely on the right. The media loves a horse race.
© Tom Tomorrow The media seems to be slowly waking up to the fact that they can’t just ignore the Wall Street Protestors. So they are making fun of them or insulting them instead. Ironically, many of the criticisms of the protests are the same ones that were leveled against the Tea Party movement, but […]
Jon Stewart interviews Michael Lewis, who talks about the new third world — countries like Iceland and Greece that have gone broke — and the funny and ironic ways it happened. Watch both parts:
In light of how we have become a country that demonizes immigrants (mostly illegal ones but sometimes even legal), a regular reader sent me the following comment: Today is the day we celebrate the arrival of the first illegal immigrants. Spanish speaking ones at that. Who came to mine the riches of this land and […]
Why do the Wall Street protestors need a spokesperson? It seems pretty obvious why they are protesting. The other panel members were Republicans. For most of the show, Alan just sat quietly, which really surprised and disappointed me. Then suddenly, he let them have it. It was great. I just wish that the camera had […]
© Maki You think this is a joke? In an article in the Wall Street Journal, climate change denier Robert Bryce makes the following bizarre claim: The science is not settled, not by a long shot. Last month, scientists at CERN, the prestigious high-energy physics lab in Switzerland, reported that neutrinos might—repeat, might—travel faster than […]
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