Roger Ebert on Glenn Beck’s latest, um, crusade? What are the words “social justice” code for? Why, Nazism and Communism, says Beck: “Social justice was the rallying cry–economic justice and social justice–the rallying cry on both the communist front and the fascist front.” Beck even went so far as to cite Jesus Christ, saying, and … Read More “Glenn Beck versus Jesus Hitler” »
Category: politics
…but I know you didn’t. Still, it’s helpful that Frank Rich put together in three paragraphs a litany of the intelligence and national security madness pursued by the previous White House: Obama may well make — or is already making — his own mistakes. And he will bear responsibility for them. But they must be … Read More “In Case You Forgot…” »
Marc Thiessen defends the “al-Qaeda 7” attack ad by likening the attorneys who defended detainees in Guantanamo, as well as José Pedilla, John Walker Lindh, and others to “mob lawyers” and “drug cartel lawyers.” Setting aside the obvious point that even mobsters and drug lords deserve representation in a court of law, we should not … Read More “Writing Disaster” »
The big news in bated breath anticipation of outcomes hopefully serving American geopolitical interests is the Iraqi election on May 7. The stakes are high, whoa-ho-ho!, so CNN sits down with its resident foreign expert guy, Fareed Zakaria. The main question on every Americans mind is, Will the trillions of dollars spent and thousands of … Read More “Weekend Round-Up of U.S. Global Power Games” »
Because Bart Stupak wants to screw over poor and middle class women and risk the fate of health care reform in Congress, I have decided to fight back the only way I know how — by drawing mean pictures of him.
Karl Rove has learned his lesson: Mr. Rove adamantly rejects allegations that the administration deliberately lied about the presence of weapons in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. But he acknowledges that the failure to find them badly damaged Mr. Bush’s presidency, and he blames himself for not countering the narrative that “Bush lied,” calling it “one of … Read More “Bzzt. Try Again.” »
Shorter Harold Ford: “Dude, I coulda totally pwned that bitch if you pussies hadn’ta hold me back.” Glad that sideshow’s over. I have not lived in New York in 15 years, but I still take its politics very seriously. I didn’t want no Teabagging Palinites and I don’t want no Carpetbagging Blue Dogs. FWIW, I … Read More ““Fuggeddabot It. (Is That How Y’All Say That?)”” »
Kentucky GOP senator Jim Bunning screwed over 1.2 million jobless Americans with one filibuster. And that ain’t all: “This means that construction workers will be sent home from job sites because federal inspectors must be furloughed.”Federal projects shut down include more than $38 million in project funding for Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest and Fernan … Read More “How Big of a Dick is Bunning?” »
Anyone remember Lynn Forester de Rothschild? Think reeeeeaaaaalllllly hard back to the closing days of the 2008 election; and you may recall an upper class white woman with strong ties to the investment class making a big regretful noise that, contrary to decades of loyalty to her Democratic Party, she could not in good conscience … Read More “Look Who’s Sorry Now. Or Something.” »
People — queer or straight — who support social equality for sexual and gender minorities tend to consider the subjects of their advocacy as whole people. For instance, one might think of a married couple of gay men as two goofy dudes who listen to Heavy Metal and play video games, like Brian and Steve … Read More “Homophobes are Anally Fixated” »
