Recent Posts Tagged With 'politics'

• Stimulus, Love Poetry, and Godless Immorality: Part Two

  Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 21:10 in religion, politics, Bible, God, economics, recession, wrath, national day of prayer, roland emmerich, sally kern

  An Oklahoma state representative suggests a qualified replacement for Ben Bernanke as Fed Chairman: Jesus....

• Stimulus, Love Poetry, and Godless Immorality: Part One

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 19:00 in politics, Barack Obama, George Bush, economics, rush limbaugh, affair, federal government, mark sanford, stimulus

  Rush Limbaugh proves that the Democrats caused Sanford's affair, cites free will as a liberal scam....

• Running Thoughts on the Palin Resignation

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 18:22 in politics, alaska, russia, ethics, analogies, resignation, sarah palin

  Sarah Palin resigns, yet we still can't stop talking about her. She wouldn't have it any other way....

• Starvation is a Good Motivating Tool

  Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 23:38 in politics, food, missouri, keith olbermann, mcdonald's, u.s. department of agriculture, cynthia davis, missouri house special standing committee on children and families

  "Hunger can be a positive motivator!" Think this sounds ridiculous? State Rep. Cynthia Davis (R-MO) doesn't....

• Government Of, By, and For the (Five) People

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 19:08 in politics, world, Al Gore, supreme court, cold war, iraq, democracy, iran, minnesota, baghdad, Honduras, featured

  America shaves its Minnesota election beard and counts how many judges it takes to screw in the government....

• Aloha Friday at the Obama White House

  Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 22:26 in politics, Barack Obama, White House, luau, rahm emanuel, aloha friday, robert gibbs, dunking booth

  What do Hawaiian shirts, soaking wetness, and Washington D.C. all have in common? And no, the answer is not "unpleasantness."...

• Around the Hill (6/26): Personal Edition!

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 21:26 in politics, global warming, Republicans, Democrats, climate change, congress, tyranny, featured, White House, dennis kucinich, interns, round-ups

  Happy Friday! Here's what happened in politics this week....

• Don’t Cry for Yourself in Argentina

  Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 21:46 in politics, internet, Buenos Aires, Argentina, hiking, Republicans, Transformers, cnn, blogosphere, television, crying, featured

  South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford “spent the last five days crying in Argentina.” Confused? Don't worry, we're here to help....

• I Can Has Ultimate Power?

  Posted on Saturday June 20th, 2009 at 18:58 in politics, Republicans, Democrats, New York City, corruption, chaos, new york state senate, tie, clowns, new york post, pedro espada

  BEN THEODOR (Washington, DC) I truly hope that our younger readers have been following the Shakespearean comedy that is the New York State Senate power struggle.  It’s a beautiful, textbook-worthy lesson in how state government works – ...

• Political Odds and Ends

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 10:20 in politics, round-ups

  TGIF!  Here are some political stories that are worth your attention as we head into the weekend. From the Washington Times: American’s premier, unbiased policy expert, with absolutely no stake in the debate, criticizes President Obama’s...

• Revisionist History

  Posted on Thursday June 18th, 2009 at 18:46 in politics, Republicans, Democrats, socialism, Barack Obama, cold war, congress, cuba, gop, ronald reagan, revisionist history

  I am truly flattered by the GOP sometimes.  I write a couple blog articles about their obsession with the  term “socialism,” and now it seems like they are trying to apply the label as much as possible.  For whatever reason, members of...

• The Political Odds and Ends

  Posted on Friday June 12th, 2009 at 10:47 in politics, round-ups

  TGIF!  Here are some political stories that are worth your attention as we head into the weekend. From The New York Times Magazine: An incredible analysis of the Obama Administration and its relationship with Congress, especially important given the...

• Violent Headlines Draw Attention… Explosions!

  Posted on Sunday June 7th, 2009 at 16:11 in politics, internet, entertainment, Democrats, media, Barack Obama, Middle East, international, egypt, Osama Bin Laden, diplomacy, rambo

  BEN THEODOR (Washington, DC) I probably don’t have to remind any of you that President Obama recently left the country to tour several countries in the Middle East, culminating with a major address to the Arab people in Cairo.  You would have ...

• Congressman Goes Hunting for Commies

  Posted on Friday April 10th, 2009 at 21:40 in politics, entertainment, Republicans, Film, socialism, congress, joe mccarthy, spencer bachus, m. night syamalan

  BEN THEODOR (Haverford, Pennsylvania) Students of history may well remember the case of Senator Joe McCarthy, who initiated a witch-hunt for Communist Party loyalists within the federal government.  His exploitation of Cold War fears is often refere...

• GOP Senator Threatens Armageddon

  Posted on Tuesday March 31st, 2009 at 12:39 in politics, Republicans, Democrats, congress, cowboys, nuclear war, al franken, norm coleman, john cornyn, election day, presidential election ´08

  BEN THEODOR (Haverford, Pennsylvania) We all take so much for granted in this world.  For example, when we wake up in the morning, we know that there are two senators to represent all of us in Washington, DC.  But there are many in this world who g...

• Firing CEOs is Just Part of the Job

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 18:43 in politics, entertainment, Democrats, baseball, Barack Obama, gm, New York Mets, Jon Stewart, chrysler, tenacious d

  BEN THEODOR (Haverford, Pennsylvania) Some people may have been surprised yesterday by the announcement that Rick Wagoner, chairman of General Motors, was stepping down.  Of course, the fact that the CEO of a failing company resigned might not catch...

• GOP Becomes the Party of “That’s What She Said”

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 18:41 in politics, entertainment, Republicans, television, congress, the office, c-span, sexual innuendo, that's what she said

  BEN THEODOR (Haverford, Pennsylvania) It may have surprised some C-SPAN viewers on Thursday to discover that their regularly scheduled budget negotiations suddenly became entertaining (just in time for May sweeps, too).    And for a Republican Par...

• Obama’s First Month: The Baby Book

  Posted on Sunday March 1st, 2009 at 20:22 in politics, Canada, Barack Obama, bill richardson, Stephen Harper, rush limbaugh, guantanamo bay, michelle obama, baby books, judd gregg, david plouffe, stimulus bill

  NICOLE CATÁ (New York, New York) Like a high proportion of Columbia students, Nicole dutifully obeyed her impulses toward political involvement this fall when she joined the BarackObama.com listserver, receiving email after email from David Plouffe,...

• Twitter and the Fall of Man

  Posted on Sunday February 22nd, 2009 at 22:54 in politics, entertainment, Republicans, Democrats, shameless self-promotion

  BEN THEODORE (Haverford, Pennsylvania) For some reason, the web application Twitter has taken off recently.  Despite its eerie similarity to Facebook status updates, everyone seems to be tweeting lately.  In fact, Shaquille O’Neal actually de...

• We’re Dancing in New York City

  Posted on Tuesday November 4th, 2008 at 23:19 in politics, Democrats, President, Barack Obama, election, presidential election ´08

  DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York) NICOLE CATÁ (New York, New York) You did it. It’s been almost twenty months since the junior senator of Illinois announced the commencement of his Presidential campaign. It’s been four years and three m...