Author - SK Ashby

Best Persons

Best Persons

Several Denver area hospitals are today's Best Persons for limiting or eliminating the medical bills of victims of last week's theater shooting. DENVER (AP) -- Some of the victims fighting for their...

Read more
Open Thread

The Great State of Denial

Artist - Steve Greenberg In other news, the senate successfully passed an extension of tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 per year today by a margin of 51 to 48. The bill will never pass...

Read more
Election 2012

More Bad Optics

Team Romney says President Obama is "foreign" while one of his campaign bundlers is a registered lobbyist for a foreign government, and apparently they're also accusing the president of leaking...

Read more
Photography

Photo of the Day

This is former Representative Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly at the top of the French Alps Most of us will never do this in our lifetimes, and most of us weren't recently shot in the...

Read more
Election 2012

Bad Optics

While Team Romney continues to suggest that President Obama holds "foreign" Kenyan anti-colonial views, or that he doesn't fully appreciate our "Anglo-Saxon heritage," a review by ThinkProgress has...

Read more
Open Thread

Keeping America Safe

Artist - Keith Knight In other news, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the Supreme Court's recent decision could lower the cost of the Affordable Care Act by $84 billion, but this comes...

Read more
Guns

What Could Go Wrong?

This will solve everything. "It's been insane," Rocky Mountain Guns and Ammo employee Jake Meyers told the Denver Post in reference to the marked increase in gun sales across Colorado observed in the...

Read more
Open Thread

Hate Obama Dot Com

Artist - Tim Eagan In other news, the NCAA penalized Penn State University today with a $60 million fine, a four-year post-season play ban, a reduced number of athletic scholarships, and stripped 14...

Read more
Wingnuts

The Big Scary U.N.

And you thought Arizona was done bringing The Crazy today. The man running for Sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, where Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head in January of last year...

Read more
Epic Fail

Wasteful Spending!

I shouldn't be laughing at this, but I am. This is absolutely hilarious to me. The fact that the 2011 debt limit fight harmed the U.S. economy in various ways has been well documented, but a new...

Read more
Racism

Nope. Not Racist At All.

While we're on the subject of former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce being a colossal douche, lets take a moment to look at the content of the emails the ACLU and other rights organizations...

Read more
Open Thread

Legacy

Artist - Chris Weyant In other news, Penn State removed the statue of disgraced former coach Joe Paterno today. According to the Freeh report commissioned by the university, Paterno not only knew...

Read more
Economy

Chart of the Day

We're only months away from sequestration, but as the chart below illustrates, the plans proposed by the two parties to avoid it aren't even remotely similar. via the CAP A new Senate GOP tax plan...

Read more