© Matt Bors I am so glad Palin is no longer holding any elected office.
The published, edited version: Andrew Breitbart is the enemy of truth. He showed two videos that had an NAACP chap that didn’t give a white farmer the sweat off his balls. The original version, with editing marks: Andrew Breitbart is the enemy of big government. He uncovered the truth beneath a deceptive administration when he […]
Bill Maher hits the nail on the head:
© Mike Luckovich Republicans used the deficit as an excuse to cut Medicare, but according to the CBO their changes won’t actually reduce the deficit, and will make Medicare more expensive with worse benefits. Who came up with this crazy idea?
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[brilliant satire, from the Galactic Empire Times] CORUSCANT — Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the most hunted man in the galaxy, was killed in a firefight with Imperial forces near Alderaan, Darth Vader announced on Sunday. In a late-night appearance in the East Room […]
Ok, how is this for ironic. I’ve said that I’m not going to post articles about Sarah Palin, but here I am. And this article is mainly positive about her! A must-read article in The Atlantic talks about Palin’s political record before she became the VP nominee. Palin was someone who took on the powerful […]
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Rachel Maddows reminds us of the sordid past of Republican kingmakers like Ralph Reed, who are almost unbelievably being rehabilitated and are trying to stage a comeback:
© Matt Bors I haven’t seen much mention in the US media about how Osama bin Laden used to be on the CIA payroll.
Two passengers, both dressed in traditional Muslim attire, were removed from an airplane on Friday because passengers on the flight felt uncomfortable. The two men went through security screening three times, but the pilot refused to let them back on the airplane. What makes this ironic is that the two men were on their way […]
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A few weeks ago the front page of the London Sunday Times newspaper broke a story about how some investigative reporters posed as lobbyists for the banking industry trying to get banking reform legislation watered down. Three members of the European parliament took the bait, and agreed to be paid a yearly salary of 100,000 […]
Paul Craig Roberts, a former editor of the Wall Street Journal and former assistant secretary to the treasury under Ronald Reagan, wrote recently: “Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists as the greatest threat to the American public.” If you don’t believe him, read this article on the criminal justice system in […]
Does anyone really think that releasing photos of Osama bin Laden will convince any of these idiots? This is why you don’t negotiate with terrorists. © Scott Stantis
David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget under Reagan and a former Congressman puts it bluntly “I believe we no longer have free market capitalism and we no longer have a democracy.” What we have instead is “crony capitalism” — a system that is rigged in favor of the financial elite, and […]
© Andy Singer Osama bin Laden often said that his goal was to bankrupt our economy. Let’s make sure he didn’t succeed.
© Matt Wuerker An article by Robert Fisk makes a good point: the mass revolutions in the Arab world over the past four months mean that al-Qa’ida was already politically dead. Bin Laden told the world – indeed, he told me personally – that he wanted to destroy the pro-Western regimes in the Arab world, […]
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