Watch Rand Paul agree with Eric Holder less than 24 hours after his 13 hour filibuster. On what constitutes an imminent threat: “Anybody bringing a weapon to a place, assembling a weapon, using...
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Feeding The Crows
Artist – Steve Sack In other news, new figures released by NOAA today revealed that global CO2 emissions increased dramatically in 2012. But don’t worry, we have a debate about drones to...
Conspiracy Theory
The Texas state Senate Education Committee is debating a bill that would prohibit Planned Parenthood from providing sex education materials to public schools. Why? Because sex education is part of...
We Tried This Once and the Results Were Horrible
Watch Senator Lindsey Graham call for arming yourself to protect against roaming gangs following a natural disaster. Graham: Let me give an example. That you have a lawless environment where you have...
Nope, Not Racist At All
This extensive profile of Fox News chief Roger Ailes that was published by Vanity Fair yesterday contains the following passage Lewis then read Ailes a summary of the flap over Democratic operative...
This Should Fix Everything
In addition to tying contraception and defunding the non-existent ACORN to a continuing resolution that would prevent a government shutdown, Representative Louie Gohmert Pyle (R-TX) has also...
Scalia’s Entitlement
Artist – Daryl Cagle In other news, U.S. stocks closed at an all time record high today. About $10 trillion has been restored to U.S. equities in the past four years as retailers, banks and...
The Free Shotgun Experiment
Here’s Colbert on the absurdity that is Texas gun laws. In Texas, copyright laws are much stricter than gun laws. Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading →...
The Milquetoast That Is Jeb Bush
After years of waiting in the wings and pretending to be a voice of moderation who should not be associated with the machinations of the Tea Party, Jeb Bush has revealed that he is positively Romney...
Governor Howdy Doody Suffers Another Setback, The Stupid Party is Still Stupid
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s signature legislation, which I lovingly refer to as “Jesus Rode a Dinosaur Education,” has been ruled unconstitutional in its entirety. Gov. Bobby...
House GOP: Lets Tie Contraception to a Government Shutdown. Because Why Not?
Defunding the non-existent organization ACORN isn’t the only wedge issue some House conservatives are attempting to insert into a continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown. A group...
Because ACORN!
House Republicans introduced a continuing resolution yesterday that would prevent the federal government from being shut down, and this was tucked away inside of it. WASHINGTON — A new short...
Worst Person in the World
The aptly named Representative Gassman is today’s Worst Person in the World for this. Seven Republicans in the Iowa House are pushing a bill to prohibit parents of minor children from getting a...
Mission to Mars
Artist – Dave Granlund In other news, U.S. stocks closed today at their second highest level ever and the highest point since 2007. A new all time record high could come any day. If Wall Street...
Not So Fast
Although Florida Governor Rick Scott recently decided to do an about-face and support the expansion of the state’s Medicaid program under Obamacare, contradicting all of his previous rhetoric...
Republican Outreach
Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) explains why she voted against the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The Senate version. You know, what you do is you begin to dilute the money that needs to...
Failure to Launch
You can drop former Governor Jeb Bush from the list of people making sense on immigration reform. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said on Monday that his immigration plan will not include a path to...
Within Earshot
Artist – Bill Day In other not-news, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is utterly lacking in self-awareness and has no idea what he’s talking about. Also — Republicans are...
All The President’s Bullies
Artist – Jeff Darcy Here’s the impassioned, detailed defense of President Obama’s use of “Jedi Mind Meld” which you probably couldn’t imagine someone writing...
It’s Raining Fire
We do share bits of Space Porn here from time to time, and this seems to be as good of a candidate as any. This video, released by NASA last week, depicts what they’re referring to as...