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. Bush and Ronald Reagan, but hey, why should a few facts get in the way of Republicans coming on the air and clutching their pearls and feigning outrage? It's never stopped them before. Stewart also knocked them for having selective amnesia and pretending that the President did not try to get these reforms passed, only to blocked by Republicans and played some footage of the news coverage back in December of 2010 when the Senate filibustered the legislation. 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. My guess is the heroes will be the ones that throw the slushees. Here’s the video: '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.
The hearing on Wednesday was the latest chapter of the trading debacle, which has stained the bank’s reputation and prompted wide-ranging inquiries from regulators and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Despite the controversy plaguing the bank, Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. 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. Just type in the relevant data, press “Enter,” and the machine would spit out the proper decision.
Yet, despite the obvious virtues of Manager A, we’ve somehow allowed ourselves to become a nation dominated by bosses who emulate the inflexible decision-making style of Manager B. Consider the following. 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.
The bill would have built on the 2009 Ledbetter legislation, which adjusted the statute of limitations on equal pay lawsuits. The measure was part of Senate Democrats’ continuing effort to highlight divisions with Republicans over women’s issues and to force Republicans to take difficult votes on bills focused on domestic violence, wage discrimination and other matters. The only Republican to take to the floor to denounce the measure was Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, who has authored his own legislation that is less sweeping.
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. Romney, Mr. Giuliani said: “Well, I mean, there’s a certain amount of personal ego in that. 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.” In contrast, Mr. But he, too, had been critical of Mr. Mr. 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.
Now, even if you aren’t inclined to view erotic entertainment as the source of all evil, this might seem an appropriate aim — who wants to argue against additional support for rape survivors? It would seem even more so when you consider politicians’ and activists’ repeated claims of solid scientific evidence showing a link between strip clubs — specifically those that sell alcohol — and sexual violence. That is, until you look at the alleged proof. The key study advocates point to is one commissioned by the Texas Legislature in 2009. What it was trying to do was review the research on whether clubs have a “negative secondary effect” (in other words, harmful side effects).
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 | Danger Room. A boatswain's mate fuels an F/A-18E jet aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush. Photo: U.S.
Navy On Monday, the U.S. Navy will officially announce the ships for its demonstration of the “Great Green Fleet” — an entire aircraft carrier strike group powered by biofuels and other eco-friendly energy sources. If a powerful congressional panel has its way, it could be the last time the Navy ever uses biofuels to run its ships and jets. In its report on next year’s Pentagon budget, the House Armed Services Committee banned the Defense Department from making or buying an alternative fuel that costs more than a “traditional fossil fuel.” Committee Republicans, like Rep. But if the measure becomes law, it would make it all-but-inconceivable for the Pentagon to buy the renewable fuels. When Mabus took over as Navy Secretary, he declared that the service would get half of its energy from sources other than oil by 2020.
There were political costs, too. 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.
Fred Kaplan is the author of The Insurgents and the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Follow The program in question is a two-day experiment by the Navy to power an aircraft carrier’s entire battle group—its jet planes and escort ships—not with petroleum but with biofuels. The rationale for barring the Navy from buying the 450,000 gallons of biofuels necessary for the experiment is economic: These fuels are too expensive—about four times more costly than conventional fuels. Take the microchip. Ditto for the computer. 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 | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | American Voices. 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.” Agence France-Presse: House backs indefinite definition policy.
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. A last-minute lobbying effort by the very same social conservatives who pushed unsuccessfully to mandate “medically unnecessary trans-vaginal ultrasounds” this past spring, successfully killed Tracy Thorne-Begland’s bid for a judgeship, based on claims that his 20 years of “activism” on gay rights issues made him unfit to sit on the bench.
Dahlia Lithwick writes about the courts and the law for Slate. Follow Thorne-Begland won only 33 votes of the 51 he needed to win the judgeship. As was the case with the ultrasound bill, Virginia Gov. Republican Del. 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: “The new law would bar anyone from being required to prescribe or administer a drug they “reasonably believe” might result in the termination of a pregnancy,” and could “open the door for a pharmacist to refuse a request for something like the “morning-after” pill.” Kansas seems to be ground zero for the Republican war on women this year.
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.
"I am so sick and tired of the demonization of programs that benefit poor people in this country, especially the [food stamp] program," said Rep. "How do we reconcile more money for bombs while cutting money for bread? " 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. New Fracking Rule Is Issued by Obama Administration. 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. 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. 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.
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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. Anti-Mormon Pastor Endorses Romney Saying Obama Opposes the Bible. Glenn Beck Leads His Internet Network From His Own Oval Office. 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. 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'