Category: FeaturedPolitical comedies or “satires” make us laugh and more importantly…they make us think. Here, then, are 10 of the greatest political comedy films ever made. When the political sphere is dominated by the likes of Sarah Palin, what else is there to do but laugh?
Lobbying, as practice today, is should be a crime. Everybody talks about the need for significant change but the sad fact of the situation is that nothing will really change until “radical fundamental” action is taken and order is restored. Lobbying and lobbyists have taken over to the point that the “tail is wagging the dog” (VIDEO)
Who says crime doesn’t pay! Mexican drug lord, Edgar Valdez Villarreal was arrested by Mexican security officials with, of course, the assistance from Washington and U.S. law enforcement. Enclosed is a pictorial of some of the spoils of Villarreal’s business dealings.
Claiming no victory, President Barack Obama formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed, declaring firmly Tuesday night: “It’s time to turn the page.” Now, he said, the nation’s most urgent priority is fixing its own sickly economy.
Sal Khan, you can count Bill Gates as your newest fan. “This guy is amazing,” he wrote. “It is awesome how much he has done with very little in the way of resources.” Gates and his 11-year-old son, Rory, began soaking up videos, from algebra to biology. Gates touted the “unbelievable” 10- to 15-minute Khan Academy tutorials “I’ve been using with my kids.”
Congressman Ron Paul today released the following statement on the controversy concerning the construction of an Islamic Center and Mosque in New York City:
Is the controversy over building a mosque near ground zero a grand distraction or a grand opportunity? Or is it, once again, grandiose demagoguery?
Who invented the Internet? When did we get Wi-Fi? Who came up with “.com” and “.gov”? An infographic by Online MBA offers a visual history of the Internet. Follow the timeline (below) to see how the early days of Ethernet and TCP/IP lead to the World Wide Web, Google, eBay, Wi-Fi, Napster, Wikipedia….
“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough has criticized for calling the proposed center a symbol of Muslim “triumphalism” and compared the construction of such a building to “putting a Nazi sign next to the Holocaust Museum.”
For half a century, somewhere in America, night in, night out, George Carlin stood on a stage, raging, berating, sniping, griping, purring questions, snarling answers, kicking holes in the polyester pants of hypocrisy, puking down the nice clean tux of conventional wisdom, convulsing audiences and never failing to do “this real moron thing I do: it’s called THINKING!”
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