Sen. Coburn Predicts Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Over Weekend
The Senate's redoubtable Dr. No, aka Tom Coburn (R-Planet Xanax), took himself off to USA Today'sCapitol Download to warn his fellow Americans that President Obama's planned executive action on...
View ArticleA Pipeline Too Far
Well. our old friend Keystone Pipeline XL is back in the news lately because both Republicans and Democrats need a legislative low hurdle to make it look like they know what they're doing. Both...
View ArticleFood Fight In The Old Family Dining Room
Anxious to hit the ground running with the newly-elected 114th Congress, President Obama invited leaders from both houses to join him in the White House' Old Family Dining Room for a post-election...
View ArticleRepublican Victory Anthem: Second Verse? Same As The First.
So. It's all over but the howling. One-third of America's registered voters bestirred themselves to get to the polls and offer up a vote of confidence for the worst Congress in US history --...
View ArticleSharyl Atkisson's Epic Marketing Fail
Well, it looks like Sharyl Atkisson has gone full metal nutjob. Perhaps it's the company she keeps, these days? Heeding the Marketing 101 rule "know your audience," Atkisson is busy hyping her book...
View ArticleHeard the one about Rep Paul Broun? Boob Walks Into Congress . . .
Outgoing Rep. Paul Broun (R-Not Soon Enough), got his name in the paper today for saying something ignorant and outlandish on the Rick Wiles radio program. Rick Wiles is a conservative wingnut...
View ArticleGremlin Fighter Anthony Culler Aims To Put The "Con" In Congress
PeeDee TonyTexas Tony Well, it's been quite a week for Anthony P Culler. Culler, a Republican, is challenging Rep Jim Clyburn (D-SC) for South Carolina's District 6 seat . . .Clyburn, a popular...
View ArticleConservative Culture Warriors Open New Front In War On Women
Well, I must admit that this is an audacious new offensive in the War On Women that the American Enterprise Institute has launched just in time for mid-term elections. Leading the charge is one...
View ArticleLegislator Proposes Imaginary Solution For Imaginary Problem
Rep Dennis Ross (R-Round the Bend) is a man of action. And he has the toolbox to make things happen. So, the minute this here election is over, he's returning to Congress with an emergency bill in...
View ArticleSchadenfreude: Not Just For Winners Anymore
Heads are exploding all over the Conserva-sphere, today. Mostly because the owners of those heads don't read very carefully. CJ Chivers broke a story, in The New York Times, exposing a Bush...
View ArticleStumping Through Arkansas With Tom Terrific
As others before me have noted, Tom Cotton (R-AR) is just about the perfect Republican candidate for the 21st century, which should put us sane people on guard. Cotton's a telegenic "aw, shucks"...
View ArticleEdupreneurs - Coming Soon To A School District Near You
Life in 21st century America is a hectic, demanding business and keeping up with current events can be like trying to drink from a water cannon. By cosmic standards, humans have developed mad...
View ArticleISIS Gonna Get You If You Don't Watch Out
It's apropos that Rep Duncan Hunter's (R-Hell, Yeah!) official website banner features a California skyscape dotted with hot air balloons . . . just sayin'. In case you're not that familiar with...
View ArticleAnatomy Of A Pedagogical Clustrf*k
By now, most news-watchers are at least aware of a bit of Americana being played out in the streets of Jefferson County Colorado, an affluent collection of bedroom communities adjacent to the Denver...
View ArticleJudge Jeanine Is Tired Of Charades
Judge Jeanine Pirro is a very smart, well-educated lady who has recently lost her marbles. But, thanks to the safety net provided by wingnut welfare -- Fox News and assorted other cable producers of...
View ArticleWaiting For The Barbarians
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) appeared Sunday on ABC's This Week:He acknowledged that President Obama does not support sending ground troops in to fight the radical group also known as ISIS or...
View ArticleValues Voter Summit: Annual Gathering Of Tools And Fools
My how time flies! it seems like just yesterday that Values Voter Summit 2013 was underway. For the uninitiated, the Values Voter Summit is a festival of political oratory aimed at Values Voters -- aka...
View ArticleRarely Has A U.S. Veep Been So Wrong About So Much At The Expense Of So Many
I try to ignore the Cheneys -- Dick and, now God help us, Mini-Me -- as much as possible because, to me, they smell strongly of sociopathy and I try to avoid that sort of thing. I blame the dumbing...
View ArticleNational Review Online: Climate Activists Are Hysterical Losers
Yesterday some 400,000 Americans took to the streets of New York City and paraded their concern over global warming. As a result, National Review Online's John Fund took to his escritoire to...
View ArticleRepublicans Call Early Dismissal And Beat It Out Of Town
By now, most of us have heard at least snippets of the rags-to-riches American Dreamy Tale of how John Boehner rose to national prominence from his humble beginnings as a child laborer back in the...
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