I believe that we should end the embargo against Cuba, not because I like the Castro brothers and their government, but because the embargo is counter-productive. In fact, the US embargo is ironically the main reason Fidel and Raul have been able to remain in power, long past the expiration date of communism in the […]
I have started wondering why Republicans decided to make a big deal out of some Islamic cultural center being built in an old Burlington Coat Factory store site. After all, it is pretty much a non-issue, since it would be clearly unconstitutional to legally block them from building it. And then it hit me. The […]
Some really ironic t-shirt designs: © Jeremy Kalgreen p.s. Obama is left-handed.
© Matt Wuerker And the actual building is one block further away than this cartoon indicates.
Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. This is a short anti-fascism film from 1947. How soon we forget the lessons we paid such a high price to learn. So, the next time some politician, pundit, media personality, or spokesperson for the rich or powerful tries to divide us […]
[reprinted from Deciminyan] Back in December, 2008, Massey Energy, which was responsible for the recent mine disaster in West Virginia, pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the deaths of two miners two years prior. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are the same as people, shouldn’t Massey get the same penalty as […]
The conservative Right Wing News asked conservative bloggers to select the 25 worst figures in American history. As they put it: Out of all the gangsters, serial killers, mass murderers, incompetent & crooked politicians, spies, traitors, and ultra left-wing kooks in all of American history — have you ever wondered who the worst of the […]
If you can believe Karl Rove, he and Bush had a friendly competition to see who could read more books each year. According to Rove, Bush read 95 books in 2006, 51 in 2007, and 40 in 2008. That’s an average of more than one book a week over 3 years. Apparently, Obama is not […]
If there was ever any doubt who the Tea Party is fighting for, it isn’t you. Yes, I know, they pretend that they are fighting for regular American people, but I guess they were confused by the recent Supreme Court ruling, because is seems like the “people” they are fighting for aren’t actual people, they […]
The Wall Street Journal (hardly a hotbed of wealth redistribution) published this interesting graph showing the tax load for various income levels under Bush’s tax policies versus Obama’s tax policies: As Bob Cesca points out: It turns out that allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire will only hurt people earning more than $300,000 per […]
Ben Quayle, the son of former VP Dan Quale, is running for Congress, and I guess he has to do something to get out from under the cloud of his infamously idiotic father, but I’m not sure if this is the right way to do it. In his new campaign ad, the first words out […]
© Bruce Plante Someone pointed out that the guy on the left looks like Glenn Beck. If only.
© August J. Pollak I really don’t understand the logic behind some people who complain about the Democrats not doing anything. It is actually amazing the number of things they have been able to accomplish, despite the fact that the Republicans have opposed (and often filibustered) pretty much all major Democratic initiatives.
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