The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c America at Not-War – Obama’s Pragmatic Foreign Policy Decisions www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook Growing up, I had a distinct, even physical, intolerance for bullies. I remember in sixth grade having to jump up just to graze …
Corporate Welfare Queen, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt During his 1976 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan captured the public’s imagination by creating a cultural icon: a rich, Cadillac driving Welfare Queen (code for “Black”) to symbolize all welfare recipients as manipulative fraudsters out to game the system at taxpayers’ expense. His pogrom against the poor came to fruition when President Bill Clinton …
Remember the good old days when the Bush Administration embraced Daffy Qaddafi and brought him back into the Brotherhood of Nations, a mere 30 months ago? What went wrong? Did he insult Kenya somehow, and by extension, President Obama‘s extended family? Surely former Secretary of State Condi Rice would answer a call to duty from her current president to help …
From his interview with The Independent about his new movie The Adjustment Bureau (based on a Philip Dick novel that I found had a thematic connection to The Urantia Book‘s depiction of the Seraphic Planetary Government), actor and progressive activist Matt Damon comments on his former support for President Obama. Few of Barack Obama’s celebrity supporters at the 2008 US …
The White House released its proposed budget yesterday, packaged as “shared sacrifice.” Deep cuts to social programs sit at one end of the budgetary teeter totter; and a rise in income taxes for those earning over $250,000 at the other. One can be forgiven for asking: If President Obama, despite clear campaign promises to the contrary, couldn’t get a Democratic …
Former half-baked Alaskan Guvnah, Sarah Palin, rebuts President Obama’s state of the union speech Who’d a thunk that anti-gubmint crusader Sarah Palin would hold up as an example of the entrepreneurial spirit a company that wouldn’t even exist, save the spending of taxpayer dollars? Palin’s quirky invocation of the “Spudnut Shop” here in Richland Washington as an example of American …
DOWN IN THE TRENCHES OF THE CULTURE WAR, it’s frequently observed that concepts like nuance, like irony, are subtleties of perception the ignorant neither appreciate or understand.
