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Is it fair to cast eliminating waste and fraud to save billions in taxpayer funds as “cuts” to Medicare?
“Despite the ‘doom and gloom’ predictions you may have heard, the proposed savings in Medicare are designed to come from two sources; (a) a crackdown on Medicare fraud, estimated to currently cost the federal government as [...]

Calbuzz is one of the go-to sites for straight-shooting journalists’ insight into California politics. Earlier this month, they nailed the campaign of Republican Meg Whitman — who lost by a whopping 13 points on Nov. 2 — for what they referred to as post-election “bullshit” coming from the campaign’s top operative, Mike Murphy:
[When] we [...]

I was thinking: It’d probably be cooler to be the guy who busted the president’s lip than the guy the vice president shot in the face.

Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel columnist, in a post on Facebook

Electric scanners are TSA’s great hope
For detecting guns, bombs and dope.
While screeners insist
They’ve no prurient interests,
Why do they call it a nude-o-scope?

…one of our two great political parties has made it clear that it has no interest in making America governable, unless it’s doing the governing. And that party now controls one house of Congress, which means that the country will not, in fact, be governable without that party’s cooperation — cooperation that won’t be forthcoming. Elite opinion has been slow to recognize this reality…Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman…asked for “a fiscal program that combines near-term measures to enhance growth with strong, confidence-inducing steps to reduce longer-term structural deficits.” My immediate thought was, why not ask for a pony, too?

– Paul Krugman, Nobel prize winning economist and New York Times columnist

This speaks to a bigger picture here that certainly scares me in terms of our national security policy. But obviously we’ve gotta stand with our North Korean allies.

— Pollebrity Sarah Palin, demonstrating her mastery of U.S. foreign policy on Glenn Beck’s radio program.

U.S. corporations have reported the highest profits recorded since the Commerce Department began tracking corporate income growth 60 years ago: $1.659 Trillion. That renders as $1,659,000,000,000 in numerical values.
Granted, while the profits represent the highest dollar amount ever recorded, Matthew Iglesias at the liberal site Think Progress says that, based on the Commerce [...]

Being president ain’t always fun,
Like flying on Air Force One.
But then comes Thanksgiving,
And to earn his living,
The Prez has to pardon a tom.

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The rank of the reality show, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” in its second episode. The premier ranked 10th for its week but the follow-up show pulled only 3.04 million viewers, or less than 1 percent of the population of the United States.