Could we be heading to four in a row? The unindicted co-conspirator, who showed what his word is worth by reversing his endorsement of term limits with a crazed -- and so far successful -- grab for power, is yet again held up to public … [Read more...]
Joke Revue: “Benghazi Committee Instructs Hillary Clinton To Limit Answers To ‘I Failed The American People’”
Onion: Benghazi Committee Instructs Hillary Clinton To Limit Answers To ‘I Failed The American People’ WASHINGTON—Saying it represented the most efficient use of the panel’s time, members of the House Select Committee on Benghazi … [Read more...]
Joke Revue: “Ben Carson: Democrats Offered No Plan to Protect Earth from Dragons”
Borowitz: LAS VEGAS (The Borowitz Report)—The Democrats who participated in the first Democratic Presidential debate of the 2016 campaign garnered a scathing review from the retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who said that none of them … [Read more...]
The originalism of gun safety
All the way from 2013, but still worth watching. Hat tip, Vox: explaining why the Second Amendment regulates state militias and should not -- justices bought and paid for by the arms industry excluded -- confer any private right of gun … [Read more...]
Book Club: The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
Nathaniel Rich offers an excellent and thought-provoking review of The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf, a biography of Darwin's inspiration and, arguably, the inventor of our modern world Alexander von … [Read more...]
Joke Revue: Rubio offers staffers for adoption
So incredible, you couldn't make it up. The Rubio campaign ("Marco Rubio, a New American Store"), plumbing fresh depths of sorrow (although, in fairness, diet pill salesman Scott Brown's increasingly rapid descent this week gives him a run … [Read more...]
Expert calls out conflicts of interest in MA testing plans
Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester, who moved here from Ohio to take over the state's top education job, chairs the governing board that developed the PARCC exams being considered by the state board of education as a replacement for … [Read more...]
National Rifle Association: “A voice for criminals”
NYT Op-Ed contributor Alan Berlow lays out what any reasonable observer has known for years: the National Rifle Association is primarily the lobbying arm of the gun manufacturing industry, and supports crime and criminals because that makes … [Read more...]
Joke Revue: “Americans Opposed to Being Shot Seek Representation in Washington”
Borowitz: Americans Opposed to Being Shot Seek Representation in Washington WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – Americans who are opposed to being shot, a constituency that has historically failed to find representation in Washington, … [Read more...]
Joke Revue: “Kochs Hope to Be First to Pollute Water on Mars”
Sorry for the delay, folks! First up, an old cartoon favorite: Borowitz: Kochs Hope to Be First to Pollute Water on Mars WICHITA (The Borowitz Report)—Just hours after NASA revealed the discovery of water on the surface of Mars, a … [Read more...]
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