Health Care Reform to Destruction
Americans will always demand the most treatment, at any cost. For them, good health care means someone else -- insurance companies, employers, the government -- will pay for it.
Americans will always demand the most treatment, at any cost. For them, good health care means someone else -- insurance companies, employers, the government -- will pay for it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 07.09.2009 | Comedy
The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier on the notion that he's something of a journalist. "I watch cab...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
First published at WashingtonTimes.com The Daily Show's John Oliver was a top attraction today at the Campus Progress conference in D.C. Right before...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
The more successful our progressive President becomes with the majority of Americans, the more extreme his far right critics are going to become.
Samantha Marshall | Posted 07.07.2009 | New York
In a media capital like New York, we're obsessed, and a little suspicious of anyone whose views don't line up on the side of political correctness. But, south of the Mason-Dixon line, other priorities loom large.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
I don't know what to call it but the Convolution Party aired its brand new platform on the steps of a Land of Lincoln courthouse, some in their Glenn Beck Live Free or Die shirts.
Karl Frisch | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media
Pssst. Hey, conservatives ... I want to let you in on a devious little plan being hatched by your leaders in the media.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.02.2009 | Comedy
Stewart spoke from the perspective of someone who lived through a terrorist attack and had little patience for fools who just casually suggest that maybe we'd all benefit from another one.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.01.2009 | Media
Yesterday, Al Franken, after a protracted Hundred Years War with Norm Coleman that played out in front of every legal body in the state of Minnesota, ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics
As many of you know, the modern and civilized life that we lead in America, as sensible people, has long clashed terribly with the panoply of phantasm...
Susan J. Demas | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
If the Republicans win the governorship here, the national media will trumpet that as an Important Trend. And a sign of the president's impending doom in 2012.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
Bachmann has drawn a line in the sand, and will not fill out the Census, and no one really cares because who in America really wants to see government resources allocated to the Bachmann demographic, anyway?
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 06.23.2009 | Media
Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly are working together to expose the vast conspiracy that is the organization known as ACORN. Beck, who has a history of e...
The Washington Independant | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics
On Monday, nearly four months after President Obama nominated Harold Koh to become legal adviser to the State Department, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fil...
Eric Alterman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media
In conservative world, this administration is leading a march on socialism. Just last week alone, Media Matters counted more than 143 mentions of the word "socialism" on the cable news shows.
Will Bunch | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media
Beck promised a project that would be dedicated to America's "eternal principles" -- but the only eternal principle that Glenn Beck really holds is "Glenn Beck."
Steve Young | Posted 06.16.2009 | Media
(From my column in today's Philadelphia Inquirer Oped Page 6/16/09) The broadcast Lords of Loud on talk radio and TV have longed been pressing the ha...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.15.2009 | Media
If you follow Glenn Beck carefully, you'll see that he's savvy enough to know that it's smart to temper his outsized weirdness to fit his audience. E...
Paul Slansky | Posted 06.12.2009 | Comedy
Here's my look at the most preposterous events of the past week -- index-style.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.11.2009 | Media
Maybe continually over-simplifying every issue in politics into a siege upon America actually helps bring about a siege mentality in Americans.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.11.2009 | Comedy
"It was a horrible experience," the former Ms. California said afterwards. "Maybe I should have just gone and posed for Playboy after all."
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.10.2009 | Media
Somewhere behind Beck's talking points there is real thinking going on. No one should dismiss Beck as a hack or "entertainer." He is a propagandist.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 06.09.2009 | Media
The Fox News crew is going to need better talking points because I fear the violence -- the bouts of right-wing domestic terrorism -- are likely to continue.
Larry Gellman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media
We can't call ourselves civilized until we learn to disagree like grownups.
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Stanton Peele | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living