© Ruben Bolling It is ironic that because the Supreme Court is the court of last resort on everything, they are the final deciders in cases involving their own ethics. And yes, Scalia’s son really does work as an employment lawyer for Wal-Mart, and Clarence Thomas really did take money (and fail to report much […]
If Reagan were in charge now (and still alive), he would raise taxes, which is exactly what he did when he was president. As Politico points out, Obama’s proposed increases in revenues are smaller than the ones that Reagan proposed, and Republicans approved, in order to decrease deficits. And contrary to what the reality-challenged Republicans […]
© Wolf Grulkey The Republicans think that the worse the economy, the better they will do in the next election. After all, it worked in the 2010 election. How long before we wise up? Nineteen different polls since the start of 2011 show that Americans support raising taxes to reduce the deficit, often by a […]
Serious and deliciously funny, all at the same time: UPDATE: WikiLeaks is planning on suing MasterCard and Visa.
The Federal Election Commission today voted 5 to 1 to approve Stephen Colbert’s “Super PAC”. Yes, this will allow Colbert to raise unlimited amounts of money in virtual secrecy to influence the 2012 elections. But don’t worry, former Bush strategist Karl Rove and former Obama aide Bill Burton are already doing the same thing. It […]
© Jim Morin Is it just me, or does anyone else feel that Blago didn’t do anything that most politicians do all the time, he was just a bit more blatant about it. It seems his real transgression was that he didn’t hide the fact that he was just a money grubber for reelection funds […]
© Barry Deutsch Actually, the reason given in the last panel is the only one that makes sense.
Buzzfeed has an absolutely hilarious article showing actual news articles compared to the Fox News, um, creative reinterpretation of those headlines. Here is just a small sampling of them: Actual News Headline Fox News Headline USDA gay-sensitifity training seeks larger audience Obama Bureaucrats Imposing Radical Homosexual Sensitivity Training? Michele Bachmann’s First Dude The Left Launches […]
Salon has an interesting and fairly convincing article that claims the reason our social contract is unraveling is because the American people have “outlived their usefulness to the rich”. Even the robber barons of the 19th century depended on the poor and the middle class to work in their factories, buy the resulting goods, and […]
You may think of it as one of the pitfalls of being a moderate, but they call them “pitfalls” for a reason. © Tom Toles Toles has a funny observation to go along with this comic: Funny! Washington: broken! Government: broken! Politics: broken! Diagnosis? Partisanship! Extreme position-taking! Nobody willing to compromise! Intemperate language! How, or […]
I run Google AdSense on my site, which purports to run “relevant ads” based on the content of the site. Of course, AdSense has no clue about irony, sarcasm, or even humor. So they often run an ad for a politician next to an article where I’m condemning or making fun of that same politician. […]
I always figure that in our screwed up politics, if you manage to piss off both extremes of the political spectrum, you must be doing something right. For anyone who doubts Obama is a moderate — watch this:
Last week, the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits went up, causing widespread speculation that even though corporate profits are up, the economy is not recovering from the great recession and may even be heading for a dreaded “double dip recession”. One of the main things being blamed for this problem is high energy […]
© Matt Bors Hopefully, we’ll be out of Afghanistan before we start sending soldiers who weren’t born when the war there started. Obama’s announcement of a partial withdrawal (announced after this comic was published) is a good first step.
A few days ago, Jon Stewart appeared on ‘Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace. But as Stewart points out on his show, Fox selectively edited the interview before broadcasting it, removing the most interesting part: where Chris Wallace admits that — contrary to their claims — Fox News is not fair or balanced, but is […]
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