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James Madison Monsters of Liberty Tour T-Shirt Design (front and back)

2011-09-05T16:45:00.000-04:00

Obama Announces Plan to Guarantee All Americans "A Place to Put Your Head in the Sand"

2011-04-13T23:35:00.020-04:00

Washington, D.C.--After proposing a $3.73 trillion budget that increases spending amid a record $1.65 trillion federal deficit, President Obama announced his plan to address the nation's unprecedented fiscal crisis by funding an "historic" $1.2 trillion federal public works project that will guarantee that "all citizens have a place to put their head in the sand."

"I play a lot of golf," said Obama, "but it's not just guys like me who should be able to bury their heads from reality in the bunker on the 18th hole. It's time head burying became an entitlement for all Americans."

Associated articles: Wall Street Journal; Washington Post; Keith Hennessey; Wall Street Journal 1; The Hill; Brief History of Obama's Fiscal Record; Mercatus; Hot Air; Wall Street Journal 2; Daily Caller; Mercatus 1 (Debt Ceiling Chart); AP Fact Check; Robert Kimball Table; AP Fact Check 1; Big Government; Wall Street Journal 3; AEI chart; The Hill (CBO projections)

Obama Orders Air Strike on His Old War Powers Statements

2011-03-29T07:00:00.004-04:00

Washington, D.C.--Following his ordering a U.S. military attack on Libya without Congressional approval, President Obama ordered an air strike on the National Archives to destroy large numbers of his 2007 campaign statements in which he said "The president does not have the power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation" and "The Constitution is clear: Except in response to an attack or the imminent threat of attack, only Congress may authorize war and the use of force."

Obama ordered the air strike within minutes of hearing from his intelligence team that Vice President Biden said in 2007 that if a President "takes this nation to war ... without Congressional approval, I will make it my business to impeach him."

Associated articles: Washington Post; Hot Air; Associated Press; National Review; Washington Post 1

Non-Statist Street Art (click image to enlarge)

2011-02-14T00:10:00.000-05:00

Posting Note

2011-02-13T00:10:00.000-05:00

Now that a greater degree of balance has been restored on Capitol Hill, our writers tell us there's likely to be less absurdity on which to report. Consequently, the Op-Toons Review will no longer be updated daily. Still, new postings may be added every once in a while, as events warrant. -- The Management

Obama Visits Average American Families to Explain How Much They Owe the Government

2011-02-12T00:10:00.005-05:00

Evertown, Nebraska--Now that the federal government is estimated to be spending $30,543 per household per year, President Obama has begun visiting average American families to personally explain their debt to the federal government in his characteristic calm, reassuring voice.

"He sat down with my family after the dinner dishes were cleared away and the teleprompter was set up," said Pete Johnson, a local small business owner. "He pulled out a spreadsheet and showed us which box we were in. Then he said -- in a smooth, polished manner that reminded me of the slow drip anesthesia I had during my last back surgery -- that all things considered, what we owed was a pretty small box in a much larger matrix."

"When he got up to leave, he patted us all on the shoulders," said Patty Johnson. "We said we didn't feel like dessert at that point, and Mrs. Obama said we shouldn't have it anyway. We poured ourselves a whisky instead."

Associated articles: Wall Street Journal; Wall Street Journal 1; Krauthammer; associated graphs: Budget Gap and Years of Democratic Control; Wall Street Journal 2; Hot Air; CNBC
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Obama Declines to Reveal Plot of His Presidency at News Conference

2011-02-11T00:10:00.000-05:00

Washington, D.C.--President Obama declined to answer most of the questions reporters asked him at his most recent press conference, saying "I owe it to my adoring fans not to reveal future plot details" about his presidency.

When asked how he might explain the dismal state of the economy following the biggest government spending spree in history, Obama said "I can't answer that because, you know, I can't reveal any spoilers."

When pressed, Obama said "This production is the result of many talented writers, and if you don't like the current plot twists, just wait until next year."

Administration officials said Obama has a "very loyal following" and that "it would be a disservice to the viewers to ruin any surprises."

Justices Decide Case on Grounds that "We Have Lifetime Tenure, Beatch!"

2011-02-10T00:10:00.003-05:00

Washington, D.C.--The Supreme Court struck down yet another law on ambiguous legal grounds, stating "We have lifetime tenure beatch!"

During oral argument, the Justices chided lawyers for both sides.

"We observe that all the lawyers arguing this case failed to note that judges have held their terms are for life, and that they can be removed from office only by impeachment for crimes conducted outside their judicial duties. If we just write lots of really lousy, poorly-reasoned opinions, you can't touch us," said one Justice. "Woot! Woot!"

As is customary in important cases, the Justices read their written opinion aloud to assembled reporters. The opinion, just one sentence long, said "We are pissed, case dismissed!"

Associated articles: National Review; Thomas Sowell

Headlines

2011-02-09T00:10:00.000-05:00

Associated article: Daily Caller

Groupon to Sue On (click image to enlarge)

2011-02-08T00:10:00.000-05:00

Obama to Deliver Major Speech on White Guilt

2011-02-07T00:10:00.000-05:00

Columbus, Ohio--President Obama, now facing significant congressional opposition for the first time following Republican gains in the House of Representatives, is planning what aides are calling a "major speech" on white guilt.

"The President is going to remind many of his critics that they are white, and that lots of them voted for the President because he's black," said a White House spokesperson. "It's too easy to forget that in the midst of substantive discussions regarding fundamental policy decisions."

Millions of Overdraft Notices Sent to Nation's Youth

2011-02-04T00:10:00.000-05:00

Millions of young people are anxious today as the Obama Administration has begun sending them draft notices as part of a program designed to alert the next generation of their obligations to pay the massive national debt.

According to administration officials, the notices serve to "warn young people that their future bank accounts are likely to be depleted as a result of the higher taxes required to pay for large government programs."

"Technically, these are overdraft notices," said one Treasury official. "We want young people to know they have to start saving now so they can pay for future fees and taxes and avoid negative bank balances."

Some of the nation's youth have already held "overdraft notice burning parties" in which they set fire to the overdraft cards they say violate the constitutional prohibition against slavery and symbolize a dramatic denial of personal liberty throughout their adult years.

"F**ck the man," said one angry teen. "I'm a hundred thousand dollars in debt from school, and now the feds have more than doubled my tax debt when I can't even find a job."

National Endowment for the Arts Funds Artists Whose Art is Convincing Other People That What They Do Is Art

2011-02-03T00:10:00.002-05:00

Washington, D.C.--The National Endowment for the Arts is highlighting its grants of federal taxpayer funds to artists whose only "art" is their ability to convince other people to think what they do is art.

"The work itself is crap, as most people who look at it will immediately realize," said one NEA commissioner. "But the true art in what these people do lies in the strategic schmoozing, the pretentious conversation, and the egomaniacal confidence it takes to convince fellow middle-aged-and-older hipsters on obscure government boards that the weird stuff you do to amuse yourself in an otherwise superficial life is such sheer genius that its magnificence would not be appropriately valued in a voluntary free market filled with common rubes like you."

Associated video: ReasonTV

Obama Paper Tiger Doll

2011-02-02T00:10:00.001-05:00

Associated articles: AEI; Wall Street Journal; Associated Press; Wall Street Journal 1; National Review

Obama's Latest Shared Facebook Photo

2011-02-01T00:10:00.001-05:00

Associated articles: Washington Post; Krauthammer

Authorities Nab Notorious Youth Soccer Gang After 3-0 Victory Leaves Seven with Hurt Feelings

2011-01-31T00:10:00.000-05:00

Associated article: Pajamas Media

Select Panel of Experts Concludes Common Sense Is a Myth

2011-01-28T00:10:00.001-05:00

Washington, D.C.--A select panel of self-identified experts announced its conclusion that "common sense is a myth" to a small audience of similarly-minded elite.

"We have surveyed a wide variety of commonly-held views," said Professor Elizabeth Bartholemew Rottgenstein, "but we have concluded that none of them are shared by members of this most qualified, prestigious, and heavily credentialed panel."

The head of the panel described its methodology as "one in which we surveyed the universe of sense amongst us and looked to see if a similar array of correct opinions were prevalent amongst most other people. Alas, we found our sense was not common, and were compelled to conclude there is no such thing as sense of a common variety."

Associated article: National Review

Obama Inspires Nation to Find "Bold New Ways to Do the Math"

2011-01-27T00:10:00.003-05:00

Washington, D.C.--President Obama used his State of the Union Address to urge Congress to find "bold new ways to do the math" of balancing the federal budget, advocating spending even more taxpayer dollars on things like roads, cars, and high-speed rail lines while ignoring major spending cuts.

"Accountants tell us there are only two sides to a balance sheet," said Obama. "But we as a nation can do better. Much better."

The President took the opportunity to recognize several students in the audience who he said were examples of young pioneers "willing to think outside the pizza box" and find new ways to scatter numbers randomly around ledger sheets.

Associated article: Associated Press Fact Check

Sausage Inspector Closes Senate for Safety Violations

2011-01-26T00:10:00.001-05:00

Washington, D.C.--A federal sausage inspector closed the U.S. Senate yesterday after finding "shocking violations of basic safety regulations."

"The crafting of legislation is often compared to making sausage, but the U.S. Senate has utterly failed to meet the basic requirements of safe sausage-making," said the inspector.

According to inspection officials, while sausage-makers must specify in advance exactly what ingredients are going into specific types of sausage, the U.S. Senate "often lumps completely unrelated pieces of legislation together in one 2,000-page package no one person could ever fully understand."

Even the Democratic health care law contains in its last 141 pages changes to the first 763 pages, while a separate bill enacted a week later revised many provisions in the first bill.

"While the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has required the publication of bills well in advance of a House vote and the listing of the constitutional authority for every bill introduced," said the inspector, "the Senate continues to fall well short of minimal sausage-making requirements."

Associated article: New York Times

Jerry Brown Checks State of California Into Rehab

2011-01-25T00:10:00.000-05:00

Los Angeles, California--After being busted for racking up tens of billions of dollars in debt above the already-existing $500 billion in unfunded public pension liabilties held by the government, Governor Jerry Brown has checked the entire State of California into rehab.

Brown was caught in the state Capitol with a bevy of environmentalists, lawyers, and public sector unions.

"He thought the prospects were poor that a Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives would be willing to bail him and his state out," said a Brown spokesperson. "Voluntarily submitting to rehab was the only alternative."

Associated articles: San Francisco Chronicle; Wall Street Journal

Celebrities Hiring Assistants to Manage their Moral Outrage

2011-01-24T00:10:00.001-05:00

Los Angeles, California--As celebrities advocate more and more restrictions on the use of energy that will make energy less affordable -- especially for people with smaller incomes -- they're increasingly hiring personal assistants to manage their moral outrage.

"I work for a celebrity who owns four homes, a helicopter and private jet, seven cars, including a Humvee, two yachts, and a three-story earth mover he uses to build new recreational islands," said one celebrity assistant. "I'm here to help him manage all those assets while also maintaining a large collection of advocacy issues that require consistently solemn moral outrage."

"It's a juggling act," said another celebrity moral outrage assistant, "trying to find time for my client to spout off on the need for people to sacrifice more while squeezing in that third trip to the private villa off Tahiti."

Associated videos: YouTube; The Blaze; YouTube 2

Madison and Obama (click image to enlarge)

2011-01-21T00:10:00.001-05:00

Obama Resorts to Air Guitar

2011-01-20T00:10:00.000-05:00

Washington, D.C.--Having run out of options to reenergize his presidency, President Obama used a televised address last night to play air guitar.

White House advisers told the president he needed to simplify his message to a few wild windmill maneuvers and a rockin' heavy metal stance, which they hoped could better further his agenda than alternative communications strategies.

"We decided it was best to let Obama be Obama," said a White House spokesperson. "And that's just what happened last night: the president struck a phony pose, engaged in some theatrics, and pumped his arms in celebration."

TV Guide

2011-01-19T00:20:00.000-05:00

Associated article: ABC News

Local Man Picketed for Reading Newspaper Article on Unflattering Race Statistics

2011-01-19T00:10:00.000-05:00

Nortown, Illinois--Crowds of anti-racism protesters continued to gather outside the office of an area man who was spotted reading a newspaper article featuring unflattering racial statistics, including those showing that 72% of black babies are born to unmarried mothers, compared to 29% of whites, and that only 12% of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading and math, compared to 38% and 44% of white boys, respectively, even adjusting for poverty.

"It's an outrage that these statistics exist," said one protester, "and even more outrageous that someone would choose to read them."

Associated articles: Associated Press; New York Times

Headlines

2011-01-18T00:10:00.000-05:00

EPA Regulates Vegetarians as Their Methane Emissions Rival Those of Cows

2011-01-17T00:10:00.002-05:00

Washington, D.C.--The Environmental Protection Agency is predicting an increase in human vegetarian diets consisting of the same harder-to-digest vegetable matter that causes cows to emit large quantities of carbon dioxide and methane gas. Consequently, the EPA will begin regulating vegetarian emissions beginning next year as part of its efforts to combat global warming.

"Let me be clear," said President Obama, announcing the plan, "Vegetarians eat vegetable matter just like cows do, and the body's inability to fully digest the many complex carbohydrates in the vegetarian diet results in the excessive production of carbon dioxide and methane. Vegetarians also don't eat cows, whose similar diets produce the same gases. The result is a vicious circle in which vegetarians and cows contribute to ever greater global warming gas emissions."

Associated article: The Straight Dope

Latest Communications Rage "Twit" Limits Conversations to Four Characters or Less

2011-01-14T00:10:00.000-05:00

Democrats Demand Stronger Microphone Control Laws and Shorter Audio Feeds Following Shooting Tragedy

2011-01-13T00:10:00.001-05:00

Washington, D.C.--Following a tragic shooting committed by a lone deranged man whose motivation had no discernible political connection, Democrats in Congress moved to prevent "ideas from getting into the wrong hands" through stronger microphone control laws and limits on the size of television audio feeds.

"The constitutional right to bear speech has limits," said one proponent of the legislation. "Do you really need a microphone this large or an audio feed that holds more than a few minutes of sound data to shoot down a bad idea?"

Associated article: Charles Krauthammer

More and More Federal Bureaucrats Roaming Beyond Their Natural Habitat

2011-01-12T00:10:00.002-05:00

Allanville, New Jersey--Local residents are seeing more and more federal bureaucrats roaming beyond their government buildings, sun bathing on driveways and rummaging through garbage cans.

"The bureaucrat population has exploded," said one neighbor. "Many of them have nowhere else to go."

"They rummage through everything, and then just saunter away, leaving a total mess," said another resident.

Officials say the encroachments are the inevitable result of vastly larger increases in public sector employment, leaving private citizens exposed to more and more intrusions.

"One bureaucrat trapped himself under our kiddie pool," said another neighbor. "Then he fined us for not putting a cover on it."

Associated articles: National Review; Wall Street Journal

Authorities Uncover Supreme Court Fetish Club

2011-01-11T00:10:00.001-05:00

Washington, D.C.--Just days after the House of Representatives' first-ever public reading of the U.S. Constitution led detractors to say the event showed Republicans' reverence for the nation's founding document was a "fetish," those same detractors were found at the Supreme Court, on their knees, enjoying a domination routine run by the most left-wing Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Authorities said they were called to the scene when passers-by heard cries of "Work your will on us, harder, harder!" as prominent advocates of the judiciary's governmental supremacy begged several of the unelected, lifetime-tenured Justices to impose their own policy preferences on them through a variety of sick and twisted distortions of the constitutional text.

Some of the participants defended their involvement in the Supreme Court fetish club, saying they were just trying to work out some "intimacy issues" with their democratic form of government.

Associated articles: National Review; Wall Street Journal; AOL

Tragic Headlines

2011-01-10T00:10:00.001-05:00

Associated articles: Wall Street Journal 1; Wall Street Journal 2; PoltiFact

After Spending an Hour Reading U.S. Constitution, House Commits to Reading All 162,000 Pages of Code of Federal Regulations Over Next 23 Years

2011-01-07T07:00:00.003-05:00

Washington, D.C.--After Republicans initiated the first public reading of the U.S. Constitution on the House floor, they committed to reading aloud the entire 162,000 pages of the Code of Federal Regulations over the next 23 years.

"It took a bit over an hour for Members to read the entire Constitution during our proceedings," said one Representative. "So we expect it will take about 23 years to finish reading just the code of federal regulations. We hope to get to the I.R.S. Code and the U.S. Code of Federal Statutes some time later this century."

Association articles: Politico; George Will; Wall Street Journal; associated video: Liberty Central

Democrats to Hold 2012 Convention in 1862 Los Angeles

2011-01-07T00:10:00.000-05:00

Washington, D.C.--The Democratic National Committee today announced its plans to hold the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles circa 1862.

"Because we believe there's only a static and finite amount of wealth in society, such that the economy is a zero-sum game in which if one person makes more money someone else must make less, we will hold our 2012 convention in the City of Los Angeles as it existed before the dynamic free market improved services and technology so that even the poorest in Los Angeles today live better than the wealthiest did in 1862," said a Democratic Party spokesperson. "Since our political philosophy rests on such profoundly counter-factual premises, it's only fitting that we hold our convention in an anachronistic city that time, freedom, and spontaneous wealth creation has long since passed by."

Democratic Party officials said they "looked forward to presenting to the American people our political vision of class warfare that denies the ever-expanding value for all created by a free enterprise system, in a setting bereft of things like cell phone, skyscrapers, and electricity, and marked by malnutrition, dysentery, and other primitive conditions."

White House Spokesman Spins Out of Control, Lands in Press Pool, Injuring Seven

2011-01-06T00:10:00.001-05:00

Washington, D.C.--Obama Administration press secretary Robert Gibbs "spun totally out of control" earlier today, lofting into the air and flipping over several times before finally coming to a stop in the middle of the White House press pool.

Police described the scene as "like something out of an action-comedy film," as they surveyed the damage caused by Gibbs' absurd attempt to spin yet another failed Obama Administration policy.

"Journalists understand the need for press secretaries to spin events in favor of the administration they work for," said one reporter who was injured while standing next to the pool. "But there have to be some sort of standards that keep things from getting out of hand and hurting innocent people."

Treasury Secretary to Leave Administration to Serve Chinese Official Who Won Him at Silent Auction

2011-01-05T00:10:00.000-05:00

Washington, D.C.--Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner announced he would leave the Administration next week to begin serving the Chinese official who won him in a recent silent auction. The auction was held to help retire parts of the massive debt the U.S. owes to China.

"I'm so grateful to the U.S. for weakening its own economic system to the benefit of competing Chinese companies," said the Chinese Finance Minister, "that it was the least I could do to bid on one of the U.S. auction items."

The minister placed the winning bid of $1 billion on Geithner, who has agreed to do odd jobs for the minister for a week in November. The U.S. is in debt an additional $899 billion to China.

Associated articles: Wall Street Journal; CBS News

Left-leaning Legal Activists Rally to Watch Monster Trucks Drive Through Giant Holes in Constitution

2011-01-04T07:00:00.000-05:00

Cambridge, Massachusetts--Thousands of left-leaning legal activists from around the country are flocking to what has become a popular pastime for law students, lawyers, and judges: attending rallies to watch monster trucks drive through giant holes in the U.S. Constitution.

"We sit around, watch the trucks roar by, and talk about how our interpretations of certain parts of the Constitution have a way of nullifying the rest of the document in all practical effect, achieving a predetermined result that matches our policy preferences," said one rally participant. "Yeee-ha!"

Associated article: USA Today

Congressman Introduces Bill Based on Posts in Comments Sections of Huffington Post Site

2011-01-04T00:10:00.000-05:00

Man in Obama T-Shirt Robs Bank Unnoticed

2011-01-03T00:10:00.003-05:00

New Rochelle, New York--Over a dozen bank customers watched nonchalantly as a teller handed over hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to a man wearing an Obama t-shirt.

When asked why by local police, the teller said "It's gotten to the point where I didn't think anything of it. Of course someone associated with the Obama campaign is going to demand hundreds of thousands of dollars in other people's money."

The responses of other witnesses were much the same.

"With government takeovers of health care, home loans, banks, and energy," said one customer, "I just assumed along with everyone else that a guy with an Obama t-shirt wanted lots of taxpayer money, and they were going to do whatever it took to get it."

The man in the t-shirt was quickly apprehended, after which he told police "I didn't say anything to the teller. She just handed me the money and I took it."

"I'm used to the Obama shirt giving me a kind of moral authority like that," he said.

Associated articles: Washington Examiner; Wall Street Journal; Washington Post

Very Short Story: The Three "I's"

2011-01-01T12:00:00.002-05:00

The Three sat motionless, their black robes hanging straight down as if weighted at the seams, as rigid as the tunics on the marble statues that lined the dais.

They were sometimes compared to the Sun, around which everything moved in precisely predictable orbits. But after clerking for them, the Three seemed more than ever like a trio of black holes, toward which everything inevitably fell.

Nothing escaped the reach of their opinions. And so it was a citizen’s prime duty to understand them.

Long before the Three, judges had based their conclusions on general rules, couching them in the language of universal principles applied to the particular circumstances at hand.

The country was a bustling place then, where people interacted under a regime of mutual freedom. But that freedom led to many different kinds of legal proceedings.

And as the number of judicial decisions grew, the larger became the palate from which the Three could choose the colors with which to draw their decisions that would bind us all on their canvas. And so their decisions came to resemble portraits of themselves more closely than ever. The Three became the Law.

This was to the benefit of all, we were taught. No longer would citizens have to stake their liberty on predictions based on the application of abstract principle. Now they could focus their attention on adhering to the decisions of the Three alone.

The bailiff called the court to order.

Today’s trial began as usual. The claims were brought against the defendants under the Article of the three I’s, each “I” representing one of the Three and symbolizing their collective expression of societal will.

There were two defendants, both wearing the traditional white jumpsuits that symbolize their appearance as two blank slates on which the Three would write their will.

The Three recognized the Citers of Precedent, a corps of professionals dedicated to reminding each of the Three of their previous opinions. The Citers studied in grand universities, and were tasked with memorizing the Three’s written decisions and contributing toward the Great Academic Project: the synthesis of each of the Three’s opinions into a unified theory capable of predicting their future will, and thereby charting a path within which the citizenry could safely walk.

One of the Citers stated the facts of the case: the defendants considered themselves to be married, and bound by their own vows.

A collective gasp rippled like a gas leak through the spectator galleries.

The two people before the court, said the Citer, were found holding themselves out to their fellow citizens as being bound by their own commitments to each other, when the Precedents had long been understood to negate the practice. In the estimation of the Three, marriage was an archaic commitment to maintain rules that their own personal experience had revealed to be unwise over time.

“We shall consider the precedents,” said the three in unison, and they retired to their chambers.

We clerks gathered in the library to collect the precedents on which the Three’s decisions would be rendered.

The rows of precedent books wound their way through the library. The newer volumes, bound in moist shiny leather, gradually gave way to the much older tomes, whose dried covers had wilted whole pages of parched paper, littering the floor in forgotten corners of the building.

I walked over to return some of the fallen pages, and happened to glance at what they contained. I had apparently found some very early precedent that appeared to cite an Article that preceded the Article of the Three “I’s.”

It was the Article of the One “I.”

I brought the page back to my fellow clerks and asked them if we should include these older precedents in our recommendation to the Three, as it might nudge them into upholding the marriage of the committed couple whose fate the Three held in their hands.

Indeed, the old precedents I had found seemed to resonate with the married couples’ notion that they had built their own household on a foundation that only they could alter -- not the Three or anyone else. These precedents described how this Article of the One “I” was once part of a larger plan agreed to many years ago. Under this long-forgotten “Article I,” the laws would be made by those in a “House” composed of “Representatives” chosen by “the People.” The people in the House would agree on the laws, and those laws would bind everyone until the people in the House agreed to change them. Not the Three. The People.

My fellow clerks laughed. I chuckled, too, and returned the page to its long-forgotten tome.

Bad Nanny-State Ideas Traced to Ban on Incandescent Lightbulbs

2010-12-31T00:10:00.001-05:00

Associated articles: Wall Street Journal; Bloomberg

Global Warming Activists Alarmed by Global Cooling of Heads

2010-12-30T00:10:00.013-05:00

Human-caused global warming advocates convened to discuss the alarming "global cooling of heads" that appears to be occurring due to man-made errors in the interpretation of data used to claim a coming crisis due to rising temperatures caused by human emissions.

"Even Michael Mann, the professor who created the ubiquitous 'hockey stick' shaped graph Al Gore used in his documentary to show a recent, dramatic spike upwards in global temperatures now says there are 'uncertainties' in his work and says he thought making the graph a central argument in global warming debates was 'misplaced'," said one advocate. "But if we don't work quickly to dramatically ratchet up the hysteria that used to surround the global warming issue, we're in danger of losing millions of dollars in research grants devoted solely to the cause of proving an anthropogenic basis for global warming."

"Now is not the time to pause and think," said another advocate.

Associated articles: Forbes; PajamasMedia; Australian Herald; National Post; Telegraph; New Scientist; UK Telegraph; National Review; Watts Up with That; UK Telegraph; Financial Post; Global Warming Policy Foundation; Wall Street Journal; Forbes 1; The Register; Forbes 2; Forbes 3; Associated Press; Financial Post 1; Watts Up With That 1; Associated Press

More Financial Planners Serving Day Care Centers

2010-12-29T00:10:00.001-05:00

Kansas City, Kansas--Now that each child born will have a $30,000 share of a runaway national debt, more and more financial planners are serving in day care centers nationwide.

"Kids need to get a head start on their payment obligations these says," said one center worker. "So it only makes sense to add a review of future tax obligations to the mix of activities day care centers have to offer."

One financial planner said he enjoyed providing the service, but noted "the crying can get to you after a while." Still, he said, "lots of kids eventually do come to understand the need to invest a portion of their allowances in flexible foreign funds."

When asked about her investment plan, one child, Mary Stennings, said "I like gold. And pink."

Associated articles: PolitiFact; CNS News

Early American Custody Agreement Puts Paternity of Founding Fathers in Doubt

2010-12-28T00:10:00.000-05:00

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania--A legal petition dated just after the ratification of the Constitution -- and signed by the nation's Founding Fathers who drafted the Supreme Law of the Land -- has placed into doubt the paternity of America's foundational law.

The document, found buried in the archives of a Philadelphia historical center, announce the intentions of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that their status of "Founding Fathers" of the United States be severed in the event that "the plain meaning of the terms used in the Constitution become so perverted by the political manipulations of others, in ways not authorized by the Constitution, that our progeny is no longer recognizable as such."

Lawyers are currently debating whether recent court decisions regarding marriage, national security, and property rights violate the terms of the Founding Fathers' custody agreement, but the legal consensus is that "We may now need to name some Founding Stepfathers."

Scientists Speculate What Humans Will Look Like After Several Generations of Democratic Policies

2010-12-27T00:10:00.006-05:00

Atlanta, Georgia--After several years of federal policies directed at taking control of people's decisions regarding health care, energy use, housing purchases, and education loans, scientists have begun to speculate on what humans in the United States might look like if such policies continue for successive generations.

"Evolution is the process by which organisms slowly adapt to their environments through subtle constitutional changes over time," said one scientist. "So with increasing dependence on government bailouts and mandates, we see Americanus Obamus evolving into something closer to a primordial ooze, something akin to a shapeless amoeba that simply reacts to external government stimuli."

The same scientists predict members of the expected new species -- which they call "Obamoebas" -- will likely die out after reserves of their taxpayer dollar food source dries up, at which point they would most likely have to eat each other to survive.

Associated report: Heritage Foundation; associated articles: New York Times; Fiscal Times; USA Today; Ohio State University; New York Post; Wall Street Journal

Contemporary Urban Graffiti

2010-12-23T00:10:00.000-05:00

Found on Yahoo Answers

2010-12-22T00:10:00.001-05:00

Associated chart: Business Insider

Six Flags Opens New Obama-Themed Roller Coaster

2010-12-21T00:10:00.000-05:00

Baltimore, Maryland--With the economy tanking and a record one in six Americans taking part in various government anti-poverty programs, the Six Flags amusement park announced the opening of it's latest roller coaster.

"It's called the Obamarator," said a park spokeswoman, who said it consists of a winding but ever low-spiraling ride in cars fitted with video screens showing the latest economic indicators.

"With the latest data showing Medicaid enrollment at record highs even before 16 million people are added by the ObamaCare law in 2014, a 50% rise in food stamp participants, a 400% increase in those receiving unemployment insurance, and an 18% increase in the welfare rolls," said the spokeswoman, "we didn't have to do much more to make this one of the most frightening Six Flags coasters ever."

One man who rode on the coaster's maiden run said "After the very first turn -- where you see that Medicaid costs have jumped 36% in two years to $273 billion, jobless benefits soared from $43 billion to $160 billion, and food stamp and welfare costs have risen 80% and 24% -- I almost lost my lunch."

Associated articles: USA Today; New York Daily News

First Prize at Local Science Fair Goes to Student with Global Warming Display Behind Black Curtain

2010-12-20T00:10:00.003-05:00

Derbyville, New York--Junior high school student Cody Burroughs won first place in the local science fair for his alleged display of the science proving human-caused global warming, which remained hidden behind a thick black curtain.

"The conclusions Cody came to so confirmed the prevailing consensus that we found it unnecessary to look behind the curtain," said one of the judges.

Other judges said they were impressed by Cody's assiduous deletion of any emails in his possession that would have cast doubt on the validity of the claims he made, and his encouragement of classmates to ignore any student who offered evidence to rebut his theories.

The judges said that in evaluating the science fair projects, they used the same criteria applied by the "Independent Climate Change Email Review," which papered over the recent Climategate scandal.

Associated articles: Wall Street Journal; Washington Times; London Telegraph; Times of Higher Education; Watts Up With That; Wall Street Journal 1

Democrats Invite Caricature of Rich Guy to Testify at Tax Hearing

2010-12-17T00:10:00.006-05:00

Washington. D.C.--Democrats have invited an "absurd caricature of a rich person" to testify at a congressional tax hearing and help make their case that "rich people" should have their taxes raised.

"In reality, roughly 80 percent of millionaires in America are the first generation in their family to be rich, by earning it. And the wealthiest five percent of Americans pay about 60 percent of all income taxes," said a Democratic committee spokesperson. "So we're looking to a cartoonish exaggeration of a rich guy to justify our class warfare rhetoric."

When asked by Republican Members on the committee whether he was aware that statistics show higher-income people work longer hours and spend less time on leisure activities -- while giving half of all charitable contributions -- Rufus Terwillinger III replied, "Guffaw! Now pardon me as I wallow in piles of cash and mock the less fortunate!"

Associated articles: National Review; Mercatus; AP Fact Check; associated video: Bill Whittle

Santa Asks Kids to Give Back This Year

2010-12-16T00:10:00.003-05:00

Washington, D.C.--Children around the country were surprised last night to see Santa Claus deliver an unprecedented prime time television address in which he asked the nation's youth to "give back this year" by contributing what they could to their $40,000 share of the massive national debt.

"I know these are tough economic times," said Santa, "but this year, there are over 6,000 earmarks in the Democratic Congress' spending bill, and the John Murtha Foundation and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute alone need $18 million from your collective allowances."

Santa closed his remarks by explaining to the nation's children that he "had to give out over $800 billion in gifts to the public sector at the beginning of the year," so he was looking to children everywhere to finally "pay up."

Associated article: Wall Street Journal

Headlines

2010-12-15T00:10:00.001-05:00

Associated articles: Associated Press; Wall Street Journal

No Labels Groups Unveils New Clothing Label

2010-12-14T06:00:00.000-05:00

Washington, D.C.--The group "No Labels" -- led by a group of former politicians who lost reelection and a host of largely uninfluential political commentators -- unveiled a new clothing line to garner attention for its mission of removing intellectual consistency from political discourse.

"By hyping the often trivial common ground between those who believe government must enforce its vision of justice and those who believe personal fulfillment is best achieved through individual responsibility and the voluntary interaction of free people," said a No Labels spokesperson, "we hope to foster a self-righteous sense of civility designed to suppress exposure of the contradictions that inevitably underlie attempts to compromise on fundamental issues."

Founded on the principle that "defending principle is indefensible," the No Labels clothing line aims at making "totally vapid totally cool."

Associated article: Slate

Obama Defends His Divinity Against Church and State Challenge

2010-12-14T00:10:00.000-05:00

Washington, D.C.--President Obama defended his divinity before the Supreme Court yesterday, arguing personally that his holy status did not violate any constitutionally required separation between church and state.

"The First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing a religion," Obama told the Justices. "But I didn't establish my divinity as President. Rather, my divinity was created by free citizens who decided on their own to join my cult following."

Several of the conservative justices seemed to agree with Obama, with one pointing out that "The intercession of free choice by individuals would seem to negate any claim of government-imposed religion."

Obama divided his time for oral argument with the Solicitor General, who began his presentation in defense of Obama's constitutionality by saying "May it please the Court, and His Divine Holiness Obama, Whose Infinite Wisdom and Mercy Is the Beginning and the End of All That Is Just and Good."

Associated articles: Victor Davis Hanson; Wall Street Journal; Weekly Standard

Students March to Increase Age of Puberty, Adulthood

2010-12-13T00:10:00.001-05:00

Washington, D.C.--Emulating their peers in Europe who are protesting increases in student fees and cutbacks in government programs, American young adults have begun marching en mass in favor of increasing the age of puberty and the onset of personal responsibility.

"Adulthood is bulls**t!" said one angry student. "We've been treated like children so long by the government it's unfair to expect us to come of age now!"

The marchers chanted refrains of "What do we want? iPods! When do we want them? Now!" before converging at an Apple Superstore and demanding prepaid iTunes cards.

Obama Assures Nation: "I Come in Peace"

2010-12-10T00:10:00.000-05:00

Washington, D.C.--In a prime time television address that rivited the nation, President Barack Obama sought to assure tremulous Americans who generally consider him distant and detached that "I come in peace."

Obama delivered the address inside what White House officials called "The Oval Saucer," pausing frequently to extend his hand toward the camera in a reassuring manner. "You have nothing to fear," said Obama, his voice echoing with every syllable.

Many Americans expressed relief following the address, especially from Obama's assurances that "We will depart as soon as our egos are fed." But others remained concerned by Obama's remarks that "your civilization will be protected by layers of bureaucracy that will preserve your species for generations to come."

Still others were unnerved by Obama's use of the royal "we," but an administration spokesperson made clear that such a linguistic formulation "referred only to the collective consciousness of the larger White House," and that "in any case our data indicate your kind can safely withstand at least six more years of preparatory incubation."

Associated articles: London Telegraph; Investors Business Daily

Obama Appoints Ambassador to Business World

2010-12-09T00:10:00.001-05:00

Washington, D.C.--President Obama appointed the nation's first ambassador to the business world today, saying the post "would help facilitate negotiations with the exotic and alien denizens of the economic sector."

As a former community organizer, law professor, and Senator, President Obama has had no practical experience as a businessperson, nor have his top aides. But a White House spokesperson said the American people "have to come to grips with the reality that there are people out there in the world, many with dirty hands, who bang things together into things that are bought and sold as commodities."

"We have to face up to the reality of business," said a White House aide.

The man appointed to the new ambassadorship, Henry Lewis, is reportedly fluent in common sense.

Associated articles: Daily Caller; The Hill

Democrats' Economic Models Based on Earth Being Struck by Giant Asteroid

2010-12-08T00:10:00.000-05:00

Washington, D.C.--While many have begun questioning the long-term viability of Democrats' plans to rely on perpetual government spending instead of personal responsibility to boost the economy, Democratic officials are defending their own economic models, which are based on a giant asteroid hitting the Earth some time in coming years.

Democratic economists point to a footnote in all their economic reports, which states their "Projections [are] based on the Earth's being hit by a humongous asteroid" -- an event that may occur in 2182 when the 2,000-foot wide 1999 RQ36 has a 1-in-1,000 chance of reaching Earth.

"Our economic plans are entirely reasonable if our home planet's destroyed fairly soon," said a top Treasury Department official.

Associated article: MSNBC

Obama Health Care Law Promises Go Up in Flames on Special Episode of Mythbusters

2010-12-07T00:10:00.002-05:00

Washington, D.C.--President Obama will appear on a special episode of the Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" and watch as the show's hosts introduce reality to Obama's promises regarding the new health care law.

"The results of the experiment are spectacular," said one industry insider. "The promises go up in flames, often dramatically."

Promises that prove unable to withstand reality include a promise that the law will decrease government health care costs (disproven by Medicare's official actuary); a promise that employees can keep the health insurance coverage they like (disproven by the administration's own estimates that large majorities will be forced to change coverage and probably have to switch to more expensive plans); and a promise that the law will not increase insurance premiums (belied by recent state insurance commission approvals of rate increases due to the added costs imposed by the law).

"The claims made by those supporting the new health care law are definitely myths," said the show's producer.

Associated articles: Reuters; Washington Examiner

Obama: "Read My Busted Lip: No New Taxes on the Rich"

2010-12-07T00:05:00.000-05:00

Associated article: ABC News

Santa Gives Nation the Gift of Coal After Defeat of Democrats' Cap and Tax Plans

2010-12-06T00:10:00.003-05:00

Everywhere, USA--After the Democrats suffered historic defeats at the polls last November, Santa Claus announced all Americans would be getting "the gift of precious coal" as it became clear plans for draconian energy taxes would be scrapped.

Back in 2008, then-candidate for Presient Barack Obama said of his energy policies: "If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."

"But coal provides usable energy at much less than a quarter of the cost of either oil or natural gas," said Santa, "and 50 percent of the energy produced in the United States comes from coal. I'm pleased to say that the American voters were very good this year because they rejected candidates who wanted to dramatically increase their energy costs in return for relatively few demonstrable benefits."

Judge Orders Christmas Depictions of Jesus Replaced with Doc Holliday

2010-12-03T00:10:00.004-05:00

Lubberville, Oregon--A federal judge in Oregon has ordered a local town to replace its Christmas depictions of Jesus Christ with the "less offensive" image of legendary bar owner, gambler, and gunslinger Doc Holliday.

Although title 5, Section 6103 of the United States Code specifically declares "Christmas" a "legal public" day of celebration, Judge Lewis Tunnick held that celebrating a "Holliday" rather than Christmas' namesake was "more appropriate" in that it singled out for recognition "a popular secular lawman" instead of a "religious figure."

Guy Who Elbowed President Obama During Basketball Game Awarded Medal of Freedom

2010-12-02T00:10:00.002-05:00

Washington, D.C.--The person who recently elbowed President Obama during a White House basketball game was awarded the Medal of Freedom yesterday for his role in exposing the President to the real-world conditions of competition.

"After having been surrounded by sycophants and coddlers my entire adult life, who praised me endlessly when I had in fact accomplished very little, I found myself elbowed in the face during a competitive basketball game, requiring a dozen stitches," said Obama during the ceremony. "For introducing me to a world in which competition can result in adverse experiences that people can learn from, I hereby award the guy who elbowed me in the face the Medal of Freedom."

Upon receiving the award, the guy who elbowed President Obama in the face said "It was my pleasure to expose the President to the world most of us live in every day, and help demonstrate that government cannot always be relied on to prevent personal misfortune in the give-and-take of everyday life."

Associated article: Associated Press

Headlines

2010-12-01T00:10:00.000-05:00

In Compromise Offer to Republicans, Obama Agrees to Support Only 1,500-Page Bills That Control an Additional 7% of Economy

2010-11-30T00:10:00.002-05:00

Washington, D.C.--In what White House officials called "an unprecedented gesture of good will and in a spirit of compromise," President Obama said at a bipartisan meeting on Capitol Hill today that he would limit his support to bills that are 1,500 pages long and control only an additional 7% of the U.S. economy.

"Some are complaining because legislation I signed into law ran into the many thousands of pages and controlled an additional tenth of the national's privately-held resources," said Obama. "I'm willing to look beyond the past, and push forward with policies that grow the government by one-seventh at a time."

Associated article: Fox News

What Do YOU Think?

2010-11-29T00:10:00.000-05:00

Costs of Lack of Interest Projected to Swamp Costs of Interest on National Debt in Coming Years

2010-11-26T00:10:00.000-05:00

Associated article: Mercatus Center

Obama to Embark on National Listening Tour; President Plans to Plug Ears and Hum National Anthem in All 50 States

2010-11-24T00:10:00.000-05:00

Washington, D.C.--Following the last election's massive turnout of voters intent on electing representatives who will help restore traditional Americans values and oppose central parts of President Obama's agenda, the White House announced today that Obama plans a national listening tour in which he will visit all 50 states while plugging his ears and humming the national anthem.

"The president will demonstrate his deep patriotism by traveling cross-sections of the country, standing in large audiences, and then filling his head with the sonorous sounds of the Star-Spangled Banner," said a White House spokesperson. "And in the event people in the crowds prove at all distracting, the president stands ready to order the firing of cannons during the anthem's crescendo."

Turkey Pardons Obama

2010-11-23T00:10:00.000-05:00

Commission Rejects Debt-Reduction Plan

2010-11-22T00:10:00.002-05:00

Washington, D.C.--A commission formed to recommend how to lower the nation's massive federal debt rejected a proposal today offered by representatives of America's Founders. The proposal, popularly referred to as the "U.S. Constitution," provided for a system in which states and localities would be responsible for most spending decisions, and the federal government would be limited in its powers to the few items listed in Article I.

"It was just too radical," said a spokesperson after the commission unanimously voted down the proposal. "The concepts it's based on have come up before in our nation's history, and they caused an American Revolution. We don't need that sort of distraction in these tough economic times."

Lost Dog

2010-11-22T00:05:00.000-05:00

Associated articles: Washington Post; The New Republic

Congress Requires 20% Gratuity for Taxpayers of Eight or More

2010-11-19T00:10:00.002-05:00

Washington, D.C.--President Obama signed federal legislation yesterday, passed by the lame duck Democrat-controlled Congress, that requires a 20% gratuity from taxpayers of eight or more.

The Obama Administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress have long expressed its frustration that Americans have been insufficiently grateful for the massive new government programs they recently enacted, but this is the first time the law has been codified to correct that perceived inadequacy.

At the signing ceremony, Obama said "It's just not fair that subjective assessments of the government's performance can leave millions of federal bureaucrats without the compensation they deserve for their service."

Congressional Democrats said the gratuity mandate was necessary because "in a country of over 300 million people, it's just too hard for citizens in large groups to avoid their fiscal responsibility."

Obama Nominates Scenester to Make National Debt Hip

2010-11-18T00:10:00.003-05:00

Washington, D.C.--President Obama today nominated Trevor "Diametric" Frylinheuse to head a new office created to make the national debt seem hip to those who will eventually have to pay for it.

Diametric -- a 26-year old metrosexual from Brooklyn who's still on his parents health insurance thanks to the Democrats' new health care law -- occasionally gazed up from his iPod during the announcement ceremony, took a sip from a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon, and lifted his shirt to reveal a large tattoo depicting a bar graph showing the rising national debt, which he called a "work in progress."

"I'm very pleased to add Diametric to our team," said Obama. "I have every confidence he will use obscure movie lines to communicate to the public just how cool our absurdly large national debt it."

Asked about his plans for popularizing the national debt among young people, Diametric said "It's like, I'm going to use taxpayer cash fashionably, hit the coffee shops, maybe take some pictures making out with my girlfriend in a dumpster, and horse around with my friends on some train tracks."

Associated article: Politifact

Attorney General Convicted of Prosecuting Terrorists in Federal Court

2010-11-17T22:15:00.001-05:00

Associated articles: Reuters; Weekly Standard

Headlines

2010-11-17T00:10:00.000-05:00

Work Begins on "Mount Rush More" to Honor American Political Leaders Who Rammed Through Massive Legislation

2010-11-16T00:10:00.000-05:00

Cthulhu Has Dominant Influence on National Debt Commission Debates

2010-11-15T00:10:00.001-05:00

Washington, D.C.--Members of the commission President Obama appointed to make recommendations on how to reduce the national debt are increasingly concerned by the dominant role being played by one commission member.

"I'm not sure it was helpful to appoint someone to the commission whose terrifyingly omnipresent brooding is such an obvious personification of the bone-crushing national debt," said one member who insisted on speaking anonymously for fear Cthulhu would doom his soul to oblivion by simply gazing in his direction and bringing him to understand the profound futility of his inconsequential suggestions in light of an unspeakably massive federal debt.

Another anonymous commission member expressed frustration with Cthulhu's presence on the commission, saying "It's difficult to focus on what's really needed in the midst of a gargantuan, squid-headed, claw-winged embodiment of a $14 trillion national debt plus a combined $106 trillion in liabilities for Social Security and Medicare, which is about twice the total private net worth of the United States."

Cthulhu would not be reached for comment, in part because his alien language resonates so deeply with humans' primordial sense of insignificance that his uttering a single syllable would risk a brutal self-knowledge of abject futility, crowding out any vestige of sanity.

Associated articles: Wikipedia; Fox News

Scientists Say Equations Predict Alternate Universe Inside President's Head

2010-11-12T00:10:00.001-05:00

Pasadena, California--Quantum mechanics professors at the California Institute of Technology believe they've formulated equations that predict the existence of an alternate universe inside the head of President Obama.

"Our observations relative to events in our universe -- such as the effect of cost increases on prices, the effect of the sun and other systems on climate, and perverse incentives created by government bailouts -- are so at odds with the president's observations that we hypothesize he is viewing events in an exclusively inward-looking alternate reality."

Scientists say that collapsed wave functions inside the president's head may prevent us from ever understanding what's occurring there, but that "the collapse of our economy and the functions of government, along with an adverse political wave, may be one commonality that could act as a bridge to the otherwise strange world of the president's thinking."

Associated article: Washington Examiner

Next Generation Placed in Protective Custody

2010-11-11T00:10:00.000-05:00

Washington, D.C.--Americans under 18 years of age were placed in protective custody today after child welfare authorities determined their obligation to pay for current federal spending amounted to child abuse.

"We couldn't sit by any longer and allow Congress to foist unprecedented debt on the shoulders of young people nationwide," said a spokesperson for a national child welfare organization. "So we have to restrain congressional representatives from putting young people at even greater risk of future indentured servitude."

Many of the children taken into custody welcomed the protective order, saying "my mommy isn't and should never be the feds."

Classic Remakes

2010-11-10T00:10:00.000-05:00

Associated articles: Washington Post; Washington Times

Advisers Recommend Obama Scale Back Efforts to Teach Young People Personal Irresponsibility, Saying President Should "Focus on Smoking for Now"

2010-11-09T00:10:00.004-05:00

Washington, D.C.--Worried that the President has spread himself too thin by encouraging people, especially young people, to act irresponsibly by promoting government handouts in such diverse fields as car ownership, school loans, and home ownership, top White House advisers are strongly encouraging Obama to scale back his efforts "and limit his focus for the moment to smoking."

"Smoking helps the President relax despite well-known negative consequences," said one administration official. "We think he should stick to that example for our nation's youth, rather than trying to tackle too many drunken-sailor programs at once."

Administration officials said the President could always return to promoting his many other personal irresponsibility programs, but that for now, with dropping poll numbers, "he needs to stop overextending himself and take things one step at a time."

Obama Regrets Not Using More "Baby Talk" with Voters

2010-11-08T00:10:00.000-05:00

Washington, D.C.--Having blamed the Democratic "shellacking" during the mid-term elections on "scared" voters who could not comprehend "facts and science and argument," President Obama said he plans to use more "baby talk" when addressing the American electorate.

"What a cute wittle brainy-wainy you all have today," Obama said at the start of his first post-election address to the Nation. "I bet what you want is a biiiiiiiiiig government ice cream program with lots of sprinkles and chocolate chips and individual mandates, huh?"

Obama turned towards the camera and made cheek-touching motions with his fingers as he told Americans "Daddy Obama going to take weally, weally good care of you!"

Associated article: Politico

Election 2010: Won One for the Sipper

2010-11-06T12:10:00.000-04:00

Election Condolence Card

2010-11-05T00:05:00.000-04:00

The Joker's Latest Scheme (click image to enlarge)

2010-11-04T21:00:00.000-04:00

Associated article: CNBC

Post-Election Headlines

2010-11-04T00:10:00.000-04:00

Headlines

2010-11-03T17:30:00.000-04:00

Obama Tours Destruction of Own Party Left in Wake of Radical Administration

2010-11-03T00:10:00.002-04:00

Washington, D.C.--President Obama toured the devastation on Capitol Hill today as his party suffered huge losses following enactment of his policies favoring massive federal public sector spending, government takeovers of health care, housing, and student loans, and his endless demonization of business owners.

Touring the now somber halls of Congress, Obama was escorted by members of the National Guard as he strode between the now-empty seats on the Democratic side of the aisle.

"What happened here was a personal tragedy," said Obama. "I've summoned the full resources of the federal government to double-down yet again on my federal-spending response to the mindless tides of voter insubordination I blame for sweeping so many of my minions from office."

Associated articles: Wall Street Journal; Hotline

Election Day: Time to Choose

2010-11-02T00:10:00.000-04:00

New Democrat Public Service Ad

2010-11-01T00:10:00.007-04:00

Associated articles: National Review; AEI

Harry Reid's Flying Circus

2010-10-30T00:40:00.000-04:00

Pelosi Twilight Zone (Bipartisanship Episode)

2010-10-30T00:30:00.000-04:00

Interview with Head of the National Endowment for the Arts

2010-10-30T00:20:00.000-04:00

DJ POTUS -- "Let Me Be Clear"

2010-10-30T00:10:00.001-04:00

Happy Halloween!

2010-10-29T00:10:00.003-04:00

Unions to Organize Huge Nov. 2 Tea Party Rally in Guam

2010-10-29T00:05:00.000-04:00

Guam, Western Pacific Ocean--The Service Employees International Union announced today it was organizing a huge Tea Party rally for election day, November 2, on the far-away U.S. island territory of Guam.

"The southernmost portion of the Mariana Islands will provide a breathtaking setting for a celebration of tea party values on election day," said a union spokesperson. "Our alliance of unions will also provide one-way transportation to the island the day before the the next federal election."

Headlines

2010-10-28T00:10:00.000-04:00

Obama Holds Huge Rallies at Unemployment Offices Around the Country

2010-10-27T00:10:00.012-04:00

Columbus, Ohio--As the real unemployment rate -- including those who must work shorter hours and those who are so discouraged they've stopped looking for work -- hovers around 17%, President Obama has begun holding huge rallies at unemployment offices around the country.

"Thank you all for coming," said Obama to a capacity crowd who streamed in lines between the cubicles of unemployment officers. "It's a testament to your faith in Democratic economic policies that you've all come here today to hear my message, and to collect your checks."

A White House spokesperson emphasized the rally's impressive size, noting that "the crowd would have been even larger, but lots of people have run past the $100 billion record 99 weeks of extended unemployment benefits."

Associated video: 60 Minutes; associated article:E21; associated charts: National Review; Hot Air

Congressman Found to Have Directed Thousands of Patronizing Comments to Constituents

2010-10-27T00:05:00.000-04:00

Washington, D.C.--Multiple media sources confirmed that Congressman Jim Rothswig of New Jersey has, over several years, directed thousands of patronizing comments to his own constituents.

Rep. Rothswig denied the allegations, saying "Those simple-minded, gun-toting, Bible-hugging religious rubes in my district will believe anything they hear on Rush Limbaugh."