New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and probable candidate for President in 2016, was asked about what he would do as the government shutdown continues, and he told the Philadelphia Inquirer this...
Gov. Chris Christie Is Real Mature
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Edward Snowden Reminds Us All Of What Is Most Important
For the first time since taking shelter in Russia this past August, Wikileaks posted an edited video clip this week showing Edward Snowden speaking at a dinner in Moscow after receiving the...
Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz Storm The World War II Memorial
Just like Normandy! Opportunism knocks. WASHINGTON (AP) — A crowd converged on the World War II Memorial on the National Mall, pushing through barriers Sunday morning to protest the...
Sen. Ted Cruz: Ruler Of The Lunatic People
The Values Voter Summit this weekend couldn’t have come at a better time for conservative Republicans trying to stay united in their gloriously ill-conceived Holy Crusade against The United...
2013 Washington, D.C.: An Organizational Chart
Artist — Jack Ohman In other things, and such, Conservatives have gone psycho-concentrate on Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis, scarring any children in proximity for life. Sen. Ted Cruz is still...
An Acronym For The Times
No, not F.U.B.A.R., but close. Our National Weather Service team at the outpost in Anchorage, Alaska has a message for the federal government: “Please pay us.” A recent weather...
Monsanto Buys The Climate Corporation for $930 million
Because climate change is a liberal hoax perpetrated by poor people trying to turn us all into socialism! Monsanto recently purchased The Climate Corporation for nearly a billion dollars. Via...
The State of Texas Is Holding Out
The state of Texas wants to reassure you that they still have plenty of pentobarbital for administering lethal injection executions to mentally-retarded people for the foreseeable future...
Manifest Density
So, this week, Kentucky Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul were caught in an open mic moment talking about their government shutdown as a matter of public relations strategy and how they can...
Tea Party Principles
Artist — Clay Bennett In other news, things are looking worse for JP Morgan. On Tuesday (Sept. 24), the Wall Street Journal reported that JP Morgan was offering the government $3 billion to...
Ted Cruz Fails At Chess
Senator Ted Cruz evidently tweeted out this photo of an incorrectly set chess board as a way of communicating his obvious inadequacies. Or something. See, the white Queen is supposed to be on the...
Bill Maher’s Epic Defense Of California Governance
Credit where credit is due, Bill Maher’s latest New Rule: “Conservatives Who Love To Brag About American Exceptionalism Must Come Here To California” is the stuff of legend. I...
Rand Paul Demands We Turn Those Machines Back On!
In an interview on Face The Nation today, Senator Rand Paul told Bob Schieffer that he is a crazy person intent on destroying the nation’s economy if Republican demands are not met in less than...
Here’s To New Beginnings
In what has been a winning streak for believers in international diplomacy going on around here lately, what between both Syria and Russia being forced to come to terms with this president’s...
This Day In Civil War History
After losing battles at Cemetery Ridge and Gettysburg over 148 years ago, Confederate troops, now under the command of freshman Senators and congresspersons from the Tea Party, had reassembled their...
The Obsession
Artist — Clay Bennett In other news, Congressman Paul Ryan(R-P90X) is evidently in the process of writing a book on company time that’s going to be called, “Where Do We Go From...
The Grief Counselor-In-Chief
Fort Hood, Texas; Tucson, Arizona; Auroa, Colorado; Newtown, Connecticut; Chicago, Illinois. In an all-too familiar refrain, President Obama showed up today at the memorial for the victims of the...
Rand Paul and Republicans Are Winning Like Charlie Sheen
Speaking at the Liberty Political Action Conference event this past Thursday, an event sponsored by his father’s non-profit, Campaign For Liberty, an event where everyone uses the world...
Your Father’s Republican Party
Kind of lengthy, but here’s some excerpts from the Republican party’s 1956 presidential platform under Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon: Some basic tenets of your...
Wayne LaPierre’s Fuzzy Math
Speaking out for the first time since the mass-shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, still riding the wave of founding glory since the last mass shooting, the gun lobby sent Wayne LaPierre out...