| Voters vote with their brains as often as Britney Spears wears underwear. Here comes the science | (32) | ||
| George Bush, the "conservative" President who stressed "fiscal responsibility", sends first $3 trillion budget in US history to Congress | (127) | ||
| (C&L) | The latest Fox News documentary compares Bush to Lincoln... Bush is known for giving “some of the most eloquent and visionary speeches ever delivered by an American President,” just like the Gettysburg Address | (111) | |
| "Were it not for American evangelicals, the free world would be presently without a leader. Without the evangelicals, America's will to fight would collapse." | (170) | ||
| (Some Guy) | "Millions of white youths listen to rap music, and no small number of them parade around small white-picket-fence towns dressed like gangbangers. This partially explains Obama’s popularity among young voters." | (90) | |
| Bush Administration kills "clean coal" initiative because state-of-the-art prototype plant would cost $1.8 billion -- about the cost of one week of "success in Iraq." Won't someone please think about the oxymorons? | (73) | ||
| For the U.S. Senate, helping people stay out of work even longer will help the economy. Subby wants some of whatever they're smoking in D.C. these days | (54) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Poll shows Republicans more interested in Super Bowl than Super Tuesday. Can you blame them? | (45) | |
| For the first time in the election season, a new poll shows Barack Obama leading in California | (174) | ||
| (NY Daily News) | Structural engineers who responded to 9/11 say they're reluctant to respond to another national emergency because they're being sued by sick workers who claim the engineers didn't do enough to keep them safe | (39) | |
| The gain in Maine falls mainly on... someone whose name doesn't fit into this rhyme scheme: Mitt Romney | (66) | ||
| Nanny State wants to hire extra nannies to boost its credentials as nanny state. Nanny state | (14) | ||
| (bloomberg) | Brutal winter storms in China force the government to release food from the Strategic Pork Reserve. In other news, China has a Strategic Pork Reserve | (22) | |
| Zombie Bhutto names her killer | (22) | ||
| Surviving members of The Grateful Dead reunite to hold a concert in support of Barack Obama | (45) | ||
| A Candidate Blind Taste Test | (96) |
| The UK will pay benefits for multiple wives. Giggity | (14) | ||
| (The Atlantic) | Number of people who caucused in Boise in 2004: 2,000. Number of people who went to an Obama rally in Boise today: 15,000 | (151) | |
| (YNet) | Hamas: "In order to hurt Israel some more, we will complete disengage ourselves from them, and stop getting free electricity, fuel and aid from them." I don't think they thought that one through | (46) | |
| Maybe NYC can't beat Boston in sports, but they sure can beat them on the streets: John Kerry's sister mugged in Manhattan | (62) | ||
| The best senatorial campaign commercial ever | (54) | ||
| Sensitive government data exposed on Limewire. Oops | (24) | ||
| Another pinko libturd endorses Obama. Wait... the granddaughter of Dwight Eisenhower, life-long GOPer? | (102) | ||
| It's officially not funny anymore: mainstream media articles on funds for candidates fail to mention #1 Republican Ron Paul, who's the only one with money in the bank | (449) | ||
| Stephen King complains about the Presidential race: "2008 has become the political equivalent of Celebrity Match Game." Also endorses Obama | (39) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Asshat effort to suspend a kid based on zero tolerance barely averted by a parent who actually read the rule being "broken." | (81) | |
| (Some Guy) | During the writer's strike, even our political campaigns are reruns. The similarities between the failed Dole presidential campaign of 1996 and that of John McCain are uncanny | (94) | |
| "Obama Girl" music video. Hottest presidential groupie since JFK. No wonder Ted supports him | (61) | ||
| Journalist tries to ask a Clinton aid a question and violates her “I only speak to Americans rule" | (119) | ||
| "Once upon a time the Democratic party had a left wing. This led to electoral disaster and a Republican golden age and ended when Bill Clinton pulled the party back to the centre of the spectrum, where it is today" | (126) | ||
| George Clooney endorses Obama but won't campaign because celebrity endorsers can turn off voters. In other news, Chuck Norris punches self in face | (71) |
| Bush budget to cut funding for just about anything that helps people, gives $35 billion more to the Pentagon (not including war costs), and guarantees record deficits for decades to come. Mission Accomplished | (113) | ||
| More Republicans stumping for Obama. Where's your GOP now? | (292) | ||
| Waiting for results from Super Tuesday? You might have to wait until Wild Wednesday, or Thriller Thursday or even F*cking-Hurry-Up Friday | (27) | ||
| Bill slams Ted Kennedy over No Child act. You know, that act Hillary voted for | (68) | ||
| (crooksandliars) | That 'study' that ranked Obama the most liberal senator? It was full of 'crap' | (78) | |
| Congressman to Marine-hating Berkeley: Sure, you have the right to be hateful morans, but I have the right to introduce legislation zeroing out your budget pork | (230) | ||
| (Free Markets) | Iraq has earned quite a tidy sum thanks to the high price of oil. This means they'll start paying for the war, right? Wrong. It's piling up in a vault in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. We fell for it. Hook, line and sinker | (74) | |
| Florida bounce: McCain 48, Romney 20, Huckabee 19 nationally | (38) | ||
| "The Barack Obama phenomenon is about white America. It's not about Barack Obama and it's not about black America." | (161) | ||
| Guess who's blocking the economic stimulus package in the Senate? | (155) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Egyptians who sold expired goods to the Palestinians dismayed to discover that Palestinians paid for them with counterfeit money | (98) | |
| Today in Politics: Ron Paul will be in Denver at the Colorado Convention Center. Mitt Romney will also be in Denver, but he'll be appearing at a Ford dealership | (40) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Ron Paul raised almost as much as Huckabee, Romney & McCain combined | (170) | |
| (Some Guy) | McCain's unseen adversary is his age, and not that weird alien growth on the side of his face | (12) | |
| (HuffPost) | Dear Mitt, I.O.U. $35 million. Luv, Your Campaign | (20) | |
| (Gallup Daily) | White women can't jump: Obama leaps 11 points over last week in Gallup polls | (67) | |
| (TPM) | McCain is so hardcore that he used his own life as collateral for a loan | (34) | |
| (The Nation) | MoveOn.org, formed to help Clinton in the impeachment years, is officially endorsing Obama. Oh snap | (157) | |
| The latest poll numbers are in and Obama is now leading in Germany by double digits and running even with Hillary in Japan, Russia is solid Romney territory, while Iraq is trending for McCain | (267) | ||
| (NewsBusters) | Scarborough: McCain can't win without Rush Limbaugh and James Dobson | (151) | |
| US presses Germany to send troops to South Afghanistan. Germany refuses as they might get shot at | (63) | ||
| More than one-third of Conservative MPs employ members of their own family at taxpayer's expense. Still, I'm sure they were all the best qualified candidates for their jobs | (15) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Tampa city councilwoman forced to apologize to Ikea for comparing their new store to a Wal-Mart | (22) | |
| Robert Fisk's biography of Saddam Hussein selling like hotcakes, which would be great for Robert Fisk if he'd have actually written it | (29) | ||
| Ann Coulter says that she will not only vote for, but will campaign for Hillary Clinton instead of supporting John McCain | (334) | ||
| Obama, Clinton have happier debate, break out into rendition of 'Ebony and Ivory' | (137) |
| (Some Guy) | Wheaton endorses Obama | (173) | |
| (TPM) | Neo-con think tank writer says perhaps Bush is to blame for Rudy losing primary..."If Bush had not been so successful in preventing another domestic terrorist attack, Giuliani’s relevance to voters would be painfully obvious" | (69) | |
| Cop to Paul fan: "Well, you be careful. I wouldn't want you to get shot." | (100) | ||
| Bill Clinton vs. 9/11 Truther. Advantage: Clinton | (338) | ||
| (911Blogger) | 9/11 truthers say what the mainstream media refuses to admit, that 9/11 truthers took down the Rudy Giuliani campaign. He and his reverse vampire cabal never stood a chance | (128) | |
| (Huffington Post) | The rise of John McCain is causing the fall of the NeoCon Water Carriers | (76) | |
| 2008 could be the year of the youth vote, and they like Obama. Now, if they can only figure out where the polls are and why that oldster is asking them to sign some book | (89) | ||
| (National Journal) | Barack Obama ranked most liberal Senator in 2007 | (95) | |
| Three young men hopped up on pizza and beer try to determine experientially whether waterboarding is torture. Hilarity ensues | (82) | ||
| Blessed are the peacemakers - Catholic League president threatens to beat up Bill Maher for calling Jesus less real than UFOs | (66) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Edwards' backers know why he had to drop out of the race: It's just too hard for a rich white man to break into politics | (20) | |
| Last night on Fox News, John Cleese analyzed the Republican debate | (41) | ||
| ABC speculates on what a Frankenstein president might be like. Slow news day | (15) | ||
| (freeper meltdown) | Michelle Malkin hates John McCain so much she would rather vote for Hillary | (139) | |
| Former director of Chicago NOW dramatically explains why she changed from Hillary to Obama. Bonus: She's an insanely hot MILF | (75) | ||
| Dick Cheney's Secret Service entourage asks court to block release of court testimony regarding illegal arrest out of fear that John Stewart may mock them on the Daily Show | (76) | ||
| US finally safe from Canada | (117) | ||
| John McCain as Republican presidential nominee called "Democrats' worst nightmare" | (114) | ||
| Hillary was "silent" during the six years she served on the Board of Directors at Wal-Mart (includes pics of the spry young candidate) | (110) | ||
| If you thought you could influence the Democratic presidential candidate by voting in a primary, disabuse yourself of that notion. They don't do it that way any more | (49) | ||
| Barack Obama wants us to get beyond political dynasties and move forward, and so is running a campaign ad crammed with more Kennedys than a happy hour in Hyannisport | (89) | ||
| (The Huffington Post) | The media needs to redefine what counts as an "issue" in the Clinton-Obama race | (26) | |
| Obama campaign raises $32,000,000 in January alone | (83) | ||
| (Some Guy) | The People's Republic of Boulder dukes it out with the Christian Nation of Colorado Springs for the Presidency of the USA | (67) | |
| Quit your job and stop buying stuff to stop global warming: Economic genius Bill Clinton says we can slow down the economy and save the planet | (87) | ||
| Hillary just scored the all-important Black Elvis endorsement | (18) | ||
| Montel Williams got booted from Fox for this | (183) | ||
| Reuters reports on suppression of Huckabee and Paul at yesterday evening's GOP debate | (171) | ||
| (Think Progress) | Bush on January 29, 2008: " “Let us fund new technologies that can generate coal power while capturing carbon emissions.” Bush on January 30, 2008: "Screw it. Let's de-fund that baby" | (44) | |
| Karl Rove's observations on the first election in years that doesn't feature his direct involvement | (45) | ||
| I'll trade you nine Kuciniches for an Obama. New Topps baseball set includes presidential candidate cards | (68) | ||
| Arnold Schwarzenegger's universal health-care plan was terminated in the California legislature | (30) | ||
| (Some Guy) | The primary race is now down to a Pro-Choice, pro-gun control, pro-gay rights, universal health care advocate vs A anti-global warming, anti-corporate candidate who advocates amensty for illegal aliens. And that's on the Republican side | (35) | |
| (TPM) | Mitt Romney may have tacitly bowed out of the GOP campaign already: he hasn't bought ad time in any Super Tuesday state | (37) | |
| Are NYC mayors cursed? | (114) | ||
| Hillary Clinton: "I can control Bill" | (156) | ||
| Soldier suicides reach record levels. The surge is working | (256) | ||
| New study claims 1 million Iraqis dead since invasion. Mission accomplished | (159) | ||
| Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger invites Sen. John McCain to GET TO THE ENDORSEMENT CHOPPA | (51) | ||
| Senator: "Is waterboarding torture?" Mukasey: "I don't know." Senator: "Would it be if done to you?" Mukasey: "I would feel that it was." Marie Antoinette unavailable for comment | (231) | ||
| British advertising authority is highly offended by picture of a schoolgirl. A smoking hot sexy schoolgirl (w/SFW pic) | (52) |
| News report: for a second consecutive day Bill Clinton made no news | (37) | ||
| Hillary's hometown tabloid, er... newspaper, endorses Obama | (206) | ||
| "Five months after Democratic candidates agreed Florida and Michigan wouldn't get delegates to the convention, Hillary Clinton now says they should -- a reversal that would benefit her now that she has won both states" | (135) | ||
| (TPM) | Tom Davis (R-Va) is the 28th GOP congressman to announce retirement since the 2006 landslide. That's 15% of the total seats the GOP has in the House | (32) | |
| (politico) | Illegal aliens might be eligible for the tax "rebate" thingee | (59) | |
| (Some Blue Stater) | Hillary to hold 21-state national town hall meeting Super Tuesday eve. Remember the last time some idiot tried this approach? Oh, yeah.....he got elected | (53) | |
| (Rasmussen) | Latest poll shows McCain defeating Clinton by 8 points, Obama by 6. Is our citizen learning? | (171) | |
| Universal health care plans have now collapsed in Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and California due to high costs. But it will work when Hillary's president | (206) | ||
| (haaretz.com) | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, peace loving President of Iran, states that the West must accepts Israel's "imminent collapse" and that the life of the Zionists "will sooner or later come to an end" | (208) | |
| (Gallup) | According to a new Gallup poll, Barack Obama has risen to within a few points of Clinton in nationwide poll | (139) | |
| Joe Lieberman says there's no way he'll be John McCain's running mate | (58) | ||
| (Some EcoNanny) | "Disposable batteries, no matter how efficient, should be considered a controlled substance and, as such, should be sold under the same restrictions as, say, prescription drugs or guns" | (38) | |
| Coalition of the Willing is unwilling to fork over the cash they pledged to help rebuild Iraq | (48) | ||
| (Pew Pew Pew Research) | Three out of four Americans agree: "It's the economy, stupid" | (26) | |
| (Huffington Post) | Hulk Hogan endorses Barack Obama for president, creating the first serious debate about who would win a celebrity endorser death match | (56) | |
| Fed cuts interest rate by 42891728694728674478666 / 85783457389457348957332 % | (145) | ||
| (Ruthless) | "F--k Ron Paul," or "How I opened myself up to death threats from Internet tough guys" | (214) | |
| Well, there goes the prospect of a Democratic win in November. Again | (138) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Ann Coulter: "I guess Huckabee is one of those pro-sodomy, pro-gay marriage, pro-evolution evangelical Christians" | (143) | |
| Rudy Giuliani 81.81818182% sure he's going to drop out of the race now | (131) | ||
| Large crowd gathering in Denver for a shot at Obama speech | (112) | ||
| (Some Guy) | "Donald Rumsfeld is a curiously forgotten figure. As the administration of George Bush limps towards an ignominious exit, he has been excised from the story. Nobody talks about him. They don't even joke about him any more" | (62) | |
| Tennessee legislator wants to ban "Girls Gone Wild" TV ads. Again | (28) | ||
| (Not Sure) | Point-by-point comparison of President Bush's SOTU speech and President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho's SOTU speech from the movie "Idiocracy" | (101) | |
| The time has come / To say fair's fair / To pay the rent / To pay our share | (28) | ||
| U.S. Representative Ginny Brown-Waite to residents of Puerto Rico: "You're foreign citizens, no tax refund for you" | (61) | ||
| (FilBalad News) | Egyptian media report that the "poverty-stricken Palestinians" will have spent close to half a billion dollars at the end of the week, virtually emptying the country of televisions, cigarettes, mobile phones and Heineken | (231) | |
| (t.s) | Seventh grader comes home from school with handout entitled, "Why Jesus Is Better Than Santa Claus"; sparks bribing mythical entity debate | (177) | |
| John Edwards anounces he will drop out of race today to spend more time with his hair | (1015) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Florida reaffirms its electoral reputation, as 400,000 Dems and independents vote in "closed" GOP primary, enough to change the outcome | (88) | |
| 1776: The British are coming! 2008: They're here, and they're working for Obama | (31) | ||
| An insightful look at the fonts that the presidential candidates use in their logos. Comic Sans MS font demands a recount | (18) | ||
| (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) | U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, 83, announces he's engaged | (26) | |
| Rudy Giuliani dropping his presidential bid, will endorse McCain. 9/11 | (266) | ||
| Democrats are shocked... SHOCKED... that Attorney General Michael Mukasey still refuses to say whether or not waterboarding is illegal | (79) |
| Don't you hate it when you're riding a bus that keeps crashing and killing people, so you get a new driver but the new driver does the same thing? Welcome to the presidential election | (30) | ||
| Sen. Clinton attempts to spin a zero-zero tie as a win | (575) | ||
| John McCain wins Florida GOP Primary | (485) | ||
| Oregon Senate candidate says a bunch of stuff in an ad. More importantly though, he opens a beer bottle using his steel hook. Seriously | (47) | ||
| Hillary Clinton to appear on Letterman's show this coming Monday. This should be excruciatingly unfunny | (39) | ||
| (Some Guy) | "The Clintons have a long history of trying to intimidate opponents by first invading their personal records, and then releasing the information via their media enablers" | (34) | |
| Florida talk show host Mark Larsen was planning to vote for Mitt Romney today, until he experienced an epiphany and decided to vote for Ron Paul. While interviewing Mitt Romney on his show | (160) | ||
| Obama "will be president of the United States, probably this year." What liberal whack-job said this? Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard | (135) | ||
| (Michigan Daily) | University of Michigan economics professor is in contention for the presidency of the Czech Republic. Wait, what? | (15) | |
| (after downing street) | Bush signs 2008 defense appropriations act into law with signing statement claiming he doesn't have to abide by provisions that probe contractor fraud, protect whistleblowers, respond to document requests and bar funds for permanent bases | (88) | |
| (Some Guy) | Why liberals hate Bush | (236) | |
| Canada threatens to pull soldiers from Afghanistan unless NATO supplies reinforcements, round bacon | (26) | ||
| The White House wants a woman who is "hired by industry to represent their point of view" to be the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Asinine tag was full of lead, so let's go with Obvious | (22) | ||
| Brain Surgeon < Poll Worker in Florida < Quantum Physicist | (43) | ||
| MySpace's upcoming Presidential Super Dialogue will only feature their top seven friends | (30) | ||
| Ron Paul supporters are finally kind of getting the hint that he's not going to be president | (300) | ||
| Fact-checking last night's SOTU Address | (162) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Vermont town that issued arrest warrants for Bush and Cheney inundated with so many angry calls from patriotic Americans that town office has stopped answering its phones | (122) | |
| Russian presidential front-runner Medvedev refuses to participate in television debates, making U.S. primaries seem almost democratic by comparison | (16) | ||
| (Some Guy) | In latest proof of liberal media bias, survey finds Bill Clinton got more media coverage last week than any Republican actually running for office | (147) | |
| Maya Angelou, a Hillary supporter, writes a poem in her honor. It's called "Suck It, Oprah" | (89) | ||
| (New York Sun) | A new poll shows Barack Obama trailing Hillary Clinton by only four points in New York City | (164) | |
| MoveOn keeps its finger on the pulse of politics by seeking 30-second spots from members on what's wrong with Rudy Giuliani. Which will come in handy if they're being sent back in time to the 1997 NYC mayor's race | (78) | ||
| Caption what Ted Kennedy is saying to Barack Obama | (283) | ||
| Iraq has a new national flag. Again. And once again, everyone hates it | (129) | ||
| NOW is shocked and angry Kennedy picked Obama over Hillary. Must be that time of the election cycle | (219) | ||
| (The Moderate Voice) | A European view: "To non-Americans [Hillary] appears to be a mean street fighter who might be a vindictive and war-mongering President... She looks like the caricature ugly American who will stoop to anything to win." | (331) | |
| (The Hill) | Hillary Clinton decides whether or not to applaud the president's remarks during the State of the Union address based not on the merits of his statements, but rather on what Barack Obama does first | (124) |
| Australia to review citizenship test because of concerns that it contains too many sports trivia questions | (17) | ||
| Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former press secretary, complains of a "culture of negativity" in the media. What a douche | (18) | ||
| Remember when the Democratic nominees pledged not to campaign in Florida after the state moved its primary forward? You don't? Well, neither does Hillary Clinton | (176) | ||
| (Some Guy) | New Poll ranks McCain and Romney as the "Most Republican" of the candidates. Ron Paul still the "Most Batshiat standing on the corner screaming that his underwear is trying to eat him insane" | (262) | |
| (US News) | Possibly realizing that there is still money to be made grubbing the heroism of fallen firefighters, Giuliani hints he might drop out of the race after Florida | (46) | |
| Connecticut prep school cancels Karl Rove's commencement speech. In other news, Connecticut added to Axis of Evil, al-Qaeda, Legion of Doom, COBRA | (49) | ||
| (Think Progress) | Prominent televangelist, who clearly has absolutely nothing to hide, will not comply with a Congressional subpoena because his financial documents "belong to God." | (117) | |
| "Romney has proven that he will say anything to anyone at any time if he thinks it will help him politically. His stunning capacity to reverse his position on virtually every issue casts serious doubt on his ability to lead." | (53) | ||
| "Ted Kennedy's graciousness toward the other candidates was a subtle f*** you to Bill Clinton. This, Kennedy was saying to Mr. Clinton, is how a true elder statesman of a party really behaves." | (188) | ||
| (Some Truth Meter) | Wondering which claims about the candidates are true, and which are utter BS? Wonder no further | (48) | |
| Despite his claim to the contrary, Obama kept $100,000 of dirty money from his slumlord buddy. This message brought to you by Friends for Hillary | (92) | ||
| Rich, predominantly white college students hold a mock convention, predict Hillary to win the nomination. Obvious tag takes a vacation upon discovering that they have only been wrong once in 60 years | (110) | ||
| Mitt Romney, John McCain accuse each other of being libtards in latest dreary Republican slapfight | (36) | ||
| New Zogby poll has Giuliani losing to all candidates in Florida except Ron Paul | (166) | ||
| "Once the situation in Iraq has shown signs of unequivocal improvement, the media has stopped reporting, because the news simply stopped fitting into their favourite anti-war narrative." | (141) | ||
| Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's chief of staff, Christine Beatty, resigns from his cabinet | (31) | ||
| (Some blog) | FBI hires you as a linguist. You discover that moles have infiltrated the top echelons of the U.S. government. Does the FBI: 1) Promote you? 2) Congratulate you on a job well done? Or 3) Fire you? | (80) | |
| (a.n.org) | Individuality be damned: How teenage rebellion has become a profitable mental illness | (41) | |
| (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) | In Pennsylvania, wine and liquor sales are controlled by an unelected board backed by an army of surly bureaucrats who don't like you, don't want you drinking and are on their coffee break | (44) | |
| (Buffalo News) | Watch out New York, there's a new health commissioner in town. “I’m a father, and I’m a doctor and I’m a Mormon, so I’m really anti-tobacco” | (24) | |
| (Daily Record) | Barack Obama "has given America a reason to believe." In related news, Obama seen healing the sick, lifting up the depressed and saving a lot of money on car insurance | (279) | |
| (Rutland Herald) | Vermont town prepares to arrest Bush and Cheney for war crimes should they ever set foot in Vermont. This shouldn't cause any controversy | (139) | |
| Mike Huckabee guarantees victory in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma based on the fact that Mitt Romney doesn't know how to eat fried chicken | (55) | ||
| "I did not have campaigning relations with that state" | (271) | ||
| When it comes to opinions on the Clintons, liberals are starting to sound a lot like conservatives | (177) | ||
| Dennis Kucinich's fight to be included in televised debates appears to have, instead, affirmed the right of networks to pick who gets into debates, making it easier to shut out someone like a Kucinich | (70) | ||
| In 2002, Georgia passed a "predatory lending" law that could have gone a long way towards preventing the subprime mortgage meltdown. And then the Feds stepped in to stop it | (60) | ||
| Hugo Chavez calls for coalition to oppose "United States' imperialism," apparently unaware that America has never had an empire and that the tweedy barfmats of the strident U.S. left have been on this job for 50 years | (219) | ||
| According to the Miami Herald the only people opposed to Obama are stupid, fear-mongering, white-trash hillbillies. /The more you know | (110) |