While last night was Rep. Joe Wilson’s national coming out party as the Republican’s new poster boy for mindlessness, the truth is he has been really stupid for a while now.
Much has been made of the previously unknown Congressman screaming out, “You lie!” during President Obama’s address to Congress last night. His outburst came as [...]

Only one of these segments was supposed to be a joke. Can you tell which one?
This is from The Onion:

Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture?
And this is Liz Cheney explaining why waterboading isn’t torture on This Week with George Stephanapoulos from earlier today.

“Well, today, we lost a truly remarkable man. To paraphrase Shakespeare, I don’t think we shall ever see his like again. I think the legacy he left was not just with the landmark legislation he passed but in how he helped people look at themselves and look at one another.” –Joe Biden, yesterday, reflecting on [...]

In my short lifetime, I have never seen a politician speak in person more than I have seen Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
As a political science major at a college in Boston, witnessing a Ted Kennedy speech was almost a requirement for graduation. Remarkably though, for a man that was elected to the United States Senate [...]

Recently, President Obama had the audacity to suggest that everyone get a living will to prevent confusion during end of life care. He explained that both he and Michelle Obama have one and it lets you decide specifically how you would like to be treated if you are close to death. This simple suggestion (most [...]

I spend a lot of time ripping on members of Congress who are lining their pockets with money from insurance companies while trying to scuttle meaningful healthcare reform. But make no mistake, there are a lot in Congress who are on the right side of this issue. One is Rep. Anthony Weiner from Brooklyn. Here [...]

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
The two committees with absolute and total control over whether a health care bill will pass Congress in the next few months are the House Energy and Commerce [...]

Jon Stewart makes Bill Kristol admit government health care is the best.

Bill O’Reilly says Canadians have a larger life expectancy than Americans because we “have 10 times as many people” therefore “ten times as many accidents, crimes, and down the line.” Flawless logic as always.

A homeless man left $4 million dollars in his will to [...]

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Simply put, everyone should watch this. This is nothing short of a dissertation on the ins and outs of health care policy in America as it stands now and everything we have to gain from undertaking reform.
The president explained what reform will do, what [...]

When the news broke that Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates (who’s excellent work for the New Yorker is profiled here) was arrested in his own home in Cambridge a couple days ago in a widely reported racial profiling incident, many people were understandably shocked. But I would guess Dave Chappelle was not.  He was more [...]

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