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Endless War: Hurrah, Wii Won! Let’s Keep Fighting!

Glenn Greenwald published an outstanding rebuke of our apparent policy of endless war Nov 23rd in Salon. I think that a certain Nobel Peace Prize winner would benefit from reading more Greenwald: Anonymous U.S. officials this morning are announcing in The Washington Post that they have effectively defeated what they call “the organization that brought […]

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Compromising Position

© Tom Tomorrow I loved the “Tears of the Pundit” part.

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Subsidies for the Energy Industry

© Ruben Bolling Conservatives somehow think that loan guarantees for green energy is a bad idea, while directly subsidizing oil companies makes good sense.

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One Part of the Economy is Going Strong

Yes We Can!

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Politics by Hostage

© Tom Toles

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The Power of Pre-emptive Compromise

© Tom Tomorrow According to Tom Tomorrow, a reader of his says that this cartoon was reported as “offensive content” and blocked on Facebook.

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Republican Messaging

© Lee Judge Message received, loud and clear. UPDATE: © Mike Keefe

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Republicans Want the Economy to Suck

Last week, the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits went up, causing widespread speculation that even though corporate profits are up, the economy is not recovering from the great recession and may even be heading for a dreaded “double dip recession”. One of the main things being blamed for this problem is high energy […]

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Fables for Our Time

© Tom Tomorrow Sometimes fairy tales do come true. I can’t think of any reason why this one shouldn’t.

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Stewart v. O’Reilly, round one

See this previous post for background on this one. UPDATE: Transcript of entire interview (on Fox News). What happened after what’s included in the above video is just as much fun. Or you can watch part 2 on video. UPDATE 2: At least I admire O’Reilly for publishing the poll results.

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Foxygen

The Daily Show creates a new meme: Foxygen — what you have to be breathing to believe the crap they show on Fox News.

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Ninja Gangsta President

Bill Maher hits the nail on the head:

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Jon Stewart Raps Fox News

Fox News creates a false controversy against Obama, for inviting rapper “Common” to a White House poetry event. How could Obama do such a thing? I’m sure that no controversial musician has ever been invited to the White House before! But as usual, we have to hand it to Jon Stewart for showing what complete […]

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The True Story of the End of bin Laden

© Tom Tomorrow As soon as you look away from this page, you will instantly forget how this really happened.

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Reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden

Ranker has a fascinating article on internet reactions to the announcement by President Obama that Osama bin Laden had been located and killed. Number one on their list was Fox News getting it terribly wrong: If that weren’t bad enough, they did it again: But they weren’t the only news organization with that particular fail: […]

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