“NOW, IF THE IOC APPROVES THE NEW SPORT OF ‘GOP ASS-KICKIN,’ THAT’S THE SUREST WAY TO PROMOTE WORLD PEACE AND THE TRUE OLYMPIC SPIRIT.”

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Chicago-based BuzzFlash on the downside of a Chicago Olympics.

Lisa Casey on some “deja vu all over again” politics.

John Amato at Crooks & Liars on the cost of the wars vs. health care.

Dan Kurtzman’s Political Cartoons of the Week.

“MY FRIENDS, THIS IS ONE INSTANCE WHERE BIG GOVERNMENT IS JUSTIFIED, SINCE THE CONSTITUTION AND DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE GUARANTEE EVERY AMERICAN THE RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY … AND THE PURSUIT OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.”

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Jon Perr has some instructive, actually “10 Lessons for Tea Baggers.”

Your Total Entertainment Guide, at BartCopE!

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BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin hits the same note with No More Code Words: Racism is Public Again.

Robert Reich and the Truth About the Public Option, at One Good Move.

Dan Kurtzman’s Political Cartoons of the Week. 

“IT WAS REALLY NO DIFFERENT THAN THE CURRENT PROPOSALS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION – BOTH CASES REALLY JUST INVOLVE THE DECISION TO DISCONTINUE EXTRAORDINARY TREATMENT.”

Crooks & Liars with the latest Cheney B.S. on the CIA probe, and the responses of John McCain and George Will.

BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin: Kennedy Memorial Service Lays out the Contrast Between Dems and GOP: Service to the Nation or Service to the Self.

Dan Kurtzman with Political Cartoons of the Week.

“I’LL FIRST NEED TO CHECK THE BIRTH CERTIFICATES OF BOTH THE PRESIDENT AND PROFESSOR GATES, TO ENSURE THERE’S NO UNDER-AGE DRINKING … FOLLOWED BY A PAT-DOWN FOR WEAPONS AND DRUGS.”

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Correcting a conservative red herring, on health-care reform, by P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash.

And Lewis Black’s Daily Show rant on Healthcare Reform, via One Good Move.

Dan Kurtzman’s Political Cartoons of the Week.

“WHERE IN HELL AM I NOW SUPPOSED TO GET MY OXYCONTIN FOR JUST 19.95 … ESPECIALLY WITH THE FREE SHIPPING AND HANDLING THAT COMES WITH BEING ALL OF THE FIRST 500 CALLERS.” 

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Dan Kurtzman with The Week in Political Cartoons.

Lisa Casey on another reason to run in I-ran.

BartCopE on Michael Jackson’s Lament.

“AT NO COST AT ALL TO THE CONSUMER, THEIR RADIOS WILL COMPLETELY BLOCK OUT ALL THE STATIONS THAT CARRY RUSH LIMBAUGH, WHICH IS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO RUSTING YOUR BRAIN.”

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The GOP stays the course, like the train wreck it is, by P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash.

Dan Kurtzman’s The Week in Political Cartoons.

“I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT WATERBOARDING IS NOT TORTURE, UNLESS OF COURSE YOU ALSO SUFFER THE INDIGNITY OF THROWING UP IN FRONT OF THE OPPOSITE SEX.”

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Lisa Casey on the Dickster and his Two Amigos.

Dave Lindorff at BuzzFlash: Abortion Doctor is a Victim of America’s ‘Taliban’

Dan Kurtzman’s The Week in Political Cartoons.

“WE WANT SOMEONE IN THE SCALIA MOLD WHO IS EMPATHETIC TO BIG BUSINESS, THE DESTRUCTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, AND MOST SIGNIFICANTLY … THE ORIGINAL INTENT OF THE HUNS.”

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Norm Jenson with Howard Kurtz’s interview of Bill Maher.

Dan Kurtzman with the The Week in Political Cartoons, and  The Cheney Bunch at All Hat No Cattle.

“IN ORDER TO AVOID OUR ADMINISTRATION’S OWN DOOMSDAY, WE HAD TO TORTURE BEFORE TIME RAN OUT … TO RE-WRITE THE HISTORY OF IRAQ’S ‘CONNECTION’ TO 9/11.”

“HURRY UP, MARTY, WE HAVE TO GO BACK IN TIME AND PREVENT DICK CHENEY’S PARENTS FROM EVER MEETING.”

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TPM on the Cheney’s Waterboarding of the truth on Al Qaeda-Iraq 

BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin on the GOP’s “Pelosi Diversion” – from the Architects of Torture and Murder: Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush.

More on the Elephantine perversion of logic at All Hat No Cattle.

Dan Kurtzman’s The Week in Political Cartoons.