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October 7, 2012
Rightbloggers Revel in Romney Rout, But Good Job Numbers Put Them Back in Tinfoil
Rightbloggers had one of their best weeks of the campaign. First their candidate, Mitt Romney, bested President Obama in a debate, and then the Labor Department posted a drop in the U.S. unemployment rate. Both events convinced them of impending electoral victory, as the first proved that the Presid ... More >>
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October 5, 2012
Why The Ryan/Biden Debate Will Be Inherently More Entertaining
America is still letting out an exhausted sigh from the debate two nights ago in Denver. At this point, who knows who won and who actually cares? The best/worst part of it all, as my colleague James King pointed out, is that Donald Trump was mentioned two times in 90 minutes; that's two times more t ... More >>
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October 5, 2012
7-Eleven Predicts President Obama Will Defeat Mitt Romney
It may be utterly unscientific, but it hasn't been wrong yet. 7-Eleven's "7-Election Presidential Coffee Cup Poll" invites customers to vote by selecting specially marked coffee cups. Blue cups are for President Barack Obama and red ones are for former Governor Mitt Romney.
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September 30, 2012
Rightbloggers Make ObamaPhone Lady Their New Welfare Queen
After the panic over Mitt Romney's characterization of 47% of his fellow citizens as moochers, rightbloggers flailed for a way to make the maker-and-taker philosophy of the modern conservative movement sound less repulsive to normal people. What they seem to be clustering on now is the idea that, ... More >>
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September 23, 2012
As Romney Goes Down, Rightbloggers Double Down on Liberal Media Bias B.S.
By now you've heard about the Romney 47% video and the lousy poll numbers he's been getting. Were you aware that it's all the fault of the liberal media? Yeah, we know, you've been hearing conservatives talking about liberal media bias forever. It's their version of the Bowery Boys' Routine 11. But ... More >>
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September 20, 2012
Arctic Expert Predicts Final Collapse Of Sea Ice Within Four Years!
Around the same time that Obama's second term will be coming to an end, the world will become wetter than Axl Rose's arm pits during a reunion tour. What a ghastly moment that will be! And this isn't just hearsay. A noted expert swears that a global disaster is in the making, and the sea ice is a ... More >>
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September 20, 2012
Too Much Makeup For Romney?
Or maybe it's spray tan. Or a real tan.
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September 18, 2012
Obama Back in New York To Hobnob With Jay-Z; GOP Pissy (Redux)
President Barack Obama will be back in the Big Apple to hobnob with celebrities, and -- per usual -- the state's Republicans are pissy about it.The "fundraiser in chief" will be in Manhattan tonight, where he will party with Jay-Z and Beyoncé at a $40,000-a-person fundraiser at the rappers 40/40 Cl ... More >>
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September 16, 2012
Rightbloggers Turn Benghazi Truthers, Spin Egypt, Libya Riots As Obama Treason
Last week, upon learning that an anti-Islamic film existed, extremists in several Arab cities rampaged, and in Benghazi killed four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador. President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton denounced both the violence and the film, and Libyan authorities apprehended so ... More >>
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September 13, 2012
Obama's NDAA Law Allowing Indefinite Military Detention of Citizens Ruled Unconstitutional
The Obama administration's efforts to enshrine sweeping 9/11-era rollbacks of civil liberties and constitutional rights as federal law hit a serious roadblock yesterday, as a federal judge struck down clauses of the National Defense Authorization Act as unconstitutional. The offending section of th ... More >>
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September 12, 2012
Obama Is Gay, Says Chicago Gossip Columnist
"Not heterosexual. Not bisexual. He is homosexual." That's the contention of a Chicago writer who says that when Barack Obama was a community organizer in Chicago, he frequented the local gay establishments, including bars and bath houses!
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September 11, 2012
Obama, Romney Promise No Political Scumbaggery On 9/11
It's somewhat discouraging that it takes the anniversary of the most somber day in American history for the two men running for president to act somewhat civil towards each other -- but we'll take what we can get.Today, on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, President Barack ... More >>
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September 10, 2012
Rightbloggers Declare Democratic Convention a Failure -- Which May Be Why It Succeeded
A week after the party of Kang had their national convention, the party of Kodoshad theirs in Charlotte, NC. It was a lively affair, with a floor fight strong-armed by party bosses, and big speeches by Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Sandra Fluke, and some guy running a crap economy who nonetheless no ... More >>
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September 6, 2012
The Ultimate TV Watching Dilemma
Tonight is an important, landmark event in American culture. It's a night that will sway minds and change history. It's a crucial evening of essential viewing which no serious American can afford to miss.
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September 5, 2012
Michelle Obama Is Our Mom In Chief!
She even likes the title, as she mentioned in her convention speech last night, which is getting raves. Michelle talked about her husband as "a man you can trust." She spoke about the long-term process that growth is, and how we have to hang in there and keep working at it. Also remarkable was wh ... More >>
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September 4, 2012
Three Celebs Come Out Swinging Against Obama
A faded action star, a washed up country singer, and a rapper who whored out for Madonna are stepping up and denouncing Obama as the world goes "Zzzz." Hank Williams Jr. just told his concert audience, "We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farmi ... More >>
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September 2, 2012
Obama: I Am A Huge Clint Eastwood Fan
He likes Clint's work as an actor, even more so as a director. But how about the piece of work the Oscar winner turned into at the Republican convention the other night, weirdly conversing with a chair to while trying to score points about the President's supposedly inept leadership. Well, Obama t ... More >>
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August 28, 2012
For The Record: Here's What Obama Has Done
2016: Obama's America is a conservative glimpse at the alleged horror of the Obama Presidency, looking ahead to what shambles America will supposedly be in if he's reelected. And people are lining up to see it! The film made over six million last week--practically the same amount as the Joseph Gor ... More >>
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August 23, 2012
Mr. President, We Demand You Release Your White House Beer Recipe
Chug, chug, chug, chug! [See More: Dr. Seuss Loves Beer: Let's Sing a Song About It | Brooklyn Pour Announces First Round of Brewers] Well, it's no surprise that the guy with the most stressful job in the world likes to drink beer. We just want to be able to drink it with him. Some clever beer e ... More >>
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August 19, 2012
We All Hate Obama -- Hank Williams, Jr., Just Had to Remind Us
After today's news that Paul Ryan is a huge Rage Against the Machine fan, we are continuing into the weird vortex of politics and music. And what a strange place it always tends to be.Yesterday was the Iowa State Fair and, headlining the Midwestern fun of the Buckeye State, Hank Williams, Jr., was o ... More >>
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August 10, 2012
Even Fox News Thinks Obama Is Winning
The fair and balanced channel just polled a random sampling of voters, and the results seem fair and balanced! In fact, Obama got 49% of the votes, as opposed to only 40% for Mitt Romney. This is the President's biggest lead over Romney since the latter became his opponent, and it's easy to see wh ... More >>
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July 30, 2012
New York Republicans Continue To Whine About Barack Obama Running For President. In Related News, The Sun Came Up Today
President Barack Obama will be in town tonight to attend a fundraising event to raise money for his ongoing presidential campaign -- because, well...he's running for president, and attending fundraisers is what people running for president do. Obama's doing what everyone who's ever run for president ... More >>
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July 29, 2012
Hey Idahoans, That Obama/Holmes Billboard is Extremely Offensive
On Franklin Road and North 21st Avenue in Caldwell, Idaho, this little sign above exists. Even though it really bears no repeating, here's what it says.On the left is a picture Aurora shooting suspect, James Holmes - the man behind the largest mass shooting in American history - and a count of the n ... More >>
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July 28, 2012
A Contraceptive Calamity in Colorado
Next Wednesday, against the Obama administration's will, a political firestorm will be unleashed: the provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that forces businesses to pay for employees' contraceptives without a co-pay goes into effect. You may remember this little ticking time b ... More >>
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July 22, 2012
Obama, Romney and the Political Silence of Gun Control
On Friday, America witnessed true terror on the television - in Aurora, Colorado, over 70 people were shot by a madman at a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises. James Eagan Holmes, the suspect now in custody, had been planning the attack for months and, inside of his apartment yesterday, poli ... More >>
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July 18, 2012
Rush Limbaugh: Dark Knight Rises Villain's Name Is A Dis On Romney
Oh, yes, he went there. Radio blowhard Rush Limbaugh said that by using a villain named Bane, Dark Knight Rises is trying to make a negative association with Mitt Romney, whose former employer is Bain Capital. He's certain that whenever there's mention of the creepy man with the steel mask and the ... More >>
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July 17, 2012
White House Announces Obama Will Skip International AIDS Conference Same Day FDA Approves Historic HIV Prevention Drug
Lots of big news from the White House yesterday about HIV/AIDS. In the morning, the White House blasted out a press release with some historic news from the Food and Drug Administration: the FDA had approved Truvada, "the first drug -- to reduce the risk of HIV infection in uninfected individuals w ... More >>
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July 14, 2012
The Obama Campaign Ad Everyone on the Internet is Talking About
The Huffington Post's homepage screams "OBAMA UNLOADS: BRUTAL NEW AD." The term 'brutal' might be an overstatement; 'laughable' might be a bit more apropos. But the Obama campaign's new ad, entitled "Firms," is one to remember. Why? Because what's better than an attack ad based on someone's shitty s ... More >>
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July 10, 2012
Will Barack Obama Veto Tax Cuts?
Well, this is a mess... Remember yesterday, when Barack Obama called on Congress to extend Bush-era tax cuts for families making up to $250,000? Remember how Obama made the politically risky move of describing the economy as disappointing under his watch, using that as proof the country needs tax ... More >>
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July 9, 2012
Barack Obama Calls for Tax Cut Extension: Should You Care?
Barack Obama will call on Congress today to enact a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class. Media accounts of Obama's mandate indicate that the president's tax relief plan would pertain to families making less than $250,000. If Congress does not OK the prez's pitch, this cou ... More >>
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July 9, 2012
Barack Obama To Congress: Extend Tax Cuts for The Middle Class
Taking aim at trickle down fiscal policies and warning legislators not to hold the American economy "hostage," President Barack Obama demanded today that Congress extend Bush-era middle class tax cuts for a year. Addressing the nation from the White House's East Room, Obama implored Congress to "do ... More >>
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July 1, 2012
Sick, Sick, Sick: Rightbloggers Run a Fever after Obamacare Decision
Last week's Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act (aka the ACA, aka Obamacare, aka TreasonHitlerStalin) caught nearly everyone by surprise. Among rightbloggers, most of whom had filled balloons and strung festive banners for a big post-overturn victory party, the scenes of shock and ho ... More >>
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June 30, 2012
BREAKING: League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Passes Same-Sex Marriage Equality Resolution
Another Saturday, another national group of brown people proves Toure right by being homophobic passes a same-sex marriage equality resolution. LULAC, the League of United Latino American Citizens, passed a resolution at their annual convention today in suport of equal marriage rights for same-sex ... More >>
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June 29, 2012
Healthcare Ruling: Will It Help The Prez Or Rally The Rabid Republican Base
Remember in 2010 when Republicans picked up 63 seats in the House of Representatives in the biggest loss for a party (in this case, the Democratic Party) in the House since 1938? And how the huge loss can be partially attributed to right-wing outrage over President Obama's healthcare plan? Well, the ... More >>
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June 28, 2012
A Victory For Obama's Health Care Law
The Supreme Court has upheld it. Things are looking good at this very moment. My health suddenly feels much better.
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June 25, 2012
Barack Obama to Couples: Ask for Campaign Donations Instead of Wedding Gifts
Want to make that special day -- your wedding -- even more special? Well, President Barack Obama has one idea: You can ask your guests to donate to his campaign "in lieu of a gift" with the Obama event registry. For reals. Campaign staffer Laura Wilson wrote on Obama's fundraising blog: "Got a ... More >>
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June 23, 2012
La Raza Endorses Gay Marriage, Joining the NAACP, President Obama, a Majority of Americans, and Even Prop 8 Defenders!
Happy Pride weekend. Here's some more good news on the marriage beat to share with you this beautiful weekend here in New York. La Raza, the nation's largest Latino civil rights organization, unanimously approved a resolution supporting same-sex marriage equality, the Washington Blade reported excl ... More >>
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June 18, 2012
Neil Munro of The Daily Caller: Here's the Immigrant (Journalist? Heckler? Asshole?) Who Interrupted Obama's Immigration Speech
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's Rose Garden announcement of a kind of DREAM Act-like executive branch workaround was hijacked by a "journalist" named Neil Munro of the conservative website the Daily Caller. (You know, Tucker Carlson's totally legit publication, which recently took traffic trolling ... More >>
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June 18, 2012
The Evil Ways Immigrants Destroyed America When Reagan Granted Them Amnesty
There has been the expected nuclear hay made by Republicans out of President Obama's decision to give temporary relief to the children of undocumented immigrants in lieu of the D.R.E.A.M. Act passing. We were in the Rose Garden to witness the first attack personally, as an Irish immigrant, of all pe ... More >>
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June 17, 2012
Rightbloggers: Obama's Immigration Order is Tyranny, and the White House Heckler's a Hero
Last week President Obama, tired of waiting for Congress to pass the DREAM Act, sort of enacted DREAM Lite himself, temporarily allowing young illegal immigrants who'd come here as kids off the deportation hook. Mainstream conservative reaction ranged from discomfiture -- because Republicans had be ... More >>
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June 15, 2012
White House Hosts First LGBT Pride Month Reception With Out Military, Married Same-Sex New Yorkers; Obama Gives GMHC Shout Out
After a contentious press announcement on immigration earlier in the day in the Rose Garden, President Obama hosted his third LGBT Month Pride Reception in the East Room of the White House. Even though it is not a very old tradition, there were a couple things historically different about this year ... More >>
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June 14, 2012
GOP Chairman Ed Cox Knows More About Chick Flicks Than Your Girlfriend Does (And He Can't Stand Barack Obama)
If there are three things that New York GOP Chairman Ed Cox loves they're puns, chick flicks, and more puns!In his latest attack on President Barack Obama's proclivity for partying with celebrities, the chairman issued a statement this afternoon bashing Bam over tonight's fundraiser at the home of S ... More >>
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June 13, 2012
Can Occupy Wall Street Trust Its Own Candidate?
Running for Congress, George Martinez calls himself the Occupiers' candidate. The rest of the movement isn't so sure.
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June 13, 2012
Obama Clemency Problem Sparks Calls for Investigation of Justice Department Pardon Attorney
Pressure is building on the Obama administration to investigate misconduct in the Justice Department's clemency/pardon process. Back in September, the Voice profiled several elderly prisoners, including 93-year-old Drayton Curry (at right), whose clemency requests for early release from federal pri ... More >>
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June 13, 2012
Betty White Meets Obama, Drops "White Power" Presidential Bid
The black/gay "Kumbaya" moment continues. First we had President Barack Obama support same-sex marriage, followed by the NAACP and a bevy of black leaders getting on the gay rights bandwagon. Then we had Gay Inc support the end of racial profiling. And now we have gay icon Betty White meeting wi ... More >>
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June 13, 2012
Obama's Ratings Have Slipped! Here's How We Can Help
Ever since the jobs report came in with staggeringly unfunny statistics, President Obama's approval rating has gone down like a hooker, making him a little too close to Republican competitor Mitt Romney in the polls for the comfort of any sane American. So here's what we have to do, folks:
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June 12, 2012
Birth Control Buzz Kill: HHS Contraception Mandate Comes Under More Fire
American Protestants apparently want to be just like American Catholics. According to Religion News Service, they too are pissed about Barack Obama's Health and Human Services Mandate, which requires that insurance companies provide birth control coverage.
News
June 6, 2012
Constant Deportations Lead to Days of Rage
The U.S. Supreme Court And President Obama leave the undocumented and their allies no choice but to escalate civil disobedience
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June 6, 2012
Welcome Back, Jim Crow
New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall
News
June 6, 2012
Crossing the Line
A Collection of Perspectives on American Freedoms Under Fire
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