Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker believes the next Republican nominee for president should be a governor, of course, but the other criteria he lays out may exclude him. “I think it’s got...
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Fun and Games
A group of future sociopathic leaders (young conservatives) at the University of Texas are apparently holding a game this week where students will hunt for fake illegal immigrants. Here’s a...
Moment of Derp
After Fox Business host Stuart Varney claimed that many elder patients would no longer be able to see the same doctors because they’ve been dropped by United Heathcare’s Medicare...
Too Soon
Artist – Rob Rogers Senator Ted Cruz has a very busy weekend planned. Warren Throckmorton reports that Cruz is scheduled to speak at David Barton’s “ProFamily Legislators...
Conservatism is a Mental Illness
Good luck wrapping your head around this one. According to the NRA, we make the world more dangerous for women by honoring famous women who are victims of gun violence. via Media Matters NRA News...
Another GOP Governor Refuses Healthcare for Thousands
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell (R) has announced that he will not allow the expansion of Medicaid. Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (R) on Friday announced that his state would not expand Medicaid under the...
Ethics Committee
Artist – David Fitzsimmons According to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, we can’t have immigration reform because something, something, something Obamacare. Is the implication that if...
Photo of the Day
Here’s something you don’t see every day. This is what a 4-mile high volcanic explosion looks like. The photo was taken at Mount Sinabung in Sumatra. (via Gizmodo) Continue reading →...
GOP Wants Your Terrible Insurance Plan to Remain Terrible
House Democrats introduced a proposal today to extend consumer protections to people who keep their shitty, outdated insurance plans throughout the next year. Republicans objected to that proposal...
Intimidation
Artist – Tim Eagan According to NSA Director General Keith Alexander, Edward Snowden leaked at least 200,000 classified documents to a variety of organizations in the media. What are the...
Inevitable Republican Overreach
Remember what I said earlier today about the inevitable Republican overreach? A group of House Republicans have introduced articles of impeachment against Attorney General Eric Holder for a comedic...
Colbert on Richard Cohen
Here’s Colbert on Washington Post columnist and homeless Colonel Sanders Richard Cohen. Okay, Richard Cohen has known slavery was bad for at least seven days. I’m glad I’m not the...
What Could Go Wrong?
The Undetectable Firearms Act is set to expire on December 9th and I wouldn’t count on this Congress to renew it. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) have introduced...
Crocodile Tears
After weeks of being hammered over the cancellation of shitty, outdated insurance policies, President Obama announced today that insurance companies will be allowed to continue selling shitty...
The Government Takeover That Wasn’t
Artist – Nick Anderson In other news, gunfire broke out at the largest high school in the Pittsburgh Public School system today, injuring at least 3 students. BREAKING: Police say 4 are taken...
Keeping Up With The Gohmert
What has The Gohmert been up to lately? Apparently he’s back to sniffing glue. Did President Obama create a security security force that obeys his commands when he signed Obamacare into law? Of...
Nearly Half a Million Already Covered by Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
Virtually no one else seems to be paying any attention to the hundreds of thousands of people now covered by Medicaid, so I will. And before we go any further, note that these are very early...
Darrell Issa is Really Bad at This Fake Scandal Thing
House Oversight Chairman Darrell “Witch Hunt” Issa has leaked another supposedly damning bit of information on Obamacare and, like the last leak, this one is just as bogus. Last week...
Only in America (or Somalia)
Artist – David Horsey In other news, the Supreme Court effectively struck-down an Oklahoma law mandating ultrasounds prior to abortion today when it refused to hear the state’s case...
Colbert on 60 Minutes and Benghazi
This is America thus we must turn to comedy programs for a proper dissection of the news media. Of course Fox News has been working this story for a year, having definitively proven that tragedy...