Apparently, in 1996, Newt Gingrich proposed the death penalty for people importing drugs into the United States: As Speaker of the House, Gingrich introduced the “Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996.”…It would have applied to anyone convicted more than once of carrying 100 doses — or about two ounces — or marijuana across the […]
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Newt Gingrich Proudly Defends Marriage from People Like Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich has endorsed—but not signed—a marriage pledge from an Iowa evangelical group. How many hypocrisies can you count in the following excerpt from the New York Times? On Monday, the Family Leader released a response by Mr. Gingrich, who gave what he called a solemn vow “to defend and strengthen the family.” “I will […]
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Watch Mitt Romney Casually Bet a Fifth of the Median American Household Income
The first half of Saturday night’s GOP debate was feisty and crazy. The second half was not. Perry was all but drooling on himself; Bachmann started pushing an adapted version of Herman Cain’s 999 plan, which she calls the “win-win-win” plan; Ron Paul sounded kinda reasonable occasionally; Rick Santorum reminisced about a time when most […]
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Sean Hannity Thanks George W. Bush for Personally Killing Osama bin Laden This Year
“Dick acts like dick” isn’t news, sure, but even after all these years, it’s still breathtaking to watch Fox News history revisionism in action:
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What Kind of Sociopath Would Remake That Movie?
I’m on the record as saying the American Psycho movie is one of those rare film adaptations that’s better than the book. And so this news is incredibly distressing: Lionsgate has tapped Noble Jones to write and direct a reimagining of “American Psycho” that will go back to Bret Easton Ellis’ 1991 satirical novel, which […]
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Here’s Romney Super PAC’s Anti-Gingrich Ad
Time Magazine captured an anti-Gingrich ad that was accidentally posted on a Romney Super PAC page and then immediately taken down. It’s not a direct attack on Gingrich from Romney, but it is by far the most negative Romney’s people have gotten: Important to note: This ad isn’t as harsh in its anti-Gingrich rhetoric as […]
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Rick Perry’s Brokeback
You know that creepy, anti-gay, hyper-Christian ad that Rick Perry started pushing yesterday? Turns out, it was too crazy for even some on Perry’s staff: When the ad was being crafted several weeks ago, Perry’s top pollster, Tony Fabrizio, called it “nuts,” according to an email sent from Fabrizio to the ad’s main creator, longtime […]
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Mitt’s Weak-Sauce Attack Ad
So Mitt Romney is allegedly preparing for a big fight with Gingrich. Is this video supposed to be the first attack? Because if so, it doesn’t work. Talking about how long Romney has been married is a backhanded slap aimed at Gingrich’s lurid history with women, but it’s so far backhanded that it doesn’t even […]
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Ka-BOING! Goeth the Boner
The Sitter: Where Boners and Children Collide
The Sitter: Where boners and children collide.
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Obama Administration Tells Rest of World to Stop Gay Discrimination
This is pretty big news: The Obama administration bluntly warned the world against gay and lesbian discrimination Tuesday, declaring the U.S. will use foreign assistance as well as diplomacy to back its insistence that gay rights are fully equal to other basic human rights. Now let’s compare Hillary Clnton’s statement on this… “Gay rights are […]
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Mitt Romney Hates Flip-Floppers
Or at least, Mitt Romney hated flip-floppers back in 2004: I wonder how Mitt Romney feels about flip-floppers today? It’s impossible to tell, really.
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Fox News Attacks the Muppets
This morning, the Atlantic Wire showed… …a clip of Eric Bolling on Fox Business discussing how The Muppets movie is anti-capitalist brainwashing…You see the astute thesis here is that, because the villain in the new Muppets movie is a mean old oilman named Tex Richman, the movie, which was written and made well before any […]