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The times, they are a-changin’. Our friends at The People’s Cube show us just how much:

From the Thurston County (WA) Official Local Voter's Pamphlet: Elected Experience: Elected Democrat PCO 2 Dist.vice-president -international brotherhooh of teamsters 313Appointer Sectreasurer of teamsters local 313 Other Professional Experience: owner Marijuana grower business Education: school of hard nocks father of four parents degree in how to stretch your paycheck to make it last after the state/federal goverment has takein 1/2. been around the block with state and local agency/ goverment that dont or wont help small business get started and off the ground. Community Service: elected PCO officer Democrate 2nd dist.PTA member donate to local food banks Statement: i am...

The following is transcribed from intercepted U.S. Secret Service radio communications. Really, trust us. Unidentified Secret Service Agent One: Gnawhide One to Formaldehyde Two. The bear is loose. Repeat, the bear is loose. Over. Unidentified Secret Service Agent Two: Check that, Gnawhide One. If you’re referring to the president, please remember that POTUS’s code name is “Renegade.” USSA1: POTUS and Valerie Jarrett have made clear he wants to be called “The Bear” now.

Hilarious music video answering the question of whether or not President Obama is into photo ops.

In case you missed it earlier this week, the National Organization for Women [NOW] put the Little Sisters of the Poor on their "Dirty 100" list. The list is a compilation of organizations and groups that have filed suit against the contraception mandate in Obamacare and claims the Little Sisters of the Poor is forcing their religion onto employees by objecting to the mandate on religious grounds. The Catholic nuns of The Little Sisters of the Poor dedicate their lives to helping the sick and people who are dying. From their website: Continuing the work of Saint Jeanne Jugan, our...

Today on Slate’s feminist XX blog, there was a headline that read: Even if She Loses in Texas, Wendy Davis Is a Win for America. Seriously? So, a Texas State Senator, who filibustered a bill that would ban abortions twenty-weeks into a pregnancy last summer, is a “win for America?” Jessica Grose, who wrote the article, added: Now, for all the support Davis’ campaign has received from fellow Democrats in Washington and elsewhere—former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm called her “Joan of Arc, standing up there for women all across the country”—she’s still running for governor of a deeply red state....

Despite his continuous denials, some still believe that Mitt Romney will run for president in 2016. Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, went one step further saying that the former Massachusetts governor will be occupying the White House after the next presidential election. “I think he actually is going to run for president. He probably doesn’t want me to say that. A hundred times he says he’s not, but Mitt Romney has always accomplished what he has set out to do,” Chaffetz told MSNBC. “I think he’s proven right on a lot of stuff. I happen to...

President Barack Obama said he will send some of the 50,000 children who illegally crossed the border back to their homes in Central America; the problem is nobody believes him. The president has gone rogue. Certainly John Boehner doesn't believe the president, and that is why the Republican-controlled House is blocking action on Obama's immigration-reform bill, which they call amnesty. If Obama does not enforce border and immigration laws as written, they say, how can he be trusted to enforce new border and enforcement laws yet to be written?

So now we learn that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — aka the Joker — was bragging a month before he slaughtered Americans at the Boston Marathon that he wanted to die a martyr. A martyr? Don’t martyrs want to die ASAP, to get their 72 virgins? What kind of martyr has his own “dream team” of defense attorneys? Not to mention a special flying squad of anti-death penalty lawyers who commute from San Diego to Boston. And a pollster to try to get the would-be martyr a change of venue to a location whose jurors are less likely to martyr him. They’re...

Generation Opportunity, the conservative nonprofit group who created the Creepy Uncle Sam anti-Obamacare campaign last fall, is back with an extremely elaborate new anti-Obamacare ad: [snip]Anyway, in the new video, this Obamacare Ambulance drives through a neighborhood… … and a megaphone atop it demands people “come one, come all” to join the “mandatory” carnival.Full video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ttmDlOuqY

http://barelyPolitical.com has unearthed the following footage of Hillary Clinton visiting Bosnia in 1996.

Even while my colleagues and I at the ACLJ are suing the IRS and its key officials on behalf of 41 conservative groups in 22 states, there’s still a need (now perhaps more than ever) for a bit of old-fashioned levity and mockery. Our outstanding video-production team put together this three-minute “ACLJ short” about IRS excuses. It’s called “Quick Lerner.” Enjoy!

Pickup trucks customized to spew black smoke into the air are quickly becoming the newest weapon in the culture wars. "Coal Rollers" are diesel trucks modified with chimneys and equipment that can force extra fuel into the engine causing dark black smoke to pour out of the chimney stacks. These modifications are not new, but as Slate's Dave Weigel pointed out on Thursday, "rolling coal" has begun to take on a political dimension with pickup drivers increasingly viewing their smokestacks as a form of protest against environmentalists and Obama administration emissions regulations. Last month, Vocativ noted many coal rollers focus...

Sometimes you just need to have a good cry. And Japanese politician Ryutaro Nonomura did just that during a press conference in Kobe – unfortunately for him, the cameras were rolling. Nonomura, 47, was addressing reports that he had allegedly used public funds to go on 195 trips in a single year, 106 of which were reportedly to a hot spring resort. During the press conference, Nonomura can be seen breaking down in tears, while pounding the desk with his fists. No word yet on whether he will have a press conference to address the press conference. Video - Ryutaro...

NASHVILLE — Joe Carr today accused Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander of trying to "hide from his record" by refusing to agree to a televised debate in the GOP Senate primary. The Carr campaign also announced the endorsements of five state legislators, including Rep. Richard Floyd, R-Chattanooga, and Rep. David Alexander, R-Winchester. “Lamar Alexander thinks he can hide from his record, refuse to debate, and that somehow the people here in Tennessee won’t hold him accountable for choosing 11 million illegal immigrants over them – he’s setting himself up for a Dave Brat-like surprise," Carr said in a news release....

One week after traveling to Mississippi to do his utmost to help Senator Thad Cochran (R) beat Tea Party rival Chris McDaniel, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) talked about the strengths he saw in Cochran's approach to campaigning. According to AZ Central, McCain dismissed criticism over the tactics the Republican Establishment used to get black Democrats to cross over and vote for Cochran. Said McCain, "There are some people complaining that African-American voters voted. [But] I thought one of the major priorities of the Republican Party was to get all minority and ethnic voters out to vote for Republicans."

On his Tuesday broadcast, Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart took aim at what appears to be a back-and-forth between former Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden, two of the prospective candidates for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president, over what he deemed to be a "poor-off" in which the two publicly espoused their humble origins.

~snip~ In Minneapolis, Obama will meet with “Rebekah,” one such letter-writer. And in other cities and towns, the president will doff his suit jackets, roll up his sleeves, lead town-hall discussions, and press the flesh during “impromptu” stops at local eateries, where he’s guaranteed to favor pie. Message: I care. Postscript: Unmarried Women, Please Vote in November for Democrats. With his job approval drifting to a near-record low of 41 percent, Obama is a drag on his party, even as he raises millions of dollars for Democrats at fundraisers around the country. His aides say he doesn’t plan to stump...

If you want proof that Caddell had a unique personality and slightly skewed sense of humor, consider this: Many of those robes also carried stickers showing a winged pig. [....] McGrady warned the other judges not to get any ideas from the following examples, but then he read the top 13 "Caddellisms":