Here’s how The Colbert Report opened the day after the Boston Marathon bombing, serious and funny at the same time: The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive Click here for link. by … Continue reading
New Zealand member of parliament Maurice Williamson addresses the house briefly on the subject of same-sex marriage, which passed by a larger-than expected margin of 77-44 on Wednesday. The woman shown several times is a principal sponsor of the bill, … Continue reading
About the time of the explosions in Boston I was on the phone with a colleague there who had been visiting family and was at Logan on the way back. Neither of us learned about the attack until later. Fortunately … Continue reading
Conservatives have never been fans of Social Security and for years have advocated fully or partly privatizing it (which Wall Street would adore) or at least pushing through major cuts, which they are often inclined to call “entitlement reform” because … Continue reading
Last week, Rep Rand Paul (R-Texas) made an appearance before students at Howard University and tried without notable success to persuade them that Republicans are the real pro-civil-rights party (at least if you overlook the last half-century or so). On … Continue reading
NBC’s Saturday Night Live often parodies the Fox News morning program Fox and Friends, and a routine feature is a rapid crawl of corrections to things supposedly said previously on the show. A few examples I particularly liked: At no … Continue reading
I just read a blog post by Roger Ebert yesterday, one talking about his plans for the near future, which included cutting back on reviewing to just the films he wanted to write about and writing more on other subjects, … Continue reading
An article by Alyene Senger on the Heritage Foundation website has a headline, prominent chart, and final paragraph that are all misleading on the cost of the Affordable Care Act. The chart gives the impression that the Congressional Budget Office … Continue reading
As you’ve probably read, popular Egyptian comedian Bassam Youssef, sometimes called the Egyptian Jon Stewart for his political satire, was recently arrested, interrogated, and released by Egyptian authorities. Here our own Jon Stewart comes to his counterpart’s defense (broken into … Continue reading
Two Republican legislators, Representatives Harry Warren and Carl Ford, both of Rowan County in central North Carolina, have introduced a bill (PDF) to allow cities and counties within the state, and the state as a whole, to declare an official … Continue reading