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The Elephant in the Room: The Case against Corporate Personhood

NPR ran not one but two recent pieces about a pending Supreme Court case. It’s about Hillary: The Movie, which is a politically motivated defamation of the nation’s first female candidate which would have aired the night before the Democratic primary on Pay-Per-View TV. Because the group that made the movie, Citizens United, is a [...]

Chilling with Human Rights Abusers? Bad move, McCain.

John Sidney McCain III. You’d think that this candidate, of all people, would not want to hang out with a dictator heading a notoriously murderous and oppressive regime. But no. The Huffington Post reports that McCain hung out with Augusto Pinochet, whose reign was marked by the assasination without trial of over 3,000 civilians and [...]

Terrorists for McCain '08: Why Al Queda Loves John and Why You Should Not

Check out this article by Nicolas Kristof of the New York Times for all of the details on Al Queda’s endorsement of McCain for president and why it makes a lot of sense that the most “anti-America” position supports the most “pro-America” position: extremism breeds extremism. (Cartoon source: Married to the Sea).

"War Has Got to Be A Last Option . . . I Believe that America Has to Exercise All Options"

Right. Buckle up, because we’re about to jump on the Hate-on-Palin bandwagon. Firstly, when a vice-presidential candidate evokes bitter articles from people from her own home state, political party, political faction, and gender, who used to consider her a close friend, that’s a bad sign. Secondly, when a vice-presidential candidate stalls her way through two [...]

Newsflash! The Right Has Discovered Sexism!

What’s this? I’ve heard that the Right has discovered a new kind of discrimination that occurs… wait, wait, this is just coming in… against women, of all people. That’s right, folks, there is some kind of “double standard” being employed, as we speak, that makes women less free than their fellow citizens. But the good [...]

Speak To Me: David Brooks' Speech to the Delegates

My fellow Americans, it is an honor to address the Democratic National Convention at this defining moment in history. We stand at a crossroads at a pivot point, near a fork in the road on the edge of a precipice in the midst of the most consequential election since last year’s “American Idol.” One path [...]

Faux News: Conservative Media Spin vs. Obama's Rick-Roll

Welp, bro-hemes, it’s no news to most of us that Faux News is not all it’s cracked up to be – for instance, a Google image search for ‘faux news’ turns up a lot of interesting variations on this graphic. Yet at the same time, a newer report on Faux’s antics sees its standard of [...]