Bayonne, NJ - In an effort to deal with rapidly worsening economic conditions, John McCain called on cheating husbands to follow his example of tactical remarriage. Speaking in a dimly lit pickup joint to a crowd of self-described horndogs, McCain urged married men to "find a skirt what's got cabbage".

Blatant lies, abject sleaze, even utter contempt for demonstrable reality have been staples of Republican campaigning since Lee Atwater's first cell phone. What distinguishes the McCain-Davis-Schmidt approach is that they don't even care what their version of the facts are. They will literally say anything.

We're pretty sure this ad...

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA -- Seeking to counter the "temple" appearance of Barack Obama's Invesco Field stage, John McCain will speak from a revolving series of platforms designed to resemble those homes he can remember. Campaign strategist/lobbyist Charlie Black hailed the set design as "a salute to the true American success...

NEW YORK...Hillary and Bill Clinton announced today that they are forming a new political party to continue her fight for the presidency. Seeking to draw comparisons with Theodore Roosevelt's 'Bull Moose', the new party will be called 'Surly Eris' for the Greek Goddess of discord and strife. According to the...

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Back in the days of our radio show, our standard name for the media was one taken from Jerry Lewis..."pimps and whores". After last night, it's obvious we were too kind.

Instead of sonorously intoning various...

All About Eve is a wonderful movie. The story of Eve Harrington, a covetous, lying, back stabber, and her ascension to stardom. Yet it was a central insight of Joseph Mankowitz, the writer and director of the film, that Eve wasn't merely aspiring...she was insane.

So too Hillary Clinton. Yet...

To watch Hillary Clinton's "victory" speech last night in which she extravagantly celebrated coming from 20 points ahead one month ago in Ohio was to see personified everything the Clintons are.

It's not that the speech was full of their typical pettiness -- "No candidate in recent history Democratic...

We come from three generations of steelworkers. Bethlehem Steel. You may have heard of it. It will soon be a casino. Our grandfather cast his first vote for FDR in 1932. Our dad shook JFK's hand and wished him luck in 1960. In November, there has never been another option...

In the beginning, to view the GOP candidates at their first debate podiums...Tommy Thompson, Brownback, Gilmore, Hunter...was to believe you had stumbled across some deleted country club ballroom scene from Caddyshack. You half expected to see Ted Knight standing there in a crested blazer sipping a vodkatini and muttering about...

Manchester NH -- Mark Penn, senior political strategist for the Hillary Clinton campaign, today urged Barack Obama to "come clean" and admit that he has fathered two African American girls.

Penn, speaking to reporters on the Manchester airport tarmac as he was getting his hair re-slimed, defended raising the issue...

It's been our policy never to negatively comment on other Huffpo bloggers for a couple of very sound reasons. One...who the hell are we? Two...we just assume there's someone somewhere that, for instance, finds Danielle Crittenden amusing.

But the ode of Derek Shearer to the wife of his former...

WASHINGTON--President Bush said today that the government of Iran could avoid continued economic sanctions and potential military conflict with the United States if, like Israel, they never admit having nuclear weapons.

Anonymous White House sources hailed the president's latest initiative as a very effective way of cutting down on his...

All Hallow's Eve...that most magical, spirit-filled, scary night.

Ever alert in their preemptive pumpkin patch, the berserk Norman Podhoretz and Midge my-loins-moisten-for-Donald Rumsfeld Dector keep bellicose vigil. Salivating for the two most profound cowards in the history of our executive branch to rain 30,000 pound bombs on Iran.

Rudy...

Just when you feel impenetrably numb to the delusional ravings of our Punk In Chief, comes a sentence so multilayered in obscenity, so richly textured with arrogance and solipsism as to make Ayn Rand look like Albert Schweitzer.

Let's put aside the coffers of thousands of Americans and tens...

Dear Kate, Elizabeth, Grace, Philip, Richard, and Sam,

As I write this, your portfolios are all performing quite well. My principal focus as Vice President has been to protect all the money I have made from doing business with Iran and Iraq, and buying up companies with lots and lots...

WASHINGTON - As part of the ongoing effort to determine his place among previous absolute rulers of the world, President Bush met today with historian Edward Gibbon.

Gibbon, author of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, was given three minutes alone with Bush in the Oval Office to...

It has always been a pseudo-obscenity to hear our Commode In Chief refer to the carnage in Iraq as violence that we see "on our TV screens". A way to convey tangible, confirmable, irrefutable death as though it were a media-created entertainment.

On any day in Baghdad, when you read...47...