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Author - Bob Cesca
Worst Persons in the World
Fox Orlando affiliate WOFL for this: A Fox Orlando affiliate decribed Neo-Nazis as “a civil rights group” on a television broadcast and online. The group of Neo-Nazis, known as the National Socialist...
It Could've Been Much Worse, Olbermann
You could've been working for a TV news network in Greece. As seen in this video, anti-austerity protesters infiltrated this news show and, yes, pelted reporter Panagiotis Bourchas with eggs and...
Morning Awesome
The New Pornographers - "Mass Romantic" Live
Mike Wallace, 1918-2012
I don't know if they make newsmen with his kind of seriousness and journalistic integrity anymore. I hope they do. On reporting straight news: Here's Wallace interviewing Ayn Rand in 1959: And here's...
Ben Stein Can Feel Free to Suck It
According to Ben Stein, the president has a "1937 socialist, youth league, city college of New York approach to all economic questions". Yeah, guess what. 1937 was all about a conservative deficit...
Chart of the Morning
Low-wage workers are becoming older and more educated. Once we recover from the Bush era jobs collapse, we can begin to address who is working which jobs. Honestly, college-educated 40-year-olds...
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Rush - "Ghost Rider" Rush in Rio [In reference to our discussion on this week's After Party about hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL on life and starting over.]
Marble-Mouthed Hick Says President is Stupid
Chuck Grassley via Twitter: Constituents askd why i am not outraged at PresO attack on supreme court independence. Bcause Am ppl r not stupid as this x prof of con law No, senator, the president is...
Chart of the Day
Cantina Alien Reince Priebus, chairman of the RNC, thinks the war against women is "a fiction." This chart, from the article I cited on this week's podcast, proves otherwise. From the Guttmacher...
Drilling, Fracking = Manmade Earthquakes
If you're wondering why the ground is shaking and your stuff is falling off the shelves, ask the people chanting "drill baby drill." ThinkProgress: A U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) team has found that...
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MST3K Saturday - "Quest of the Delta Knights"
David Brooks is Very Serious
On MSNBC today: "And so, Obama's problem is he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who could go into an Applebee's salad bar, and people think he fits in naturally there." First, Applebee's doesn't...
Olbermann Off the Deep End
In Olbermann's lawsuit against Current, Olbermann went after Cenk Uygur's show. Via Buzzfeed: On Cenk Uygur, host of "The Young Turks": "Olbermann told them he did not believe Uygur would be a good...
Quote of the Afternoon
"[Olbermann] arrogantly and falsely calls "cheap" the company that has paid him the highest compensation he had ever received in his career, provided him the largest staff of any program he had ever...
This Week's Mail Bag is Posted
Over at The Daily Banter, Chez, Ben and I answer your questions. This week: 1. Why do you think the Republican Party has turned so extreme in recent years? I'm sure there are many reasons, but do you...
Price is Right Fail Horn
The jobs numbers aren't very strong. The U.S. economy added 120,000 jobs last month, while the overall unemployment rate dipped slightly to 8.2%. For the first time in a very long while, public...
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Chris Bathgate - "Big Ghost"
Today's Post for the Daily Banter
It’s Either Obamacare or Bust If the ACA goes down, there won't be any replacement for a long, long time. And it certainly won't be single-payer. Go read my post here. Also, I will posting an essay...
We're Supposed to Like Judicial Activism
Many liberals, including the president, are attacking the Supreme Court for using judicial review to potentially overturn a law. Even though we like the law in question (most of us anyway), we're...