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To Tweet, Or Not To Tweet?

[ Posted Thursday, August 6th, 2009 – 14:11 UTC ]

The question, letting my natural hamminess speak (hamminess... let... ham...let?), I put it to you thusly: "To tweet, or not to tweet?" That is today's question.

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The Silly Season In Politics

[ Posted Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 – 16:00 UTC ]

But this year's season could produce a bumper crop of silly. The silly, it seems, is just bustin' out all over. And it's only the beginning of August, when our elected representatives all take off work for five weeks. Who knows how silly things are going to be by the end of the month?

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Friday Talking Points [88] -- Healthcare Reform Contest (Place Your Bets!)

[ Posted Friday, July 31st, 2009 – 15:59 UTC ]

We haven't run a really good contest in a while, so I thought we'd open up the betting on what the outcome of the healthcare reform push will likely be, rather than write yet another column of seething frustration at the lack of progress from our belovéd Congresscritters.

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Friday Talking Points [85] -- Roll Up! See The Show!

[ Posted Friday, July 10th, 2009 – 17:26 UTC ]

OK, this column is rapidly getting out of my control, so I have to move on to the more important things before it totally loses all touch with sanity. In other words, we hereby return you to our cradle-to-grave Michael Jackson coverage, now entering its 294th hour...

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Is David Letterman The New Washington Post?

[ Posted Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 – 17:07 UTC ]

Three decades ago, the newspaper The Washington Post took down a sitting president. Now, it has been reduced to a shadow of its former self. Recently offering to sell access to its reporters and administration bigwigs for the low, low price of $25,000 per "salon" certainly didn't help improve the paper's image. But, little noticed among the mainstream media (but much more so among the zeitgeist), David Letterman has now played a major role not only in determining last year's election, but also in hounding Sarah Palin out of office (at least, according to Palin's close friends). This, if true, is a notable achievement for a late-night comedian... but nobody seems to be noticing.

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Star Trek Gets A Few Things Right

[ Posted Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 – 22:45 UTC ]

My only other suggestion for their next movie would have to be: bring back Yeoman Janice Rand! Hopefully, that is something on which we all can agree.

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Friday Talking Points [75] -- Monster Raving Loony Party

[ Posted Friday, May 1st, 2009 – 17:46 UTC ]

OK, with that out of the way, we must (sadly) turn our eyes to the Republican Party. Because they appear to be losing all touch with reality, so it's best to keep an eye on them at this point. For starters, they are calling a special Republican National Committee meeting in the next month to vote on (as if they could) forcing their opposition to change their name to what is variously described as the "Socialist Democratic Party" or the "Democratic Socialist Party" (as well as variations where they intentionally leave out the "-ic" just to twist the knife).

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C.W. Cunningham Honored By Jefferson Center

[ Posted Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 – 16:44 UTC ]

ChrisWeigant.com is proud to announce that our much-beloved resident cartoonist C.W. Cunningham has been honored by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, by being featured in their "Jefferson Muzzles" awards column.

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Obama Declares Himself President-For-Life (No Fooling!)

[ Posted Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 – 05:39 UTC ]

What a morning!
I awoke to the sounds of my clock radio, and of President Obama giving an extraordinary speech across the airwaves. I'll just transcribe what I heard for all of you here, without comment:
I, President Obama, have taken this opportunity to speak to all of America. Because I'd like to make a [...]

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Oh, The Humanity! Godless Huffington Post Commenters Wickedly Destroying Conservatism

[ Posted Monday, March 30th, 2009 – 16:24 UTC ]

In the era of Michael Steele, Sarah Palin, and Bobby Jindal, it's pretty hard to stand out in the world of conservative lunatic ravings. But Andrew Breitbart's recent opinion piece in the Washington Times truly raises (lowers?) the bar for the rest of the field in right-wing Crazytown. His thesis is that liberal blog commenters are ruining things for the conservatives' attempts to have a nice online chat.

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