Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Why are all the pundits upset that we might avoid a war in Syria? Isn’t it a good thing that we might be able to work together with Russia to get a brutal dictator to give up his chemical weapons? I think this is great! What is wrong with us?
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013
© David Horsey The one thing we do know for sure is that no matter what Obama does about Syria, the Republicans will attack him for it. Ironically, because Obama has no really good options, at least from a political viewpoint, this means that he can pick the option that he actually believes is the […]
Monday, September 9, 2013
Republicans claim to be the party of personal responsibility. They don’t need Obamacare, they can take care of themselves, right? Which is why it is ironic that a poll found that significantly more Republicans are taking advantage of the provision of Obamacare that requires insurance plans to insure children up to the age of 26. […]
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Saturday, September 7, 2013
Just a few years ago, California was a laughingstock. It was nearly bankrupt, its infrastructure was crumbling, and you couldn’t get the two political parties to agree on anything. Sound familiar? Kinda like our national politics now? Just two years ago, the idea that California could be a global model for anything was laughable. When […]
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Saturday, September 7, 2013
© Ruben Bolling Why do we keep assuming, against all evidence to the contrary, that we can just waltz into a country, kill some people and leave, and everyone will live happily ever after. It’s almost like a fairy tale, where every stubborn political problem has a simple military solution. Or maybe it does, if […]
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Thursday, September 5, 2013
© Matt Bors I’m not sure what to think about Syria. But I pretty much have the same questions about Syria as I did about Iraq. What is the goal of our attacking Syria? Is it to depose Assad, like we did with Saddam Hussein? If so, what happens after we do that? Do we […]
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013
It is too bad that I don’t have a category for “sanity in an insane world”. This story definitely qualifies. Los Angeles County Sheriff oversees the largest jail system in the nation, and yet he travelled to Washington to lobby the government to give him less money, and instead spend the money on preschools, saying: […]
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Washington Post published an editorial “Republicans should get out of the way of Obamacare“. Their argument is summed up by the last paragraph: Congress enacted the Affordable Care Act. The Supreme Court found most of its provisions to be constitutional. Republicans, having opposed the bill and supported the legal challenge to it, are entitled to […]
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Monday, September 2, 2013
© David Horsey [Notes about the comic by David Horsey] When are America’s leaders going to step up and protect us from the most threatening terrorists, hedge fund managers? Sure, some Islamist nutcase might be able to set off a bomb on a bus or in a building, but, horrific as that may be, the […]
Thursday, August 29, 2013
© Jeff Parker First it was decided that Corporations are people and money is free speech. Then it was decided that the right to privacy only applied to the spies. I guess 1984 was just 30 years early. What I find really ironic about this is the news that even though Snowden was a lowly […]
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
I am told that when I was just a toddler my mother took me and we marched with Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Today is the 50-year anniversary of his famous “I have a dream” speech, so it is appropriate to take stock of how much has changed for the better in the last 50 […]
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© Tom Tomorrow The “journalist” in the last panel is David Gregory from “Meet the Press”. Who during a heated exchange did indeed ask Greenwald why he shouldn’t be charged with a felony. Gregory claimed that Greenwald “aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements”. Gregory seems to think it is the job of […]
Tea Party Senator Ted Cruz was born in Canada (and is still a Canadian citizen), to an American mother and a Cuban father. So how are birthers who questioned Obama’s eligibility to be president responding to Cruz’s desire to run for the highest office? With an extra dose of irony, of course! The constitution is […]
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Glenn Greenwald is accusing the UK government of purposely leaking damaging classified information and blaming Edward Snowden for the leak, in order to make it look like Snowden has been leaking damaging information (information that could place people in danger). I am going to reserve judgement about what is really going on, but it is […]
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
According to a new survey done by Public Policy Polling in Louisiana, slightly more Republicans in the state blame Barack Obama for the inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina than blame George W Bush. Even though the hurricane that battered Louisiana occurred while Bush was president, and three years before Obama became president. Interestingly, the largest […]
