Tom Toles: April 25, 2010 - May 1, 2010

Heated argument

*** Friday rant, Eliot Spitzer rehabilitation edition Well, this week the Wall Street financial scandal delivered up a suitably farcical posterboy in Fabulous Fab, and we all had a good time with that, but let's not get distracted. Eliot...

By Tom Toles  | April 30, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (7)
Categories:  DC, Environment & global warming  
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Fabulous Fab's best line of defense

*** Arizona Can we hope that the justified outrage over the barbaric Arizona law to profile and persecute a minority group in the United States will lead to sensible and sane comprehensive immigration legislation here in Washington? No, let's...

By Washington Post editors  | April 29, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (20)
 
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Cutting his losses

*** Filibuster ...because the founding fathers believed that the Senate is a saucer under a coffee cup that you pour the hot coffee into to cool it down, except it's tea now because of the Tea Party, but the...

By Tom Toles  | April 28, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (9)
Categories:  Economy and jobs  
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Slippery business

*** South Park I just declined to sign a petition on the South Park controversy. The petition, as it was presented to me, read: We, the undersigned, condemn the recent threats against the creators of South Park, Matt Stone...

By Tom Toles  | April 27, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (12)
Categories:  Economy and jobs  
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'In taxpayers we trust'

*** Puzzler It's back. For a while there WAS no economy to speak of, so it didn't get mentioned. But now that there are stirrings within the economic ashes, the media economists are back to telling us that consumer...

By Tom Toles  | April 26, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (11)
Categories:  Economy and jobs, Federal government  
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No grand plan for Iran

By Tom Toles  | April 25, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (7)
Categories:  Foreign Policy, International  
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