When I mocked Fox News for implying that Michael Brown wasn’t unarmed because he was armed with “big black scariness,” I didn’t expect that someone would come out and use...
Noted Racist Frets Over Michael Brown’s Big Black Scariness
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Government Shutdown Fever
Government Shutdown Fever is back and both Steve King (R-IA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) floated the idea today. Speaking at the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa today, King said Republicans...
Outreach: Faith and Freedom Edition
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) was confronted by a group of DREAMers at a “Faith and Freedom” barbecue on Monday, and after he scolded them for being illegal a member of the audience chased...
Man Who is Wrong About Everything Continues to Be Wrong
William “The Bloody” Kristol apparently doesn’t keep track of current events because on The Laura Ingraham Show yesterday he called for bombing campaign while casually dismissing...
Inversion Whopper
Artist – Bruce Plante In other news, the Pew Research Center went in search of libertarians and they had a hard time finding any. Apparently only 11 percent of Americans correctly identify...
Nice Things and Why We Can’t Have Them
via ThinkProgress According to a new poll conducted by Harvard researchers, about 40 percent of Americans are anticipating an Ebola outbreak on U.S. soil within the next 12 months. And about 25...
Another Unhinged Republican Campaign Ad
GOP Senate candidate Dan Sullivan is very upset about spending from outside groups; upset enough to shoot a television. “Millions of dollars in negative ads are flooding into Alaska paid for by...
Wasteful Spending
House Republicans have disclosed how much money taxpayers will pay for their frivolous lawsuit against the president. House Republicans revealed Monday they will pay an outside law firm $500 an hour...
Inspector General: No Deaths at VA Hospital Because of Delays
This is not to say that everything is or was fine at the VA hospital in Phoenix, but a review by the department’s Inspector General has found that the widely repeated story about deaths was not...
Loopholes
Artist – Pat Bagley In other news, Burger King is reportedly planning to buy Tim Hortons and then move their headquarters to Canada so they can pay fewer taxes in what’s known as a...
What Could Go Wrong?
A former police officer and convicted rapist who tried to rape a women with his pistol has had his rights to own a gun restored by an appeals court in Georgia. The full details of the assault he was...
Rand Paul’s Double-Speak on Racial Injustice
As you may recall Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) wrote an op-ed two weeks ago denouncing the militarization of the police and unequal justice. And while I predicted that he would walk his comments back...
Unarmed While Black
The so-called liberal media is at it again, referring to an unarmed teen as an “unarmed teen.” And referring to a teenager who is unarmed as “unarmed” is reverse racism. Or...
The Way Backward
“Do you want to deport me and my sister?” That was the question an activist asked Paul Ryan at a book-signing for The Way Foward on Saturday and Ryan’s response was quintessential...
The Next Exit
Artist – Steve Sack In other news, Jim DeMint’s Heritage Foundation is urging Republican lawmakers to pass measures to fund militias and vigilante groups if the president issues an...
Rand Paul is a Moderate on Immigration? Hardly
We now have a better idea of why Rand Paul quickly exited stage right when Steve King was confronted by DREAMer activists earlier this month. While Rand didn’t have the courage to spell out his...
Diet Racism
Here’s College Humor with an entirely accurate and hilarious mockery of everyday racism. Enjoy the refreshing taste of Diet Racism. The same sweet ignorance of regular racism but with none of...
Steve King’s Dogwhistles and Rational Society
Secret Border Control Agent Steve ‘Calves the Size of Cantaloupes” King (R-IA) is concerned about events in Ferguson and he believes it’s emblematic of an “irrational...
Political Indictment
Nailed it. Artist – Rob Rogers In other news, a sixth grade teacher in Selma, Alabama has been suspended after instructing her students to research and reenact the Ferguson shooting of Michael...
The Wealth Gap Widens and Paul Ryan Says Cut Taxes
The US Census Bureau published a report today that, not surprisingly, shows that the wealth gap continues to widen. More significantly, it shows that the wealth gap is growing even among individual...