Anti-abortion Alabama state Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin (R): “When a physician removes a child from a woman, that is the largest organ in a body. That’s a big thing. That’s a big...
Author - Bob Cesca
The Beginning of the School Arms Race
It begins with $30 million for armed police officers in schools: Freshman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and six other House Republicans have proposed legislation that would spend $30 million a year on...
American Racism’s Greatest Ally: The Republican Party
My Tuesday column and some familiar territory: In a relative sense the American Civil War wasn’t that long ago. Soon after I was born, my parents took me to visit my great grandfather, Charles...
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Your Nipples Are Obscene!
And there’s a North Carolina law in the works to codify it: North Carolina state Rep. Rayne Brown (R) is defending her proposed legislation which define women’s nipples as indecent, WRAL...
Worst Person in the World
Racists also smack babies on airplanes: Jessica Bennett, 33, of Minnesota told the FBI that she and her son were seated in row 28, seat B, on February 8 on Delta Flight 721 that originated in...
The Most Ridiculous Thing You’ll Read All Day
And it comes to us from Andrew Stuttaford of the National Review Online, who writes: “We waste a fortune on measures (that will have no impact for decades, if ever) to tamper with the climate...
Teen Shot Dead After Sister Attended Obama Gun Control Rally
Horrifying: A Chicago teenager was shot and killed just hours after her sister sat on a stage behind Barack Obama, listening to the president appeal for tighter gun controls. Janay McFarlane, 18...
I Evidently Have to Scream ‘Baby Killer!’ or I’m an Obamabot
My Monday column begins like so: The harshest critics of my column, “No, President Obama Is Not ‘Worse Than Bush’ on National Security,” posted both here at The Daily Banter...
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Jane’s Addiction – “End To The Lies” I’m in transit this morning, so nothing much from me — at least until later. Oh, and stand by for the After Party at Noon...
Arkansas Set to Pass Worst Anti-Abortion Bill So Far
To be a pregnant woman in the midwest is an increasingly one-track fate thanks to Arkansas and other misogynistic state legislatures: After Republicans won big gains in the Arkansas legislature in...
Shocker: The Latest NRA Video is Full of Lies
Barf. Yeah, it’s all one big lie. The administration never proposed a buy-back program — hell, I haven’t even pitched a mandatory buy-back program. But, hmmm, now that they mention...
Marco Rubio is Far, Far Right
There’s this: In the National Journal’s 2011 vote rankings, Rubio ranked as the 13th most conservative senator, while Heritage Action’s scorecard has Rubio as the third most...
Wayne LaPierre Is a Paranoid Maniac. Like a Fox.
Excerpt from my Thursday column: I’m becoming increasingly convinced that when the NRA was looking for an executive vice president and chief spokesman, they discovered Wayne LaPierre in a...
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President Obama’s Ambitious State of the Union
He didn’t call for a ban on human-animal hybrids, but the president’s State of the Union address last night was astonishing for its ambitious inclusion of a lot of new and recently...
Rubio Was Very Thirsty
This is probably one of the most awkward water breaks in the history of televised political addresses. Have the memes and photoshopping begun yet? Continue reading → Continue reading →...
State of the Union: Full Video and Transcript
The transcript: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals...