Palin stepping down as Alaska governor

Earlier today, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced she will step down as Alaska’s chief executive by the end of the month. Palin will not seek election to a second gubernatorial term in 2010, and in her speech announcing her decision, Palin cited her desire to avoid being a “lame duck” who simply cashed a pay [...]

What caused the recession?

Most rational people believe the current recession was caused by a number of economic factors – a so-called economic “perfect storm” – but State Rep. Sally Kern of Oklahoma has a different root cause for the country’s economic crisis – gays and porn.

Listen for yourself: Embedded video from CNN Video I’m not really inclined [...]

The GAB’s got a new logo!

And it looks an awful lot like the anarchy symbol:

Image courtesy Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

According to the Journal Sentinel, the board paid about $4,900 to have the logo designed by Madison-based Cricket Design Works, but this isn’t the first time the GAB has thrown money at a project only to end up with [...]

Fred Dooley makes a funny!

This is what passes for funny, if you’re Fred Dooley of the Real Debate Wisconsin blog:

“Got my stimulus package in the mail today. It contained watermelon seeds, cornbread mix, and ten coupons to KFC.”

When confronted with the derogatorily racial nature of the joke, Fred chalked it up to a combination of anesthesia and [...]