I don’t know. Maybe it is just another case of the Republicans accusing the Democrats of something they themselves are guilty of. FiveThirtyEight has an interesting article about identity politics. For example, The GOP has long accused Democrats of supporting affirmative action mainly to attract minority votes, even if it didn’t actually help that minority. […]
I think this speaks for itself (note that the numbers add up to 120%): So the real question is: Did Fox News falsify research to support their own theories on Global Warming? I think it is pretty obvious they did. Fox News, the news for people who are too stupid to add. UPDATE: Jon Stewart […]
Roger Ebert has an interesting article in his journal pointing out the hypocrisy of people who think it is in bad taste to discuss religion in public, but have no problem talking about New-Age beliefs such as astrology, psychics, reincarnation and past lives, healing crystals, Tarot cards, or Feng Shui. As Ebert puts it: If […]
The news media has been reporting on something they are calling “ClimateGate” — some internal emails from the Climatic Research Unit in England that were hacked and leaked. Some climate change skeptics are claiming that these emails prove that climate change is bogus. Hardly. I’ve looked into the emails and the code, and there just […]
Conservatives Republicans have decided that the world must be remade to match their ideology. First they proposed a “purity test” — a ten-point checklist of conservative positions. In order for a candidate to receive funding from the national Republican Party, they must be able to prove that they support at least eight items on the […]
So this week, the Senate was supposed to start debating health care reform, but arcane Senate rules are allowing Republicans to bring the Senate to a grinding halt. In fact, Senator Judd Gregg just sent out a memo to the Republicans with 15 parliamentary techniques that can be used to shut everything down. The Republicans […]
Glenn Greenwald has an excellent column today in Salon, which points out the hypocrisy of typical American war rhetoric about Muslims. For example, there is a column in the NY Times today by Thomas Friedman, who complains bitterly about the “half-truths, propaganda and outright lies about America that have taken hold in the Arab-Muslim world […]
Last night on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, former Bush Press Secretary Dana Perino made the astounding statement “We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.” See for yourself: What was 9/11? Chopped liver? Hannity doesn’t seem to notice, having lost his ability to tell truth from lies […]
Last week, the christian American Family Association came out gunning against Gap, Inc., announcing a “two-month boycott over the company’s failure to use the word ‘Christmas’ in its advertising to Christmas shoppers”. On its website, AFA says that Gap “does not use the word ‘Christmas’ to avoid offending those who don’t embrace its meaning. Christmas […]
In Forbes Magazine, Bruce Bartlett (an advisor to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official under Bush I) points out the staggering hypocrisy of any politician who is criticizing the Democratic health care reform bill as socialist or deficit-busting, but who voted for the Republican Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit in 2003 (which the US Comptroller called […]
Jon Stewart and Samantha Bee discuss the upcoming trial of 9/11 terrorists in NYC: Great quote: “Geraldo Rivera is now the voice of reason”.
The Republicans have been making a big stink about the health care bill paying for abortions. But Politico has found that the insurance plan that the Republican National Committee offers to its employees pays for elective abortions. Their health insurance company, Cigna, says that the RNC has the option of not covering abortions, but has […]
Jon Stewart totally skewers CNN for doing a fact check on Saturday Night Live’s recent Obama skit, but letting guests get away with blatant lies:
Republicans are fond of claiming that they have nothing against Obama personally (what, me racist?), it is just they don’t like his policies. So it is interesting to see that the right can’t contain their glee that Obama failed to get the 2016 Olympics in Chicago: The newsroom of the Weekly Standard burst into applause. […]
House Minority Leader John Boehner recently told reporters that he hadn’t been able to find a single American (other than a politician) who is in favor of a public health care option. This despite the fact that a majority of Americans are in favor of the public option. So in response, here is a video […]
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