Now that they are back from a two-week hiatus, you could be sure that they would pick on the juiciest of political topics, the one with the most comedic potential, that took place during their absence and they did not disappoint. [Read more…]

… it would make politics much more interesting.

The 1998 comedy Bulworth stars Warren Beatty and Halle Berry, with the former as a politician having some sort of breakdown that rids him of all his inhibitions and allows him to speak his mind. [Read more…]

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report had their fun with the hyperventilating reactions to the health care verdict. [Read more…]

The fact that CNN and Fox News initially reported the wrong verdict was, in my opinion, a trivial matter that merely told us something about the absurd premium placed on being first with news by even a few minutes, as if news was some kind of Olympics event where only the first place finisher got the coveted gold medal. [Read more…]

The political cartoonist has the knack of telling uncomfortable truths by putting things in stark contrast.

On Monday, the US Supreme Court struck down most of the provisions of the Arizona law SB 1070. As NPR’s Nina Totenberg reports, the sections that were struck down were “provisions that made it a state crime for illegal immigrants to seek or engage in work or to fail to carry documents proving they are in the country legally. Also struck down was the provision that authorized state and local law enforcement officers to arrest anyone based solely on the suspicion that the individual is in the country illegally.” [Read more…]