| (Ynet) | Cheney: The US will not let Iran go nuclear. In order to ensure our security and stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society which I assure you will last for ten thousand years | (64) | |
| (YNet) | Palestinian Authority: "We will study the foiled assassination attempt on Israeli PM," and find out how to make it work next time | (12) | |
| Apologists: "Global warming will cause catastrophes--we have scientific data." Skeptics: "But what about this scientific data that suggests otherwse?" Apologists: "Science schmience" | (120) | ||
| "Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales is the 80th attorney general of the United States and if recent events in the law and at the Justice Department are any indication, he is rapidly staking a claim to being among the worst" | (29) | ||
| (FrontPage Magazine) | Why can't this man run for president? | (130) | |
| (Klein Verzet) | More rioting in Amsterdam; damned if it isn't the Lutherans at it again | (49) | |
| Hillary Clinton, who leads the Democratic primary by 15 points or so and has concentrated her campaign on the general election for months, denies that she's some sort of "front runner" | (48) | ||
| (OnMyList) | Nude Activist? Vegan Taxicab Driver? Meet the San Francisco mayoral candidates | (13) | |
| (YNet) | News: Israeli PM escapes terrorist attack by Palestinian gunmen. Newsier: Who were arrested by the Palestinian Authority and then immediately released. Newsiest: They are affiliated with President Mahmoud Abbas | (132) | |
| Hillary may be tagged with Cruella De Ville image for booting Socks the cat from the family after moving out the White House | (92) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Council of Europe declares Creationism to be a threat to human rights. Wonder if anyone will be upset? | (184) | |
| (statesman.com) | John McCain gets serious on the issues: "I’m not embarassed to say I like ABBA" | (28) | |
| (JPost) | Ex-Hamas spokesman: "Taking over Gaza by force was a serious tactical mistake that isolated us from the rest of the world." Ya think? | (20) | |
| (Some Guy) | Toshiba looking to export micro-sized nuclear reactors. Let's bomb Iran | (16) | |
| Louisiana elects first non-white governor since Reconstruction. David Duke packs up minivan | (53) | ||
| American Military: "We killed 49 militants." Iraqi Government: "You killed 13 people, and some were civilians" | (47) | ||
| (Esquire) | How the US and Israel threw away serious offers for peace from Iran and Palestine, respectively | (113) | |
| Is New York's governor Eliot Spitzer mentally ill? | (59) | ||
| After trying to get Bill Clinton removed from office for getting a hummer, Ken Starr is trying to keep a millionaire money manager who pled guilty to having sex with underaged prostitutes from having to register as a sex offender | (93) |
| (Some Guy) | Ron Paul introduces bill to roll back the power of the federal govt., repeal the Military Commissions Act of 2006, prohibit “extraordinary rendition,” and prohibit the use of secret evidence | (195) | |
| (Topeka Capitol Journal) | Terrorism may threaten America's ability to keep cramming fist-sized muffins down its pie hole - To protect this inalienable right we need a Strategic Grain Reserve | (30) | |
| (Newsdaily) | Iranian commander touts military strength, says Iran has the ability to "reduce our enemies to ashes," adding, "The American infidels are committing suicide at our gates as I speak" | (76) | |
| Remember how right-wing radio and keyboard commandos kept screaming that Valerie Plame was just a secretary and was never covert? Yeah, it turns out she was and her main focus was preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Oops | (228) | ||
| (Pensito Review) | Limbaugh caught on tape mocking speech of 12 year old Graeme Frost | (141) | |
| (The State) | Stephen Colbert is bringing in more money than Obama and Clinton, prompting one candidate to remark that he's “kicking Barack and Hillary’s butt.” | (57) | |
| Hillary Clinton: Neocon? | (108) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Political contributions of SNL members over the years | (66) | |
| "Britain has been turned into a banana republic. This is because incompetence and inadequacy have now become the main qualifications for a job in our once proud public services" | (25) | ||
| 9/11 Truthers heckle Real Time with Bill Maher. Bill Maher jumps up and kicks truther out: "ass kicking is what's called for" (link now goes to video - not safe for work language) | (723) | ||
| Less than 20% of Democrats don't drink koolaid | (97) | ||
| Rather than just deport failed asylum seekers, Nanny State gives them five-figure bribes to go back where they came from | (7) | ||
| Bush imposes new sanctions against Burmese military junta, because we all now how effective sanctions are | (19) | ||
| Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff states US military has "more than enough reserve" to attack Iran while holding down Iraq and Afghanistan | (70) | ||
| Bobby Jindal is poised to become the USA's first Indian-American Governor, in Louisiana no less. Suck it, David Duke | (44) |
| Colbert announces his run for President and Edwards begins dropping in South Carolina polls. Coincidence? I think not | (54) | ||
| (kos) | And then there were two: Biden joins Dodd's formerly one-man filibuster against Telcom immunity | (19) | |
| Chris Dodd: I like corn | (20) | ||
| Air Force doesn't know how support contract went "boeing" up from $24 million to $24 billion | (22) | ||
| (Ablogistan) | The difference between Hillary and Obama in a nutshell: He leads candidates in donations from military personnel; she leads in donations from private defense companies | (45) | |
| (Daily Bulletin) | County rips out 95-year-old tracks for "Rails To Trails." Landowner demands his easement returned upon "cease to use for railroad purposes." County lawyers claim they're just awaiting "future use" of a railroad | (20) | |
| (TV Squad) | Stephen Colbert might be breaking election laws | (81) | |
| Women bombarding Myanmar embassies with panties to protest crackdown. Burmese authorities vow to sniff out those responsible | (11) | ||
| With nothing more important going on in the world to write about, media speculates whether a U.S. president could survive a French-style mid-term divorce from his wife | (10) | ||
| (YNet) | Bad news: President Mubarak collapsed and his health is declining. Worse news: Those who will replace him will most likely be the Muslim Brotherhood.... Worst news: ...who vowed to declare a war against Israel as soon as they take power | (103) | |
| Turkey tells Iraq that they must shut down the terrorist training camps inside their country and hand over the terrorist leaders or Turkey will have no choice to invade. Why does THAT sound so familiar? | (32) | ||
| Having already reached step 5 of media fatigue more than a year before the election, CNN resorts to asking literally everybody how they would run for president. It's not news, it's CNN | (11) | ||
| Polling suggests that a quarter of women registered as Republican would vote for Hillary Clinton in '08, then go back to baking cookies for the church picnic | (79) | ||
| Baptist preacher calls Mitt Romney an "anti-Christian cult member." The GOP holy war has begun | (119) | ||
| And this week's Republican Friday Resignation is ... Mel Martinez, Chairman of the Republican National Committee | (45) | ||
| Web 2.0 trys to tap "wisdom of the crowds" to probe candidates. Still no word on why, if crowds are wise, Ron Paul is popular | (209) | ||
| (kos) | Gore responds to story of UK judge findings: Those "errors" weren't errors, and the plaintiff was funded by anti-science interests | (124) | |
| Live at the Improv: Arlen Specter. It's bad, but not as bad as you might think | (13) | ||
| L.A. Times reports Hillary Clinton showered with thousands in donations from dishwashers, waiters, street vendors, people named Zsou, from the poorest parts of NYC's Chinatown. Most of whom can't be found | (190) | ||
| Limbaugh smear letter eBay auction bidding passes $2,000,000. The proceeds go to charity and Rush is regretting the offer to match the winning bid right about now. Tag is for the bidder | (261) | ||
| Ben Stein helps out Al Franken in his quest for a Senate seat, rules out a "Franken-Stein 08" presidental run | (179) | ||
| (Chattanooga) | The attack on Christianity moves to the Deep South as Baby Jesus gets booted from holiday parade. When will the madness end? | (60) | |
| The "God gap" between Republicans and Democrats grows ever wider. At this rate, "godless Democrat" will soon no longer be an insult, merely an accurate description | (295) | ||
| Italian authorities take away children of U.S. soldier for "abandoning" them with her fiancée when she was deployed | (105) | ||
| Hillary Rodham Clinton says her universal health care plan won't cover illegal aliens. Guess "health care is universal" depends on what the definition of "is" is | (113) | ||
| Are you interested in politics but don't want to quit chewing tobacco during sessons? Consider a move to Arkansas | (6) | ||
| Emerging diplomatic brouhaha at the United Nations over translator's erroneous message. My hovercraft is full of eels | (39) |
| (Some Guy) | Hillary Clinton and her fellow narcissistic baby boomers shot down in effort to get $1 million in federal tax dollars for Woodstock hippie museum | (56) | |
| (Some Guy) | AP announces that "fragging" officers was common in Vietnam, but unheard of in Iraq. Why is this news? Because the media is still reliving Vietnam, of course | (68) | |
| "The nation is tired of Texans, period. It makes no difference who it is" | (137) | ||
| Ignatius explains problems with nuclear Al Qaeda and the effects this has on his valve | (31) | ||
| Pooty-Poot ups the ante by announcing Russia's plans to build another nuclear submarine next year and to start production of a "completely new" type of atomic bomb | (51) | ||
| (NY Times) | FCC plans to ease limitation rules on media ownership. It's not Fark, it's FarkTribuneTimesDowJones | (40) | |
| Neat legal trick of the year: US government uses secret evidence to claim people are "enemy combatants". When asked to produce this "secret evidence", the government says "we lost it". Seriously, this is America?? | (98) | ||
| (Tom His Own Bad Okie Self) | Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) to the rest of Congress: No pork for you until the kids get some health care | (86) | |
| (The Hill) | Hillary Clinton touts her 35 years of experience, because Americans really, really want a career politician for president | (141) | |
| Romney and McCain both vow to disband the UN, sweeping away the last remnants of the old order | (177) | ||
| Hillary to be probed | (45) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Pro-life Kansas prosecutor is apparently unaware that abortions are legal in the United States. Well, for now, anyway | (98) | |
| (C-Span) | Former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) rumored to be latest Republican to announce resignation from Congress | (98) | |
| UK gets first "Minister for Students". Meh. What would a politician know about ridiculously long holidays, recreational drugs and avoiding getting a proper job for as long as possib- Oh, wait | (24) | ||
| (TPM) | Putting their money where their mouth is, Republicans are now offering amendments to Democrat-sponsored bills saying they support Osama Bin Laden | (299) | |
| Another day, another French president who can't make his marriage work | (68) | ||
| And then there were .... uh.... one less as Sen. Brownback (R-Who's he) quits the 2008 presidential campaign | (184) | ||
| Hookers provided to Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham on a Hawaian vacation testify in trial of man accused of bribing him. Shockingly, they were all female and of age | (199) | ||
| Russia successfully test launches an intercontinental ballistic missile | (80) | ||
| Prince of Monaco could fly to North Pole on Russian dirigible, though he really should have that thing on his lip checked out first | (11) | ||
| Republican candidates unite and form Voltron against Clinton | (41) | ||
| NBC News: "Mr President, what is your opinion on the 1981 Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear plant?" Bush: "1981? How the hell am I supposed to know? What do you think I am, a history major? Next question." | (68) |
| Lynne Cheney says she would be "uncomfortable" with Hillary as president. But she was polite enough to invite her on a hunting trip with her husband | (33) | ||
| Reporter: "Vladimir Putin said next year, when he has to step down, he may become prime minister; keeping power and dashing any hopes for a genuine democratic transition" Bush: "I've been planning that myself" | (35) | ||
| Finally someone in the media who isn't afraid to tell it like it is | (88) | ||
| (Observer.com) | NY Democrat on Giuliani: “If the other 49 [states] knew what we knew, he wouldn’t be in the ballpark, much less winning the game.” | (76) | |
| (Kingston Daily Freeman) | Liberal congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) flip-flops on impeachment, says political convenience outweighs that silliness about the rule of law | (29) | |
| "Congress has little to show for all the time that has gone by," says Bush, strumming his veto-ink-stained fingers on his desk made from the corpses of impoverished children | (367) | ||
| Sen. Sam Brownback wants US government to apologize for slavery. As for reparations, all former slaves get $1 million | (100) | ||
| (Think Progress) | Just days after going against the Bush Administration by stating the War in Iraq has made us less safe at home, Dir. of National Counterterrorism Center resigns for 'health reasons' and to 'spend more time with his grandchildren' | (104) | |
| (Free Times) | Best article on the Armenian Genocide that compliments Bob Dole while calling him "a former Republican senator turned penis-pill-peddler" that you'll read all day. Don't miss the quote at the end | (78) | |
| What does a lame duck do for attention? Mention World War III | (657) | ||
| Birds fall from the sky, rivers run red, comets portend doom: Al Gore announces he will not run | (84) | ||
| Despite being on the Congressional Internet Caucus, Sen. Larry Craig (R-Not Gay) is not an Internet user, has never been an Internet user | (45) | ||
| Bush excited to meet Dalai Lama, says it's been years since he's been to the zoo | (119) | ||
| Will there be any poor downtrodden left in America after Hillary is done? | (145) | ||
| It takes $2.8 billion a year to feed U.S. troops in Iraq, but that's in post-bribery dollars | (121) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Syria admits that Israel not only bombed them... but that Israel bombed their unlicensed and undisclosed nuclear facility | (192) | |
| You accidentally shot dead an innocent man. Do you: C) Photoshop his picture to make him look like a terrorist? | (64) | ||
| (HuffPo) | Giuliani informs Obama he's no Reagan. Also, day is no night, red is no green, and 9 is no 11 | (42) | |
| Rudy calls attention to the fact that Hillary has never done jack shiat | (110) | ||
| U.S. terror definition eats its own tail: U.S. ally Turkey irritated that the U.S. shields Kurdish terrorists, is against unilateral beyond-border operations | (28) | ||
| Bush's job approval rating falls to 24 percent | (76) | ||
| The TSA has successfully implemented new security measures to protect its critical data. Just kidding, they lost two more laptops containing the personal information of over 3,000 people | (35) | ||
| Sen. Larry Craig claims to be a victim of what he calls “gladiator politics.” Nope, not gay at all | (178) | ||
| Iran wins strong allies Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan against a U.S. attack. Dick Cheney kicks his Risk board and wanders off muttering something about Ukraine | (26) | ||
| (Some Greek Guy) | Daily Kos points to a Fark greenlight as evidence of a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy at work; boobies, beer and shilling a pre-emptive, illegal war based on false information | (76) | |
| Your vote in the upcoming election is valuable, so why not sell it on Ebay? | (9) | ||
| Dennis Kucinich accepts Stephen Colbert's challenge to come on his show and empty his pockets | (14) | ||
| Stephen Colbert running for president of the United States of America | (361) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Ohio Senate to vote on bill that would effectively ban bowling and pool tournaments, skeeball, GoldenTee, and all online pay to play games like WoW that result in rewards for players | (31) |
| Bob Jones III gives the kiss of death to Romney | (48) | ||
| According to Mrs. Cheney, the Vice-President and Barack Obama are distant cousins. The question is which one of them is more embarrassed by the revelation. (w/ family photo) | (36) | ||
| (Some Guy) | The correct age of the earth has been absolutely proven once and for all, and guess who’s right | (313) | |
| Canadians wearily prepare to leave their igloos and trudge through snowdrifts to polls as snap election about to be called over some stupid crap | (257) | ||
| Bush to veto energy bill taxing oil companies because it will "single out specific industries." No word on pending vetoes of alcohol tax | (76) | ||
| U.S. officials convinced all it takes is $8 billion more to win the drug war once and for all | (254) | ||
| (Axcess News) | Latest poll widens Hillary's gap | (484) | |
| U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson says if homeowners don't get immediate help to refinance mortgages before they reset at higher rates, the economy may be adversely affected. That's political speak for "EVERYBODY PANIC" | (100) | ||
| Saying that Muslims shouldn't beat women? That's a fatwah and a death sentence. (Hero tag is for the hittable Ms. Ali) | (618) | ||
| Have you ever talked on the phone with a person who talked to a person who at one time talked to a suspected "terrorist"? If so, you are on the government's list, with a hat-tip to Verizon | (147) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Ron Paul (R, Crazytown) gets White Supremacist endorsement. Ron Paul trifecta now in play | (109) | |
| State-by-state breakdown of where Ron Paul's money is coming from. Note: "Commonwealth of Nutbars" not a state | (28) | ||
| Why did African Americans wait in longer lines to vote in Ohio in 2004 than whites? It's all their fault. They went to vote after work | (64) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Dicks frustrated by slowed pace | (6) | |
| (Some Guy) | Either the Devil can finally start that figure-skating career or someone has hacked into Ann Coulter's website | (375) | |
| (Some Guy) | “What is it about Al Gore that drives right-wingers insane?” | (171) | |
| (Some Guy) | "Michelle Malkin Quits O'Reilly After Nasty Three-Way." You can thank submitter for making you think of hot O'Reilly action in the thread to the right | (190) | |
| "If a school district continually fails to meet its benchmarks, the staff can be fired or reorganized. If Iraq were a school district, it would have been done a long time ago" | (18) | ||
| Sabotage: Pelosi and other Democrat allies of al Qaeda attempting to cut U.S. military supply lines | (168) | ||
| "How Hillary could tank" | (51) | ||
| (Radar Online) | National Enquirer says it has enough evidence on John Edwards' affair to sink his already half-sunk campaign | (208) | |
| Turkey assures Iraq that after next month's invasion, it will still respect Iraq's territorial integrity | (103) | ||
| The next Watergate story will likely be brought to you by a generous donation from the John T. and Catherine D. McArthur foundation | (31) | ||
| (WND) | Groups calling for massive exodus of all Christians from the California public school system after "mom and dad" now deemed discriminatory toward homosexuals | (219) | |
| The Sex Party of Canada upset that their political literature was rejected by the post office as obscene. With apparently not safe for work pic of offending image, that is if anyone can figure out what the hell it is | (34) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Cynthia MicKinney explains why she's a 9/11 Truther. Unsurprisingly, the phrase "because I'm crazier than a shiathouse rat" appears nowhere in the discussion | (378) | |
| (Las Vegas Review Journal) | Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is less popular than George W. Bush in his home state of Nevada | (61) |
| Remember that headline about Google censoring anti-moveon.org "articles?" Well it turns out it was ads, not articles and Moveon.org has decided to opt out | (71) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Is Karl Rove advising Barack Obama on polling? | (31) | |
| (IHT) | With bread prices at Z$100,000 in Zimbabwe, the shelves are still empty. Oh, they need flour to make bread? Yeah, that might be a problem. Zimbabwe starves to death as Mugabe cackles with glee | (52) | |
| (Some Guy) | Reality: In 1981, Israel bombed Iraq to destroy their nuclear program. Reality, New York Times edition: Because they were acting out Bush's post-9/11 foreign policy | (139) | |
| Turkey to separatist Kurds: Go A-whey | (163) | ||
| Two out of 11 people support Giuliani in NH. That's right: 9/11 people don't like Rudy Giuliani | (192) | ||
| Craig:"Romney threw me under the bus." Romney: "Homo says what?" Craig: "What?" | (240) | ||
| Hobson makes his choice, becomes 11th Republican to announce retirement before the '08 elections | (50) | ||
| Political ad spending to hit $3 billion. Once again, the campaign finance reform law is a joke | (58) | ||
| State Bar of California refuses to provide data to law professor who claims affirmative action causes underqualified minority students to drop out of law school, or fail the bar exam. Predictable Jackie Chiles-ish outrage ensues | (395) | ||
| CNBC vs. Ron Paul supporters, Round 3: FIGHT | (458) | ||
| Conservative Canadian government set to establish government-run media centre and control press access. Don't question The Glorious Leader, comrade | (66) | ||
| (Tribune-Review) | The UN is using time-travel to give Atlantis to the communists. Or something. To be honest, submitter stopped paying attention midway through the second season | (37) | |
| One third of all Americans don't give a crap about global warming and probably never will | (128) | ||
| Big Pharma seen walking around all day with a giant erecti -- oh wait, that's just the FDA in its pocket. Never mind | (136) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Laura Bush has quietly become an "increasingly outspoken and quietly powerful White House emissary." Strange how when Laura does it she's still the first lady, but when Hillary did it, she was somehow co-president | (75) | |
| (Some Guy) | Hillary Clinton is going to raise taxes when she's elected president. Sharply | (280) | |
| Possibly world's most powerful man controls fate of over one billion people, runs Earth's largest army and has his finger on the button. Yet most Americans don't even know his name | (60) | ||
| George Will bemoans liberal bias in universities' social work education programs. Apparently, there are brazillions of oppressed conservatives who are being denied their lifelong dream of a career helping the poor | (47) | ||
| Sucks to be US | (611) | ||
| Rudy Giuliani feels America is adequately prepared in case of alien invasion | (35) | ||
| The question on everyone's mind: What are the major presidential candidates wearing? And the two things you don't want to read in the same lead: Hillary Clinton and "low-cut blouses" | (15) | ||
| Romney loses NV straw poll to he who shall not be mentioned | (139) | ||
| White House cautions against prematurely declaring victory in Iraq | (44) | ||
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