Bachmann’s Brainless Trust
According to Michele Bachmann’s volatile new brain trust, the best place for a bomb— especially a “money Bomb”— is a bomb shelter.
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The Tiffany Catholic
Callista Gingrich posing as a Stepford Wife* Now we know how much a Tiffany Catholic costs to maintain: Newt Gingrich owed up to $500,000 to Tiffany May 17, 2011 2:23 PM Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who entered the 2012 presidential race just last Wednesday, is having an epically bad week. And it’s only Tuesday. On Sunday, Gingrich angered conservatives …
The Paranoid Stylings Of Glenn Beck
Solange Uwimana over at Media Matters draws our attention to an interesting conjunction between Glenn Beck and the late Richard Hofstadter : The year Glenn Beck was born, Harper’s published an essay by Richard Hofstadter in which the historian explained a “style of mind” common among “extreme right-wingers” of his time. He referred to it as “the paranoid style” for …
Hey Kids…
We are, right now, living in an amazing moment of history. And this moment has happened because the youth around the world have decided they’ve had enough. Young people are in revolt — and it’s about time.
HAPPY TALK
Having taken the first step along the path of compromise and least resistance… It requires a great and noble character, having started out wrong, to turn about and go right. All too often one’s own mind tends to justify continuance in the path of error when once it is entered upon. —The Urantia Book
Colbert Storms The Hill
Political satire has a long and effective history of highlighting important social and political issues, going back at least as far as the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Contemporary satire has taken many forms, from political cartoonists like the late Paul Conrad; the sixties Yippies throwing burning cash from the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange, performance art that …
