Posted by John Christian Plummer Or a shop that sell cigarettes? Because I can read, and thus I know that more Americans die of arterial damage and lung disease every year than are killed by Muslims...
Posted by John Christian Plummer Anchor babies and terror babies and Obama birther theories and Louie Gohmert's talkathon rages are nonsense. Sorry, they just are. I know there are some human lives...
Posted by JumpyPants The President won the Nobel Peace Prize. The scale of this honor is hard to measure, but he's only the third sitting president to do so. The first was Teddy Roosevelt, and the...
Posted by JumpyPants The President today connected two big dots: Health Care Reform and Job Creation. "...reforming our health insurance system will be a critical step in rebuilding our economy so...
Posted by JumpyPants I was driving past the Ed Sullivan Theater a few hours ago looking for a parking space, and on literally every one of the 8 corners near the theater was at least one camera crew...
Posted by JumpyPants When I went to sleep last night dreaming of Max Baucus and Blanche Lincoln cast in a production of Sartre's No Exit that would run non-stop for the rest of their natural (sic)...
No, really. He did. Today. Yep. This from the patron saint of the tea bag revolution. You know what? Come to think of it, the Sons of Liberty should've put the finances of the East India Company into...
Whoops! The number of new housing projects that builders broke ground on in February rose sharply, defying economists' forecasts for yet another drop in activity. The Commerce Department reported...
David Frum: The audience for Beck’s Friday night special were each given copies of two books. One of them was Cleon Skousen’s Five Thousand Year Leap. Skousen, who died in 2006, is one of the...
They're saying that Glenn Beck's ratings on FOX News Channel are good, as opposed to Glenn Beck's formerly sucky ratings on Headline News. Nevertheless, I have a complicated theory to explain this...
Leprechaun sitings in Mobile, Alabama. The perennial classic.
Glenn Beck and his punch-me face are plagiarizing conspiracy theories from the X-Files. I'm not making this up. WARNING: watch the video clip from FOX & Friends at your own risk. Beck massaging...
Give up? That Biden bit wasn't from a "recent" event. It was from the campaign. In September. Oh, and Biden was quoting John McCain. Here's the full quote: Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that’s why...
This is the Doof Quote of the Day: "We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling...
Is President Obama doing too much? Pew Research Poll: Trying to address too many issues at once - 35% Focusing on too few issues - 4% Doing about right - 56%
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and so forth. Tonight! The Republicans want tax cuts for AIG's Edward Liddy. Seriously.
"It's the conservative weekly Human Events. And in the lead article this week, they call it Obama's brazen deception to sell agenda. Essentially the point you just made, that they have, under the...
How did this slip through the blogotubing cracks? Frank Gaffney of the neoconservative think tank Center for Security Policy on Thursday's edition of Hardball: There‘s also circumstantial evidence...
Michele Bachmann after being called on her earmark lie: Well, the average earmark I think for the state of Minnesota for the members of Congress is somewhere around 70,000– $70 million, so mine is...
It occurs to me that the tag bag revolutionaries are mostly middle class people protesting against a tax increase for rich people. I say "mostly" because, statistically speaking, the Obama tax cuts...
