We had this debate throughout the campaign, and the whole notion was, is that somehow if we showed courtesy or opened up dialogue with governments that had previously been hostile to us, that that somehow would be a sign of weakness. The American people didn’t buy it. And there’s a good reason the American people [...]

Bad news for all the folks out there who see drug offenders as one color. Your stereotype just got blown out of the water by a new study that analyzes data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services for all 50 states.
For the first time since the [...]

“We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what, I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised.”
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At some point on April 15, the day of the teabagging protests, rank and file Republicans who supported the movement, including some of the estimated 250,000 people who attended the meetings nationwide, were finally clued in to the fact that “teabagging” was a frat-boy double entendre for a sex act.
“The oral sex jokes on [...]

U.S. Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) made it abundantly clear on This Week with George Stephanopoulos why the Republican party is adrift. No ideas, no solutions, no nothin’. Hell, they can’t even agree on what the problem is. Watch the video. Stephanopoulos is both incredulous that the House Minority Leader denies the role of carbon emissions [...]

That’s just CRAZY funny
I wondered what was up when I read two letters to the editor of my local independent weekly stating that Pres. Obama is dumber than a box of hammers, and without a teleprompter, he is a gibbering idiot.
Immediately I suspected a FOX News meme but an internet search turns up numerous [...]

This macroanalysis of micro events is now standard operating procedure for a punditocracy that must reach definitive historical verdicts every four hours
“Suppose for a moment that a large swell had hit the USS Bainbridge just as the three Navy SEALs were squeezing off their shots at the Somali pirates’ heads, making one of the bullets [...]

I wish I knew who gets the original credit for this because it sums up The Problem really well.

Barrett tried to throw red meat to the crowd but they wanted a fresh kill instead — him
This poor idiot made it five minutes in front of this mob, which I would say is the moral equivalent of 15 on one of those broncing bull machines. The participants at this Greenville, South Carolina tea party [...]

Pensito Review is supporting the National Day of Silence, which seeks to end the out of control bullying and taunting of gay, lesbian, bi, trans, straight but funny-looking, straight but shy, straight but fat or thin, straight but geeky, straight but…you get the idea, that goes on in schools and increasingly ends badly.
This year’s DOS [...]