Any hope at getting an accurate accounting of who really won the election in Ohio now lies in the hands of one of the 100 members of the once august body of the U.S. Senate. Frankly, there isn't much...
Good news! Pat Robertson's direct line to God remains open. According to Media Matters, Robertson has quoted God as saying, "I will remove judges from the Supreme Court quickly, and their successors...
12 high-level military brass have petitioned the Senate to resoundingly reject Alberto Gonzales, the torture-lovin' judge/attorney that advised Gov. Bush kill more people than any sitting governor...
Troops hit by a "gas bomb." "I think the resistance is bigger than the U.S. military in Iraq. I think the resistance is more than 200,000 people," Iraqi intelligence service director General Mohamed...
The Rev. James Dobson wants to put six Dem senators in the "bull's eye" if they give Bush a hard time over judicial nominees. The NYT has the details on Dobson's latest crusade against democracy. If...
The paper of record is reporting on horrific and newly revealed torture methods used at Gitmo, including sensory deprivation, living in one's own shit, and forced enemas. But the Times doesn't call...
Biden, Bingaman, Boxer, Byrd, Clinton, Conrad, Corzine, Dodd, Dorgan, Durbin, Feingold, Harkin, Inyoue, Jeffords, Kennedy, Kerry, Lautenberg, Leahy, Levin, Lieberman, Mikulski, Nelson (FL), Jack...
We've spent a paltry $35 million to help the millions of people hit by the tsunamis. It's cost $147,652,150,345 (and counting) to do things like put this 9-year old boy in the hospital. That's nearly...
Much has been made on this site already about how little the U.S. cares about the victims of the tsunamis. By "cares," I mean, of course, pays. Because talk is cheap. And talk, at this point, means...
Lt. Gen. Jerry "You Say Muslim, I Say Devil" Boykin has a new job: figuring out how to screw the CIA out of their job. You may remember Jerry from earlier this year, when he said the following...
The AP reported yesterday that researchers at Cornell University did a nationwide poll that found 44% of Americans feel that the civil rights of Muslim Americans should be curtailed. Does that sound...
Barbara Boxer was just reelected to the Senate in California, and she's an extremely progessive member of what has become yet another embarrassing body of our federal government. Today, you need to...
Why, oh why, don't the leaders of the Democratic Party go after the GOP on the issue of sex and extra-marital affairs? Today, the New York Times (article) revealed that almost-Homeland Security jefe...
Yesterday, my colleague Bob Cesca wrote about the hideous-looking baseball-mitt sized ribbon-shaped magnets that adorn the cars of the unthinking across our nation. They are indeed horrible, both...
Last week, I wrote about the Defense Science Board, the branch within the Pentagon tasked with internal review. If these guys gave grades, the Pentagon would be getting an F. Minus. As the Herald...
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If you envision heaven as a big mud-wrasslin' ring, then it's not a leap to imagine that St. Peter has scheduled a match between Karl Marx and Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart and the man...
No, they're not cheering because Wal-Mart opened their doors at dawn the day after Thanksgiving. That's what we cheer for in THIS country. These guys are cheering because they brought down the...
The Defense Science Board, which one can assume is a division of the Pentagon hated by both Rummy and Georgie, released a report the day before Thanksgiving (great time to release reports! The...
