The one true God has been whispering in the ears of Glenn Beck, but God did not tell him the secret to world peace or everlasting salvation. No, God whispered in the ears of Glenn Beck to tell him...
Author - SK Ashby
Something Something Benghazi
You knew someone, at some point, would somehow tie Benghazi to the government shutdown. . @BarackObama sent 7 security guards to #WWIIMemorial this AM to keep out our vets. Sadly, that is 2 more than...
Fixed News
Fox News is editing reports filed by the Associated Press and replacing “shutdown” — as in government shutdown — with “slimdown.” Because apparently shutting down...
Don’t Tread On Them
Artist – Clay Bennett In other news, the EPA’s internal watchdog has found no evidence that agency employees used private email accounts to conceal dirty deeds. Another witch hunt...
Rick Perry Hand-Waves His Wife’s Comments on Abortion
When asked about his wife’s comments regarding abortion, Texas Governor Rick Perry said that sometimes “we’ll stick the wrong word in the wrong place,” implying that his wife...
Keeping Up With The Gohmert
Congress has passed, and President Obama has signed, a bill that will pay members of the military during the government shutdown, but apparently Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) was previously...
Ted Cruz Senior: Obama is In The Tank for Muslims
Now we know where Senator Ted Cruz gets his charming personality from. On Friday of last week Rafael Cruz Senior told a group of Republicans in Denver that President Obama is probably a Muslim and...
DOJ Hit Hard by Shutdown, GOP Rejoice
If you’re a big fan of voter suppression and discrimination (aka a Republican), you’ll probably see this as good news. For the Justice Department, many of its staff will be exempt from...
Empty Suit
Among the many ridiculous things House Republicans demanded over the past several days was kicking congressional staffers off their healthcare, and according to a new report Speaker John Boehner...
House of Turds
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Death Before Obamacare
Artist – Pat Bagley In other news, the Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the state of North Carolina over it’s voter suppression law which is widely seen as the most...
Shutdown Could Cut Growth Significantly
via Bloomberg Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics Inc. estimates a three-to-four week shutdown would cut growth by 1.4 points. Zandi projects a 2.5 percent annualized pace of fourth-quarter growth...
Mike Lee Really Hates Regulation of Toilet Water
As water levels in Utah hit a 20-year low amid record drought, Utah Senator and government shutdown aficionado Mike Lee’s primary concern is not how to repair the damage but rather the...
Government Shutdown Will Gut NASA
How will a government shutdown effect our nation’s space agency? Virtually all operations other than those that prevent people from dying will cease and 97 percent of the workforce will be...
Good People of Good Will? Not So Much.
While a New Jersey judge has declared that the state must extended marriage rights to same-sex couples, Governor Chris Christie has vowed to appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court and...
The White Whale
Artist – Tom Stiglich And now for something completely different. Here are a couple non-political stories that caught my eye this week that you may have missed. First, physicists at Harvard may...
Because ACORN
It’s time to resurrect that dead horse and beat it some more. via Media Matters A September 24 New York Post story explored de Blasio’s relationship with ACORN and Lewis, and quoted de...
The GOP Government Shutdown of 2013
Now that the Senate has passed a bill that preserves the status-quo and funds the government through November 15th, what will House Republicans do? According to new reports, House leadership plans to...
Least Self-Aware Tweet Ever?
Whiny columnists who sit on Twitter taking endless pot shots, then publicy self-victimize the minute someone says something critical of them — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 28, 2013...
Horton Hears an Idiot
Artist – Rob Rogers In other news, the long-awaited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has been released and it’s not pretty. You may want to have a few drinks before...