Author - Bob Cesca

Movies

'Conservative Movies'

The National Review compiled a list of the Top 25 greatest conservative movies of the last quarter-century. Prepare to say WTF?! 1. The Lives of Others (2007) 2. The Incredibles (2004) 3...

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History

Naming the Presidents

In honor of President's Day, I tried to list all of the presidents from memory in less than 60 seconds and, as always, I stumbled on #11 and #12, and I misplaced Benjamin Harrison. My results after...

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Torture

Keeping Us Safe

When Bush used to say he was smoking the evildoers out of their holes, he apparently wasn't being metaphorical. Seriously, this will sicken you. A former Guantanamo guard has exposed some of the most...

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Republican Party

The Last Straw

President Obama: "Look, once a decision was made by the Republican leadership to have a party-line vote -- a decision that I think occurred before I met with them -- then I'm not sure that there was...

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Economy

Very, Very Weird

I'm still shaking this off. There was a span of about three or four minutes this morning when I actually agreed with Lindsey Graham and Peter King who expressed support for nationalizing the banks...

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Afternoon Awesome

Afternoon Awesome

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Environment

Sabotage: Climate Edition

Another repercussion of the Bush years: Despite widespread concern over global warming, humans are adding carbon to the atmosphere even faster than in the 1990s, researchers warned Saturday. Bad, yes...

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Economy

Epic Fail

On Friday, Rush Limbaugh was wishing for the recovery bill to fail: "I want everything he's doing to fail... I want the stimulus package to fail.... I do not want this to succeed." As I was reading...

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Blogging

Game On

Maddow interviewed by Mother Jones: MOTHER JONES: You've risen to fame critiquing the Bush administration. Will your show change without that foil? MADDOW: As if Fox News did really poorly with Bush...

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Economy

Pity Party For The Financials

The Senate Democrats slipped a provision into the recovery bill that, according to the Washington Post, "limits bonuses for executives at all financial institutions receiving government funds to no...

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Economy

Repeat, Repeat, Repeat

Via Paddy in the comments: GOP Votes Against Biggest Middle-Class Tax Cut In History Repeat, repeat, repeat. Why are the Republicans against tax cuts for the middle class?

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Republican Party

Vindicating Steele

Congress has passed the bill, but in the last 48 hours, the Zero Cred Republicans yanked a few more lies out of their collective lie bucket. ● Limbaugh said that you can't do a text search of the PDF...

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