To nobody’s surprise, President Barack Obama has formally announced that he will seek reelection with a video that’s clearly geared toward motivating fans rather than attracting newcomers, as it’s decidedly light on reasons why the incumbent Democrat should be given four more years in the White House.
The ADL: First they came for Rush Limbaugh…
Back in January, Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) bizarrely accused Rush Limbaugh of anti-semitism. (Yeah, I know…)
Foxman picked a big target, and got blasted for it — not incidentally, because they purposely misrepresented what Rush said. (Yeah, I know…).
Now the ADL is going after smaller fish. I don’t mean the fact that they’re [...]
The Economics of Piracy: Jon Stewart Agrees with Me!
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart recognized my brilliance. It’s been a long time in coming. He was interviewing Captain Richard Phillips, author of The Captain’s Duty, who is the man that was kidnapped by Somali pirates that only recognized that their business wasn’t working so well for them when they had bullets [...]
Memo to Daily Show Audience: The Afghans Don’t Hate Us
Iranian-American writer Reza Aslan was on The Daily Show last night to promote his new book, Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization. He and Jon Stewart began discussing the war in Afghanistan, with Stewart later on in the interview saying that he favored withdrawing from the country and expressed his frustration [...]






















