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Osama bin Bush – siamese twins separated at birth

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When the market turns on you

© Jeff Danziger

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Bailout Tipping Point

© Matthew Kendig

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Oh God, the bailout!

© Jeffrey Rowland What’s really amazing is that this comic solution actually does make as much sense as what’s really happening. Where is the logic in our government writing a check for $700 Billion when they don’t actually have that much money?

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Roger Ebert reviews the debate!

In a surprise move, Roger Ebert sort-of reviewed the first presidential debate. But as is often done with movie reviews, I can sum it up by just quoting two lines (the first and the last): I do not like you, John McCain. I have instructed my wife to exclude you from any future dinner parties. […]

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Why do people laugh at creationists? – Sarah Palin edition

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Obama is not ready to lead because he agrees with McCain? (when McCain doesn’t lie)

From the McCain campaign comes this bizarre ad, trying to say that Obama is not ready to lead this country because he agrees with McCain. I guess this means that even McCain doesn’t believe his own lies. Interestingly, the third quote in the ad concerns McCain’s assertion that corporate taxes are higher in the US than in […]

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Why does McCain hate America?

While pundits argue about who won the debate, one thing is clear. Or rather, one of these people is clearly missing something. Can you spot what it is? From Crooks and Liars I’m waiting for the press to flag this as a flip-flop on McCain’s part. My favorite summary of the debate comes inadvertently from […]

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Quote of the Century

A Treasury spokeswoman explains why they picked $700 Billion for the Wall Street bailout: It’s not based on any particular data point. We just wanted to choose a really large number. From Forbes.

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McCain campaign also spams letters to the editor

I have done a couple of posts on McCain’s program to reward his supporters for spamming political blogs (McCain’s Frequent Liar Program, and The Whizzdom of Crowds). But a new article shows that the McCain campaign is doing the same thing with letters to the editors sent to newspapers in battleground states. The article was […]

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The Palin-Hannity Infomercial

Jon Stewart is brilliant as usual, and makes you laugh at something that really ought to make you cry:

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Do Latte Drinkers Vote for Obama?

Back in February, Clinton supporter Tom Buffenbarger famously said: I’ve got news for all the latte-drinking, Prius-driving, Birkenstock-wearing, trust fund babies crowding in to hear him speak! This guy won’t last a round against the Republican attack machine. He’s a poet, not a fighter. The image at right notwithstanding, is there some connection between latte […]

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McCain wants to make health insurance just like banking

You can’t make up stuff like this.  In the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies (the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries — the people who figure out how much life and health insurance should cost) there is an article from John McCain.  Here’s what McCain says about market-based health reform: Opening up the health insurance […]

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McCain has already answered the question of what happened to the real McCain

Many people looking at the current mudslinging and lying coming from the McCain campaign have wondered what happened to the old McCain. You remember — McCain the straight talker who didn’t choose his words carefully, or McCain the maverick who was willing to buck his own party when they were wrong, call televangelists “agents of […]

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This is the truth – if we turn things upside down

Perhaps the best political ad ever created:

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