Katie Halper is a co-founder of Laughing Liberally, a political comedy group, with whom she performs regularly. Katie is also an Artistic Director and Comedy Curator at The Tank, a non-profit performing arts space for emerging artists. Her award winning documentary, La memoria es vaga, about historical memory in Spain, has been screened throughout Spain and the U.S. Katie is currently developing a one-woman show and a documentary film about her summer camp’s peace Olympic games. Katie also blogs for Working Life, Culture Kitchen, Alternet, and the upcoming political comedy site 23/6. For more information, check out http://katiehalps.blogspot.com and http://katiehalper.com

Blog Entries by Katie Halper

How to Save Health Care Reform: Teabagger-friendly Re-Branding

Posted November 15, 2009 | 10:41 PM (EST)



The Health Care vote in the house was close. And it still needs to pass the Senate. Poor branding, such as the term Public Option, didn't help the cause.  But it's not too late to win the support of  Republican enemies and the Teabaggers who control them.  I submit ...

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The Week In Headlines

Posted November 9, 2009 | 12:26 PM (EST)




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Best Political Halloween Costumes: Put Your Costume Where Your Mouth Is

Posted October 28, 2009 | 12:16 PM (EST)


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  1. Put on a bunch of fake blood, carry a cane or crutches, draw on what look like home-made stiches. You're... the opt out to the public option.
  2. Put a pillow under shirt and carry a bunch of baby dolls. You're...
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Leaked Ahmadinejad Diary Proves Iran Prez Is Jewish

4 Comments | Posted October 8, 2009 | 12:21 PM (EST)


A controversy has erupted recently about whether Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is actually a Jew. Pundits and professors alike are divided over whether his original last name, which his family changed when he was 4, is exclusively Jewish. I attended Camp Havanagila, a Zionist summer camp in...

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The Anti Public Option Pledge: No Health Care For Me!

7 Comments | Posted September 29, 2009 | 02:10 PM (EST)


Like my fellow American patriots, I refuse to sit by while the Nazi Marxist President sends storm troops of Dr Mengeles to pull the plug on millions of grannies. Just keep out of our persona lives. My health care is my business and it's between me myself and I(nsurance companies.)...

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Separated at Birth? Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senator Blanche Lincoln

2 Comments | Posted September 3, 2009 | 02:37 PM (EST)



Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln and Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may not be in the same...

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Comparing Obama to Hitler

2 Comments | Posted August 25, 2009 | 05:15 PM (EST)


Political scientists and historians from Rush Limbaugh to Sean Hannity to Lyndon LaRouche to that woman with short brown hair who, I deduce, must be a scholar of German history, are comparing Obama to Hitler and his likening his health care plan to Nazism....

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Top 10 Reasons the U.S. Isn't Getting its Panties in a Bunch over Honduras

22 Comments | Posted July 8, 2009 | 11:19 AM (EST)


In its response to the events of Honduras, the Obama Administration is acting like a CT (Coup-tease), whose commitment phobia and intimacy issues render it paralyzed and unable to engage in a healthy relationship with Latin America. The Administration flirts with the idea that the coup is really a coup,...

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5 Things Americans Need to Know About Obama the Elitist Muslim

32 Comments | Posted June 11, 2009 | 11:21 AM (EST)


Expert economist and seasoned diplomat* Jon Voight isn't the only one on to the "fellow who's bringing us to chaos and socialism." All you have to do is look at Obama's trip to the Middle East to see his darker, more Muslimer, elitister, and inexperienceder side.

*Voight's experience...

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Five Facts America Needs to Know About Sonia Sotomayor

11 Comments | Posted June 1, 2009 | 09:28 AM (EST)


Meticulously anal pundits, like Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh, intellectual heavy weights Tom Tancredo, and ex-convict/current actor/ radio personality G. Gordon Liddy have exposed Judge Sotomayor for what she really is: a KKK-supporting, racist, menstruator/pre-menstruator who hates white people and speaks to aliens.

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The Ten Most Shocking Personal Moments of the Supreme Court

28 Comments | Posted May 28, 2009 | 02:10 PM (EST)





Everyone is speculating about the ways Sotomayor's personal background will compromise her judicial integrity. I mean, it's pretty hard to hold a gavel while eating arroz con pollo, let alone while having a vagina. Here is a list of some glimpses into the personal...

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Top 10 Worst Films to See on Mother's Day

1 Comments | Posted May 10, 2009 | 11:15 AM (EST)


  1. Throw Mama From the Train (self explanatory)
  2. Sophie's Choice (most painful choice ever + holocaust = what's not to love)
  3. ...
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An Insider's (AKA Commie Jew's) Perspective on Pete Seeger's Birthday Concert!

2 Comments | Posted May 4, 2009 | 02:26 PM (EST)


Run into first friend, Mercedes, whose mother is in the New York City Labor Chorus. Mercedes tells me her mother Rona says "Joan Baez is a doll."

On...

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The Week in Headlines (SLIDESHOW)

Posted March 10, 2009 | 02:13 PM (EST)




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The Week in Headlines (SLIDESHOW)

Posted March 4, 2009 | 12:25 PM (EST)


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The Week in Headlines (SLIDESHOW)

Posted February 13, 2009 | 02:02 PM (EST)


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Prince Harry's Diary Leaked

Posted February 2, 2009 | 01:53 PM (EST)


Prince Harry has been all over the headlines lately. Last week we--and he--learned that his five-year relationship with  girlfriend, Chelsea Davy ended after Chelsea announced it on Facebook. Only weeks before that, footage of the Prince calling a fellow army cadet "Paki" was released. And...

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An Open Letter to Rahm Emanuel: Don't Compete with Sasha & Malia Obama

Posted January 22, 2009 | 12:28 PM (EST)


Dear Rahm,

You're not really my type [sorry, I forgot to ask if you were sitting down. You're married anyway, and she loves you enough to convert for you, so you'll get over it.] But when you rock your debonair, very non-nebbishy je ne sais quois ( lo...

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Saltsman and Allen: Separated at Birth?

Posted January 12, 2009 | 12:50 PM (EST)


Could RNC chair candidate Chip Saltsman be a 'chip' off the old block of former Georgia Senator George Allen? These two Southerners share a striking resemblance and a gift for race-based humor. But could they also share genes? Or alleles, at the very least?

Saltsman has gotten into...

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Christians: Send Your Jewish Friends "Thank You for Christmas" Greeting Cards

Posted December 26, 2008 | 03:53 PM (EST)


I would like to give birth to a new holiday tradition. Forget the happy Hanukkah cards. How about a thank you note?

Who killed Jesus is a topic of much debate: was it the Jews, the Romans, a combination, Jesus' own father, a plot requirement? Yet the question of...

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