Republican State Sen. Dan Patrick suggested President Barack Obama believes he is God and can control weather patterns. Patrick is running for lieutenant governor and in a debate in Texas on Tuesday with current Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, an audience member asked him if he supported Obama’s plan to spend $1.2 billion to change […]
John Cleese on Sarah Palin: ‘Monty Python could have written this’ In this ‘blast from the past’, John Cleese shares his thoughts on Sarah Palin in this 2008 interview. When asked his thoughts on Palin, Cleese immediately laughed out loud and stated that “I used to think that Michael Palin was the funniest Palin on […]
United States Senate candidate Milton Wolf, Kansas, created a stir when it was discovered that he had posted graphic X-rays of gunshot victims on his Facebook page. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Wolf also “participated in online commentary layered with macabre jokes and descriptions of carnage.” Wolf, a Johnson County radiologist, […] said in an […]
Tensions are arising between the Washington based Tea Party groups and local Tea Party activists who envision their own groups as being among Washington adversaries. The New York Times reports that “The still-emerging Tea Party movement is not merely waging war against the Republican establishment this year. Some of its more heated disputes are coming […]
Here is a great scene from Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom“. Sorkin draws a brilliant parallel between the Tea Party takeover, and the progressive hippie movement in the 1960’s. Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) explains to his boss, Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston) why he and the rest of his fellow moderate republicans are getting hijacked by the […]