Meet Clint Murphy. Last week, while Newt Gingrich was explaining why Republicans couldn’t repeal Obamacare unless they came up with a better replacement, Murphy showed a more direct example of why they can’t repeal Obamacare. Murphy is a Republican foot soldier. The kind of party activist who has worked on Republican campaigns including Casey Cagle, […]
© Tom Tomorrow You know, I don’t blame Obama for all of this. After all, the Patriot Act was enacted before he was even elected, and anyone who voted against it was practically branded a traitor. We are paying dearly for our idiotic knee-jerk fear-ridden reaction to 9/11. But Obama sure seems to be doing […]
© Jen Sorensen The real situation is even more bizarre than the comic suggests. The state’s top insurance regulator isn’t even allowed to be interviewed by the media about this. Also, the person responsible for implementing the Affordable Care Act in Missouri is not allowed to be paid by the state, so he is being […]
Lesley Stahl explains the big problem with our political system in one minute. Network responds by queueing the “we gotta go now” music. It is amazing of how ingrained money is in our political system. The next time you hear someone in the news say that so-and-so is not a serious political candidate, that is […]
[These are excerpts from an AP story. You can’t make up stuff like this.] A northern Arizona family that was lost at sea for weeks in an ill-fated attempt to leave the U.S. over what they consider government interference in religion will fly back home Sunday. Hannah Gastonguay said her family was fed up with […]
CNN’s medical expert Dr. Sanjay Gupta has changed his opinion about medical marijuana. He used to speak out against medical marijuana, but in a documentary to be aired this weekend, he admits he was wrong and apologizes: I have apologized for some of the earlier reporting because I think, you know, we’ve been terribly and […]
Watching this video actually brought tears (mainly of joy) to my eyes. If you think that what one person does can’t change the world, you’re wrong. If you think things aren’t generally getting better in the world, you’re wrong. Because, even in my lifetime, some things have changed so dramatically that I have even forgotten […]
As if it wasn’t bad enough that the government is listening in on all your phone calls and emails in the name of fighting terrorism, it now looks like they are actually using this information in order to fight regular crime. Regardless of how you feel about this, it is clearly unconstitutional. The government is […]
World War II and especially the following Cold War saw a dramatic rise in the popularity of comic book heroes like Superman, Batman, Captain America and dozens of others. It was a time of tension and uncertainty, so it was comforting to have heroes who were on our side, even looking out for us, and […]
© Rob Rogers The funny thing about Obamacare is that even though quite a few people will say they are opposed to it, if you ask them about all the individual elements that together make up Obamacare, they are almost unanimously in favor of them. The GOP has done an amazing job of getting people […]
© Robert Ariail Russia has granted asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for one year. Ironically, Russia is a strange bedfellow for Snowden. Indeed, if a Russian did the same thing to Russia that Snowden did to the US, they would probably be dead by now. But Russia has managed to make the US look […]
© Matt Bors Profiling, not just for blacks and hispanics any more. UPDATE: Hat tip to a reader for pointing out this article in Gawker. Be sure to read the comments. It just keeps getting funnier and scarier, all at the same time: Many people don’t want to hear this kind of tough love, of […]
© Jack Ohman But is the conversation going anywhere? In the immortal words of Rodney King, can we all get along?
I’m enjoying John Oliver’s summer at the helm of the Daily Show. Also worth a view is Lewis Black’s segment on Texas.
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