David Shuster broke this news early this morning: Bush family encouraging Jeb to run for President in 2012. Family/surrogates also taking steps to muddy GOP field for possible Bush entry. The caliber...
Author - Bob Cesca
Quote of the Day
“I never thought I’d live in a country where we would debate whether we should endorse torture as an official policy. Was some information obtained through torture? Probably yeah. Could it have been...
The President Versus The Clown
And the president continues to pummel Trumpie the Clown. The Sunday night ratings: A supersized edition of Donald Trump’s competition series Celebrity Apprentice spanned three hours, going head-to...
Chart of the Day
Over the weekend, Dick Cheney and other Bush apologists resurrected their exhaustively debunked claim that their policies -- including and specifically torture -- kept us safe since 9/11. Of course...
Morning Awesome
The White Stripes - "The Hardest Button to Button"
Spring Fundraiser Day 1
It's day one of our Spring fundraiser. We do this every several months in order to keep the blog and the podcast filled with free-flowing outrage and wonky,graph-based analysis. So if you have a few...
Worst Person in the World
Rick Santorum for telling a lesbian that she doesn't deserve the "privilege" of adoption. A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a...
Quote of the Day
"One last note: the Rude Pundit finds it sadly funny that, after a trillion plus dollars spent on the wars, after thousands of soldiers killed, that what it took to get Osama bin Laden was a criminal...
Andy Card Slams White House Chest-Thumping
This is rich. President Obama has ‘pounded his chest’ too much and taken too much pride in the success of the mission to take out Osama bin Laden, according to, of all people, George W. Bush’s former...
Pakistan's Funniest Bin Laden Home Videos
The Pentagon released a strategic array of Bin Laden home videos seized at the terrorist's compound in Abbottabad. I say "strategic" because I'm fairly certain they were chosen to portray Bin Laden...
Morning Awesome
MANIAC - "Thank Each Mistake"
The Linguistics of the Obama-Osama Gaffe
Via Andrew Sullivan: The syntactic category rule means that when two words are confused for one another the "target" (the word replaced) and the substituting word are almost always of the same...
Quote of the Day
"Ronald Reagan would have a very difficult, if not impossible, time being nominated in this atmosphere of the Republican Party. [...] Because he raises taxes as governor, he made deals with...
This Week in Islamophobia
I don't usually resort to the Fox News Channel practice of singling out noncombatants like teachers, but come on. A Texas high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave following an...
This Week in Misogyny
Disgusting. A teenage girl who was dropped from her high school's cheerleading squad after refusing to chant the name of a basketball player who had sexually assaulted her must pay compensation of...
Morning Awesome
Stevie Wonder - "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
And… Discuss.
Jon Stewart, the other night, making a case for releasing the Bin Laden death photos. What do you think?
Dick Quote of the Day
"9/11 families and everybody else in America should be furious at this president that he’s walking abound taking credit for, you know, getting Osama bin Laden. He didn’t get Osama bin Laden! … The...
The Republicans Are All About Jobs
The 2010 wave of Republicans promised to balance state and federal budgets and to create lots and lots of jobs. Which is why they're going to pass this very serious bill in Florida: Floridians are...
Graph of the Day
The economy still isn't creating enough jobs to keep up with population growth, but things are slowly improving thanks to the president's first major success, the American Reinvestment and Recovery...