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Does This Old Rudy Giuliani Campaign Ad Make You Want Him to Father Your Children?

How did politicians get elected in the '90s? Experience? Fresh Ideas? Strength? If this Rudy Giuliani ad from 1993 is any indication, all those took a backseat to soft lighting, a full head of hair, and polos. Lots of polos. From the vault, this campaign spot begs you to imagine not only having R ... More >>

In New Vision of Politics, Rightbloggers Denounce Boehner the Leader, Praise DeMint the Leaver

Jim DeMint, one of the most ideologically pure and least effective legislators in the U.S. Senate, announced he would leave Congress to run the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank; or, as the Foundation itself put it, "Jim DeMint to Lead the Battle of Ideas." It would seem to us that, compar ... More >>

Fear and Loathing in Tampa

From cash-hungry strippers to protesters dressed as vaginas, your gonzo guide to the Republican National Convention

The People Trying To Ruin The Internet: Bob Goodlatte

At the Voice, we have been regularly following internet policy developments. We figured it would be cool -- maybe even a public service? -- to ID people who keep pushing for web-killing proposals such as SOPA and PIPA in this new, occasional feature: "The People Trying To Ruin The Internet." Enjoy! ... More >>

Live: Kronos Quartet, Tony Kushner And Persepolis Author Marjane Satrapi Join Forces For Bizarre Experiment "Exit Strategies"

"Exit Strategies": PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature Kronos Quartet with Rula Jabreal, Tony Kushner and Marjane Satrapai Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Metropolitan Museum of Art Wednesday, May 2 Better than: The funniest right-wing parody of what they think liberal Manhattanit ... More >>

Time: Jeremy Lin Is Officially "Lin"-fluential (Sigh)

Someone needs to check the chemicals in the water cooler at Time magazine. And while they're at it, perhaps check to see if some sort of virus from their website has filtered through to Time's readers. Several athletes made Time's Top 100 Influential People list, the highest being Kicks point guar ... More >>

Rick Santorum Wants To Get His Hands on New York's Precious Delegates

First, another look at the numbers, because some people running for office don't seem to get it: Mitt Romney has 658 delegates compared to Rick Santorum's 281. You need 1,144 delegates to win the Republican ticket. At this stage of the primaries, the likelihood of Santorum sinking enough delegates i ... More >>

Mitt Romney Beats Rick Santorum 2-1 in New York: Poll

Remember a few weeks ago, when it looked like New York's April 24 primary might actually matter? Well, even though the G.O.P. presidential candidate has yet to be definitively decided, national stats suggest that Mitt Romney has a very healthy lead, with 658 delegates compared to Rick Santorum's ... More >>

Who Has Two Thumbs and Hates More Primaries? Mitt Romney!

First, there was Iowa and New Hampshire. Then, there was Super Tuesday. At some point, there were other Republican primaries. And tonight, the resilient candidates find themselves in Illinois -- a contest that is "make-or-break" for Mitt Romney. With 54 delegates up for grabs in the state that is ... More >>

Mitt Romney: Can Anything Short Of An "Act Of God" Keep Him From Becoming The GOP Nominee For President?

​As we noted yesterday, Super Tuesday came and went and there's still no shoo-in for the Republican nominee for president.However, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney gained a bit of an edge in his quest to become the GOP's chosen one -- enough of an edge that members of his campaign reporte ... More >>

No, There Is Still Not a GOP Presidential Nominee

So you just wanted to know which Republican would go face-to-face with Barack Obama in November and were kinda hoping that Super Tuesday would finally produce an obvious Presidential candidate. Too bad! As detailed by The Associated Press, yesterday's contests suggest that Mitt Romney will probab ... More >>

Georgia Jilted by Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum; CNN Cancels Debate

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are just too busy for Georgia and pulled out of a final debate before the Super Tuesday Primaries, so CNN canceled the Republican showdown scheduled for March 1, Slate notes. Romney and Santorum, who are pretty much neck-and-neck in polls, basically decided to blow of ... More >>

New York Picks Barack Obama Over Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum: Poll

​New Yorkers told pollsters: "I Heart Barack Obama" in a Quinnipiac University survey released this morning. They gave him a 50-46 percent job-approval rating, unchanged from his 50-45 percent in December. And 50-45 percent want Obama to stick around and think he deserves to be re-elected to ... More >>

Let's Stay Together: The Messages Of Barack Obama's Re-Election Playlist

Yesterday, President Barack Obama's team released a Spotify playlist for his 2012 re-election campaign, announcing it via every form of social media imaginable. According to an announcement that accompanied the more traditional means of releasing political information—a leak—the playlist ... More >>

Mitt Romney Beats Newt Gingrich by 20 Points in Florida Poll

​Mitt Romney, who routinely gets shit from other conservatives for being too rich, too Mormon, and too willing to help people get healthcare, is crushing top rival Newt Gingrich in Florida a day before the Jan. 31 primary -- a just-released Suffolk University/7 News poll puts the former Massac ... More >>

Six Songs Michele Bachmann Could Have Signed Off With That Weren't Train's Beejers-And-Burning Man Ode "Hey, Soul Sister"

After a dismal showing at yesterday's Iowa caucuses, one-time Republican Presidential front-runner and "interesting person" Michele Bachmann announced today that she was ending her campaign to be sworn in as Commander-in-Chief next January. Once the brief press conference disseminating the news ende ... More >>

Same-Sex Marriage Takes New York By Storm in 2011, Tosses Salad in Iowa in 2012

​Happy New Year. We're kicking things off here this January by taking a quick look at how same-sex marriage affected life in New York in 2011, and how it's shaping up primary politics in Iowa in advance of tomorrow's caucuses. Gay marriage, of course, just became official in New York last ye ... More >>

Newt Gingrich and Gov. Rick Perry Fail To Qualify For Virginia Primary

​Last night, the Republican Party of Virginia announced on their Twitter account that Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry did not submit the required 10,000 signatures they needed to qualify for the VA primary. In response to the news, the Gingrich campaign says that Virginia has "a failed system." V ... More >>

Newt Gingrich, Thrice Married Adulterer, Calls for Constitutional Amendment to Protect Marriage From the Gays

Newt's portrait as Speaker, when he was hunting Bill Clinton for adultery while committing adultery himself​Behold, the power of NOM, the National Organization for Marriage. Newt Gingrich announced on Friday that he supports a constitutional amendment to "protect" marriage marriage. This was ... More >>

Rightbloggers Double Down on the Second Coming of Herman Cain

Months ago, rightbloggers were celebrating the rise of Herman Cain. Then they grew restless, and moved on to Michele Bachman, Rick Perry, and Chris Christie, each of whom disappointed. Now Cain is back, hilariously leading in some GOP Presidential polls and winning some straw polls, too. Cain is pr ... More >>

Rightbloggers Herald the Rise of Our Next President, Michele Bachmann. (Or Some Guy Who Isn't Running.)

In the future, everyone will be a serious Republican Presidential candidate for 15 minutes. We're close to that now. Last Monday several GOP contenders for the big job debated in New Hampshire, and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's relatively lulu-free performance appears to have pushed he ... More >>

America Has Grown Weary of 'Presidential Contender' Donald Trump

​The reality-show-business-person-famewhore who is Donald Trump -- who might or might not be running for president -- is no longer so popular in America. It seems the whole birther issue kind of lost him some fans -- that and the fact that Barack Obama was orchestrating a raid on Number 1 Terr ... More >>

Rightbloggers on Libya Action: For It Before They Were Against It

Well, President Obama has functionally invaded his first country as part of a joint military implementation with the UK and France of a no-fly zone over Libya. Did you expect rightbloggers, who had been bitching about his inaction on the matter, to applaud him for coming around? You didn't? Oh, g ... More >>

Jimmy McMillan is a Republican Now; Rent is Still Too Damn High

Heir to Reagan​Jimmy McMillan of the Rent is Too Damn High Party, and his facial hair, will be joining forces with the GOP. PBS caught up with McMillan on St. Mark's and discussed his move. He was a hit at CPAC recently, and said he registered to be a Republican because "the Democratic Party s ... More >>

Over Half of Republican Primary Voters Are Still Birthers, Poll Finds

​According to a new poll, over half of Republican primary voters don't believe Barack Obama was born in the United States. Politico reports that Public Policy Polling asked 400 people across the country who planned on voting in the GOP primaries where they thought President Obama was born. 51 ... More >>

Rightbloggers Welcome Gay, Muslim Diversity at CPAC -- But Not Too Much

The 2011 Conservative Political Action Cnference (CPAC), held last week, was in some respects like the previous year's: For example, everyone loved that the place was full of young people, until the kids gave libertarian Ron Paul their straw poll vote. There were some changes, though. Perhaps hopi ... More >>

The Sad, Bullshit Story of Washington Post Blogger Dave Weigel's Resignation

Via Wonkette.​This is a story you should familiarize yourself with, for two reasons: (1) You may hear more about it over the weekend. And (2) It's a story about the state of dialogue and opinion, of ethical gray lines and competing reporters, and the way a fast news cycle -- like a strong tide ... More >>

The Week We Talked About Sarah Palin's Tits

Heidi Montag has appeared on the reality show The Hills and performed some dance music. She is best known, though, for her various plastic surgeries, including spectacular breast implants, which she has craftily used to retain media attention. Montag's lifts and load-ins have been covered in natio ... More >>

Hutaree Militia, Brick-Throwers, Victoria Jackson: Rightbloggers Find New Allies Way, Way Out on the Fringe

We hate to admit it, but the rightbloggers may be onto something when they talk about "false flag operations" against conservatives -- that is, opponents pretending to be rightwing, then acting crazy to discredit the cause. Take CNN's hiring of RedState lunatic Erick Erickson. As we all know, mains ... More >>

CPAC Conservative "Woodstock" Kicks Off With Jokes About Ugly Liberal Women, Etc.

​"Tea Partiers could crash CPAC's party," said UPI this morning (sourcing RedState's Eric Erickson, who demanded "a purging of the movement" -- he's big on purges), but there doesn't seem much at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which kicked off today in D.C., that TP people would ... More >>

We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?

Barrett: Leslie Crocker Snyder's Unsavory Campaign Donors

​Judging people by the company they keep may not always be fair game, but it is fitting, on the eve of next week's primary, to take the measure of Leslie Crocker Snyder by examining the dubious donors bankrolling her campaign for Manhattan District Attorney. News stories about bad-boy contrib ... More >>

An Evening With the Brain Trust Behind 'Auto-Tune the News'

Tech Dreck: iPhone Does Homework, AT&T Plays Big Brother, Twitter Celebs Fake It

"Parents have lost the war over buying cellphones for their children," says Saul Hansell in the Times. He must be talking about those parents, overrepresented in the Times' demographic, whose children can battle for the right to own expensive electronic geegaws without getting smacked. Hansell says ... More >>

Interview: Morning Joe's Willie Geist Talks Pat Buchanan's 'Thug Life' Tattoo

Way funnier than this photo would lead you to believe. Open-minded types that we are, we're finding ourselves increasingly entertained by MSNBC's Morning Joe, which we'll nominate as the best show to breakfast by--it has a kind of looseness that TV needs more of, plus it's actually aimed at adults ... More >>

Rightbloggers' New Hope for McCain Victory: Bill Ayers and Herbert Hoover

Bloomberg Withdraws From Va. Ballot, Board Says

How To Wear Your Vote

In search of that perfect 'candidate-beater' tank top

February 15 to 21

February 15 to 21

Grand Buffet's Joke-Rap Odyssey

We Come to Bury Rudy

The evil that men do lives after their mayoral stints—and even 9/11

February 1 through 7

Is Obama's Constitution Strong Enough?

He stirs the crowds, but when will he tell them about their lost liberties?

Hillary's Infidelity

Obama's strategy makes her spurn Bill's Cuban advances and embrace Bush and the GOP's anti-Castro right.

Rudy Adopts New Shtick

Records put the lie to Giuliani's new claims that he used adoption to cut down on abortions

Oh, What a Wonderful War!

Light 'Em Up

Advocates for medical pot look beyond a Supreme Court bummer

Doctors-R-Us

Congress members give their medical opinions on Terri Schiavo

Rebel Radio

The Lower East Side's Pirate Station, Steal This Radio, Joins the Fight Against the Feds