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Maddow mocks Karl Rove for bizarre non-sequitur about Obama’s lawyer
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night expressed how entertained she was by Karl Rove’s recent appearance on Fox News. Last week, Obama’s campaign lawyer filed a compliant with the Federal Elections Commission over Rove’s organization, Crossroads GPS. He claimed the organization was unlawfully hiding its donors from the public…
Students set new human-powered helicopter flight record
Students set new human-powered helicopter flight record (via The Christian Science Monitor) A team of engineering students from the University of Maryland broke a new flight record in a human-powered aircraft. Pilot Kyle Gluesenkamp lifted his gymnasium-sized helicopter, Gamera II, about a foot off the ground for 50 seconds. Their…
Kucinich blasts CNBC’s Kudlow: You cannot convict someone in headlines
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, on Tuesday scolded CNBC’s Lawrence Kudlow for insisting that the White House or Justice Department were trying to cover up the “Fast and Furious” scandal. The Obama administration has invoked executive privilege over documents having…
Anti-Semitic Elmo impersonator in NYC taken to the hospital
An man impersonating the Sesame Street character Elmo who shouted obscenities and ranted against “the Jews” was taken away in an ambulance on Sunday. The New York Times reported that the crazed Elmo was apprehended by police in New York City’s Central Park Zoo. As he was handcuffed, he advised…
House Democrats: Fast and Furious probe ‘based on a series of unfounded claims’
Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a video on Tuesday highlighting Republican inconsistency regarding the “Fast and Furious” scandal. The 3-minute video shows Republican lawmakers contradicting themselves and each other while talking about the botched “Fast and Furious” operation. A House Committee on Oversight and…
Gary Johnson: Obama and Romney deserve to lose your vote
In an advertisement uploaded to YouTube on Monday, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson pushed back against the idea that voting for him was a “wasted vote.” “For those of you worried I’ll take votes away from the Democrat and to those of you worried I’ll take votes away from he…
Sen. Rand Paul proposes ‘fetal personhood’ amendment to flood insurance bill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) expressed his frustration on Tuesday at Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who offered an anti-abortion amendment to legislation that would renew the flood insurance program. “I’m told last night that one of our Republican senators wants to offer an amendment — listen to this one…
Romney fails to mention inspiring ‘truck driver’ is billionaire super PAC donor
Mitt Romney says he’s been encouraged by all of the regular Americans who have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps that he has met while traveling across the country stumping to be the next president of the United States. On Tuesday, the presumptive Republican nominee told supporters in Salem, Virginia…
Arizona immigration author: 9/11 attacks ‘apparently okay to the left’
Former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce (R) is bitterly upset about the Supreme Court striking down most of the law he authored, and he’s not afraid to show it on live television. Attempting to justify the one part of the law the Supreme Court deferred judgement on — a provision…
John Fugelsang to Mary Cheney: Did Mitt Romney send you a gay wedding present?
Monday, actor John Fugelsang stood in for former NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Spitzer’s Current TV program “Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer” and had a few things to say about LGBT marriage, Republicans in general and Mitt Romney in particular. Fugelsang began by congratulating Mary Cheney and her partner Heather…
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