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jiminy cricket showed up late

by Sandra Neish | Moderate | Comments (0)

Scott McClellan. Ok, now that you all are paying attention, it is time to discuss a crisis of conscience, or lack of it. Whether or not you have read the book, agree that Bush lied, or disagree and think that W is the second coming, we can all agree that Scott McClellan could have saved […]

hands off my nuts!

by Paige Cram | Moderate | Comments (1)

With the economy the way it is, individuals and businesses alike have been looking for ways to cut back on costs. US Airways just announced that, beginning June 1, the airline will no longer be providing complimentary snacks like peanuts and pretzels to travelers… at least not to those traveling in coach.

panderer-in-chief

by Ryan Schuette | Moderate | Comments (2)

As the Democratic nomination winds down, so does the once formidable Clinton political machine.
CNN reports that Sen. Hillary Clinton (NY-D) shows signs of slowing since she took her campaign staffers out to dinner in Puerto Rico as sort of a “Thank you and goodbye,” surely a cordial end to an increasingly quixotic campaign for the […]

rebuttal to: vice president clinton: no… way!

by Cameron Contois | Democrat | Comments (18)

On the April 21st edition of World Wrestling Entertainment’s Monday Night Raw, “Hillary Clinton” faced “Barack Obama” in a wrestling match. The fake Clinton got an early lead, landing a Hogan Leg Drop on a downed Obama. Obama got a second wind and slammed Hillary to the mat with what is apparently his finishing move: […]

bush’s history lessons

by Stefan Koski | Democrat | Comments (0)

You have to wonder what kind of history lessons Bush had as a kid. On the one hand, he recalls enough from his high school days to cite Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement when he was in front of Israel’s Knesset the other week. On the other, he unwittingly (or perhaps willingly) uses the lessons […]

the new separate but equal

by Sandra Neish | Moderate | Comments (0)

Why does the government concern itself with marriage? Historically speaking, the practice of regulating marriage dates back to the Middle Ages. However, for all intents and purposes, in the United States it began in the 1920s, when society decreed that interracial marriage was against the common interest. Well, as the song says, the times they […]

do you hear that? it’s the end of the world

by Joshua Lustig | Democrat | Comments (0)

American moral values are collapsing around us. The entire world is crumbling as we know it.
The best part? No one cares.
At least that’s the message some far-right groups are sending about the recent court rulings dealing with gay rights. Listening to the political hate speech, you’d think America itself was rotting from the inside out. […]

china’s “new” approach: empathy

by Brady Burr | Republican | Comments (0)

China has a historical PR problem. Most people can still recall images of tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square to answer the complaints of a few college students. Recent reprisals faced by Tibetan monks seemed to spell more of the same, but that was before the Sichuan earthquake and the rise of Grandpa Wen.
Wen Jiabao (A.K.A. […]

john mccain on the new GI bill: dead wrong

by Tom Carey | Moderate | Comments (3)

Currently, the Senate is considering Senator Jim Webb’s bill, the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2007, which seeks to pay for the college degree of any returning serviceman or woman, irrespective of their length of tour. This debate pits the two presidential candidates, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, against each other on the […]

democrat’s criticism better served cold

by Matthew Smock | Libertarian | Comments (5)

Many Democrats have said over the past few months that Hilary needs to throw in the towel now or the Democrats are doomed in the general election. From the other side of the isle, several Republican icons have been encouraging party members to cross over and vote for Hilary to keep the Democratic Party at […]