All Hat No Cattle: Israel Grants First Golan Heights Oil Drilling License To Dick Cheney-Linked Company

Israel Grants First Golan Heights Oil Drilling License To Dick Cheney-Linked Company
A local subsidiary of the New York-listed company Genie Energy — which is advised by former vice president Dick Cheney and whose shareholders include Jacob Rothschild and Rupert Murdoch — will now have exclusive rights to a 153-square mile radius in the southern part of the Golan Heights.

Dick Cheney for president in 2016. He'll be 78 but his heart will be just hitting puberty.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

Our police have become too much like the military. And vice versa. - LOLGOP

George Bush Sure Knows How To Pick Em
Iraq's caretaker premier Nuri al-Maliki said Wednesday it will take a court ruling for him to leave power, defying the president's decision to task a rival with forming a government.

The Most Common Language Spoken in Your State, Besides English and Spanish

ConservativeLand. Where Golfers being frisked to protect the president is a bigger deal than unarmed kids being shot. - LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

Jesus never called the poor 'lazy,' fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes or asked a leper for a copay.- John Fugelsang

You Can't Fix Stupid. You Can Medicate It, Maybe, But You Can't Fix It.
Confederate sympathizers protested the University of Mississippi’s rebranding efforts to minimize its racist past...“People in the South should be proud,” she said. “They should be so proud if they knew the type [of] men that were in the Confederacy, and we haven’t seen men like them since probably the Spartans in the 300 –phenomenal, and our people grow up and our kids [are] ashamed, not knowing the truth.”

FOX NEWS: GOLFERS INCONVENIENCED BY BLACK MAN -- JUST AS THE FOUNDERS FEARED. - LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

Don't know if I trust Snowden's motives. But until he runs a massive surveillance state walled off from accountability, I'll let him be.- LOLGOP

The Conservative War on Women Continues
Conservative state legislatures are waging an effective fight to close down the nation’s abortion clinics, and nowhere is that battle more evident than in Texas, with one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country.

Hillary Clinton has been calling President Obama's foreign policy a failure. She either wants to be a president or a Fox News anchor. We're not sure.- Conan O'Brien

If your libertarian moment lasts past eleventh grade, ask a female friend which books she's reading.- LOLGOP

Armed gunmen shoot local man as part of their reign of terror in Iraq. Oops! Nope, that was police in Ferguson. My mistake. - Top Conservative Cat

Business/Tech News

If you are more outraged at blacks looting stores than whites looting your savings then you've been duped- - Pete Dominick Tweet

So, We Pay More Taxes Than 20 companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500
U.S. companies are looking for all sorts of ways to reduce their tax bill. But scores of big U.S. companies just paid no taxes or effective tax rates of 0%.

There are 20 companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500, including drugmaker Merck (MRK), computer storage company Seagate (STX) and automaker General Motors (GM), which reported effective tax rates of 0% or lower in the second calendar quarter despite reporting a profit during the period

Cutting Medicare, SS & unemployment benefits to fix budget is like invading Iraq when you were attacked by 15 Saudis. - John Fugelsang

Lauren Bacall and President Harry Truman. Lauren Bacall passed away yesterday.

“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel alone.” - Robin Williams- Robin Williams