First, the story from the Daily Mail: A mystery investor or hedge fund reportedly made a bet of almost $1billion at odds of 10/1 last month that the U.S. would lose its AAA credit rating. Now questions are being asked of whether the trader had inside information before placing the $850million bet in the futures [...]

  Jonah Goldberg, author of Liberal Facism which is a popular gag gift amongst academics, kind of lost his shit this morning and told everyone that he hates them and he wishes they would all die and then he stormed into his room and slammed the door and spent the rest of the day drawing [...]

Shorter Richard Epstein: Surely our economy would collapse if our Galtian Overlords are forced to fly first class with the common riff-raff. He actually wrote this: Take a chief executive officer who earns ten times as much as the president does per hour. What is gained by stranding him in an airport, having him wait [...]

David Prosser, the Wisconsin Strangler, has issues: Wisconsin state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, who has been publicly accused of putting Justice Ann Walsh Bradley in a chokehold, had another flare-up on Thursday — this time with a reporter. The local Fox affiliate in Milwaukee sent reporter Mike Lowe to the state Capitol in Madison, [...]

I’m sure that this will change when Snowbilly Snooki/John Bolton/Thad McCotter/Paul Ryan/ Carly Fiorina/ that dog with the four prosthetic legs announces: Republican voters are not satisfied with the candidates running for the Republican nomination and wish they had more choices, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. None of the candidates currently [...]

Yes, put all your marbles in this bag: Capitalizing off of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) shock press conference admitting to sending lewd tweets to a college student, Republican officials are trying to tar Democrats with the lawmaker’s scandal. “It’s time for Democratic leadership to explain why Congressman Weiner’s actions never aroused any suspicion, and why [...]

According to the New York Times, Newt Gingrich’s secret Presidential campaign weapon is going to be his brittle trophy wife (not a first place trophy wife, more like “participant” trophy wife) Callista, who is just a nice midwestern Catholic girl who had the good taste and  judgement to allow Newt bounce his sweaty balls off [...]

…and that soft spot is a cushy job working for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Scott Walker Chief of Staff  Keith Gilkes is trying to single-handedly erase unemployment in Wisconsin by doling out sweet government jobs to friends of Scott Walker as well as friends with benefits who are friends of friends of Scott Walker. Read [...]

Over Wisconsin way, Citizens for a Strong America is running an ad (above) against conservative Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser because he decided to not prosecute a pedophile priest named John Patrick Feeney, instead allowing the church to shuffle him off to Buffalo or somewhere else where he could pray and prey at [...]

God love the conservatives. All it takes is for a politician (or non-politician, for that matter) to bat their eyelashes at them and give them a come-hither look and the conservative fanboys immediately pop a boner  and start making  plans to hand over the keys to their car, their  house and  their heart to the [...]