There's been a lot of yammering about the taxes in the Affordable Care Act. Apart from the penalty for not complying with the mandate, here's a rundown of the actual tax hikes in the bill. And hey ...
The Taxes in Obamacare
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Author - Bob Cesca
This Should Be Totally Annoying to Watch
The president is evidently committed to allowing the Bush tax cuts for the super-rich to expire. Though I have no idea how he'll preserve the tax cuts for middle and lower tax brackets. I don't see...
Yesterday, It Was Soooo Hot…
How hot was it? An airplane couldn't take off because it sank into the melty runway. A U.S. Airways flight at Reagan National Airport bound for Charleston, S.C. was delayed on Friday after it got...
Morning Awesome
Yes - "The Rhythm of Love"
Airlifting Poisonous Food to Remote Places
If you're nowhere near Taco Bell and their disgusting meat filler, they'll airlift it to your town. Oh boy! Taco Bell took the notion of delivery service to a whole new level recently, helicoptering...
Best Persons in the World
Google for this: The “Legalize Love” campaign officially launches in Poland and Singapore on Saturday, July 7th. Google intends to eventually expand the initiative to every country where the company...
Romney Fever! Catch It!
John Boehner has a fever. Romney fever. And there ain't no cure! According to Roll Call, the House Speaker said at a fundraiser in West Virginia last month that "the American people probably aren’t...
Morning Awesome
Rush - "Between the Sun and Moon" Live ten years ago last week. This was the first Rush concert following Neil Peart's self-imposed "ghost rider" motorcycle sojourn after the deaths of his wife and...
Quote of the Day
"Thus, acutely aware one cannot rebuild their hearth of home amongst the ruins of their U.S. House office, for the sake of my loved ones I must 'strike another match, go start anew' by embracing the...
Republican Sabotage Defined
ThinkProgress documents how the GOP has sabotaged job creation: 1. Filibustering the American Jobs Act. Last October, Senate Republicans killed a jobs bill proposed by President Obama that would have...
Mail Bag. Wet. Good.
This week's The Daily Banter mail bag is posted. It's good and good for you. The questions by way of a preview: Hey guys, how do you think Romney's foreign policy would differ to Obama's? I can't...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday - "Teenage Strangler"
Christie SMASH! RRRROOWR! Ice Cream!
Armed with an ice cream cone, Chris Christie lost his shpadoinkle at a angry pro-teacher resident while visiting a Jersey shore boardwalk. Get between Christie and his ice cream and you get the horns.
So Says the Fat, Impotent Draft Dodger
Here's Limbaugh suggesting that the nation went down hill when women achieved the right to vote. An error occurred with the video embed. So says the tubby asshole who can't get it up.
America is on Fire Because of the Climate Crisis
Stating the obvious, but with the utmost importance: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano this week linked climate change with the wildfires hitting Colorado. Napolitano said 'there's a...
Photograph of the Day
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Fox News Channel's 'The Five' Attacked Another Kid
My Thursday column is a no-holds-barred riff on "The Five"... When the programming wizards at Fox News Channel devised "The Five" it was kind of a no-brainer. And by the way, I think "no-brainer" is...
Morning Awesome
Jeff Buckley theme week wraps up with "Last Goodbye". How sweet it is. (Reminder: we didn't record the podcasts this week. Chez took a well-deserved summer vacation this week.)
The Biggest Lie in the History of the Universe
My pre-holiday Tuesday column in case you missed it: Okay, so this won't be a column about the biggest lie in the history of the universe. I have no idea what that might be. But I can safely say that...
Will This Somehow Create Jobs, Mr. Boehner?
The Boehner Republicans will soon begin a series of nonsense votes in an effort to symbolically de-fund the ACA. They'll never pass through the Senate and therefore are a big-ass waste of time, other...
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