Andrew Lahde, of Lahde Capital Management, writes a goodbye letter. He is shutting down his $300 million hedge fund, not because he didn’t make lots of money, but because he did. In this interesting letter, he talks about the idiots who helped make him rich, the meaninglessness of money, how the US Government is broken, […]
On Amazon.com, Obama Hallowe’en masks are outselling McCain Hallowe’en masks by 6 points (53% to 47%).
The Federal Election Commission just released info about the Republican National Convention, specifically who paid for it: Freddie Mac, and AIG — both of whom were just bailed out by the US government — somehow seemed to have enough money to give a quarter of a million dollars each. JPMorgan — who bought troubled Bear Stearns […]
UPDATE: Bachmann’s opponent has received a deluge of donations since this happened! UPDATE2: Watch Katrina Vanden Heuvel respond to Michelle Bachmann.
I’m very interested in reader’s reactions to this comic. Regardless, it is intensely ironic. © Ruben Bolling
I’ve been reluctant to post this, because I couldn’t find who created this. If someone knows, please drop me a line. I live to give credit for the things I post. But maybe this person wants to remain anonymous (for obvious reasons)!
The McCain campaign likes to have an enemy to fight (and blame things on), and the latest bogeyman is ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). First they attacked ACORN for alleged voter registration fraud. A Republican National Committee spokesman called ACORN a “quasi-criminal group”. They even compared ACORN to the KKK. But the […]
But the best part is Jon Stewart’s dig at Fox News at the very end: How stupid do we have to be?
From ivy_windchaser This is a followup to my story about a friend of mine, who installed a huge solid metal sign to replace Obama signs that were stolen. UPDATE: The person who made this sign wrote an interesting article about it.
Conservatives speak out on McCain: From the Jed Report.
Here at Political Irony, I love it when comedians hit the nail on the head better than the pundits or other experts. Here are two British comedians — back in 2007 — who exactly describe what was about to happen in the financial markets. Plus it is extremely funny (in a scary kind of way).
“My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.” – John McCain today © Matt Davies
Wall Street and the stock market crashed in October 1929. What a difference an economic meltdown makes. In 1928 Herbert Hoover received 444 electoral votes, four years later he was only able to scrape up 59: Maps from 270 to Win
This is the actual absentee ballot that was sent out to voters in New York State’s Rensselaer County. I’m not sure which is worse — believing the county election officials who claim that it was a simple typo that made it past three separate proof readers (are the ‘B’ and ‘S’ keys right next to each […]
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