According to Mikhail Gorbachev, George H.W. Bush called Ronald Reagan’s supporters “blockheads and dummies.”
A New Yorker is running for the Senate in Idaho despite never having lived there. Idaho allows someone to run for office in the state as long the candidate is a resident on election day.
Barack Obama has rescinded a 22-year-old ban prohibiting [...]

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Talk about taking someone’s words and twisting them into meaning something else. Sure, Barack Obama has called this the “greatest nation on earth.” Don’t all major Presidential candidates do that? I just don’t believe Obama said it as North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx presented his words: “We live in the greatest country in the world. Help [...]

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Barack Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe explained that in his first meeting with Joe Biden to discuss the Vide-Presidential nomination, Biden went into a 20-minute monologue. “It confirmed what we suspected: this dog could not be taught new tricks.”
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge police Sergeant James Crowley met for a second round of [...]

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Here’s an unusual approach to helping single parents.
A Malaysian legislator in the state of Kelantan suggested that legislators increase their quota of wives by marrying single mothers. Polygamy is legal in Malaysia for Muslims and the suggested quota is four wives.
The state’s executive councilor Wan Ubaidah Omar suggested that special awards be given to the [...]

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The 2010 census will have ground-breaking questions on gay couples.
Kenya will also be doing a census on gays. It is unlikely to be accurate, though. Homosexuality if punishable by 14 years in prison.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, commenting on a not-so-attractive political opponent, “she is more beautiful than intelligent.”
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will soon be [...]

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Although the purpose is to put a limit on software piracy, specifically peer to peer file sharing, a new copyright law being reviewed by the Obama administration and several European countries has some frightening consequences for privacy and civil liberties. Basically, it means the government may have the right to inspect the contents of your computer [...]

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This is surprising, even for a nanny state like the UK.
In the United Kingdom, the Watford Borough Council has voted to bar parents from watching their children play in two area parks.
Mayor Dorothy Thornhill said, “Sadly, in today’s climate, you can’t have adults walking around unchecked in a children’s playground.”
Has it gotten that bad? Or [...]

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For the past several months, conservative Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s long list of misbehaving has involved sex scandals over an alleged involvement with an 18-year-old model, gift-giving parties with call girls, spending the night with at least one call girl at his Rome mansion and his divorce.
It took another Italian politician to top Berlusconi. In [...]

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How do you wish someone an unhappy birthday? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is 53-years-old and, unfortunately, he will probably have a few more as Iranian President.
China has accused Google of censorship.
A Minnesota man is running for President of Croatia, and he may have a chance to win.
Millions of federal funds earmarked for an early warning tsunami system [...]

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Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is well-known for her often weird, right-wing ramblings.
She once called the Smoot-Hawley Act, created while Hoover was in office, the reason that Roosevelt should be blamed for the Great Depression. Only she did not call it Smoot-Hawley, but Hoot-Smalley. She also believes that Barack Obama has a plan to [...]

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