(Created on the Funny Times Cartoon Playground.) Grand Oil Party: What the G.O.P. stands for in the modern Republican Party. From Ronald Reagan to those that control today’s Congress and the majority of state houses, the Grand Oil Party. has…
“We can fight against the Europeans, we can fight with rhetoric against them,” said Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland during a meeting of United States officials at a security conference February in Munich, according to the…
Since William Rehnquist joined the Supreme Court, it has made several rulings that have knocked the U.S. Constitution out of whack. Retired Justice John Paul Stevens, who deliberated on most of those rulings, has written six amendments to fix the…
The Ohio governor’s race seems to have turned on a character flaw of the Democratic candidate, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald. The major news media have given wide and detailed coverage to the story that FitzGerald had been driving on an expired…
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a shadow legislature that has given us many lousy laws. Populated by corporate agents and Republican office-holders, ALEC passes "model bills," which its lawmaker members take to their statehouses and push into law. In 2011, news journals dragged ALEC…