Print Tim Slagle Read Full Bio Late Night Comics Struggle to Write Obama Jokes Despite IRS, AP, Benghazi Scandals In the week when scandals plague the White House, Late Night comics are still struggling to find a way to make it funny. 15 May 2013 Comics Lunge at Last Chance for Bush Jokes, Still Ignoring President Obama Well into the Obama administration's fifth year, comedians are still unable to find White House humor that doesn’t have a punch line named Bush. 6 May 2013 Smells Like Sulfur: EPA Mulls Extra Gas Regulations There has never been a finer example of government apathy for the middle class than last week's proposal by the EPA to require oil refineries to restrict the sulfur content of their fuel. 6 Apr 2013 Disney on Trial: It's a Small, Small Settlement The judge only awarded $8,000, just a handful of billable hours. You would think that the settlement would include the cost of electroshock therapy to remove the song from your head. Half the settlement was for violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, because Disney did not adequately warn disabled passengers that their rides occasionally break down. 27 Mar 2013 America on a Flatbed President Obama was due in Israel. So the advance team wheels his non-sequestered limo out of the cargo plane and over to the gas pumps to make sure he has a full tank when he arrives. Whoever was filling it up didn’t know that it ran on diesel and filled it up with regular. 23 Mar 2013 The Left Misrepresents South Carolina Tea Party Event Did you know there was a Tea Party convention in South Carolina, last weekend? Well if you read the Huffington Post or any number of Left Wing blogs, you do now. Because some yahoo, decided it would be funny to show up in a T-Shirt, with a caricature of the President as a Witch Doctor. 20 Jan 2013 Fiscal Cliff Hollywood Handout Could Spark More Small Town Bankruptcies Deep inside the fiscal cliff compromise passed Tuesday night is an item that could lead more cities into bankruptcy, just like the idyllic American town in the heart of the Rust Belt known as Allen Park, Mich. 3 Jan 2013 Civil: Drug War What the hipsters didn't realize when they voted to legalize pot is that President Obama has been one of the most aggressive drug warriors to sit in the Oval Office. Despite his promises to the contrary, he has stepped up the closure of cannabis dispensaries across the nation. 10 Dec 2012 The Heroic Movie Hollywood Should Make ... But Won't Hollywood is so busy deifying President Obama for making the call to kill Osama bin Laden they're missing a blockbuster movie idea - the real-life American heroes at the doomed embassy in Benghazi. 29 Oct 2012 Time for a Sesame Street Shakedown Social Security has been the legendary third rail of politics, the topic you don’t touch unless you like being toast. Apparently there is a fourth rail of politics: public broadcasting. Though it seems unlikely in a free nation that people would rally behind State Television, it’s what’s happening. 5 Oct 2012 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next
Late Night Comics Struggle to Write Obama Jokes Despite IRS, AP, Benghazi Scandals In the week when scandals plague the White House, Late Night comics are still struggling to find a way to make it funny. 15 May 2013
Comics Lunge at Last Chance for Bush Jokes, Still Ignoring President Obama Well into the Obama administration's fifth year, comedians are still unable to find White House humor that doesn’t have a punch line named Bush. 6 May 2013
Smells Like Sulfur: EPA Mulls Extra Gas Regulations There has never been a finer example of government apathy for the middle class than last week's proposal by the EPA to require oil refineries to restrict the sulfur content of their fuel. 6 Apr 2013
Disney on Trial: It's a Small, Small Settlement The judge only awarded $8,000, just a handful of billable hours. You would think that the settlement would include the cost of electroshock therapy to remove the song from your head. Half the settlement was for violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, because Disney did not adequately warn disabled passengers that their rides occasionally break down. 27 Mar 2013
America on a Flatbed President Obama was due in Israel. So the advance team wheels his non-sequestered limo out of the cargo plane and over to the gas pumps to make sure he has a full tank when he arrives. Whoever was filling it up didn’t know that it ran on diesel and filled it up with regular. 23 Mar 2013
The Left Misrepresents South Carolina Tea Party Event Did you know there was a Tea Party convention in South Carolina, last weekend? Well if you read the Huffington Post or any number of Left Wing blogs, you do now. Because some yahoo, decided it would be funny to show up in a T-Shirt, with a caricature of the President as a Witch Doctor. 20 Jan 2013
Fiscal Cliff Hollywood Handout Could Spark More Small Town Bankruptcies Deep inside the fiscal cliff compromise passed Tuesday night is an item that could lead more cities into bankruptcy, just like the idyllic American town in the heart of the Rust Belt known as Allen Park, Mich. 3 Jan 2013
Civil: Drug War What the hipsters didn't realize when they voted to legalize pot is that President Obama has been one of the most aggressive drug warriors to sit in the Oval Office. Despite his promises to the contrary, he has stepped up the closure of cannabis dispensaries across the nation. 10 Dec 2012
The Heroic Movie Hollywood Should Make ... But Won't Hollywood is so busy deifying President Obama for making the call to kill Osama bin Laden they're missing a blockbuster movie idea - the real-life American heroes at the doomed embassy in Benghazi. 29 Oct 2012
Time for a Sesame Street Shakedown Social Security has been the legendary third rail of politics, the topic you don’t touch unless you like being toast. Apparently there is a fourth rail of politics: public broadcasting. Though it seems unlikely in a free nation that people would rally behind State Television, it’s what’s happening. 5 Oct 2012
Top IRS official to invoke 5th Amendment, decline to testify at House hearing21 May 2013, 9:00 PM PDT
Top IRS official to invoke 5th Amendment, decline to testify at House hearing21 May 2013, 9:00 PM PDT