Oh, good grief. (CNN) - The Children’s Book Council and its Every Child a Reader program released on Thursday their author-of-the-year finalists for their annual Children’s and Teen...
Rush Limbaugh Nominated For Author Of The Year
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This Was The Week Edward Snowden Went Full Max Headroom
Cult of personality: Arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. Russian...
Don’t Tread On My Obamacare!
Organizing For Action is taking back the Gadsden flag for posterity and rescuing it from the dim-witted clutches of Tea Party loons who’ve hijacked the symbol and robbed it of all its worth...
Thanks A Lot
Artist — Nick Anderson In related news, President Obama is set to introduce “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” debuting tonight on National Geographic Channel. In honor of the series...
Marathon Spelling Bee Ends With “Definition?”
Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning? KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A marathon spelling bee finally has a conclusion — after nearly 100 rounds and two weeks of anticipation...
SNL Channels President Obama’s Inner Tough Guy
To help negotiate a peaceful solution to the Russian invasion and occupation of Crimea, SNL enlisted the services of top negotiator, Liam Neeson, to remind Vladimir Putin and Right wing nut jobs...
Chalkboard Fail at CPAC
The Conservative Political Action Conference wrapped up this weekend, bringing out the craziest of the crazies for a hate-filled week of paying tribute to ignorance and white superiority. But...
War and Republicans
Artist — Pat Bagley In related news, Fox News host Tucker Carlson went on Alex Jones’s radio show to say, “The federal government takes sides and hands out spoils based on...
Nerd Power!
Josh Marshall called it, “Peak Prez Selfie.” Can’t say I disagree. They must be wearing their pocket protectors on the inside. Continue reading → Continue reading →...
Sen. Harry Reid Drops The Gloves
Career scumbag-propagandist Tim Phillips, head of the Koch-funded Americans For Prosperity, lashed out at Harry Reid this past week for taking to the Senate floor in two separate speeches to...
For President Obama, Everything Is Everything
Sam Stein and Sabrina Siddiqui put together a piece for the Huffington Post outlining the media’s sensational framing of everything President Obama has encountered during his presidency...
Pompous and Gassy State Governments
Artist — Pat Bagley In related news, “On February 20, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), released the findings that January 2014 experienced global...
Already A Banner Election Cycle For Dark Money
From The Daily Beast: In this second midterm election since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, nonparty groups such as super PACs and politically active nonprofits...
Correcting The 2nd Amendment
An excerpt from the book by recently retired Justice John Paul Stevens, “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution” is quietly making the rounds, indicating...
Frank Luntz Sets Out To Ruin Sports, Too
Trying to bill itself as a ’24 hour sports news network’ that dedicates a disproportionate share of airtime to NASCAR and classing up cockfighting tournaments, FOX Sports 1 enlisted the...
Clarence Thomas Still Wasting Space
Jeffrey Toobin checks in with the progress Justice Clarence Thomas is making in his lifetime appointed position of ‘checked-out’ mute to the most important court in the world, and...
Minimum Wage
Artist — Mike Keefe In other goings on, Bill Maher tries to help promote the Affordable Care Act. Pastor Jamie Coots, a rising star of National Geographic’s “Snake...
This Is What Freedom Looks Like
Here comes the sun… “Take 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors, each 7 feet high and 10 feet wide. Control them with computers to focus the Sun’s light to the top of 459-foot...
Greenwald: You’re All Just A Bunch Of Dick Cheneys!
I’m embarrassed for him. Dems, 2006: Dick Cheney is the root of all evil. Dems, 2013: let's copy Dick Cheney's speeches denouncing journalism — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 12...
Rand Paul Must Think The Founding Fathers Were Deaf and Dumb
In a recent op-ed posted on CNN, of all places, Senator Rand Paul(R-KY)finally broke his silence on the Obama administration’s leadership skills, specifically where the NSA and our...