Barack Obama held his first press conference last night. He introduced what I’ll call BURP (Barack’s Universal Recovery Plan), speaking in his usual fine style. After that eight minutes, he answered 13 questions from White House journalists. In my...
Topics: Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Media

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The polls are in and Americans say they don’t like the stimulus package coming out of Congress. But why not? After all, this is a crisis. Without swift action it will become a catastrophe, and then a calamity, and eventually economic cataplexy. Wimps...
Topics: Barack Obama, Congress, Economic Crisis, Satire

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“My mistakes were unintentional,” said Tom Daschle about his failure to pay over $128,000 in taxes for 2005 through 2007. Well, hm-m, what would an intentional mistake be? A lie, tax evasion, criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States? Just how.
Topics: Absurd, Scandals

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Once known as the “War on Terror”, the continued conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the issue of Gitmo detainees, and U.S. military and intelligence operations are now to be known by various versions of the title above...
Topics: Barack Obama, Satire, Terrorism

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Tomorrow is Groundhog Day, the best-known apolitical holiday on the U.S. calendar. Virtually every other holiday is political, or gets sucked into politics because its religious or historical. But Groundhog Day is special. It is the only holiday named...
Topics: Holidays, Satire

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