Andrea Mitchell Wonders if Condi Rice is the Solution to Romney's Stumbles. Jon Stewart Rips Fox, Romney for Phony 'You Didn't Build That' Attacks. Dick Armey: Don't Control Guns Because Cars Can Kill People Too. Jon Stewart Mocks Claim That It's Too Early to Talk About Gun Control. Kilmeade Asks Little Girls if Government Built Their Lemonade Stand.
Liz Cheney Says Romney 'Good' on Tax Returns but Her Dad Released 10 Years. Boehner: Bachmann 'Pretty Dangerous' But Staying on Intelligence Committee. John Sununu, Everybody's Drunk Uncle. Charles Pierce Calls Out S.E. Cupp For Her Colossal Idiocy. Michelle Malkin Sneers at People Who've Worked for a Living and Collected a Paycheck Their Entire Lives. Fox & Friends Attacks Jon Stewart for Making a Lot of Money. Lou Dobbs on U.S. Olympic Headgear: Hugo Chavez Wears Berets Too! Boehner: Health Reform Law Must Be 'Ripped Out by Its Roots' Okay, Bill O'Reilly: Time to 'Apologize for Being an Idiot' The Wrath of Cons - Operation Fast and Furious - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 06/26.
The Wrath of Cons - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 06/26. Stewart Goes After Fox For Editing President Obama's Comments on Immigration Policy. Jon Stewart started out this segment from Tuesday night's show going after the Republican hand wringers such as John McCain, his BFF Lindsey Graham and Tim Pawlenty, for claiming that President Obama's change in immigration policy, where he is no longer going to deport those who would have otherwise been protected if the DREAM Act had been passed by Congress, is somehow unprecedented.
As Stewart pointed out, that's not true if you count George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Washington Parent: Sex Education Is 'Just the Same as Raping Somebody' John McCain: Corporations Are Not People. Glenn Beck Loves The Show Glee So Much It Terrifies Him (Or Something) (VIDEO) Glenn Beck (yes, people somewhere still listen to him) is apparently a huge fan of Glee, although he thinks the show is the worst thing to happen to teenagers since Clearasil and hair product (cause if a teenager isn’t hiding his or her face in shame, that teenager is up to no good).
From Right Wing Watch: It was a year ago I was watching the show Glee with my wife and we watched it like this—[gasp]—I mean, it’s horrifying some of the things that they are teaching high schoolers, but it’s brilliantly done, it’s brilliantly done. It’s produced brilliantly. It’s music, brilliant; it’s acting, brilliant; it’s cinematography, brilliant. I said this to her at the end, this was a year or a year and a half ago, ‘We lose, there is no way to beat that.’
Beck has a solution. We spent about a year now trying to put together a push back with artists, with music. 'Proud' JPMorgan Chief Apologizes. Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York TimesJamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, arrived to testify before a Senate committee.
WASHINGTON — Jamie Dimon, the outspoken chief executive of JPMorgan Chase under scrutiny for a multibillion-dollar trading loss at his firm, apologized for the mishap on Wednesday even as he mounted a fierce defense of his bank. Testifying at a much-anticipated hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Mr. Dimon said that he was “proud” of the bank, highlighting the firm’s “fortress” balance sheet and its performance during the financial crisis. “We’re doing what a bank is supposed to do,” he told a panel of lawmakers, few of whom posed combative questions during the roughly two-hour hearing.
When Did We Become So Gutless? Quiz: Which is the wiser, more reasonable, and, ultimately, more effective decision-maker?
Manager A, who does his or her best to consider all the relevant facts—including any mitigating circumstances, messy as they may be? Or Manager B, who adheres to a rigid “zero tolerance” policy? I think most of us would say it’s the nimble-minded Manager A. Not only is Manager A’s style best suited to the subtleties and ambiguities of a complicated world, but, in truth, we wouldn’t even need a live human being to do Manager B’s job, because a well-written computer program could do it equally well. Campaign Chairman Defends Romney's 'Wisdom': 'You Need Fewer Teachers' Crooks and Liars. Colbert's The Word: Sink or Swim. Senate Republicans Block Pay Equity Bill. J.
Scott Applewhite/Associated Press Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland with Lilly M. Ledbetter, for whom an equal pay law is named. As Lilly M. Ledbetter, the woman whose name was attached to a 2009 law that ensured equal pay for women, watched from the gallery, the Senate voted, 52 to 47, to open debate on the legislation, 8 votes short of the 60 required. “It’s a very sad day here in the ,” Senator Barbara Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland, said after the vote. O'Reilly: 'Racial Profiling' Ban Would Increase 'Street Crime' Prom Duress - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 05/30. Texas Honor Student Gets Jail Time for Truancy. Romney Backers Explain Past Criticism of Him. Republicans have been assailing President Obama and his re-election team for days for pointedly – and they say unfairly — questioning the private equity experience of Mitt Romney.
But on Sunday, three prominent Republicans were called to answer for their own past criticisms of the former Massachusetts governor. Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor and a rival of Mr. Romney’s in the 2008 Republican presidential primary, had painted a dim picture during that campaign of the former governor’s economic policies and the health care program he put in place in Massachusetts. Asked on the CNN program “State of the Union” how he reconciled that with his current support of Mr. But even while seeking to muffle his past criticism, the former mayor managed to underscore what he deemed “my far superior record to his otherwise decent record.” McCain on Romney's Bain Record: 'Free Enterprise System Can Be Cruel' Taxing strip clubs for rape - Sex. It used to be that strip clubs were merely blamed for society’s ills.
Now they’re actually being charged for it. In recent years, measures have been introduced in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois and, most recently, California to apply special taxes to strip clubs — specifically to fund sexual assault services. John Fugelsang: Only in America Can You Be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-Torture... and Still Call Yourself Pro-Life. Stephen Colbert Defends Pappa Bear O'Reilly Against the 'Pinhead' Bloggers. Colin Powell Takes Hannity to Task for His Obsession with Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright. Happy Graduation! Here’s The Best, Most Depressing Journalism on Student Debt. Republicans Order Navy to Quit Buying Biofuels. A boatswain's mate fuels an F/A-18E jet aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W.
Bush. Photo: U.S. Navy. Navy biofuel program: Why the House Armed Services Committee was shortsighted to ban it. Candice Villarreal/U.S.
Navy via Getty Images. Killing a $12 million military program may seem like a paltry matter. The sum amounts to a mere 0.002 percent of the total defense budget. But the elimination of one such program this week by the House Armed Services Committee reveals—more brazenly than many larger tamperings—just how shortsighted, hypocritical, and beholden to special interests the custodians of national security can be. Anti-intellectualism is taking over the US. Recently, I found out that my work is mentioned in a book that has been banned, in effect, from the schools in Tucson, Arizona.
The anti-ethnic studies law passed by the state prohibits teachings that "promote the overthrow of the United States government," "promote resentment toward a race or class of people," "are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group," and/or "advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals. " I invite you to read the book in question, titled Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, so that you can decide for yourselves whether it qualifies.
In fact, I invite you to take on as your summer reading the astonishingly lengthy list of books that have been removed from the Tucson public school system as part of this wholesale elimination of the Mexican-American studies curriculum. The situation in Arizona is not an isolated phenomenon. The law has taken some startling turns as well. Nonwhite Babies Pass White Babies In United States. US Congress Endorses 'Indefinite Detention' Policy. The US House of Representatives this morning endorsed the policy of indefinite detention without trial of terrorist suspects, including US citizens seized on American soil, by failing to pass an amendment that would halt the practice.
GTMO representation by Zina Saunder. (Image: Center for Constitutional Rights/ccrjustice.org) The final vote to defeat the amendment -- part of the 2012 National Defense Authorization ACt (NDAA) -- was 182-237. “Congress today rejected a chance to start to clean up the mess that it made last year with the NDAA indefinite detention provisions,” said Christopher Anders, ACLU Senior Legislative Counsel in response to the vote.
“No president should ever have the power to order the military to imprison civilians located far from any battlefield. By rejecting this amendment, the House of Representatives failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law.” Pushing Personhood: Bei Bei Shuai's Bogus Murder Charge. Tracy Thorne-Begland and the Virginia House of Delegates: The state Legislature rejects the judicial nomination of a prosecutor—just because he’s gay. Photograph by Chris Ijams/University of Richmond. Shortly after 1 o’clock this morning, the Virginia House of Delegates proved that it can indeed be as mean-spirited and parochial as its detractors at Comedy Central have come to expect.
By a slim margin, the House voted to kill the judicial nomination of an openly gay Richmond prosecutor who had bipartisan support going into the vote. Kansas Governor Signs Bill Allowing Pharmacists And Doctors To Deny Women Birth Control. A bill that allows pharmacists and doctors to deny women access to contraception has been signed into law by Kansas Governor Sam Brownback. This new law is just one of many bills that the Republican governor has signed since he came into office. He has recently signed legislation that pressures abortion clinics with new regulations, legislation that imposes long waiting times to get an abortion, and legislation that bans insurance companies from covering abortion procedures.
This new bill, known as the Heath Care Rights of Conscience Act and sponsored by GOP state Rep. Lance Kinzer, was signed into law on Monday, and according to The Kansas City Star: Tennessee Governor Signs Bill Defining Kissing And Holding Hands As ‘Gateway Sexual Activity’ Into Law. Republican Tennessee Governor Bill Haslem has signed the ‘Gateway Sexual Activity’ bill into law. Earlier this year, the Tennessee Republican controlled legislature overwhelmingly passed the bill, passing the House 68-23 and the Senate 28-1. The governor signed the bill before the Mother’s Day weekend. The law is so vague that it could define kissing and holding hands as ‘gateways to sexual activity’ and make it difficult for sex education teachers to address such activity in class. The law also may prevent sex education teachers from discussing contraception. The new law allows teachers who do encourage the use of contraception to promote safe sex to be punished, which could scare teachers from even mentioning contraception at all, meaning sex education courses would consist of just abstinence-only programs, which are proven to not work in preventing teen pregnancy.
The law also levies a fine of up to $500 to guest speakers who promote safe sex or “gateway sexual activity.” Barack Obama's Gay Blasphemy - The Colbert Report - 2012-10-05. Paul Ryan Budget: House Passes Bill To Spare Defense, Cut Food Aid, Health Care. Rep. Paul Ryan WASHINGTON -- The House on Thursday passed its plan to spare the military's growing budget from mandatory cuts, instead slashing Medicaid, benefits for federal workers and programs to help feed hungry Americans. The House drew up the "reconciliation budget" in hopes of heading off automatic cuts mandated in last summer's deal to raise the nation's debt limit. Under that deal, $1.2 trillion must be "sequestered" -- that is, cut -- from the budget over the next 10 years, with about half coming from the military.
Such reductions would still allow the defense budget to grow by 20 percent. The House GOP plan passed 218 to 199, with 16 Republicans and all Democrats voting no. Rather than decrease military spending, the plan reduces projected outlays elsewhere. Barack Obama vs. North Carolina on Gay Marriage - The Colbert Report - 2012-09-05. Colbert Mocks Hannity for Buying Obama Hater Jon McNaughton's Painting. Jon Stewart on the Right's Cognitive Dissonance With Refusing to Give President Obama Credit for Anything. Open Thread: Republicans, Get In My Vagina! Sean Hannity Vs. An OccupyWallStreet Organizer. Unexceptionalism: A Primer. To achieve unexceptionalism, the political ideal that would render the United States indistinguishable from the impoverished, traditionally undemocratic, brutal or catatonic countries of the world, do the following: If you’re a justice of the Supreme Court, ignore the first sacrament of a democracy and suspend the counting of ballots in a presidential election.
Appoint the candidate of your choice as president. If you’re the newly anointed president, react to a terrorist attack by invading a nonterrorist country. New Fracking Rule Is Issued by Obama Administration. Fred R. Republican Noise Machine Accuses President Of Politicizing 9-11. A Round of Shots - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 05/12/04. 'Wrong Font Size' Keeps Michigan's 'Shock Doctrine' in Place. Dismissing Veto Threat, House Passes Student Loan Bill. Worst primary whiffs - 2012 Elections. The dirty little secret about political punditry, that is not actually a secret to anyone who watches and reads it, is that it’s all lies. It requires very little knowledge or skill, and there are no consequences for being wrong. For a major newspaper to fire one of its columnists for getting something wrong would bring down the whole pundit industry, as that logic would necessitate the firing of them all. Every election pundit is wrong about everything, nearly all the time, and there’s usually a direct correlation between a pundit’s frequency of wrongness and his or her status — see the Washington Post’s stable of columnists for a prime example.
The entire punditocracy is a sham, but thank you for reading anyway. George Will: President Who Believes ATMs and Airport Ticket Kiosks Cause Unemployment. Liz Cheney and John Bolton Rewrite Bush Years, Claim Torture Caught Bin Laden. Up With Chris Panel on Chasing the Unequal American Dream. Coulter: 'Negroes' Need More Guns Because of 'Democratic KKK' The Tea Party Report: Mitt v. Obama. Student Loan Interest Rates Loom as Political Battle. White House officials said the president was planning a sustained effort through the spring: On Friday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan will discuss the issue at a White House briefing, and on Saturday in his weekly address, the president will call on Congress to pass legislation preventing the rate hike. Next week, Mr. Hannity Asks Romney About Obama Eating Dog as a Child. Jon Stewart Hits Republicans for Having Trouble With Math on Buffett Rule.
Rush Limbaugh Discovers Siri has a Liberal Bias. Tennessee Law Will Allow Teachers to Challenge Climate Science. Tennessee soon will have a law granting public school teachers the right to challenge climate science in their classrooms. Gov. Bill Haslam (R) of Tennessee declined to act on a measure yesterday that would formally allow teachers to challenge "the teaching of some scientific subjects," including global warming, evolution and human cloning.
Without the governor's signature, the bill becomes law by default later this month. Tony Perkins: Open Homosexuality Caused Secret Service Scandal. Health Care in an Age of American Decline. Ted Nugent on Dems: Ride Into That Battlefield and Chop Off Their Heads. John Podesta Calls Out Liz Cheney on the Bush Tax Cuts, Medicare Part D and Two Wars Being the Drivers of our Deficit. Ed Schultz Blasts ‘Unmitigated Disaster’ Dick Cheney. Fox News Contributor Blames Obama's 'Disdain' for Women on 'Marxist' Father. Jon Stewart Takes on the GOP's War on Women. Does anyone realize what the GOP just did? - Opening Shot. Senate Republicans used a filibuster to kill the Buffett Rule last night. There was no surprise in this. Without substantial GOP defections, there was no way Democrats would have the 60 votes needed to force an up/down vote.
Anti-Mormon Pastor Endorses Romney Saying Obama Opposes the Bible. Glenn Beck Leads His Internet Network From His Own Oval Office. Glenn Beck has been in Texas only a few months, and he’s already talking big. Stephen Colbert Starts New Hashtag for Sen. Chuck Grassley After He Calls the President Stupid on Twitter. Billy Graham's Daughter: 'I Would Not Vote for an Atheist' Www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42473.pdf. Limbaugh: Obama is the 'Generalissimo' in the War on Women. The Daily Show Takes on Tucson's Mexican-American Studies Ban. Tea Party Report: Good Friday Edition. Christians Fight for Their Children’s God-Given Right to Bully Gay Kids. Despite the fact that there’s scant evidence in the Bible that Jesus was an asshole who commanded his followers to bully gay children to death, a group of American Christian parents seem to think Christ has called upon them to act like jerks.
That’s why they’re actively working against the passage of anti-bullying laws at the state level — they believe that by making repeated, ongoing cruelty illegal, lawmakers are interfering with their Jesus loving child’s right to point out that homosexuality is wrong and bad and hellbound. “Bullying children is wrong and bad” may sound like the most basic tenet of human decency, but if you ask conservative lobbying groups like Concerned Women for America and Focus on the Family, making it a crime to taunt someone until they kill themselves is akin to interfering with religious freedom. Condoleezza Rice On Donald Rumsfeld: He's a "Grumpy Guy" Sullivan: Bush & Cheney Don't Believe John McCain Was Tortured. Rove Calls Obama a 'Political Thug' for Supreme Court Remarks. Fox News Anchor Wonders If Obama Threatened to Kill Chelsea Clinton.
McCain: Romney's VP Should Be Sarah Palin. The Daily Show: George W. Bush Hits the Lecture Circuit. Pat Robertson: 'Demonic Possession' Related to Homosexuality. ‘Overpopulation Is A Myth’ Says Mom of 19, Michelle Duggar (Video) George Will: No Measurable Evidence That Bush v. Gore Harmed Prestige of Supreme Court. Trying to Further Villify Abortion Doctors By Implying They're Also Cannibals. What Is Liberty? Access to Health Care or Death? Sean Hannity Continues to Play 'Campaign Donor Police' Over Spike Lee Tweet. Retro Remakes as Hollywood Looks Back to the 1980s. Tucker Carlson Calls Black Lawmakers 'Professional Race-Baiters'