News & Politics

Many of the cartoonish GOP figures running for President and in Congress actually appeared in cartoons before heading into the wacky world of Washington DC, you're invited to peruse their former appearances.

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, July 18, 2011

Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. - Auden St Francis of Assissi...

What happens when a homeless couple shows up at a homeless shelter? The policies and procedures will punish them for their audacity, and rightfully so.

  In Mr. Orwell's dystopian novel "1984," he paints a very bleak and totalitarian picture. Mr. Orwell completed this famous work in 1948 and wasn't...

Once again I bring you the highlights of the latest meeting of the "minds" propping up the Tea Party movement. As always, my research...

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, June 23, 2011

Welcome to our ongoing thread covering the latest updates and opinions from our members on the GOP manufactured crisis of raising (or not raising) the debt ceiling.

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, July 14, 2011

Rupert Murdoch may explain to those he "puts a hit" on, "It's nuthin' personal, it's just business," but to any citizen of any nation that wishes to preserve their democracy, it's pretty damn personal.