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Jon Stewart pokes fun at the self-described “fair and balanced” network: The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook by … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Josh Barrow at Bloomberg has a good explanation of why Mitt Romney’s claims about his tax plan don’t hold water. To review briefly, Romney’s proposal is to cut personal income tax rates by 20 percent, eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax … Continue reading
An analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that “Nearly six in 10 Medicare beneficiaries nationally could face higher premiums for Medicare benefits, assuming current plan preferences, including more than half of beneficiaries enrolled in traditional Medicare and almost nine … Continue reading
NBC’s Saturday Night Live had an excellent parody of the vice presidential debate, one of their best recent bits: And here are some highlights of the real recent debate between U.S. vice presidential candidates, extracted, reedited, and Songified to the … Continue reading
Malala Yousufzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl who gained international recognition as an advocate for education and was shot in the head by Taliban thugs last Tuesday (see my earlier post), has been transferred to a hospital in England to receive … Continue reading
From post by Dylan Matthews on The Washington Post‘s website: The Joint Committee on Taxation is one of the most respected institutions in Washington. It is to the tax code what the CBO is to the budget: a nonpartisan, impartial … Continue reading
Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), the current Republican vice presidential nominee, has recently been condemning the whole idea of stimulus spending as wasteful, at least in public. Ryan said, at least as early as 2010 that he would not request and … Continue reading
Coma Niddy’s rap about dark matter: On the clip’s YouTube page you can click “Show more” to see the lyric and additional information about Coma Niddy (Mike Wilson), the writer-performer-producer, including links to his other science-related rap songs. I have … Continue reading
In 2009 the Taliban took over an area in northwest Pakistan, among other things closing girls’ schools. One remarkable 11-year-old student named Malala Yousafzai, the daughter of a teacher, wrote a diary for the BBC about life under the Taliban. … Continue reading
The folks at Bad Lip Reading offer their version of the first presidential debate, way more fun than the real thing: by … Continue reading