Even though the original story has fallen apart, the prevailing narrative at certain publications and on social media is that the NSA has been granted sweeping, direct-access to American’s data...
A monument to a distant ancestor of Michelle Obama that was born into slavery has been knocked over at its resting place outside Atlanta. From the Associated Press REX, Ga. (AP) — Police in...
Artist – David Fitzsimmons I agree with most of what Jeffrey Toobin has to say here, arguing that Snowden is neither a hero or a whistelblower. Particularly these passages. These were legally...
Citing a senior administration official, Sam Stein reports that members of congress have been briefed 22 times on section 702 of FISA during President Obama’s tenure. Emphasis mine. According...
During an interview with the StarTribune, Senator Al Franken confirmed that the Senate Judiciary Committee is well aware of how the intelligence community conducts itself and he downplayed some of...
According to Senator Ted “Proud Wacko Bird” Cruz, President Obama is the “biggest obstacle” to passing immigration reform, and if it weren’t for him we would have...
Artist – Rob Rogers The motives of the latest person(s?) to mail Ricin to the president seem fairly clear to me. via TPM According to the affidavit, further analysis of the computers in the...
Artist – Jimmy Margulies In other news, a new poll from Latino Decisions found that 81 percent of voters support a “joint consideration of a pathway to citizenship and border...
Under the dishonest headline of “Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program,” the New York Times is reporting that tech companies do comply with government requests for information...
Artist – Rob Rogers In other news, Senator Marco Rubio has come out hard against allowing immigrants with provisional legal status to participate in the Medicaid program because he is the...
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck… The Director of National Intelligence and the president himself have indicated that the Prism story published by the Washington Post included...
From the LA Times A new report estimates that U.S. consumers who purchase their own health insurance saved $2.1 billion last year due to tougher rules in the federal healthcare law. Thursday’s...
Earlier this week Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, claimed that welfare dependent immigrants are coming to take away your guns, and what I would have considered to be a...
Artist – Bob Englehart In other news, it’s apparently okay to shoot and kill a prostitute in Texas if she doesn’t have sex with you. (H/T Gawker) A Bexar County jury on Wednesday...
Although New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has now appointed a Republican replacement to temporarily fill the shoes of the late Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg, Representative Louie Gohmert (R...
The father of the Patriot Act is very concerned about the NSA maintaining a record of phone calls, which is why he authored and introduced the Patriot Act. Or something. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R...
From the Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP-controlled House has voted to reject President Barack Obama’s policy to end deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the...
Artist – Daryl Cagle In other news, President Obama has selected former UN Ambassador Susan Rice to serve as his next national security adviser and former National Security Council aide...
Stephen Colbert mourns the end of Michele Bachmann’s career. I regret that he didn’t include the clip of her claiming women where stopping by the Planned Parenthood super center for an...
The link between radical gun culture and virulent xenophobia hasn’t always been unambiguous to the casual observer, but today it is. Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of...
