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Tim Pawlenty Tells Some Jokes

By | 07.30.09 | 3:38 pm

Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) is addressing an Republican National Committee meeting in San Diego right now, which so far has featured some of the less successful opening jokes of recent vintage. Rib-tickler number one:

President Obama is making great progress on climate change. He’s turning the political climate of our

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Palin’s Post-Election Plans

By | 11.05.08 | 12:50 pm

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was more than prepared should terrorists and their sympathizers quit palling around long enough to throw the coming presidential election a curve and cheat her out of the vice presidency. She has already crafted a detailed plan for her future.

Step One is to resign as More…

McCain Defends Campaign Lies as Test of Dems’ Intelligence

By | 10.28.08 | 1:45 pm

Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, today accused his opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, and the entire Democratic Party of being “too stupid to govern America,” citing as proof their falling for the many outrageous lies deliberately planted in his and running mate Sarah Palin’s public utterances to test their More…

Palin Lauds Old Glory, Dares Obama to Differ

By | 10.22.08 | 12:30 pm

Addressing a large American flag today, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, said, “The real Americans are the America-loving Americans who stand up for America and the American way. Because what would America be without these real Americans? And I would like to congratulate this flag for doing More…

Reversal of Fortune: Wall Street Merging With Main Street

By | 10.20.08 | 12:45 pm

In perhaps the greatest financial paroxysm yet, a spate of gigantic mergers sparked by the recent global crisis has overnight reordered the American economic landscape — if not America itself.

Once almighty Wall Street is being forced by its nosediving fortunes into a shotgun marriage with Main Street — relying More…

McCain’s Economic Solution: Everybody an Amway Distributor

By | 09.18.08 | 5:30 pm

Challenged to move away from generalities and bromides and provide specifics about fixing America’s troubled economic situation, Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, has at last responded. He presented a sweeping new idea so startling that not even top economists and leading banking regulation authorities would answer phone calls More…