Feb

19

Imagine If Fox News Did This

Filed Under Media, Sports | 6 Comments

Here’s a screen grab from CNN’s website yesterday promoting a story about this weekend’s NBA All-Star game: Some weren’t happy with CNN for “Black Thanksgiving,” but I’m just guessing that if Fox News wrote something that The Justice Brothers would be camped out on Roger Ailes’ doorstep with bullhorns blazing by now. (h/t The Blaze)

Feb

18

House Votes to Defund Obamacare, Planned Parenthood

Filed Under Abortion, Health Care, Media, Politics | 13 Comments

Dem Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz said people shouldn’t use the term “Obamacare.” So with that in mind, I’m pleased to report that we’re one step closer to not having to use the word, because the House voted earlier to defund Obamacare: The House voted to defund President Obama’s health care overhaul on Friday during a [...]

Feb

18

Baghdad Wants US to Pay $1 Billion for Damages

Filed Under Politics, War | 10 Comments

Negotiating this request sounds like a job for Jimmy Carter: Iraq’s capital wants the United States to apologize and pay $1 billion for the damage done to the city not by bombs but by blast walls and Humvees since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. The city’s government issued its demands in a statement [...]

Feb

18

Wal-Mart Security Fired for Disarming Man With Gun

Filed Under Business, PC | 20 Comments

Does it sound as if Walmart’s policy for store security is, “If an intruder has a gun, save your own ass and let him kill somebody else”? Sometimes the best thing is to disarm an intruder immediately, and at Wal-Mart you can get fired for it: Four Wal-Mart employees have been fired after management said [...]

Feb

17

Turbo Tax Tim Geithner Admits Obama Admin Budget Unsustainable, Sun Rises in East, Dogs Like Fire Hydrants

Filed Under Economy, Politics | 12 Comments

This is funny in pitiful way. Here’s Tim Geithner’s testimony in a nutshell: “Yeah, that budget is unsustainable and will lead to inevitable disaster — but what other choice do we have?” In news about other economic savants in the White House, Obama’s new Press Secretary claimed today that money borrowed to pay interest on [...]

Feb

17

What Brought Mubarak Down

Filed Under Humor, World News | 7 Comments

By way of About.com/Lalo Alcaraz — a photo gets posted on Craigslist Cairo, and history changes: Christopher Lee no longer feels so alone.

Feb

17

Great Moments in Public Education, Part XXXIV: ‘Our Teachers Brought Us Here to Protest Some Dude’; Updated

Filed Under Education, Politics | 23 Comments

In Wisconsin, the future of public education is now. Union teachers, so ever concerned with their students getting a full-day’s worth of valuable study time, have been taking their students on class time to protest the Wisconsin governor’s plan to eliminate collective bargaining for public employees. How bad are these teachers? They didn’t even bother [...]

Feb

16

Michael Medved: Hey Palin & Limbaugh, Obama Isn’t Trying to ‘Weaken America’

Filed Under Media, Politics | 14 Comments

Semi-conservative radio host Michael Medved had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago in which he defended President Obama from those who believe he’s dragging the country down the financial septic tank intentionally. Here’s just a snippet: On his radio show last July 2, the most influential conservative commentator of [...]

Feb

16

Alvin Greene Gets 37 Votes in SC State Legislature Primary; Jim DeMint Started the Recession

Filed Under Politics | 11 Comments

So much for the “name recognition is everything” theory: Surprise candidate Alvin Greene was soundly defeated in his second bid for elective office on Tuesday. He captured only 37 votes or just about .01% of the 3,892 cast in a Democratic primary to fill a state legislature seat to cover an area including his hometown [...]

Feb

16

GOP Congressman Threatens to Defund Obama’s Teleprompter

Filed Under Politics | 14 Comments

A meanie Republican wants to take away the cape of Chris Matthews’ superhero. Are there larger issues at stake? Absolutely — but even still, this made me laugh just to picture the ensuing hilarity if TOTUS got repo’d for lack of funding: Before Obama met the press, a first-term Republican congressman, Steve Womack, had prepared [...]

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