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You can also watch this on the White House website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/04/01/special-message-president by … Continue reading
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This sounds like it can’t possibly be true, but it appears to be for real: A conservative group called One Million Moms objects strongly to a Geico commercial featuring a computer-animated pig in a parked car with an attractive woman. … Continue reading
According to a number of erroneous reports, when the mother of one of the victims of the Aurora, Colorado shooting asked Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) about regulating assault weapons, he curtly responded, “I can tell you right now you need … Continue reading
Matthew Yglesias (in a Slate blog post) and Jonathan Chait (at http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/02/david-brooks-obama-plan-birther.html) had mutually supportive pieces yesterday deriding claims that both parties are equally to blame for lack of progress on deficit reduction. A particularly silly accusation is that Obama … Continue reading
Fear of the undead is spreading: Link: http://youtu.be/ueBZuZAoglE Clarification: By “Canada addresses the zombie threat in parliament” I mean that Canada, in parliament, addresses the zombie threat, not that there is a zombie threat in parliament that Canada is addressing. … Continue reading
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Link here. The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Link here. by … Continue reading
As you’ve no doubt already heard, on Friday an asteroid 150 feet across will pass closer to the Earth than our geosynchronous communications satellites, moving more than 17,000 miles per hour. There’s no risk of a collision this time, but … Continue reading
This past Thursday morning a Fox Business News personality named Shibani Joshi appeared on Fox and Friends to describe the U.S. solar power industry as “dead in the water” and shill for natural gas. But co-host Steve Doocy quite correctly … Continue reading
According to an article published last week in The Guardian (based on a report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy), U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are at their lowest level since 1994. (A separate report … Continue reading
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Link to video here. by … Continue reading