It ought to be enough to know that, since “the liberal media” is going to distort the ‘truth,’ it’s OK to distort your ‘truth‘ up front, so that you can ‘balance‘ the bias. Logically, whatever the truth or falsity of your premise (that there IS a ‘liberal media’ and it will ‘slant’ the news in a ‘liberal’ direction), it...

Destroying the California Dream by Michael Reagan Cuba is a one-party state. North Korea is a one-party state. California is a one-party state. I’m not trying to draw any false parallels. But I’ve noticed bad things happen when one political party has complete control of a government for too long, whether it’s the Communist Party that’s wrecked Cuba for 50 years or the Democrat Party...

An article in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer states: “Fewer students will be eating free breakfast and lunch in summer school this year because [of] budget troubles…That means parents will have to scramble to feed children – many of them low-income – who are accustomed to free school meals but will not receive them.” Isn’t that just wonderful. Not only are Governor Corbett...

Buzz Feed gets it almost right, but the tense is wrong: Will The Navy SEALs Swift Boat Obama? —  The operators’ resentment is real.  And their criticism could undermine the president’s clearest-cut victory, the slaying of America’s most notorious enemy.  —  President Barack Obama making a statement on the death of Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011. Gee. On May 1, a British tabloid smearer...

Sometimes it’s the little stuff that drives one crazy.

My son asked me to watch this and to tell him what I thought. I have to think about this. Clearly the piece is propaganda, although that is not a dirty word and my son also understands it’s not a dirty word. My initial reaction is I think that parts of the criticisms here are right. Other parts of it are dead wrong, or twisted. Leaving out the absolutely critical role government has always played in...

Bagels, lox, cream cheese, a little tomato and onion. Is this rocket science? The Fabulous Gi and I were recently discussing how long it had been since we’d had this wonderful product brought to us by the Zionist Occupation Government. Say what you will about our Jewish overlords, at least they gave us this! Sunday morning, I wake up inexplicably early. No way to get back to sleep. Well why don’t...

This coming Tuesday, food stamp means testing will begin in Pennsylvania. This policy, brainchild of the state’s Governor Tom Corbett, is bizarre for several reasons. It’s cruel and will hurt the very neediest people in Pennsylvania – most of them children. The Governor is supposedly adding the test to weed out fraud – though everyone agrees that fraud in this program is virtually nonexistent....

FCC Political Ad Vote Comes Down to the Wire by Michael Winship With the Federal Communications Commission scheduled to vote this Friday on TV stations posting political advertising data on-line, we know pretty much for certain the final tally will be 2-1. What we don’t know is on which side of the issue Democratic FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn will fall. She’s the swing vote and reportedly under enormous...

Pundit on way to work Today, the sober analysts of the Pew Institute have lain the GOP Presidential Sweeps of 2012 to rest. (Although, it might be noted that there are still two other candidates in the race.) Journalism.org HOW THE MEDIA COVERED THE 2012 PRIMARY CAMPAIGN —  LESS HORSE RACE THAN 2008  —  By Tom Rosenstiel, Mark Jurkowitz and Tricia Sartor of PEJ  —  Mitt Romney needed 15 weeks once...

The Big Belch is a graphic novel about a greedy oil company that causes a terrible oil spill and conducts a reckless experiment in hopes of diverting public attention from the disaster they recently caused — and ends up very nearly destroying the world in the process. The Big Belch addresses (in a zany fun way) what might come about if the Republicans get their way in gutting environmental regulations. This...

Happy Earth Day. Not to scale or ethnicity or nothing Down in Cave Junction, Oregon, a brave family of castaways makes do without any understanding of the society of the 20th and 21st centuries. Oddly straddling the worlds of legitimate science and the world of crank science; “education reform” and “edumacashun,” they eke out a meager existence only backed by the shadowy zillionaires...

I did this drawing today in commemoration of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dixie Cups, now owned by the Koch Brothers “Think about the people as if they were storm troopers in Star Wars. They may be individually innocent, but they are guilty because they work for the Evil Empire.” — [48] Today is a profound anniversary, but not much celebrated because it seems an inconvenient truth: before we all learned to hate “Moooslems,” “Ayrabs”...

The Obama Administration Is Trying To Have It Both Ways on Bank Bailouts by Kathleen McKinley When the Obama administration is not even fooling the most liberal of magazines, you know they have a problem: The Obama administration wants Americans to realize what a good job they and the Bush administration did saving the economy from a second Great Depression. But they’d prefer not to make this case directly....

This is the second short video about creating The Big Belch, a graphic novel taking on environmental concerns and corporate greed. It’s a bit more about the story line. Please click here if you would like to find out more about The Big Belch.

[Originally posted on January 11, 2011.] It’s that time of year.  Now, as the airwaves are filled with the same silly stories that the same silly people trot out every silly year, it’s timely, and I present it for your consideration, slightly altered and emended: NOTE: Spent all day Tuesday [January 11, 2011] at an update on changes to Federal and Oregon tax law for 2011. This is going to be very...

Welcome to the Etch-a-Sketch. Now, if you’re paying attention, you just learned the Achilles heel of the Romney campaign. If you haven’t been paying attention, that’s YOUR Achilles heel, which they intend to exploit. I speak of course, of Ann Romney’s dirty crack.

The Rich Are Different from You and Me – They Pay Less Taxes by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Benjamin Franklin, who used his many talents to become a wealthy man, famously said that the only things certain in life are death and taxes. But if you’re a corporate CEO in America today, even they can be put on the back burner – death held at bay by the best medical care money can buy and the latest in...

It’s the last week of tax season: that annual gory, gruesome grind up Hill Ten-Forty (and Ten-Forty-One). Thus, a welcome surcease to my inevitable prolix prose. And, frankly, why reinvent the wheel? John Derbyshire was fired at the National Review this weekend, for finally crossing a line I’d noticed back in 2007: